(Message from Claire Glasscock)
4th of July Parade
Downtown Lexington
2:00 pm
Walk with us! Meet us on Midland Ave. at 1:00 pm, position #23
Theme:
One Earth, One Chance
The Franciscan Peace Center, the Unitarian Universalist Environmental Task Force,
and BCTC's Peace and Justice Coalition, ask that people nurture the earth
and the rest of humanity by living simply.
The entry includes one of the new high-mileage "Smart Cars" decorated with origami peace cranes, and a dove - symbol of peace. The group's message is that peace and care for the earth are intimately linked.
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Voices from Hiroshima:
Nuclear Weapons Abolition:
Now or Never
Featuring two outstanding visitors from Hiroshima, Japan
2:30 – 4:00 p.m., Saturday,
July 12, 2008
Unitarian Universalist Church
3564 Clays Mill Road, Lexington
Free and open to the public
Presenters:
Ms. Miyoko Watanabe, Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor and official witness for the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. She will describe her experience to remind the audience of the effects of atomic and nuclear weapons, and raising a cry of warning about the future.
Steve Leeper, Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation (the peace & international relations arm of the City of Hiroshima, Japan). He will make a presentation about why the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation believes that nuclear weapons are about to get out of control. Many people believe such weapons will be used in the next year or two, and if we do not make substantial progress toward disarmament in the near future nuclear weaponry will spread throughout the world.
Sponsors Include: Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice, Footprints for Peace, Franciscan Peace Center, Unitarian Universalist Church, BCTC’s Peace and Justice Coalition
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Remembering Utah Phillips (May 15, 1935 - May 23, 2008)
Independent Media Center Memorial
Free Radio Santa Monica: Amy Goodman Interviews Utah Phillips (This is an amazing interview that sent chills through me--a very wise and generous person!)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Poverty in Kentucky--Please Help Out!
(Message from Claire Glasscock)
An article was posted on the internet Wednesday asking home gardeners to plant a little extra for the needy. You may have seen the article in Tuesday’s Lexington Herald-Leader entitled “Rural Incomes Tanking.” The article reported that residents in seven eastern Kentucky counties are spending, on average, 12.7% to 15.2% of their monthly income on gasoline to travel to and from work. Our food bank, God’s Pantry, reports that over 300,000 are in poverty in their 49 county service area – and as more and more people have to make a choice between buying gasoline to get to work and buying groceries, the demand placed on food banks increases.
We ask you to contribute as frequently as you can to God’s Pantry, so that it can keep the food supplies flowing to the 391 hunger relief agencies in central and eastern Kentucky that it supports. Your checks, made out to God’s Pantry, can be taken to Student Records. Canned and boxed non-perishable food can be placed in the makeshift collection box (we’ll have something that looks better soon) in the OB Lobby.
And, if you’re still in the process of planting vegetables, consider putting in a few extra seeds or starts for the hungry.
Thank you so much for helping.
Take care,
Rebecca
An article was posted on the internet Wednesday asking home gardeners to plant a little extra for the needy. You may have seen the article in Tuesday’s Lexington Herald-Leader entitled “Rural Incomes Tanking.” The article reported that residents in seven eastern Kentucky counties are spending, on average, 12.7% to 15.2% of their monthly income on gasoline to travel to and from work. Our food bank, God’s Pantry, reports that over 300,000 are in poverty in their 49 county service area – and as more and more people have to make a choice between buying gasoline to get to work and buying groceries, the demand placed on food banks increases.
We ask you to contribute as frequently as you can to God’s Pantry, so that it can keep the food supplies flowing to the 391 hunger relief agencies in central and eastern Kentucky that it supports. Your checks, made out to God’s Pantry, can be taken to Student Records. Canned and boxed non-perishable food can be placed in the makeshift collection box (we’ll have something that looks better soon) in the OB Lobby.
And, if you’re still in the process of planting vegetables, consider putting in a few extra seeds or starts for the hungry.
Thank you so much for helping.
Take care,
Rebecca
Monday, June 02, 2008
To the Best of Our Knowledge: Give Peace a Chance
Give Peace a Chance
To the Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio)
Host: Steve Paulson
When asked what he thought about Western civilization, Gandhi once famously said: I think it's a good idea. Gandhi's form of extreme nonviolence led to the civilized retreat of the British from the Indian sub-continent. But does non-violence still have the right stuff to effect social change in today's world? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, some new ideas about a very old subject - non-violence. And, could nonviolence have prevented World War II?
SEGMENT 1:
Satish Kumar is a peace activist who lives in Devon, England, and he's the author of "The Buddha and the Terrorist." A former Jain monk, he still follows Gandhi's principles of non-violence. Kumar tells Jim Fleming about some of the people he met on his 8,000 mile walk for peace, and why he thinks violence is an obsolete weapon. Also, Reihan Salam critiqued the movie "Gandhi" for Slate Magazine in an article called "Meet the Hindustani Malcolm X." Salam tells Steve Paulson that David Attenborough's bio-pic may have been about an Indian man, but it was a thoroughly Western movie.
SEGMENT 2:
Mark Kurlansky is the author of "Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons in the History of a Dangerous Idea." In constructing his history of non-violence, Kurlansky looks at history with a revisionist's eye and tells Steve Paulson that WWII might not have been necessary ...
SEGMENT 3:
Andrew Carroll is the Founder of the Legacy Project whose latest book is "Grace under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War." The Legacy Project collects and publishes letters from combatants and their families and friends, and others who have been touched by the experience of war.
To Listen to the Episode
To the Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio)
Host: Steve Paulson
When asked what he thought about Western civilization, Gandhi once famously said: I think it's a good idea. Gandhi's form of extreme nonviolence led to the civilized retreat of the British from the Indian sub-continent. But does non-violence still have the right stuff to effect social change in today's world? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, some new ideas about a very old subject - non-violence. And, could nonviolence have prevented World War II?
SEGMENT 1:
Satish Kumar is a peace activist who lives in Devon, England, and he's the author of "The Buddha and the Terrorist." A former Jain monk, he still follows Gandhi's principles of non-violence. Kumar tells Jim Fleming about some of the people he met on his 8,000 mile walk for peace, and why he thinks violence is an obsolete weapon. Also, Reihan Salam critiqued the movie "Gandhi" for Slate Magazine in an article called "Meet the Hindustani Malcolm X." Salam tells Steve Paulson that David Attenborough's bio-pic may have been about an Indian man, but it was a thoroughly Western movie.
SEGMENT 2:
Mark Kurlansky is the author of "Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons in the History of a Dangerous Idea." In constructing his history of non-violence, Kurlansky looks at history with a revisionist's eye and tells Steve Paulson that WWII might not have been necessary ...
SEGMENT 3:
Andrew Carroll is the Founder of the Legacy Project whose latest book is "Grace under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War." The Legacy Project collects and publishes letters from combatants and their families and friends, and others who have been touched by the experience of war.
To Listen to the Episode
Friday, May 30, 2008
Studio 360: Sontag, Hemon, War
Sontag, Hemon, War
Studio 360 (WNYC)
Host: Kurt Anderson
How artists help us to make sense of war. ... Kurt Andersen revisits his conversation with the late writer Susan Sontag. Recorded a month before the war in Iraq began and only a year before her death, Sontag looks at how we interpret images of war, and tells us how she staged theater in the war zone. Also, novelists who escaped war find meaning in poetry, and two film critics look at how American filmmakers have fought and refought the Viet Nam war on-screen.
To Listen to the Episode
Studio 360 (WNYC)
Host: Kurt Anderson
How artists help us to make sense of war. ... Kurt Andersen revisits his conversation with the late writer Susan Sontag. Recorded a month before the war in Iraq began and only a year before her death, Sontag looks at how we interpret images of war, and tells us how she staged theater in the war zone. Also, novelists who escaped war find meaning in poetry, and two film critics look at how American filmmakers have fought and refought the Viet Nam war on-screen.
To Listen to the Episode
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