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Peace Week: September 21 - 28.

Sunday 9/21: International Day of Peace 4:00 to 6:30 Community Picnic - Courthouse Square.

Tuesday 9/23: 6:30 -8:30 p.m. Film "Encounter Point" - Israeli-Palestinian production focusing on people coming toether to address issues of violence - Monroe County Public Library auditorium. Follow-up discussion with Julie Bloom, Sponsored by Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace and Muslims for Peace and Justice.

Tuesday 9/23: 7:30 p.m. Patten Lecture - Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling speaks on "Managing Nuclear Proliferation", Ballantine Hall, Room 109, IU. Sponsored by the Patten Foundation.

Wednesday, 9/24 3:30 p.m. Film. "Dr. Strangelove", a Stanley Kubrick film, highlights how times have changed but nuclear insanity goes on. Monroe County Public Library auditorium. Discussion to follow lead by Rev. Bill Breeden, Unitarian Universalist Church, Sponsored by Bloomington Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

Wednesday 2/24: 5:00 to 5:45 - Silent Peace Vigil at Courthouse Square, sponsored by Bloomington Peace Action Coalition and IN Dept. of Peace Campaign, includes "Eyes Wide Open" memorial boot display.

Wednesday 2/24 7:00pm to 8:30 p.m. Presentations by community members/organizations on the effects of violence as well as proposals for peace by members of Department of Peace Campaigin, at First Christian Church, 205 E. Kirkwood. Moderator: Gretchen Clearwater.

Wednesday 2/24 7:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion "Whose Water is it Anyway?" led by Byron Bangert at Unitarian Universalist Church sancuary, Sponsored by Bloomington Branch of Women's Ingerfnational League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Green Sanctuary Group. Focus will be on the ethics of owning water supplies.

Thursday, 9/25: 7:00 p.m. Relational Agression. Michelle Martin Coleman leads workshop in defining and addressing violence in our personal and professional relagtionships at Barnes and Nobel Book Store.

Thursday 9/25: Patten Lecture by Nobel Laureate Thomas Shelling, "Managing the Greenhouse Problem" IU, Ballantine Hall, Room 109. Sponsored by the Paten Foundation.

Thursday, 9/25: 9:00 p.m. Poetry/Musical reflections on peace at Pourhouse, Kirkwood Avenue.

Friday, 9/26. Student Peace Day. 9:00 - 11:00 - Peace in Action. Visit seniors at Garden Villa. Intergenerational event. Contact Christine McKenna to participate at 812-935-2514.

Friday, 9/26: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Student Peace Alliance Event at IU, Venue TBA.

Friday, 9/26: 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. Open Mike Night: - Poetry/Musical reflections on peace at Rachael's Cafe on 3rd Street.

Saturday, 9/27: 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Peace Festival - Third Street Park. Raindate - Sunday 9/28/08.

Saturday/ 9/27 - 3:15 to 3:45 Raging Grannies and skit - Small stage area

Saturday 9/27 Ongoing festival activities: tabling, display of Jane Addams Peace Award Books from WILPF, Civility Pledge opportunity/ Peace Bracelets and much else.

Challenging Corporate Power, Asserting the People’s Rights 2007
A Discussion Group

Monroe County Public Library, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Date

Session

Topic

May 15

One

Introduction

May 29

Two

Historical Overview of the Corporate Taking of Our Authority to Govern

June 12

Three

Corporate Personhood

June 26

Four

The Regulatory State

July 10

Five

Private Property and the Recovery of the Commons

July 24

Six

People’s and Workers’ Resistance Movements

Aug. 14

Seven

Economic Development and Militarism

Aug. 28

Eight

Global Corporatization

Sept. 11

Nine

What Does Democracy Look Like?

Sept. 25

Ten

Where Do We Go From Here: Local Campaign Development

The study packet costs $15.00. One study packet will be placed in the Monroe County Public Library for general use. For further information phone 334-8890 (Deb Garretson).

Discussion Group Schedule [Printer Friendly PDF file]

Book Club

"Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West,"
by Milton Viorst (2006).

Location: Bell Trace.(all on Tuesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Book club dates:

  • March 13, Chapters 1 and 2 (Memory, 622-1900, and Revolt, 1901-1918) (48 pages).

  • March 20, Chapters 3 and 4 (Disillusion, 1919-1939, and Emancipation, 1940-1956)(62 pages).

  • March 27, Chapters 5 and 6 (Unity-Disunity, 1957-1967, and Theocrats- Autocrats, 1968-2005), and Epilogue (68 pages).

Branch Meeting

  • Branch meeting Monday, March 5, 3-5 p.m., Bell Trace

Special Meetings

  • LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

    • What: An update with our localrepresentatives

    • When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 9:30 a.m.

    • Where: Monroe County Public Library.

    • Branch Issues: Election reform, water

  • CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THIRD HOUSE WITH LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES




    • Contact Jim and Tomi Allison at jimtomi@earthlink.net or phone 812-336-6671

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.

Bloomington, Indiana Branch
3940 N. Whitewood Way
Bloomington, IN
47404

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