Nashville Peace &
Justice Center 4732 W
Longdale Drive Nashville,
TN 37211
333-5700, 333-5811 (fax) info@nashvillepeacejustice.org 3rd
Annual Caroling for Peace
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This
week kicks off our Spring fundraiser and we need your help to make it
a success!
With the money we raise from this effort we'll be
able to do
a lot of great things for the Center.
This online program, from Flower Power
Fundraising, offers a terrific assortment of
flower bulbs and perennials guaranteed to grow and bring beauty to your
yard and garden for years to come. We believe this fundraiser, with a
little help from you, will be a blooming success.
Why?
We get 50% of every sale!
Only top-quality plants will be shipped to you
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A flat $5 shipping charge
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How
can you help?
Click
on the Shop Now button below and browse the terrific assortment of
flower bulbs and perennials offered at Flower Power Fundraising. Once
you find something you like please consider making that purchase.
Remember 50% of the money from every item you purchase counts toward my
goal and helps our organization reach its fundraising target.
When: Contact us with interest and for upcoming dates!
Would you like to volunteer with Bridge
Builders??
Bridge
Builders is a peace with social justice club for children of
ALL
ages, along with their caregivers -- mamas, papas, grannies, nannies,
grampies, aunties, etc.
This week we will be
gearing up for our Mothers Day Parade!
There will be
play!! There will be snacks!!
AND we will take action while building community. Join
us!
NCRC
Advanced Mediation Trainings are designed for persons who have
completed basic mediation training and are active in NCRC's volunteer
mediation programs. Others are welcome to register as well
(pending available space).
Click here
for more info.
If cost is a concern, please call the NCRC office to request a
scholarship: 333-8400
When: Thursday, April 1, 6:00pm
Where: MTSU BAS State Farm Room (S102)
MTSU Student Programming hosts an interactive presentation about
resource extraction in Appalachia. A high energy, interactive,
graphic-based picture-lecture that speaks to the overwhelming and
complex picture of globalization, militarization, and resource
extraction, as well as the small-scale changes and actions we can
undertake to build another world!
Long exploited as a resource-extraction colony within the US, the
Appalachian Mountains are home to a fight for survival whose outcome
will determine, in part, the industrial power of this country. Without
coal there would be no 'cheap' electricity. Today’s energy
corporations and government bodies are continuing to show the extent of
their violence and greed as they push their extractive agendas in the
'New Coal Rush'.
Our insatiable demand for cheap power has lead to the most extreme and
devastating form of coal mining yet, Mountaintop Removal (MTR). The
TRUE COST OF COAL graphic uses MTR in Appalachia as a lens through
which to understand the historical and contemporary story of ENGERY,
RESOURCE EXTRACTION and of AMERICAN EMPIRE accelerating throughout the
world.
We will expose the DECEPTIONS of CLEAN COAL technologies and bring to
light the ensuing CLIMATE CHAOS facing the world today.
With a gigantic portable mural-in-process teeming with intricate images
of plants and animals from the most bio-diverse temperate forest on the
planet, the Bees will share (and seek) stories of how coal mining and
Mountaintop Removal affect communities and ecosystems throughout
Appalachia and beyond.
This graphic also looks to the future, raising questions about
resistance, regeneration, and remediation while celebrating stories of
struggle from mountain communities. The TRUE COST OF COAL will
challenge all of us who casually flip on a light switch to examine our
own connections to MTR- and to think about what we can do to stop it
from within our own communities.
Do you have junk to shed? Things that you want to rid your home of, but
not enough for your own sale? Want to help our really tight budget, but
don't have funds you can donate? Purge for mutual benefit.
We need your stuff: toys, household items, furniture, clothing,
collectibles, etc.
You may drop off items on Friday April 9 - noon-3 at the address above.
Give us a shout if you have stuff (this will help with advertising) OR
if you want to volunteer to set up or on the day of the sale!
Contact us to volunteer, or just bring your stuff by!
crystelle@nashvillepeacejustice.org
or paige@nashvillepeacejustive.org
333-5700
When: Saturday, April 10, 2010; 1-4pm EST,
12noon-3pm CST
Where: Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee
Congress,
this year, is appropriating $110,000,000 for design work on a new bomb
plant in Oak Ridge. The design money is a down payment on the $3.5
billion Uranium Processing Facility.
If we want a Nuclear
Weapons Free World, we must create the political pressure
that will
force President Obama to match his words with action and make the
United States a leader in global nuclear disarmament.
The April
Action will bring youth and others to the last, full-scale, operating
nuclear weapons production plant in the United States. Energy is
building for a Youth Brigade for Peace and Disarmament which may engage
in civil resistance at the gates of Y12.
This is a crucial time.
US nuclear policy is being re-written right now. Will we break
free of the past and move forward to a nuclear weapons free future?
APRIL ACTION INFO
Friday evening, April 9 • Knoxville, TN
Nonviolence Training | Affinity Group meeting
Peacekeeper Training
Puppetista Rehearsal
Saturday, April 10 • Oak Ridge, TN
1:00pm--4:00pm EST, 12noon-3pm CST
Concert and Action for a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Outside the gates
of Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant- Grassy area near New Hope Center
Scarboro Road and Bear Creek Entrance to Y-12
(between Bethel Valley and Illinois)
April 5-9 • Knoxville, TN
Puppet Build | Street Theatre Workshop
For more info on Puppets contact:
Lissa McLeod—865-776-8249, lmcleod1@gmail.com
Kevin and Cindy Collins—865-577-1140, kvn792@aol.com
For more information about Y-12, driving direction, etc. contact:
Ralph Hutchison: 865-776-5050 http://www.stopthebombs.org
7)
Mission Medicine - Medication Collection Event
When: April 10, 2010 - 9am-12pm
(TN State
Fairgrounds);
April 17, 2010
9am-12pm
(Franklin Town
Square)
Where: April 10 - 625 Smith Avenue Nashville, TN
April
17 - 231 Public Square Franklin, TN
Consider the environmental & social impact
of discarding your expired medication.
The local offices of Home
Instead Senior Care have scheduled Mission MedicineSM to help
the Nashville Community to dispose of expired or no longer used
medications.
Participants can simply drive up to the location where local law
enforcement will be on hand to oversee the drop-off of medications into
a locked container. After the event, the medications
collected will be properly disposed. CVS Pharmacies are again
sponsoring the event, with goody bags for the first 50 drop offs. This
program is a way to help protect seniors and others from accidentally
using expired medications as well as safeguarding them from the
potential for theft of medications from their homes, said Drew Shelton
of the Home Instead Senior Care local office. The project
also can help protect the environment including pets and other animals
by providing a safe way to dispose of prescription drugs before they
are introduced into landfills or the water supply.
Join Manna-Food Security Partners and the Monroe Carell Jr.
Children’s Hospital for a workshop discussing how to build
and maintain a school garden, cook with school garden produce, and much
more! The workshop is free of charge, and lunch will be provided. The
first 30 people to RSVP will receive a pre-potted plant! Register
online at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HJ2DSP8
When: Monday, April 12, 7pm
Where: Langford Auditorium, Vanderbilt University
Project Dialogue and the Office of Religious Life present Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Holocaust
survivor and author of numerous books, Elie Wiesel to speak on Civility
and Justice for Whom? This lecture will be the concluding event in
Project Dialogue's year-long examination of the themes of, and
relationship between, civility and justice.
Elie Wiesel has worked tirelessly to combat what he calls "the perils
of indifference." As he says, "In order to feel empathy and compassion
for and with a person who is alone, suffering, in desperation, it's
only because we remember others who were alone, suffering, and in
despair. It happens that not only one person, but the group may forget.
Forgetting means the end of civilization, the end of culture, the end
of generosity, the end of compassion, the end of humanity. And
therefore I celebrate memory, and I try to strengthen it. And I
believe—I still do, in spite of everything—that
memory is a shield. If we remember what people can do to each other,
then we can help those who tomorrow may be threatened by the same
enemy. "
This event is free and open to the public.
Seating is limited.
Hosted by Vanderbilt University - Project Dialogue
For further information, contact:
Emily Stewart
615-343-0350 emily.d.stewart@vanderbilt.edu
10) Baja Fresh Fundraising Event When:
Monday, April 19 (lunch & dinner) Where: Baja Fresh (two locations) West End Ave: 1720 West End Ave Green Hills: 2116 Green Hills Village
You choose one or both locations! (lunch and
dinner?) Be sure to bring along the flier, found here.
The Center receives 15% of the proceeds and 20% if
sales are over $1,000! ...Please join us!
Please check out our website
for all the details!!
You MUST bring your flier
with you to have a portion of the proceeds go to the Center!
In the early morning of April 19, 1960, the home of Attorney and Mrs.
Z. Alexander Looby was bombed. The Movement quickly organized the
Silent March which began at 11:00 am. It was the first major march of
the Southern Nonviolent Freedom Movement. There were no signs or even
talk. IT WAS A SILENT MARCH. It surprised the very wide spread
opposition to economic and social and racial justice in Nashville and
across the country. The superb dignity and discipline of that
nonviolent technique impacted Middle Tennessee and the nation.
COME! CELEBRATE THAT MOMENT!
When: Each Wednesday beginning April 21 through
May 19; 6:30 to
8:30 p.m.
Where: Scarritt-Bennett Center
1008
19th Ave. South
Life is inherently unmanageable. Seek to control it, and you may be
captive to exhaustion, depression, and addiction. Learn to navigate it
by living with justice, compassion, and humility – and you
are free!
Scarritt-Bennett Center will host a five-week workshop this spring led
by award-winning author, poet, essayist, and educator Rabbi Rami
Shapiro. The workshop will be based on Rabbi Rami’s book,
Recovery – the Sacred Art: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual
Practice.
Participants will examine 12 steps that can take us to a place where we
no longer need to seek control of life, relationships, events, and
actions. These 12 steps are a powerful set of spiritual tools that can
help each of us live free from compulsive attachment. Please note: This
is not a twelve-step meeting, and is not focused on any specific
addiction.
When: Tuesday,
April 27, 7pm
Where: The Unitarian Universalist Church
1808
Woodmont Blvd
Anna is a Jewish American Fulbright scholar and peace activist, who
lived
in the West Bank with Palestinians for several months over a period of
four
years and is now doing presentations around the country. See
our press
release here.
*If you
have an event that you would like for us to consider listing
in
our weekly e-blast, please let us know by either emailing me- Crystelle@NashvillePeaceJustice.org
(w/ "event submission' as the
title), or you may fill out this online
form. **ALL
events must be submitted no later than
Monday in order garauntee their appearance in the latest e-blast (which
are sent out every Thursday).
*In order to be considered, events
must be compatible with the mission of
Nashville Peace & Justice Center. Because we are a 5013c
organization, we cannot advertise events for specific candidates for
political office or for specific political parties.
The Nashville Peace Coalition meets nearly every Wednesday night, from 6
- 7:30 pm. (For the very rare exceptions -- e.g., for
Christmas -- check
this calendar.)
We discuss what's going on in town, and sometimes
we plan demonstration rallies or other activities.
Currently we are meeting at the Friends Meeting House, which is at 530
26th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37209 (615) 329-2640 or go to: http://www.nashvillefriendsmeeting.org/
You're welcome to join the in-person group or the online group, or
both.
For more information, check the online group, or contact Eric Schechter
at leftymathprofessor@yahoo.com
1. Everyone
Shop at
Kroger! Kroger will
donate 4% of everything you
spend to
NPJC. For instance,
for every $100 you spend at Kroger on food, pharmaceuticals, and fuel,
Kroger will donate $4 to the Center. This really does ad up quickly!
Here's what you do:
Simply send in a check or money order to us for $5.
(see address at the
bottom of this email) and we will mail you a pre-loaded gift card. You
will then use that to pay for your purcahases. It's that easy
to
support the center!
2. Join the
Sustainers
Program! The Nashville Peace and Justice Center depends
on regular
contributions to support its important activities. You can show your
support by joining the Sustainer’s Program. For as
little
as $5 a month, or $60 a year you can join the program.
To become an NPJC sustainer, send a voided check to:
Nashville Peace and Justice Center
ATTN: Paige La Grone Babcock – Sustainers
4732 West Longdale
Nashville, TN 37211
3. Search the
internet using GoodSearch.com.
It's a NEW Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its
advertising revenue to the charities its users designate. Just bookmark
the page or make it your official homepage!
4. Shop atGoodShop.com!
This is another new online tool that will donate up to 37% to
NPJC. It' an online shopping mall with hundreds of great stores (check
it out!) Every time you place an order, you'll be supporting
NPJC.
Be sure to
enter The Nashville Peace and Justice Center as the
charity you want to support. And be sure to spread the word!
Thanks for all
you do to support NPJC!
Jobs with Justice - Living Wage Campaign
There is an exciting movement for economic justice underway in
Nashville this summer. Mid TN Jobs with Justice is working hard to pass
a Living Wage ordinance in the Metro Nashville city council by
the end of the summer. Community support for a Living Wage is
a crucial component of our campaign, so we are gathering
signatures in support of a much needed living wage for
employees of businesses that have contracts with the city.
The only way that we will see this local movement for economic justice
succeed is if we engage active community members like you. If you would
like to become a part of this movement, please call
Ashley
Pasquariello:
717-385-7882 or email: ashley.c.pasquariello@gmail.com
Women in Black Weekly Silent Vigil
When: Every Thursday from 12:15 - 12:45pm
(July
2, 9, 16,
23, 30)
Where: West End Avenue (on the bridge across from the
Tennesseean Newspaper,
between 12th Ave and
The Frist Museum)
For almost seven years Women in Black has been
conducting a weekly silent
peace vigil as a presence for peace in the world.
We are part of an international movement for peace. We dress
in
black and stand in silence holding signs that we stand as
witness
to the horror of war and to the possibility for peaceful alternatives to war.
Black umbrellas and water bottles are advisable in this hot
weather.
Women in Black is not an organization but an
informal community of women who stand silently for peace.
Global Learning Network
P.O. Box 281405
Nashville, TN 37228
International Civic Engagement Opportunities
Global Learning Network promotes international understanding, goodwill
and cooperation through:
• Education Abroad Programs
• African Language Institute
• Collaborative Global Studies Programs
These are all university level programs in Africa for North American
students. Participants gain valuable international experience while
earning college credit. Our programs are designed to help support a
peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world.
We are looking for individuals to serve in the following positions: (1)
Administrative Assistant and (2) Associate
Director for Education Abroad Programs. Currently, these positions are
unpaid, but as the organization generates income there will be modest
salaries.
Contact:
Global Learning Network
E-mail: gln_hq@yahoo.com
Telephone: 615.963.5587
For further information, contact:
Andinet Mayibuye
615.963.5587 gln_hq@yahoo.com
Dreams For
Teens
is a nonprofit organization whos mission is to level the field for many
impoverished people. Their goal is to improve education, and access
to quality education in the United States, as well as globally. Through
their work with teens, they feel that they will be less inclined to
engage in violence.
Tennessee Senator
Douglas Henry
11 Legislative Plaza
Nashville, TN 37243-0021
(615) 741-3291 ; sen.douglas.
henry@capitol.tn.gov
Our
mailing address is: 4732
W Longdale Drive Nashville,
TN 37211 Our
telephone: 333-5700,
333-5811 (fax) The
Nashville Peace and Justice Center (NPJC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization dedicated to promoting equity and creating a peaceful,
just and sustainable society through reflection, education and
non-violent action. SPREAD THE WORD!
Change is not only possible, it is
inevitable, and it happens
everyday!
Forward this message to everyone you know, and encourage them
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.May
Peace
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