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February 25, 2010 Contact Steve Miller Day 419-242-7317 For Immediate Release Catholic Sister Gives First Hand Account
from Palestine
On Sunday , February 28, at 2:00 P.M. in Corpus Christi University Parish (2955 Dorr St.) a coalition of groups (Arab Student Union, Media Decompression Collective, Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition) will sponsor a talk given by Sr. Paulette Schroeder. Sister Paulette will be speaking about her recent fact finding in Hebron, Palestine.. Sister Paulette, a Franciscan Nun and Member of the Christian Peacemaker Team, has been to the Middle East several times reporting on conditions in Palestine and the surrounding occupied territories. As a member of the Christian Peacemaker Team, Sr. Paulette, in the Christian tradition of bearing witness, will be reporting about the circumstances of her visit through personal testimony and photographs of the daily reality of living in Palestine. As opposed to those merely report about Palestine, Sr. Paulette will share the unique perspective of one who has lived with the people of Palestine. Steve Miller, of the peace coalition, said, “Sr. Paulette’s compelling account of the plight of the Palestinian people is something we all need to hear.” Mr. Miller added,“ Sr. Paulette doesn’t just report the news from Palestine, she is the news from Palestine.” ######## |
December 31, 2001 Contact Steve Miller Day 419-242-7317 For Immediate Release Local Peace Group Sponsors Rally and March
Stop the Siege of Gaza On Sunday, January 3, members and friends of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition will be commemorating Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago. A rally, followed by a march, will begin at 2:00 pm at the intersection of Talmadge and Sylvania. The march will begin with a few words from representatives of the participating organizations. The assembled will march around the boundaries the Westfield Shopping Mall staying on the public sidewalk. The action is in concert with others taking place around the United States commemorating the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. In addition to the commemoration the ongoing blockade and its effect on people of Gaza will addressed. Peace Coalition member, Steve Miller, said “Israel’s bombing of Gaza left over 1,400 people dead and the infrastructure of the area devastated. Since that time the ongoing blockade of Gaza has prevented essential supplies from being delivered. The loss of life and infrastructure and the ongoing blockade has created the worst kind of alchemy, an angry and desperate population.“ Mr. Miller added “Israel’s disproportionate attack on Gaza in retaliation for rocket launches should remind us of Mahatma Gandhi’s admonition, ‘An eye for a eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and toothless.’” He added “The United States must use its influence as Israel’s primary provider of military assistance to demand an end to the blockade and open the borders to much needed assistance” ######## |
November 29, 2009 Contact Steve Miller Day 419-242-7317 For Immediate Release Peace Group Vigils to Send Obama Pre-Press
Conference Message
Withdraw, Don’t Deploy! On Tuesday, December 1, members and friends of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition will hold a candle light vigil for peace in Afghanistan. The vigil will be held at 5:30pm at the intersection of Talmadge and Monroe. The observance is being held to send the Obama administration a message to draw down, not build up, troops in Afghanistan. In light of President Obama’s scheduled 8:00 pm press conference, local peace activists will be joining others around the state and nation saying no to a build up in Afghanistan. Member of the Peace Coalition, Steve Miller, said “If reports of a 35,000 troop build up are meant as a trial balloon, I say deflate it, it won’t float” the former army veteran added, “We should learn from the Soviets. Victory, however defined, is illusory given the political and tribal geography of Afghanistan. Let’s stop it now before more have to die!” ######## |
| Northwest Ohio Coalition for Single Payer September 13, 2009 Contact Steve Miller Day 419-242-7317 For Immediate Release Local Coalition Rallies for Single Payer
Healthcare
On Wednesday, September 16, the Northwest Ohio Coalition for Single Payer will be holding a "Healthcare not Warfare" rally at the Lucas County Courthouse at 5:00 pm. The rally will feature speakers advocating national single payer healthcare. The rally is scheduled from 5:00 pm to approximately 5:30 pm at which point a march is scheduled from the courthouse to One Government Center. At the Government Center, some brief closing remarks will end the event. The featured speakers will be representing their respective constituencies. The coalition consists of University of Toledo Anti-War, Toledo International Socialist Organization, Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition, Single Payer Action Network of Ohio, Northwest Ohio Green Party and Physicians for a National Health Program. Steve Miller of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition said, "With the money we're spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan we could fund a national healthcare program that would be of real and lasting benefit for all Americans" the former army veteran added, "Dr King said 'A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.' At times like these Dr King's admonition seems disturbingly prophetic." ######## |
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Immediate Release May 7, 2009 Contact Steve Miller Day 419-242-7317 Local Peace Group Commemorates Mother's Day
Anti-War Message On Sunday, May 10, members and friends of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition will be displaying a large Mother's Day anti-war proclamation at Heatherdowns and Reynolds from noon to 1:30 pm. A large display of placards printed with Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day anti-war proclamation (included separately) will be the focus of the demonstration. In 1872, suffragist, pacifist and social activist Julia Ward Howe penned a Mother's Day statement widely believed to be the origin of the first Mother's Day. Those attending the event will be wearing black in the tradition of the Women in Black peace network. Peace group member Kelli Zenz and mother of three said "I'm a firm believer in peace and wouldn't want my children to do anybody harm or to be harmed". ######## |
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Immediate Release April 29, 2009 Contact Steve Miller Day 419-242-7317 Peace Group Decries U.S. Deaths During
Obama’s First 100 Days
On Friday, May 1, members and friends of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition will be holding a picket at the corner of Secor and Central Avenues from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. The purpose of the demonstration is to express the disappointment of local peace activists to President Obama’s first hundred days in office. Steve Miller, a member of the peace group, said “President Obama ran on a platform on of “bring the troops home” not bring them home from Iraq in due time while increasing troop strength in Afghanistan.” The Veterans for Peace member added “After the administration of George Bush I thought we had an ally in the white house. His first hundred days have been a profound disappointment” Jeff Klein, a member of the peace group, constructed a number of large signboards reading “Obama’s Watch: Day 100 – U.S. Troop Deaths: Iraq , Afghanistan (followed by the current total)” as a visible statement and display. ########
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the First Mother’s Day in
1870,
Women Today Mourn War Dead, Plea for Peace Mother’s Day Vigil,
Sunday May 11, corner of Reynolds and Heatherdowns from noon to
1:30pm.
We ask all who attend to wear black and stand silently during this event. The following lines are among those from Howe’s statement that will be displayed on large posters and held for passing motorists to see on Reynolds Rd. "Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause." "Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience." "We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs." "From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!” Mother’s Day wasn’t always about shopping for flowers or jewelry. On the first Mother’s Day in 1870, Julia Ward Howe -- reformer, writer, peace activist, and suffragette -- called for mothers everywhere to raise their voices and bring an end to all war. Her anguished Proclamation (attached) remains timely to this day. On this Mother’s Day, the North West Ohio Peace Coalition invites all area women – and men who support them – to join with us in mourning the tens of thousands of lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. We invite residents to stand silently in recognition of the thousands of mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters who grieve the death of a loved one – an American, an Iraqi, an Afghan – on this 138th annual commemoration of what is one of history’s most eloquent pleas for peace. ########
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Immediate Release March 21, 2008 Sue Carter 419-729-7273 Peggy Daly-Masternak 734-457-2394, Ext. 3 For
Iraq
War’s 5th
Anniversary Peace Groups Rally to Say: Not One More Death!!
At 11:00 am on Saturday, March 22, area citizens will gather at Toledo Promenade Park on Summit Street in downtown Toledo (next to the COSI building) to hear the remarks of Marine veteran, Wes Liggett, who speaks out against the war and urges us to support the troops when they return home. Liggett, from South Bend, Indiana, was deployed to Iraq three times. From Promenade Park the activists will walk to the site of the Arlington Midwest display of 5,000 tombstones on the Lucas County courthouse lawn. After a solemn closing ceremony, participants will take down the tombstones.
“We hope we will never need to add another one,” states Peggy Daly-Masternak organizer from the NW Ohio Peace Coalition. “This rally and march is the last in a series of events to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq but people of peace will continue to protest until this war end and the troops return.” For over 6 years, the NW Ohio Peace Coalition holds an anti-war demonstration every Sunday on a Toledo street corner.
The week of peace activities is co-sponsored by 37 organizations including communities of faith, campus groups and labor unions from Toledo, Fostoria, Tiffin, and Adrian Detroit and Monroe Michigan. ######
Endorsing
organizations:
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Anti-War - Tiffin Pax Christi - Pax Christi of Corpus Christi
University Parish - Fostoria Area Citizens for Peace - People for Peace
and Justice Sandusky County - Green Party of Northwest Ohio - Toledo
Area Jobs With Justice Coalition - Sylvania Sisters of St. Francis -
Pax Christi Wood County - NAACP Toledo Unit - Broadmead Monthly Meeting
(Quakers) - St. Paul's United Methodist Church - Interfaith Justice and
Peace Center - Toledo NOW - Flowing Waters Sangha - International
Socialist Organization - Ursuline Sisters - Military Families Speak Out
Ohio - Toledo Area Committee on Central America - Adrian Dominicans
Office of Global Missions - Lenawee Peacemakers - Servants of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe - Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin -
AFSCME Local 2415 University of Toledo Medical Center - St. Rose
Catholic Church Peace and Justice Committee - Farm Labor Organizing
Committee - Monroe for Peace and Justice - Media
Decompression
Collective - October 15 Anarchist Collective - St. Mark’s
Episcopal Church - Voices for Peace and Justice - Millions More
Movement Local Organizing Committee - St. Johns Jesuit Social Justice
Alliance - Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus - The Servant
Leadership Center
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Immediate Release Sue Carter 419-729-7273 Peggy Daly-Masternak 734-457-2394, Ext. 3 March 17, 2008 Peace
Groups Mark 5th Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion, March 19.
At the display site of 5,000 tombstones, activists hold a 12 hour vigil to read names of U.S. military and Iraqi citizens who have died. At
8:00 AM on Wednesday, March 19, the fifth anniversary of the invasion
of Iraq, area citizens and activists will gather in a 12 hour vigil at
the Lucas County Courthouse on Adams Street in downtown Toledo to read
the names of U.S. military and Iraqi citizens who have died. The
courthouse is the site of Arlington
Midwest: The Human Cost of War
, a display of 5,000 tombstones of those who have died in the
wars in Iraq, in Afghanistan and when they return home by
suicide. A candle light reading will start at 6:30
P.M. Both at 8:00 AM and at 6:30 PM, after the bugler plays taps,
readers
will begin with the names of the Ohio fallen.
“The 5,000 tombstones of Arlington Midwest try to depict the human cost of war and we read the names so we can remember and grieve for each of them,” states Anna Colnar, member of Military Families Speak Out, an organization of military families opposed to the war in Iraq. “The devastation caused by this war is beyond repair and yet after 5 years there is no end in sight! We need to stop this madness now, bring our troops home, give the Iraqis back their country and use the $275 million dollars (current according to National Priorities Project) we spend each day on war and death to heal and rebuild both of our nations.” Volunteers will be setting up the tombstones on Tuesday, March 18. Arlington Midwest is the project of the NW Ohio Peace Coalition and Veterans for Peace and is supported and co-sponsored by 35 organizations from Ohio and Michigan including communities of faith, labor unions and campus groups*. ######
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Anti-War - Tiffin Pax Christi - Pax Christi of Corpus Christi
University Parish - Fostoria Area Citizens for Peace - People for Peace
and Justice Sandusky County - Green Party of Northwest Ohio - Toledo
Area Jobs With Justice Coalition - Sylvania Sisters of St. Francis -
Pax Christi Wood County - NAACP Toledo Unit - Broadmead Monthly Meeting
(Quakers) - St. Paul's United Methodist Church - Interfaith Justice and
Peace Center - Toledo NOW - Flowing Waters Sangha - International
Socialist Organization - Ursuline Sisters - Military Families Speak Out
Ohio - Toledo Area Committee on Central America - Adrian Dominicans
Office of Global Missions - Lenawee Peacemakers - Servants of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe - Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin -
AFSCME Local 2415 University of Toledo Medical Center - St. Rose
Catholic Church Peace and Justice Committee - Farm Labor Organizing
Committee - Monroe for Peace and Justice - Media
Decompression
Collective - October 15 Anarchist Collective - St. Mark’s
Episcopal Church - Voices for Peace and Justice - Millions More
Movement Local Organizing Committee - St. Johns Jesuit Social Justice
Alliance - Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus - The Servant
Leadership Center
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For Immediate Release
Sue Carter 419-729-7273 Peggy Daly-Masternak 734-457-2394, Ext. 3 February 28, 2008
Peace Groups Mark 5th Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion with Week of Activity
5,000 Tombstones Will Stand on the Courthouse Lawn
See complete program below
From March 18th through March 22nd, co-sponsors will stage Arlington Midwest: the Human Cost of War at the Lucas County Courthouse. 5,000 tombstones create this display, including US service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and those returning home and committing suicide. Also included are the names of 3,000 Iraqis out of over a million killed. Complete Program:
Sponsored by: Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition and University of Toledo Anti-War. Co-sponsors include Tiffin Pax Christi; Pax Christi of Corpus Christi University Parish; Fostoria Area Citizens for Peace; People for Peace and Justice Sandusky County; Veterans for Peace; Green Party of Northwest Ohio; Toledo Area Jobs With Justice Coalition; Sylvania Sisters of St. Francis; Pax Christi Wood County; NAACP Toledo Unit; Broadmead Monthly Meeting (Quakers); St. Paul’s United Methodist Church; Interfaith Justice and Peace Center; Toledo NOW; and International Socialist Organization. #######
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