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For immediate release May 8, 2008
Contact:
Like 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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For
Immediate Release March 21, 2008
Sue Carter 419-729-7273
Peggy
Daly-Masternak 734-457-2394, Ext.
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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.
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Endorsing
organizations:
*UT
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.
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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.
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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:
- March 18 at 11:30 a.m. at
Lucas County Courthouse: Dozens of volunteers will
spend the
day erecting 5,000 tombstones on the courthouse lawn.
- March 19 at 8:00 a.m. at
Courthouse: Opening ceremony of Arlington Midwest
and the
start of the reading the names of the fallen, beginning with Ohio.
- March 19 at 6:30 p.m. at
Courthouse: Candlelight vigil for the fallen and
the reading
of names continues.
- March 10 at 7:00 p.m. at UT
Law School: Colonel Ann Wright, former
State
Department official who resigned in protest to the plan to invade
Iraq. She will sign copies of her newly released book, Dissent:
Voices of Conscience.
- March 20 at 6:30:
documentary film: Sir!
No Sir! at
Sanger Library. “Sir! No Sir!”
documents for
the first time on film the underground GI movement against the war in
Vietnam.
- March 22, 11:00 a.m., peace
activists rally at Promenade Park and march to the
Lucas
County Courthouse for a rally and closing ceremony for Arlington
Midwest tombstone display. Speaker is South Bend USMC veteran, Wes
Liggett, deployed to Iraq three times.
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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