North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice, formerly North Shore Anti-War Coalition


Past Events
Member Organizations, North Suburban Peace Initiative (NSPI) and American Friends Service Committee are hosting a forum A Seriously Flawed U.S. Demand... The Privatizing of Iraqi Oil! Thursday, July 26. 2007 • 7:30pm Beth Emet Synogogue • 1224 W. Dempster, Evanston, IL with guest speaker Antonia Juhasz, Ms Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is the Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of THe Bu$h Agenda - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. She is a teacher at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program. click here for further information
Click here for information on the May 16th Jeremy Scahill event at Northwestern


Friday, May 11, 2007 • 6:30pm to 7:30pm Church and Maple in Evanston (near the theaters) The theme for this month's 2nd Friday action is the origins of Mother's Day as proclaimed by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 which was begun as a day for women to take a stand against war. In the same tradition, Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. We will be encouraging women and men to stand on Sunday, May 13 at 1pm whereever they may be for peace. www.standingwomen.org We are standing for the world’s children and grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them. We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, and enough food to eat. A world where they have access to a basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies. A world where they have a worm, safe, and loving place to call home. A world where they don’t live in fear of violence - in their home, in their neighborhood, in their school or in their world. This is the world of which we dream. This is the cause for which we stand.

	Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870 Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will 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, the 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 a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe out dishonor, Nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil At the summons of war, Let women now leave all that may be left of home For a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means Whereby the great human family can live in peace... Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, But of God - In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask That a general congress of women without limit of nationality, May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient And the earliest period consistent with its objects, To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, The amicable settlement of international questions, The great and general interests of peace.

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Wednesday, May 16 • 7pm Jeremy Scahill Tour: BLACKWATER USA Northwestern University (Evanston campus) 1881 Sheridan Rd. (Sheridan and Chicago Ave) Harris Hall room #108; lecture hall holds 225-250. Via public transit: Foster stop (purple line El), walk 21⁄2 blocks east to Sheridan, 1 block south to Harris Hall. Via auto: Parking available nearby in the south parking lot off Sheridan Road, east of Harris Hall. Join us for Jeremy Scahill’s book tour for his NY Times best seller: *Blackwater, the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.* From the blackwaterbook.com website - “Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from deep inside the military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House. Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror,” with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 private contractors at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments, and yet most people have never heard of Blackwater.” www.blackwaterbook.com click here to download flyer




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