newsletter of Western Washington FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION
225 North 70th, Seattle WA 98103, 206-789-5565
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Vol. XXIII, No. 5 - November-December 2003-
Editor: Tom Savage plus many helping hands. Web edition at: www.scn.org/wwforThe Western Washington FOR (WWFOR) seeks to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, equality, peace and justice. It links and strengthens FOR members and chapters throughout Western Washington in promoting activities consistent with the national FOR statement of purpose. WWFOR helps members and chapters accomplish together what we could not accomplish alone.
Vision statement of national FOR: The Fellowship of Reconciliation envisions a world of justice, peace, and freedom. It is a revolutionary vision of a beloved community where differences are respected, conflicts addressed nonviolently, oppressive structures dismantled, and where people live in harmony with the earth, nurtured by diverse spiritual traditions that foster compassion, solidarity, and reconciliation.
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Nov 8 WWFOR Dinner and Auctionback to WWFOR homepage
Nov 8, 4-8pm WWFOR Dinner & Auction
Friends of WWFOR from near and far are invited to a fun auction on Sat. Nov 8, from 4 to 8 p.m., at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 North 70th at Greenwood, Seattle. This is the biggest fundraiser for WWFOR each year, and fun enough to invite your non-member friends. We start with grazing, both on snacks and on silent auction items. This is a great time for bargain hunters. The silent auction continues through a delicious dinner. Then our long-time auctioneer, Nancy Mottet-Elbert, takes over for a fast-paced, fun, and meaningful event! Hot items include home-cooked dinners, theatre tickets, massages, voice lessons, services, art items, jewelry, and much, much more!
The auction helps support WWFOR's work to promote peace in the world, to achieve racial equality, to end the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, to rid the world of nuclear weapons, to formulate a just economic policy for global trading, to end the death penalty, and much, much more. The suggested door donation is $10, which includes dinner, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. More info: call WWFOR 206-789-5565.
Mike Yarrow, WWFOR Co-organizerRecently I've felt as if I'm on a rollercoaster. My spirits plunge when the UN Security Council approves a resolution supporting the illegal US occupation of Iraq with no deadline for ending it. My hopes rise when we hear that increasing numbers of Americans have deep questions about the war and occupation. This is an important time for us to continue educating our fellow citizens to more promising alternatives.
Last night Ruth and I had a delightful dinner with two of last summer's Peace Activist Trainees and Laura Raymond, the post-college daughter of an Oregon FOR family. They are developing a session for the Fall Retreat to help FOR chapters become comfortable places for young people to work for peace and justice. I really look forward to that session, as well as to the sessions on how peace people and labor union people can work together, and how FOR chapters can work with people of color on mutual concerns. I hope you can come to the Fall Retreat, Friday evening, Nov 21 and Saturday Nov 22. For registration info, call us at 206-789-5565.
Ruth and I recently traveled to new FOR chapters in Nelson, British Columbia and Colville, Washington. We were impressed by the thoughtful way the founders were forming those groups. Nelson FOR has sent many small bags of rice to Prime Minister Chr3/4 tien encouraging him to stay out of the war on Iraq. At a local food store they sang songs to invite people to sign letters.
In Colville the Pruitt-Hamms and others are carefully launching an FOR chapter in a conservative part of the state. Bruce Pruitt-Hamm organized a mock trial of Saddam Hussein by the International Criminal Court that involved local high school students, lawyers and judges. It brought the issue of international law to that community in a vivid and participative way. We are looking forward to visiting other chapters soon.
It is also very encouraging that the SNOW coalition has many neighborhood groups who remain active with educational programs, tabling, door-to-door canvassing, vigiling, collecting petitions against the Patriot Act, etc. We were heartened by Jim McDermott's response to the request for an additional $87 billion for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that we should correct the president's errors, not fund them. Peace to you all. Mike
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Ruth Yarrow, WWFOR Co-organizerDo you find the BILLIONS of dollars for U.S. operations in Iraq mind-boggling? By the time you read this newsletter, Congress will have voted an additional $87 billion for the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan beyond the $138 billion the Bush Administration has already spent -- a total of $225 billion. That's about $1,500 from each of the 150 million or so taxpayers in the country!
The vast majority of this enormous figure goes to the military, not reconstruction. War profiteering takes a big slice. For example, a satellite phone available in the U.S. for $495 is listed in the Bush Administration's reconstruction package as $6000 each (data from the US Senate Democratic Policy Committee). The tragedy of this spending is not only the Iraqi, American and other lives being lost daily. It is that as well, those mindboggling billions are being torn from essential human needs to pay for ongoing war and occupation.
How could these billions be turned into a positive force? Consider Stephen Zunes' commonsense proposal in the next article. Urge that the Iraqi people, not Bush cronies and international corporations, be in control of Iraq's resources.
The UN's Role in Transition to Iraq Self-Rule - Stephen Zunes, Seattle, Oct 11
Tom Savage, Seattle
Dr. Zunes began by outlining the history of several UN Security Council resolutions on the Middle East. He noted the UN weapons inspection teams in Iraq (IAEA, UNSCOM and UMNOVIC) actually were quite effective in revealing and controlling weapons activity. He proposed the following eight-point plan for transition to Iraqi self-rule:
"1. Create a new United Nations Transitional Authority authorized by and reporting to the Security Council, that would replace the current US-led occupation of Iraq...
"2. Expand the current UN mission in Iraq to assume the following roles and responsibilities:
--The managing of the political transition process within Iraq.
--Seeking security partners for a newly authorized UN security force.
--Administering the development fund for Iraq...
"3. Accelerate the creation of an addition of the Iraqi police force and the Iraqi armed forces. Invite NATO and the Arab League and other international agencies and regional organizations and agencies to participate in the trainings and equipping program under UN authority to establish Iraqi police and armed forces as soon as possible. ...
"4. Create a UN-authorized international security force to provide military security during the buildup to the transition process. Invite NATO to provide logistic support and command experience to the UN security force. ... Confirm the current US-UK command as the UN security force for an initial three months until a substantial international force is assembled and ready for deployment. By the end of the 3-month period, the US-led command would begin to reduce its forces and the UN commander ... would take charge of the military technical forces working in conjunction with the head of the UN transitional authority. At the end of the political transition process based on a fixed timeline, all foreign military forces would be Iraqi.
"5. Adopt the Iraqi principles for a future government as approved by a meeting of nearly 100 Iraqi leaders, convened by the United States near Nasariya on April 15, as conditions to guide the UN transition process and the subsequent Iraqi government...
"6. Establish a political transition office, staffed with security and international specialists, with a fixed timeline for achieving Iraqi self-rule...
"7. Replace the current interim government council with a genuine transitional government that would have substantial authority to manage Iraqi affairs during the transition process...
"8. Place responsibility for managing the development fund for Iraq with the transitional government and the UN transitional authority, clearly specifying requirements for transparent accounting and reporting to the Security Council...
"An Iraqi government that would emerge from under a UN trusteeship would be far more credible, both inside and outside Iraq, than one set up by the US occupation, which quite literally is more likely to be seen as a puppet regime installed by a foreign army...
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Dr. Zunes closed with some suggestions for activists:
"I want to conclude with a couple of general thoughts. During my activist days in college, during the 1970s, I naively believed with my activist colleagues that through a large scale and growing nonviolent action we would be able to create alternative institutions, that we would be able to rapidly transform society. That we would have an America including a foreign policy consistent with our stated goals of supporting freedom and democracy and justice. Little did I know that in 2003 I would be fighting an uphill battle simply to save the liberal ideals of my parents' generation.
"Indeed, the Bush administration and their Republican and Democratic allies in Congress are systematically undermining the international views and principles put in place by Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and others. And so, there's nothing politically radical, nothing particularly idealist about the ideas that I put across here. Indeed, I think it's very commonsense. And because of this, and because of the interdependence of these times, I think it illustrates something we are seeing more and more since the tragedy of 9-11, that there is an unprecedented convergence between those of us who traditionally looked at US foreign policy from ethical grounds, which is Human Rights and International Law, and those who have viewed US foreign policy from a narrow strategic interest and national security paradigm. Because, really, they are one and the same. They cannot be separated anymore.
"We cannot have national security unless we take these principles more seriously because our failure to abide by these principles, as I illustrated earlier, is in large part responsible for what's gotten us into trouble. The stakes, of course, have never been higher...
"And so I believe we must go beyond the liberal left and pacifist core of the peace movement to embrace ordinary Americans who believe in the American Republic, not in American Empire. Because I believe our greatest service is not in our powerful military might, or in our ability to bully other governments into acquiescing in supporting our policies, but in the American people's commitment to the values of freedom, democracy and the Rule of Law. Thank you."
(Dr. Zunes is Chair of Peace and Justice Studies at the University of San Francisco. He served on FOR/USA's Middle East Committee. For a video of his speech, call WWFOR)
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Nov 21-22 WWFOR Fall Retreat at Lacey: Steps to Justice, Reaching Out
From Friday at 5:15pm to Saturday at 3pm, with peace people from around the state, songs and workshops we'll focus on engaging with youth, people of color and the labor community. We'll be guided by FOR summer interns, an experienced anti-racism trainer and an ILWU organizer. $22, or $12 for one day. More info: call WWFOR 206-789-5565.
Olympia: Nonviolence as Goal and Way
Glen Anderson, OlympiaThe Olympia FOR organizes a strategically useful mix of activities. Always we convey a solid commitment to nonviolence as both the goal we seek and the way to reach our goal.
"Choosing Peace: A Series for the Whole Community" We published and distributed 4,250 copies of a newsprint schedule of many dozens of "Choosing Peace" activities in Oct-Nov in Thurston County and a thorough guide to information resources (organizations, periodicals and websites). The purpose was to provide a huge number and variety of peace-related ways to observe the season around the second anniversary of the Sep 11 attacks.
Gandhi: Our book study group included a stimulating mixture of people and completed its work successfully. Some participants want to continue meeting to read about other peace innovators. Anyone wanting to form a new group in January to meet 6 times and discuss two very readable books about Gandhi please promptly call Glen at 360-491-9093.
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On Gandhi's birthday, Oct. 2, Kristen Dahle organized a well-attended birthday party for Gandhi, which included a presentation by Bernie Meyer in character as Gandhi and with a lesson in spinning of thread to make khadi cloth. |
TV Programs:
Our September program focused on the US's irresponsible use of uranium weapons in Iraq and elsewhere. Our October program explored the dynamics of how to stop a war. Our November program offers a hopeful antidote to the extreme competitiveness and alienation in modern American society. Under the title "We're All in This Together!" the program offers a more humane, egalitarian, socially responsible, and community-based alternative. Each program airs twice a week for an entire month for Thurston County's cable TV subscribers.Resource listings, calendar and more information is available at www.olyfor.org or call 360-491-9093
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Wenatchee Valley: Democracy series
Nancy Jarmin, Wenatchee-- Informative and thought provoking videos and speakers.
-- A "safe place" where all interested persons can participate in meaningful dialogue on national and world events.
-- Exploring collaborative actions we can take to create a positive future for our community, nation and world.
Those are the basis for Wenatchee Valley FOR's six-part Fall 2003 program "American Democracy, a discussion series", with video programs and panel discussion on
-- The Meaning of Terrorism
-- Security and Civil Liberties: The U.S.A. Patriot Act
-- America's Role in the World:
Democratic Leadership or Imperial Order?"
The series opened on Sep 6 with Michael Rupert's powerful film, "The Truth and Lies of 9/11", exploring 40 years of under reported political and economic issues that prefaced the disaster of 9/11. On Sep 20, a guest panel addressed the topic: "Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy" and opened an evening of thoughtful and lively discussion.
In October we showed the video of Bill Moyers' NOW interview with Chuck Lewis, founder of The Center for Public Integrity, on the U.S.A. Patriot Act. Afterward. the audience formed a large circle to discuss what have we lost, what we can do about it, what we ARE going to do about it, how we can tell others and get them involved.
October's panel discussion, "Security and Civil Liberties - The U.S.A. Patriot Act", featured a librarian, an ACLU representative, an immigrant and a member of the county Sheriff's Department.
Our topic for November is "America's Role in the World - Democratic Leadership or Imperial Order?" with a video plus open discussion Nov 1, and a panel discussion Nov 15.
Chris Rader of KOHO radio in Leavenworth interviewed Nancy Jarmin before the start of the discussion series and aired the interview several times.
Wenatchee Valley FOR extended an invitation to "The Wheels of Justice Bus Tour " and we were honored to have the colorful bus and the four touring speakers with us on Oct 7. Several WVFOR members guided the tour to highly visible stops in Wenatchee and East Wenatchee. At each stop, Lorna Tychostup, a magazine editor who was in Baghdad as a photographer during the war on Iraq, displayed her photos of the Iraqi people at the side of the bus. Passers-by, with varying opinions of the attack, stopped to talk and to view them.
Under the front page heading, "Give peace bus a chance? Not in Wenatchee" the Oct 8 Wenatchee World featured a large color photograph of FOR member Pat Rasmussen and several local people looking at Lorna's Iraq photos. The reporter was with the bus when the manager of Top Food and Drug in East Wenatchee came out to say, "Take down your propaganda, get in your bus and get out!" When Wheels of Justice folks attempted to talk with her, the manager replied, "The next time I say anything, it will be to the police." Five minutes later an East Wenatchee cruiser pulled up. As the Wenatchee World reported, "The police paused to chat and hear descriptions of the photos before they drove away; the bus left soon after that."
Along a busy street the tour group again displayed Lorna's photos, talked with people and encouraged them to sit together and write letters to elected officials. That evening Lorna showed slides she'd taken in Iraq: of smiling people, of the tragic Amariyah shelter, of a book collection offered for streetside sale by its desperate owner, of bombed vehicles in a DU wasteland, of a dirty river with destroyed water purification plant. A final slide showed two pregnant women who, just days before bombs fell, laughed and talked and fed "this crazy American woman who took pictures of everything."
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Tacoma: SOA Watch Major Event Nov16
Al KammerzallTacoma members of FOR continued helping Pierce County People for Justice "billboarding" at special events, especially Tacoma Farmers' Market. Some of us marched on Oct 13 with Jobs With Justice and the health workers union, protesting the elimination of 29 positions in local community health centers. We co-sponsored an all-day Earth Charter on Oct 13 and co-sponsored a peace concert on Oct 16. We're working with Pierce County People for Peace and Justice and others to hold a regional rally in Tacoma on Sunday, Nov 16 at Portland Avenue Park on East 35th and Portland Avenue, in protest of the US Army's "School of the Americas" at Ft. Benning and to urge Congress to cease funding it.
Cindy Cole, West SeattleWest Seattle continues to table at the Farmers Market. On Saturdays several people leaflet in the West Seattle Junction with educational materials on peace and justice. Over the next month and a half we will be having a workshop on Tuesday nights concerning Waging Peace through Harmonious Interactions. We will be discussing and practicing centering and listening techniques. We are hosting a forum on "Your Civil Liberties and the Patriot Act" on Oct 26.
Herman was an active FOR member throughout his 56 years of membership. He was a conscientious objector in World War II, when he spent 2-1/2 years directing a rural hospital and service project in the mountains of Puerto Rico. He worked 37 years for peace through the United Methodist Church helping the Church Center for the UN in New York City. He and his wife, Rita, led 20 overseas study tours.
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Connections: people & organizations
FOR National
PO Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960 845-358-4601 www.forusa.org publisher of Fellowship magazine (excellent!).back to WWFOR homepage
Still waging peace all over! See Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War SNOW website for neighborhood groups around Puget Sound & beyond http://www.snowCoalition.org/contact.php, more events: Olympia plus http://www.OlyFOR.org; Seattle plus http://www.scn.org/activism/calendar, Bellingham http://www.bellinghampeace.org or http://www.revolutionz.org Tacoma http://www.tacomapjh.org, Tri-Cities http://www.tcfn.org/wcp
Ongoing Wednesdays, noon - 1 p.m., NW corner of Sylvester Park, corner of Legion & Capitol Way, Olympia, Peace Vigil, come for all or part of the hour to sustain Olympia *FOR’s* persistent (every week for 21 years) witness for peace and nonviolence; bring signs or use ours; info Glen 360-491-9093
Ongoing Thursdays; 5 - 6 p.m., near the Westlake Park arch at 4th and Pine, downtown Seattle; Peace Vigil and leafleting by Women in Black, a peace group in the tradition of the women who vigil weekly in Israel / Palestine, info 206-208-9715
Ongoing Thursdays, 9 p.m. & Mondays 1:30 p.m., TCTV channel 22 or 29 in Thurston County, Olympia *FOR* TV monthly program repeats twice weekly; November "We're All in This Together!" December to be determined; info Glen 360-491-9093 or http://www.OlyFOR.org
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Ongoing Fridays, 4 - 5 p.m., in front of the Bellingham Federal Building; join Bellingham *FOR* members and others in the Whatcom Peace Vigil followed by open discussion at Port of Subs, 5:15 - 6:15 p.m., vigil may be extended to 6 p.m., info 360-738-9205
Ongoing Fridays, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., south end of Percival Landing, 4th & Water, Olympia; Please join Olympia *FOR* in this very friendly peace vigil for all or part of this time. Signs provided or bring your own. info 360-491-9093
Ongoing Saturdays, noon - 1 p.m., along Pearl St. at Washington Park in front of library in Centralia; Peace Vigiling by Fire Mountain *FOR*; info June Butler, 360-748-9658 or Larry Kerschner 360-291-3946
Ongoing Sundays, 10 p.m., on TCTV channel 22 or 29 in Thurston County; Olympia *FOR* sponsors interesting documentaries, different each month; info Carol 360-866-7645 or carolburns@olywa.net
Ongoing Sundays, 2 p.m., at Greenlake, near the intersection of 63rd and East Greenlake Way N, Seattle; Peace Vigil, all peaceful people invited, bring signs, leaflets, and your friends and dogs, info greenlakepeacevigil@hotmail.com [vigil has been moved a bit south, across from the Albertsons]
Sat Nov 1, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at University of Washington, Seattle, HUB Ballroom; Violence: A Community Problem: Men and Women Working Toward A Community Solution, Join us as we discuss the role that men play in ending domestic violence. $15 includes a box lunch, Students are free, Registration required, via UW Women's Center 206-685-1090
Sat Nov 1, 12:30 - 5 p.m., registration begins at noon, at Seattle University, 900 Broadway, Seattle; "The Cost Of Retribution" 2003 Conference of the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Keynote Rev. Dr. Leslie Braxton. Workshops and discussion. Snacks provided. suggested $15 donation, open to all, *WWFOR* is a longtime participant in WCADP, info 206-622-8952 or info@abolishdeathpenalty.org
Sat Nov 1, 1 - 4 p.m., in the fellowship hall of the Des Moines United Methodist Church, 22225 - 9th Ave. S., Des Moines; South King County *FOR* is sponsoring the second annual Peace Fair for All the Saints on with display tables and information booths. Ed Mast and Linda Bevis will present a Palestinian Primer, performance by the Raging Grannies. Displays welcome. info Mark Fredericksen, 206-243-9238, or mark@fredclinic.com
Sat Nov 1, 3 p.m., & subsequent 1st Saturdays, Keystone Cong. Ch., 5019 Keystone Pl. N, Seattle; meeting of Interfaith Network of Concern for the People of Iraq working for peace in Iraq; info Rich Gamble 206-632-6021
Sun Nov 2, 1 - 3 p.m., at the Dougass-Truth Library, 23rd Ave & Yesler Way, Seattle; program meeting of the Nonviolent Peaceforce -- Seattle Area Support Group, a local group that will provide an on-going resource for peacekeeping presence and training; A different program on nonviolence will be presented each month. An organizational meeting of the Peaceforce follows the presentation from 3 to 4:30 pm. info David Berrian 425-482-3026 or dberrian@earthlink.net
Weds Nov 5, noon, at Centralia Community College; guest appearance in Don Foran's philosophy class of pioneering pacifist Gandhi, as personified by *FOR* activist, Bernie Meyer, info 253-221-2936
Thurs Nov 6, 6:30 p.m., at Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Pl. N., Seattle; Jose "Chencho" Alas on The Mesoamerican Peace Project & the Culture, Spirituality, and Theology of Peace; RSVP & info Jonathan 206-547-7565
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Fri & Sat Nov 7 & 8, 7:30 p.m. & 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., at Seattle University, Schafer Auditorium, Lemieux Library, Seattle; the Becker Foundation presents a workshop on Anthropolitics: "Conservative" Fear/ rage: Can we soothe it? Kirby Farrell will discuss verbal aggression via the anthropology of cursing, and use the poster woman, Ann Coulter, the shockjock. It's about peacemaking.
Sat Nov 8, 4 - 8 p.m., at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N 70th, Seattle; Fun and Fundraising Auction to benefit *WWFOR* with silent and live auctions, dinner, bid on art work, home-cooked dinners, theatre tickets, massages, lessons, services, and lots of other great items, a fun event for everyone, silent auction starts at 4 p.m., dinner at 5 p.m., live auction starts at 6 p.m., info 206-789-5565
**Sun Nov 9, 2 p.m., Westlake Park, 4th & Pine, downtown Seattle; International Day to Stop the Wall. Stop Walls that are being built in the West Bank and Gaza on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Don't turn Palestine into one big prison. info 206-568-7110 or http://www.stopthewall.us
Sun Nov 9, 2 p.m., at Centralia Library; Fire Mountain *FOR* (Centralia-Chehalis area) meeting. phone to confirm, info Stephen 360-736-8784
Sun Nov 9, 5 - 8 p.m., at at Traditions Cafe, 5th & Water, downtown Olympia; "How to Get Your Message Out to the General Public"; long-time Olympia *FOR* activist Glen Anderson presents a practical and interactive workshop that can help activists on any issue to communicate and move public opinion more effectively. Sponsor: Olympia FreeSkool. Free! info 360-491-9093
Sun Nov 9, 5:15 p.m. business mtg, 6 potluck, 7 program, at Hillside Community Church, 2508 S. 39th St, Tacoma; Tacoma *FOR* program with Eloise Holden on the Past and Current History of the United Nations Association in Tacoma, plus Roger Rader on All About the Weekly World; info Al Kammerzall 253-272-9572
Sun Nov 16, 10 a.m., at Portland Avenue Park on East 35th and Portland Avenue in Tacoma; people from Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho, and Washington will protest The School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, in Columbus, GA, known as School of Assassins, (officially renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation); a peaceful, family event with speakers, musicians and informational tabling. At the end of the program in the park, we will solemnly process en masse approximately one mile to the U.S. Federal Building on Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma; organized by School of the Americas Watch Northwest, Tacoma *FOR*, and many other groups, this is the the anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit priests, their coworker and her 14-yr.-old daughter by graduates of the SOA in El Salvador in 1989; info 253-531-5658
Sun Nov 16, 5 p.m. potluck, 6 p.m. announcements, 6:30 - 8 p.m. program, at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N 70th near Greenwood, Seattle; Seattle *FOR* presents Katharine Lewis speaking about the Bedouin Women Weavers of the Negev Project, a successful small business venture bringing money into a very poor society; Free, an offering will be taken. info 206-789-5565
Tues Nov 18, 4 - 6 p.m., at Meany Middle School library, 301 21st Ave E, Seattle; Safe Schools Coalition meeting, *WWFOR* is a member, working to help schools become safe places regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation, info http://www.SafeSchoolsCoalition.org
Fri & Sat Nov 21 & 22, at Westwood Retreat Center, Gwinwood Conference Center, Lacey, near Olympia; mark your calendar now! *WWFOR Fall Retreat* with Theme: Steps to Justice; you will be challenged and inspired to take steps toward justice by helping to expand FOR's work with constituencies that are underrepresented in our chapters, focus especially on labor, youth and race. Excellent resource people will help us plan steps to reach out to young people, people of color, and people in the labor movement. We will enjoy music, our own cooking and wonderful fellowship. *WWFOR* Area Committee meeting follows, info 206-789-5565
Fri Nov 21, dinner 6:30 p.m., meeting 7:15, at Charlie's Restaurant Banquet Room, 1826 -1st Ave, Longview/Kelso border; Cowlitz County *FOR* meeting with discussion on how we can enhance our attendance at general meetings, info Janey 360-423-7338
Fri Nov 21, 7 - 9 pm, at the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center multipurpose room, 17th Avenue and Yesler Way, Seattle "An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication" with Jorge Rubio from Columbia, one of the top trainers of Nonviolent Communication anywhere. Suggested $10, info & registration David Berrian 425-482-3026 or dberrian@earthlink.net
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Sat Nov 22, 9 - 5 pm, at the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center multipurpose room, 17th Avenue and Yesler Way, Seattle; "Nonviolent Communication for Interracial Dialogue and Other Difficult Situations"; with Jorge Rubio one of the top trainers of Nonviolent Communication anywhere. Suggested $50 - 100, No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay, info and registration David Berrian 425-482-3026
Sun Nov 23, 9 - 5 pm, at the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center multipurpose room 17th Avenue and Yesler Way, Seattle; "Speaking Peace -- Nonviolent Communication for Peacekeepers and with People You Disagree With"; with Jorge Rubio one of the top trainers of Nonviolent Communication anywhere. Suggested $50 - 100, No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay, info and registration David Berrian 425-482-3026 or dberrian@earthlink.net
Sat Dec 6, 3 p.m., & subsequent 1st Saturdays, Keystone Cong. Ch., 5019 Keystone Pl. N, Seattle; meeting of Interfaith Network of Concern for the People of Iraq working for peace in Iraq; info Rich Gamble 206-632-6021
Sun Dec 7, 1 - 3 p.m., at the Dougass-Truth Library, 23rd Ave & Yesler Way, Seattle; program meeting of the Nonviolent Peaceforce -- Seattle Area Support Group, a local group that will provide an on-going resource for peacekeeping presence and training; A different program on nonviolence will be presented each month. Organizational meeting follows from 3 to 4:30 pm. info David Berrian 425-482-3026 or dberrian@earthlink.net
Weds Dec 10, annual United Nations Association Seattle Human Rights Day Award Ceremony, info United Nations Association Seattle info@unaseattle.org or 206-568-1959
Sun Dec 14, 2 p.m., at Centralia Library; Fire Mountain *FOR* (Centralia-Chehalis area) meeting. phone to confirm, info Stephen 360-736-8784
Sun Dec 14, 5 p.m. potluck, 6 p.m. announcements, 6:30 - 8 p.m. program, at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N 70th near Greenwood, Seattle; Seattle *FOR* Holiday Party, with festive potluck dinner, fellowship, and music, and our annual tradition of lighting candles for our hopes and wishes; Free, an offering will be taken. info 206-789-5565
Sun Dec 14, 5:15 p.m. business mtg, 6 potluck, 7 program, at Hillside Community Church, 2508 S. 39th St, Tacoma; Tacoma *FOR* program with Howard Walsh who will both fill the evening with music and talk about advising young people who are Conscientious Objectors to War; info Al Kammerzall 253-272-9572
Tues Dec 16, 4 - 6 p.m., at Meany Middle School library, 301 21st Ave E, Seattle; Safe Schools Coalition meeting, *WWFOR* is a member, working to help schools become safe places regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation, info http://www.SafeSchoolsCoalition.org
Fri Dec 19, 7:30 p.m., at 2943 Laurel Rd, Longview; Cowlitz County *FOR* a party celebrating the upcoming solstice at Jane Schaaf's house and a potluck will follow., directions Jane 360-636-3321
Sat Dec 21, noon to 1 p.m. at Percival Landing on Water Street between State and 4th Avenues, Olympia; 28th Annual Holiday Peace Vigil in Olympia: The Olympia *FOR* invites everyone to vigil for peace. We provide signs or you may bring your own. Refreshments & social time afterward at Family Support Center 2 blocks east on State Ave. info 360-491-9093
Sun Jan 4, 1 - 3 p.m., at the Dougass-Truth Library, 23rd Ave & Yesler Way, Seattle; program meeting of the Nonviolent Peaceforce -- Seattle Area Support Group, a local group that will provide an on-going resource for peacekeeping presence and training; A different program on nonviolence will be presented each month. An organizational meeting of the Peaceforce follows the presentation from 3 to 4:30 pm. info David Berrian 425-482-3026 or dberrian@earthlink.net
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