August 3, 2016
Annual Commemoration of Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
“KNOW WHERE YOU STAND AND STAND THERE”. Fr. Daniel Berrigan
STAND FOR A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
STAND FOR A WORLD WITHOUT WAR!
STAND FOR PEACE!
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 7 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset NY
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war. Isaiah 2:4
Speakers: Kate Alexander, PANYS; Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance; Emilie Beck, Hofstra Peace Fellow; and Sister Jeanne Clark, Homecoming. Moderator, Shirley Romaine, Great Neck Sane/Peace Action; with Welcome by Rev. Paul Johnson, Senior Minister of UUCSR. Music with Farah Chandu and acapella women’s choir WILLOW.
Program is dedicated to the memory of Father Dan Berrigan and his relentless work with the Ploughshares and his nonviolent resistance to end war, nuclear weapons and poverty. Several of Father Dan’s poems will be read.
We will have petitions for nuclear abolition treaty and for a freeze in funding modernization of nuclear weapons. Program will include call to action to Congress and President to ban nuclear weapons.
Sponsored by Great Neck Sane/Peace Action, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives and Social Justice Committee of Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock.
“Know Where You Stand and Stand There”. Father Daniel Berrigan S.J.
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
www.longislandpeace.org – (516) 741-4360