PEACE ZONE RALLY, HOFSTRA DEBATE 2016, SEPTEMBER 26

Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives

CREATING A PEACE ZONE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND IN OUR WORLD

Peace begins with 3 words

STOP THE KILLING

STOP THE KILLING

END THE WARS IN SYRIA, AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, YEMEN

STOP THE KILLING says President Carter in a NYT op-ed

People are dying. Children are dying.

Peace begins with 3 words

STOP THE KILLING

STOP THE BOMBING IN SYRIA

Almost 500,000 people  have been killed in Syria; 10 million people have been displaced from their homes says Robert Koehler on commondreams

STOP THE BOMBING

Peace begins with 3 words

STOP THE KILLING

In Charlotte, in Tulsa, in Baltimore, in Oregon

Peace begins with 3 words

STOP THE KILLING

STOP WEAPONS SALES

STOP THE KILLING

SUPPORT AN ARMS EMBARGO IN THE MIDDLE EAST

During the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King Jr. told us that

the bombs falling on Hanoi and on Vietnamese villages

were also falling on our cities and towns here at home.

Today the $ spent on weapons and bombs means lives are lost.

STOP THE KILLING

CUT MILITARY SPENDING

PEACE BEGINS WITH 3 WORDS

STOP THE KILLING

WORK TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

WORK TO BUILD BRIDGES NOT WALLS

WORK TO END WAR

WORK TO END MILITARISM, RACISM AND POVERTY

WORK FOR PEACE

WE ARE HERE TODAY IN THIS PEACE ZONE

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

WE ARE HERE TO ASK THE CANDIDATES

ACROSS THE TURNPIKE IN THE WAR ZONE

HOW THEY WILL END WAR?

PEACE BEGINS WITH 3 WORDS

STOP THE KILLING

END WAR.

                                    Andrea Libresco&Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance

Monday, September 26 – Gather on Hempstead Turnpike at 4p.m.

CREATING A PEACE ZONE:BRINGING COMMUNITY VOICES TO THE 2016 DEBATE and COMMUNITY DEBATE WATCH at HOFSTRA

  SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

CREATING A PEACE ZONE. Gather at 4 p.m. along  Hempstead Tpke. to create a peace zone and walk along at 4:30 to Monroe hall, California  for a peace zone rally with student faculty and community speakers.

4:45-5:45 PEACE ZONE RALLY outside Monroe Hall with student, faculty and community speakers

6:00- 7:30  Panel “Si Se Puede” to “Build the Wall” The Importance of the Latino Vote in 2016“. In this Debate 2016 panel, journalists, academics, and community activists explore the range of issues affecting the diverse Latino community and how the two major parties are addressing (or not) their concerns. Moderated by Dr. Mario Murillo. Monroe Lecture Center Fortunoff Theater.

8:00-8:50 – BRINGING  STUDENT & COMMUNITY VOICES TO THE 2016 DEBATE : Pre-Debate Panel: Kate Alexander, PeaceAction NYS; Emilie Beck, PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra; Frederick K. Brewington, civil rights attorney; Hofstra student Bernard Coles IV; and Paul Gibson, Uniondale Community Land Trust and GUAAC. Moderator: Prof. Andrea Libresco. SPEAKOUT with  students and community on issues and questions we would like to see candidates address, Monroe Lecture Hall

9-10:30 COMMUNITY DEBATE WATCH, Monroe Lecture Hall

The Center for Civic Engagement, International Scene,Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives and PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra

For info: 516-741-4360 or 516-463-5595 – longislandpeace@gmail.com

Tuesday, September 13, 12:45-2:10 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Foreign Policy Issues for the Next President 
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies speaks on foreign policy in the Middle East.
Sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the International Scene Lecture Series, PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra,  and LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library

Admission Free – Open to the Public

Info: 516-463-5595

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

http://www.facebook.com/LIAllianceforPeacefulAlternatives

Please join us as we remember the victims of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Wednesday, August 3 at  7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset.

We are dedicating the program to Fr. Daniel Berrigan for his relentless work in pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons, war and poverty. There will be a call to take action for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.

Saturday, May 28, 2016: Annual Jones Beach Peace Vigil

Please join us on Saturday, May 28 at Annual Memorial Day Vigil at Jones Beach

We at Pax Christi Long Island believe that Memorial Day is supposed to be about prayerful remembrance of those who have lost their lives in the nation’s wars—from a war of national survival, World War II, to controversial wars such as Vietnam and Iraq. Whatever we think of the war, we pray with equal fervor for those died in any of them.

Memorial Day should not be about future wars. It should not be about a celebration of military hardware, like the hugely expensive, not terribly useful F-35 fighter that will be flying over Jones Beach. It’s a weapons system that even Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a staunchly pro-military legislator, has called “both a scandal and a tragedy.” And Jones Beach on Memorial Day should not be a venue for military recruiters to sign up young people for future wars.

Those beliefs are what impel us every Memorial Day weekend to show up at the beach and hold a vigil to remember the dead—especially those from Long Island. This is our 13th annual vigil. We hope you’ll think about joining us.

The vigil begins with a prayer service at 10 AM on Saturday, May 28, in the plaza near the “needle” tower. After the service, we’ll walk along the beach, starting at 10:45. Along the way, we’ll be handing out flyers to explain what our vigil is all about.

If you’re planning to come, try to get to Parking Field 4 early, because it fills up fast. We recommend that you arrive by 8:30. The parking fee is $10.

Weather Note: If the weather looks threatening, and you want to find out whether we’re still going ahead with the vigil, please check this website’s events page before setting out for Jones Beach.

We hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it, please pray for those who have died in war, and pray for peace. And if you agree with us that a military  air show is not the best way to commemorate the dead, please think about writing a letter to the folks at Bethpage Federal Credit Union, who sponsor it.

 For more info, Email: catholicpeaceli@gmail.com

http://www.catholicpeaceli.org/events.html

A Deliberative Dialogue on

Racism, Islamophobia and the 2016 Elections

 at Hofstra University on April 13 at 7 p.m. Axinn Library, 10th floor

Brief remarks by panelists:

Rev. Mark Lukens – Pastor, Bethany Congregational Church

Seemi Ahmed – Muslim Chaplin, Hofstra University

Rev. Natalie Fenimore – Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock

Rabbi Michael White – Temple Sinai in Roslyn

Each of the speakers will give a brief (5 minute) statement from their religious perspective, followed by deliberative dialogue conducted by Professor Michael D’Innocenzo

Wednesday April 13^th,  2016

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Hofstra University 10^th floor library

** Refreshments will be served **

Co-sponsored by: The Center for Civic Engagement, The Interfaith Alliance of L.I., Hofstra’s Honors College, The Peace Fellows Program at Hofstra and The long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.

For more information:

Professor Martin Melkonian, Hofstra University – 516-463-5595

Rev. Mark Lukens – 516-599-5768