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American Friends Service Committee Connecticut
In This Issue: Sept 4 2008
. Sept 6: Justice for Nashawn Williams rally
. Sept 14: 7th Hope Out Loud Peace and Music Festival
. Sept 9: CNADP Annual Meeting
. Sept 26-27: Join AFSC-CT at the Durham Fair
. Support paid ad calling for abolition of nuclear weapons
. Sept 20: Million Doors for Peace
Sept 6: Justice for Nashawn Williams rally
Justice for Nashawn Williams" Rally
Hartford Area activists will go to Moosup, CT
to demand justice for Nashawn Williams.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
11 AM: Gather at Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford
Vanpools to Moosup.
12:30 PM Rally at the site of Nashawn's assault in Moosup.
Immediately following, activists will caravan to the Plainfield Police Station to read a Manifesto about Racial Injustice.
The Manifesto will be tacked to the police station as a form of protest.
Background Info:
Nashawn Williams, a black youth, was beaten by a gang of whites called K-Nation in Moosup on October 19, 2007.
The family was run out of town by whites shortly thereafter.
11 months later, no one has been arraigned or prosecuted in this racist hate crime!
Info: Contact Minister Cornell Lewis numeric pagers 220-4051, wait for beep and enter a number, then hit # sign.
Sept 9: CNADP Annual Meeting
Save the Date!
How New Jersey Abolished the Death Penalty.
and how we can do it here in Connecticut!
Please join the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty at its 2008 Annual Meeting with special guests:
Celeste Fitzgerald, Executive Director, New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NJADP).
Ms. Fitzgerald, recently named again to the Top 100 Most Influential Political Figures in New Jersey, led the NJADP in their successful campaign to become the first state in the nation to legislatively abolish the death penalty in the modern era. Celeste will talk with us on how this was done and inspire us to move quickly in the same direction. The focus of her talk is going to be on the challenges faced in New Jersey and how Connecticut can overcome the challenges we face.
Senator Raymond Lesniak
Senator Raymond Lesniak, an attorney, has served in the New Jersey legislature since 1978. Senator Lesniak will talk about how New Jersey's legislators moved from supporting the death penalty to favoring abolition.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Linsly Chittenden Hall, First Floor
Yale University
63 High Street
New Haven
Please join us as we Honoree Irv Stolberg as 2008 Abolitionist of the Year
Refreshments will be served. This meeting is FREE and open to the public!
For more information, please contact Robert Nave, Executive Director of the CNADP, at: 203.206.9854 or robertnave at cnadp.org
http://www.cnadp.org
Support paid ad calling for abolition of nuclear weapons
AFSC-CT is supporting the No Nukes/No War Coalition in its campaign to place a paid ad in the Hartford Courant calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Let's make certain we place the vital issue of nuclear weapons abolition on the 2008 political campaign agenda, by supporting an important and vital ad speaking out against nuclear weapons
Cold warriors like Henry Kissinger and George Schultz, the Democratic Party Platform, Mayors for Peace, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, CT peace organizations and the vast majority of people across the world are urgently calling for nuclear abolition.
At least 250 paying signaturesare needed to place a half-page or larger ad in a major CT newspaper to raise the issue of abolition before the elections this fall.
The deadline to receive signatures and payment is Sept. 30. Please don't wait.
WHY ARE WE STILL LIVING UNDER THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR?
* 2,317 Mayors of cities on all continents are calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
* The U.S. Conference of Mayors in 2008 for the 4th time in 4 years called for abolition.
* In Connecticut, the mayors of Ansonia, Fairfield, Hartford, Mansfield, New Haven, Stamford, and Windham joined the Mayors for Peace campaign calling for abolition of nuclear weapons.
* The Connecticut State Senate in 2005 unanimously passed a resolution calling for abolition.
The vast majority of the planet's people call for
abolishing all nuclear weapons.
*The Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty (NPT), signed by the U.S. in 1970, requires the nuclear weapons powers to negotiate to abolish nuclear weapons in return for non-nuclear states not acquiring them.
*In 1970 there were 5 nuclear weapons states: United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France, China. Now there are 8, including India, Pakistan, Israel.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATES HAVE NOT MET THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
WHILE DEMANDING THAT NON-NUCLEAR STATES ABIDE BY THE NPT.
*Worse, our own government attacked Iraq based on the false claim that it had nuclear weapons, threatens Iran and other countries with nuclear annihilation and maintains the right to drop nuclear bombs on non-nuclear states.
THE VERY EXISTENCE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS THREATENS ALL HUMANITY
*The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Protocol requires the total abolition of nuclear weapons by the year 2020. Important legislation, H. Res. (House Resolution) 68, calling for the U.S. to abide by the NPT is co-sponsored by CT Congressmember Rosa DeLauro.
*Contact your Representative, Senators and President to pass and sign nuclear abolition legislation. The U.S. Capitol Switchboard number is (202) 224-3121.
Cities Are Not "Targets!"
Abolish All Nuclear Weapons!
We Call for Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Now!
Sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, CT; City of New Haven Peace Commission; Greater New Haven Peace Council; No Nukes, No War; Northeast CT Peace & Justice; People's Action for Clean Energy; Promoting An Enduring Peace
Please contact for more information and to sign on to the ad:
Greater New Haven Peace Council
PO Box 3105
New Haven, CT 06515
grnhpeacecouncil at gmail.com
203-389-9547
http://www.nonukes-nowar.org/
Sept 14: 7th Hope Out Loud Peace and Music Festival
HOPE OUT LOUD 7
Be part of the Seventh Annual Hope Out Loud Peace & Music Festival
Sunday, Sept 14th 1-5 pm Bushnell Park
FREE! FREE!
Picnic ... Poetry ... Music ... Speakers ...
Kids activities ... Fun ... and ... More..
Spend the afternoon. Bring a picnic. It's a concert, rally, playground, remembrance, a day of inspiration for renewal and commitment.
For more information call (860)523-4823
Hope Out Loud is a sober event.
Hope Out Loud Peace & Music Festival: Sponsored in part by:
The Connecticut Coalition for Peace & Justice (CCPJ)
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty
Supported in part by the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the City of Hartford
http://www.hopeoutloud.org/
Sept 26-27: Join AFSC-CT at the Durham Fair
Please join us at the AFSC-CT booth at the in-door exhibition building at the Durham Fair.
We will have a booth were we'll sell fair trade coffee, hot cocoa, chocolate, and tea and have AFSC peace education materials to distribute.
We need people to help us staff the AFSC booth. The booth will be open from 9am-11pm on Friday Sept 26 and Saturday Sept 27 and from 9am-7pm on Sunday Sept 28. Please consider joining us for a few hours. The fair is loads of fun and you'll get to talk with people about AFSC's work on peace building. We'll provide training and orientation.
Contact David Amdur at damdur at afsc.org or at 860-523-1534 if you can volunteer
Sept 20: Million Doors for Peace
Million Doors for Peace
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Please join AFSC and other members of Connecticut Oppose the War on Saturday Sept 20th for the Million Doors for Peace.
There will be teams going out in Greater Hartford and probably in the Storrs/Willimantic area.
Local Contacts
Steve Thornton
1199/SEIU 860-251-6013
John Murphy
CCAG
860-233-2182
Alexandra Ferreira
CCAG
860-233-2182
Strategy
Million Doors for Peace will be one of the largest anti-war mobilization efforts in the past year. The Million Doors for Peace nationwide outreach day will educate the public, promote our message through earned media, and identify & organize a major, nationwide, online & grassroots, volunteer-based "anti-war" constituency who will lead and aid efforts to end the Iraq war. The day will serve as a clear reminder of the depth of antiwar sentiment throughout the country.
Million Doors for Peace will use a grassroots petition to Congress to identify those who support our goal of ending the war. We will bring our petition to Congress, showing the depth of support for ending the war, and call on them to take action to end the Iraq war.
Goals
1. Identify & organize an "anti-war" constituency who will who will lead and aid efforts to end the Iraq war.
2. Turn out 25,000 Million Doors for Peace Day volunteers across all 50 states.
3. Increase Million Doors for Peace coalition organizations contacts, membership, volunteers, and other leaders, thus strengthening the antiwar movement for the work ahead.
4. Generate significant earned media that reflects that this is the major "anti-war" organizing effort of 2008.
Target
The Congress of United States
Our message will address every member of Congress, whether they voted for or against starting the war, for or against troop withdrawal, for or against funding for the war, and for or against other legislation connected to the war in Iraq. This broad targeting will ensure that every member of Congress understands, and will act upon, the broad and deep support for ending the war, bringing the troops home, and investing in America's future.
Message
Over the course of this five year war the message remains the same: End this immoral war, bring our troops home, and invest in America's future.
Polling finds, and our organizing experience shows, that the best way to engage people on the war is to compare the costs of the war to domestic needs in our country. The cost of war includes: the loss of life, the United States diminished status as a world leader and symbol for justice and democracy, the loss of treasure that could have gone to more productive short and long term investments such as education, health care and renewable energy based economy.
The decentralized nature of Million Doors for Peace will work to each organization's advantage by allowing each group to tailor the message details to reflect its internal goals. The flexible, non-partisan messaging will help the coalition to broaden and diversify since it will be open to all organizations, regardless of tax status.
http://www.milliondoorsforpeace.org/
American Friends Service Committee
Connecticut Area Office
56 Arbor Street, Suite 213
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: 860.523.1534
Fax: 860.523.1705
Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online
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