Friday, April 3, 2009: Brandywine Peace Community is coordinating
a peace vigil, Memorial to Justice, to commemorate the anniversary of
the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. It will be from Noon to
1:00 p.m. on the West Side of City Hall. We encourage Delaware Valley
Network groups to participate.
Details about times and cost are attached to this email. Details
will also be posted onto the UFPJ-DVN web site. We plan to sit
together in the first car of the train.
Note: Signs with sticks will NOT be allowed onto the trains.
But we think posters made of card stock will be OK for the windows.
And banners can easily travel, too. We will contact the Railroad Workers Union about our plans so they can enjoy it all and give us useful input.
PLANS FOR SATURDAY, MAY 9TH
Location: Arch Street United Methodist Church at Broad and
Arch Street, Philadelphia. Nina will contact Church again to clarify
plans (use of santuary for program and social hall for literature
tables) and reserve break-out spaces for workshops. Once contract is
revised, Nina will get check payment to Church via Bob Moore.
Times: Set-up, Noon to 12:30 p.m., Lunch Available, 12:30
to 1:00 p.m., Program, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., Workshops, 2:00 to 2:45 p.m.,
Break, 2:45 to 3:00 p.m., Report Back, 3:00 to 3:30 p.m., Clean-up,
3:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Lunch: Buy large hoagies and cut them up. Have both meat and vegetarian available. Have drinks (water, lemonaid, V-8).
Donations: Ask participants to donate to help cover costs...
Program Plans:
Note: We decided against doing anything in Love Park and focus all events at the Church. We decided against trying to get Holly Near (too costly and it becomes only a concert).
Nina will Invite Granny Peace Brigade to sing.
Nina will contact Jessi Roemer about Anna Crusis Women's Choir.
Elisabeth will talk with Joan Broadfield about a Women's Chorus she knows.
Sue will invite poets Susan Wyndal and Ellen Mason.
Elisabeth will contact Lou Ann Merkle about inviting poet from Darfur.
We want each group to perform 2-3 songs/poems.
Workshop Plans:
1. Cost of War: Sue asks David Gibson to coordinate
2. Economics: Need to decide on possible coordinator
3. Obama's approach: Need to decide on precise theme. Sue will
contact John Braxton and her friend, Jan, about ideas
on theme and possible coordinator.
4. Street Violence: Carol will contact Mothers in Charge. Elisabeth will contact Amy Keitsman.
5. Domestic Abuse: Carol will ask Katie Kenyon to coordinate
6. Issues for Union Women: Nina will ask Kathy Black to coordinate
7. Building Resilient Communities: Elisabeth will coordinate
8. Afghanistan: Nina will ask Peter Lems to coordinate
9. Immigrant Women: Sue will ask Lisa Baird to coordinate
Report Back: Each workshop reports back on specific actions we can do.
Theme: We are using the words of Jullia Ward Howe. Ask Celeste Zapata to read Julia Ward Howe's speech.
Possibile phrasing: In the Name of Womanhood and Humanity: Dedicating
Ourselves to Peace. Earlier possible phrasing: A World of Women for
Peace.
Publicity: Flyers, Posters, Word-of-Mouth, Web-Site,
Bibliography. We want to include an RSVP request. Prepare a program.
Ask Coordinators to write one paragraph about the contents of their
workshop.
Literature Tables: Invite groups to staff literature tables and sale of items. Groups MUST RSVP to reserve a table.