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Find out more about our project Iowans and Iranians Cultivating Peace
Lori Nelson (center), a volunteer for the Peace Education and Action Center of Eastern Iowa, distributes information at the third-annual Iowa City Peacefest in College Green Park on September 9, 2007. Photo by Robin Svec/The Daily Iowan |
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Events Join PEACE Iowa for delicious Thai food and organizing to prevent war with Iran
PEACE Iowa will receive a percentage of all proceeds that day. Write a brief letter to congress while you eat your meal. Share your ideas with us about how to prevent war with Iran. Information sheets/talking points will be available, as well as addresses of our congressional delegation. Handwritten letters sent to local congressional offices are given the greatest attention by staffers.
Past Events
Caucus Training ...  Armistice Day commemoration, November 11th, near the Old Capitol The Veterans For Peace Chapter #161 is sponsoring an Armistice Day Observance to be held on Friday, November 11th at the corner of Iowa Ave. and Clinton St. on the sidewalk east of the Old Capitol. The observance will begin at 10:30 am and bells will be rung at 11:00 am, as they were rung around the world at the end of WWI in 1918 and on each November 11th for decades thereafter. Armistice Day is a day to promote peace and to remember the victims of war, both veterans and civilians. The entire community is welcome. Co-sponsored by Iowa NEA Peace & Justice Caucus, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and PEACE Iowa. Celebrate and recapture peace on 11/11/11 11:00!
Contact: Ed Flaherty <flahertyem[at]q.com>
Support youth for peace this weekend
Theme: Fund education, not war Let's support these students' efforts to highlight the need for peaceful priorities! OTHERS ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE WALK, BUT PLEASE USE THE STUDENTS' SIGNS RATHER THAN YOUR OWN, or walk without a sign. We want to amplify the students' voices. The students will be focusing on promoting peace and funding for and access to education for students of every economic and social status. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WALK, PLEASE WELCOME THE WALKERS WHEN THEY RETURN!
RECEPTION AT PEACE IOWA
Rally to End Our War in Afghanistan We will begin a sidewalk march thru the downtown area at 4:45, and will stop at the peace pole area outside of the Iowa City Public Library for music and remarks, then parade back to where we began. Bring your own signs (on topic, please) or borrow some at the site. Drums & bells too. All peaceful folks, families, students, children welcome Oct 7th marks the beginning of the 11th year of our war in Afghanistan, the longest war in US history. TEN YEARS IS LONG ENOUGH.
For further information, contact Ed <flahertyem[at]q.com> or phone (319) 621-6766. ...
PEACE Iowa First Annual Meeting
Saturday September 10, 2011
12:00 Food and music
We invite everyone to attend! We need your input and involvement to further our work for peace! See you Saturday!
Contact PEACE Iowa for more information or if you can help out. ...  At the Coralville July 4th, 2011 parade—Physicans for Social Responsibility, and the unincorporated, informal People's Coalition for Political, Social, and Environmental Responsibility, and Veterans for Peace, PEACE Iowa, and other progressive local groups. From Physicans for Social Responsibility, and the unincorporated, informal People's Coalition for Political, Social, and Environmental Responsibility, and Veterans for Peace, PEACE Iowa, and other progressive local groups:
JOIN US IN THE CORALVILLE 4th of JULY PARADE (Also PEACE Iowa would love it if someone would take photos of the parade for our next newsletter. If you can do that, please just go ahead and take the photos and contact us after the parade. Thanks!) As usual we'll gather in the Geico/McGregor parking area on the West End of the Coralville strip. The parade takes off promptly at 10 AM. However, if our entry is a high number it can take over 30 minutes to snake around the lot to later entries. It's best under all circumstances if folks are in the lot and getting ready by 9:30 latest. We do not yet know our entry number.
Cliff Missen of the Yahoo drummers will be there, and Steve Fugate, President of I-Renew and Yoderville Bio-Diesel Cooperative has a pickup with a 16' flat-bed trailer which he will furnish for those who are unable to walk the distance. ...
Have a great meal and support PEACE Iowa at the same time! ...
Community Potluck for Peace
Featuring the leaders of two national peace organizations: SPECIAL GUESTS: Presenters and attendees from the "Redefining Security" workshop held on May 14th & 15th at the University of Iowa Co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility and the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. Further information and registration for that workshop visit www.psr.org/chapters/iowa/events/advancing-the-right-to-health-on-a-sick-planet.html.
The quest for peace is an uphill struggle. Let's get to work on it. ...
"Don't Forget Sudan" on Monday, May 2, and Tuesday, May 3
The UI Center for Human Rights in International Programs, the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, Iowa United Nations Association and PEACE Iowa are event sponsors. ...
April 30th, 2011 celebration commemorating the signing of the PEACE Iowa Articles of Incorporation
Join us for a celebration
Everyone is welcome! ... Sponsored by PEACE Iowa, children's messages of Friendship & Peace are being sent back and forth between Iran and Iowa. Come see some of the art work and messages these children have created! PEACE Iowa's "Iowa-Iran Cultivating Peace" project is sponsoring a display of art work and messages of peace contributed by Iranian and Iowan children, Iowa City Public Library, 2nd floor display wall, April 4 - April 29.
Messages of Iranian children have been translated from Farsi into English. Messages of Iowa children are translated from English into Farsi and sent to Iran. Contact: PEACE Iowa ...
ARASERUKA / SOLIDARITY: Reflections on Gender, Health, and Development in Burundi Ms Douglas works with people who are suffering the consequences of Burundi's 13-year civil war (1993-2006), in one of the poorest urban communities in Burundi. Post-war challenges include extreme poverty, an HIV/AIDS rate estimated at 16%, minimal health care, pervasive sexual violence, food insecurity, lack of potable water, and deep psychological trauma from the war. Alexndra will speak about a small, community-based clinic operated by the Friends Women's Association, in which a group of women provides comprehensive health care, psychological counseling, individual and community trauma healing, nutritional support, micro-credit loans and women's empowerment programs to other women in their community.
The clinic operates under the belief that where there is health, there is hope. And where there is hope, there is the possibility of long-term peace. ... State-Wide Peace Rally
11:30 am to 1:00 pm Why are we continuing the two longest wars in American History? Iowa's cost for the Iraq War for just this year is $490 million. This rally is in solidarity with national rally in Washington, DC on March 19th, led by the Veterans For Peace, and in solidarity with other US rallies to be held on the 19th Support the troops-bring them home. Wage Peace.
Some of the Scheduled speakers:
Music by the Raging Grannies
Iowa City events on the 19th ... At the Courthouse speakers will discuss "War, its costs and what we can Do to stop it." Participants will then march from the Courthouse to the area of the Ped Mall south of the Iowa City Public Library, where the Dreamwell Theatre will present acts 1, 2 & 3 of "Stuff Happens", a play by David Hare, written in response to the Iraq War. The event is sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Johnson Co. Green Party, PEACE Iowa, International Socialist Organization, Workers International League - Eastern Iowa, & Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor. People are encouraged to attend any or all event activities. Please note: Individuals with signs targeting any specific religious or ethnic group may be asked to refrain from displaying those signs.
For more info, contact Dawn Jones: 319 646-6712 ...
ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE ...
The Iowa City Council acted on a proclamation on the evening of 9/21/2010, at their 7:00 pm meeting. More information at www.peaceday.tv Proclamation for the International Day of Peace, September 21 Whereas, the issue of peace embraces the deepest hopes of all peoples and remains humanity's guiding inspiration; and Whereas, in 1981 the United Nations proclaimed the International Day of Peace be "devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples"; and Whereas, the United Nations expanded the observance of the International Day of Peace in 2001 to include the call for a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, and invited all nations and people to honor a cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Day; and Whereas, there is growing support within our city for the observance of the International Day of Peace, which affirms a vision of our world at peace, and fosters cooperation between individuals, organizations and nations; and Whereas, global crises impel all citizens to work toward converting humanity's noblest aspirations for world peace into a practical reality for future generations,
Now, therefore, the City Council of the City of Iowa City does hereby recognize and proclaim September 21 as The International Day of Peace.  March 19th vigil commemorating the 7th anniversary of the second US invasion of Iraq—2010  Armistice Day 2010 Events of interest sponsored by other organizations:
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Thanks
to Rose & Peter Persaud for this photo of the January 1, 2007 Iowa City
vigil mourning the Iraq War dead — 3000 U.S. soldiers and many more Iraqi
civilians.
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