Summer/Fall 2011 Over 30 Years of Peacemaking OALITION Founded 1980 40 Witherspoon Street C for Peace Action Princeton, NJ 08542 (609) 924-5022 www.peacecoalition.org
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Working for the global abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy, and a halt to weapons trafficking
for Peace Action
th 66 Anniversary Commemoration Peace Events
of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings August 9 – 66th Anniversary Commemoration of the Tuesday, August 9 Hiroshima & Nagasaki
BYO Picnic 6:00 PM Bombings: 6:00 PM Picnic, 7:00 Program 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – 9:00 PM Program, both at the Woodrow Wilson School Plaza Woodrow Wilson School Plaza, Washington Rd
near intersection with Prospect St Princeton, NJ September 21 – Monroe Township Monthly Meeting: Speakers & Performers: 10:00 – 11:30 AM at the Monroe
Township Municipal building Tatania Alcantara, who lived near Chernobyl at the time of its nuclear crisis with guest speaker Faulk Engel
Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, prominent Pakistani physicist October 7 – Afghanistan War Dr. Zia Mian, research physicist and lecturer, Princeton University 10th Anniversary Rally & Protest: 12 Noon – 1:00 PM at Kate Whitman, Assistant Director, Coalition for Peace Action the Trenton State House steps
Solidarity Singers of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council October 24 – Deadline for Early Bird Registration for AFGHANISTAN WAR 10TH ANNIVERSARY CFPA’s Annual Conference and Interfaith Service for Peace! RALLY AND PROTEST
November 11 – Joan Baez Concert & Reception: 8:00 PM at the McCarter Theatre; tickets to the concert with reception are available exclusively through CFPA! (See page 2) Join the Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) at the Trenton State House Steps on Friday, October 7 from 12 Noon* - 1:00 PM to protest the longest war in November 13 – Annual US history. Confirmed speakers are Jean Athey (who recently traveled to Conference and Interfaith Service Afghanistan), Lawrence Hamm (President, People’s Organization for Progress), for Peace: The Interfaith Service at and the Rev. Robert Moore. Sharleen Leahey will perform music. 11:00 AM at the Princeton
University Chapel; Conference from * Carpooling from the Princeton Shopping Center will begin at 11:15 AM. If you 1:30 – 5:30 PM in McCormick 101, plan to join the carpool, email [email protected] or call 609-924-5022. Princeton University (See p. 3)
JOAN BAEZ
Concert & Reception!
CFPA has reserved a block of seats near the front of world class McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, in Princeton for a Concert with the legendary JOAN BAEZ at 8:00 PM on Friday, November 11. The Concert will be followed by a Post-Concert Reception, also at McCarter, available exclusively through CFPA.
You can reserve tickets for the concert and reception by either returning the tear-off coupon and payment below to our address (listed at the top), or by making a credit card payment through our secure website, www.peacecoalition.org. To reserve online, click on the Joan Baez event on our homepage, and then click the Order Now button on the lower left-hand side of the page. ------Please clip and return with check payable to: Peace Action Education Fund (PAEF) 40 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 www.peacecoalition.org (609) 924-5022 [email protected] PLEASE PRINT
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Enclosed is $______for _____ tickets @ $100.00 each per Coalition for Peace Action member ($40 tax deductible) for the Friday, November 11 Joan Baez Concert and Reception.
Enclosed is $______for _____ tickets @ $125.00 each per non-member ($65 tax deductible) for the Friday, November 11 Joan Baez Concert and Reception.
I cannot attend, but enclosed is my tax-deductible donation of $______nd 32 Annual Conference & Interfaith Service for Peace Smart Security: Reducing Military Spending
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Sunday, November 13
11:00 AM Interfaith Service for Peace, Princeton University Chapel * The Interfaith Service is free and open to the public; a free will offering will be received
Preacher: Swami Tatvavidananda Saraswati* Swami Tatvavidananda Saraswati teaches at the Asha Vidya Gurukulum, Institute of Vedanta and Sanskrit. He holds PhDs in Sanskrit and Chemistry and has recently completed a translation of the Bhagavad Gita. * will also participate in the afternoon Conference
Confirmed Speakers for Conference, McCormick 101, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Dr. Gordon Adams, Professor of Foreign Policy, American University; Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center; former senior White House official for national security and foreign policy budgets
Jo Comerford, Director, National Priorities Project; Adjunct Faculty, Smith College of Social Work
Judith LeBlanc, National Field Director, Peace Action; Former National Co-Chair, United for Peace and Justice
Dr. Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of Global History, Boston College, Founder of the 25% Solution, Member of the Sustainable Defense Task Force Co-Sponsors (list in formation):
All Saints Episcopal Church, Princeton Arab-American League of Voters of NJ Christ Congregation, Princeton, NJ Church World Service, NJ/NY Metro Region Community Presbyterian Church of the Sand Hills, Kendall Park, NJ Divine Word Missionaries, Bordentown, NJ East Brunswick Congregational Church Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Brunswick, NJ Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, NJ Synod Fellowship in Prayer, Princeton, NJ First Presbyterian Church of Ewing Isles, Inc., Trenton, NJ Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministries, Trenton, NJ Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought, Monmouth County, NJ National Peace Action, Washington, DC New Jersey Citizen Action, Highland Park New Jersey Council of Churches The Peace Center, Princeton, NJ Princeton Clergy Association People's Organization for Progress, Newark, NJ Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility Princeton Friends Meeting Princeton Middle East Society Princeton University Office of Religious Life & of the Chapel Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security Project on Nuclear Awareness, Philadelphia, PA Setauket Presbyterian Church, Setauket, NY Trinity Church, Princeton, NJ Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cherry Hill Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton
To register and/or co-sponsor the Conference, use response form on the back page
NOVEMBER 13 AFTERNOON CONFERENCE REGISTRATION & CO-SPONSOR FORM
Reservations may be made by phone, mail or on our secure website, www.peacecoalition.org. Without advance registration, we cannot guarantee seating the day of the conference. Those who register will be sent confirmation with further details.
PRINT PLEASE EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTED REGISTRATION Name (MUST BE RECEIVED BY OCTOBER 24)
RESERVE ______spaces @ $20 per Address member or $35 per non-member = $ ______TOTAL.
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$100, less or more welcome). RESERVE ______spaces @ $25 per member or $40 per non-member = $ Name of ______TOTAL. Organization:______ RESERVE ______spaces @ $15 Signature of person authorizing listing of organization: FOR FIXED INCOME = $ ______TOTAL.
______ CHECK ENCLOSED VISA MASTERCARD CREDIT CARD NO. I cannot attend, but enclosed is my tax-deductible donation of AMEX DISCOVER ______$______EXP. DATE CREDIT CARD NO. (MONTH/YEAR)______
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Make checks payable to Peace Action Education Fund (PAEF) (MONTH/YEAR)______
Mail to 40 Witherspoon Street, Princeton NJ 08542 Any questions (609) 924-5022 [email protected] SIGNATURE______