8th
Annual Peace Picnic
Monday, May 27, noon to 3:00
pm
Central Riverside Park – by the
Gazebo
People of Faith for Peace and the Peace & Social
Justice Center invite you to a real Memorial Day commemoration! Bring a
picnic lunch, lawn chairs and FRIENDS! We’ll go to a local church if it
rains.
Peace, Music & more...
The Harder Family
12 - 1
pm
Delores and the
Pickin’ Fretter 1 – 2 pm
Native American
Flute – Carl Williams 2 – 3 pm
Remembering our
peace friends who have gone before us...
Moonwalk for kids
BUDRUS
Palestinians and
Israelis Working Together Against the Separation Wall
Thursday, May 30, 7:00 pm
Peace &
Social Justice Center, 1407 N. Topeka (at 13th St. N)
Budrus is an award-winning feature
documentary about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites
local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed
movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation
Wall. His 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that
moves to the front. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an
inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories. See the trailer here: http://www.justvision.org/ budrus/watch/budrus
The Promised Land: According to the Bible
Thursday, June 13, 7 pm, Lorraine Ave.
Mennonite Church, 655 S. Lorraine
The Very Reverend Dr. Paul Tarazi is
Professor of Old Testament at St. Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, NY, where he
teaches courses in Old and New Testament, Biblical Hebrew and Greek, and
Academic Arabic. Dr. Tarazi will discuss the nature of God's promises in the
Hebrew Bible, with special emphasis on The Promised Land. Free and open to the
public. Co-sponsored by the Palestine Study Group and the Peace Committee of
Lorraine Ave. Mennonite Church.
Rachelle
Coba performing at the Ice Cream Social
Saturday, June
15, 7-9
pm at the Peace Center
Join us for a fabulous evening with
blues singer and guitarist Rachelle Coba.
We’ll serve ice cream (and a
non-dairy variety) with delicious organic toppings and homemade hot
fudge!
My
Name is Rachel Corrie
Friday, June 28,
7:00 pm, at Hope Mennonite Church, 868 N. Maize Rd.
A play based on the diaries and
emails of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. Rachel was
an American Evergreen State College student and member of the International
Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second
Intifada. She was killed by a Caterpillar armored bulldozer operated by the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) while protesting against the destruction of a house
by the IDF in the Gaza Strip. Performed by Renee Reimer, a Bethel College
senior. See http://www.bethelks.edu/news-
events/news/post/4767
Harvest
of Empire the Untold Story of Latinos in America
We are looking forward to showing
this film again, with Spanish subtitles (as soon as it arrives). Time
and place to be announced. Sign up above for our email calendar for weekly
notices.
******Events
from Other Groups******
March
Against Monsanto
Saturday, May 25, 11 am, Old Town Farm and
Art Market,
(corner of First and Mosley) March to
Old Town Square at 2nd & Mead
In solidarity with food safety
activists across the globe, Wichita, Kansas will march against Monsanto. Mark
your calendars now. Monsanto is poisoning our food and our government has proven
that they support protecting Monsanto's profit margins over the safety of the
American people. Join the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ events/594393820573193/
Save
Southeast
The
Wichita Board of Education (BOE) will be voting on whether to keep Southeast
High at Lincoln & Edgemoor or to move the students to build a brand new
costly school at rural area at E.127th and Pawnee. The next BOE meetings are
June 10,
17 and finally on June
24, when the old BOE will vote on Southeast, just before the newly
elected members are installed in July. Make your voice heard. Save Southeast
asks that you call your BOE members at (973-4000-information) and take the BOE
survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/
s/southeastreview
Immigration
Education Workshop
Saturday, May 25, 11:00 am – 2:00
pm
Finney County Public
Library, 605 E Walnut, Garden City, KS
Sponsored by the Racial Profiling
Citizens Advisory Board of Wichita
Panel Presenters: Antonio Reyes,
Immigration Attorney • Rebecca Escalante, State Representative • Auturo Ponce •
Local Law Enforcement • Other Community Representatives
Questions and concerns? Contact
Sheila Officer at scofficer@prodigy.net or 316-806-5569 or Beatrice Ledezma at beatriz@opinionnewspaper.com.
Enrollment
still open for summer youth program
Need a kid-friendly activity this
summer? The Ulrich
Museum will offer tours and art activities for kids' groups of 10 or more
(ages 5-12) during the Summer
Youth Program. June's program is "LOVE is…," which
begins outdoors with Robert Indiana's "LOVE" sculpture, and continues inside
with a special make-it/take-it art project. This 90-minute tour and art project
is $3 per child (adult registration is free) and requires pre-registration. To
register, call Aimee Geist, curator of education, at (316) 978-7116 or email aimee.geist@wichita.edu. For more info about
July's activity, "Masterpiece Mash-up," visit www.ulrich.wichita.edu/summer.
KIPCOR
Summer Institute
Practical Skills for Managing Interpersonal
Conflict
June 4-7, 8:30 am - 5 pm
each day
Kaufman House Training Facility, 2515
College Ave., North Newton, KS
Approved by the Kansas Supreme Court
as core mediation training. Certificate of attendance to be provided for social
workers for re-licensure. Register at: www.kipcor.org/Registration/
Practical-Skills-2013/ or call (316)
284-5217 for more information.
Old
Fashioned Lawn Party to Benefit the Dunbar
Saturday, June 15, 2013, 1:00 pm -
6:00 pm
Power CDC, 1802 N. Hydraulic,
Wichita
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE
HISTORIC DUNBAR THEATRE FUNDRAISER
Rebuilding the Dunbar Theatre is
bringing the best of the past alive. Come join in the fun with a Community Line
Dance. Music provided by DJ Doug Lockett. Bring Your Own Lawn Chairs and
Checkbook help make restoring the Historical Dunbar Theatre a reality for the
Community.
Recognitions for: Senator
Oletha Faust-Goudeau, Representative Gail Finney and former Representative
Melody McCray-Miller. For more information contact: James Arbertha 316-267-3036 or Mary Dean 316-371-2253.
Occupy
Wichita
Protest WPD Violence, Excessive Force
and Shootings
Every Tuesday, Noon,
City Hall, (south plaza off 3rd & Main)
We protest at City Hall, every Tuesday at
noon.
General Assemblies--Saturdays at noon, at Central Library, 223 S Main, 3rd
Floor. We encourage you to participate in the activist movement for peace,
economic and environmental justice and civil liberties. Please ask to join
our open group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ groups/111020435711342/
Internet/Telephone
Action Items
1. Close Guantanamo Now! With inmates on a 100-day hunger
strike and massive calls for Obama to act, our president has been pushed to
respond with a major speech about the prison. If enough of us demand a plan --
he could free the prisoners already cleared for release, and appoint a White
House official with one mission: close Guantanamo down!
close_Guatanamo_now!