some upcoming peace and Dr MLK day event
Dear Peacemakers,
I am writing to thank everyone who supported the bridge vigil on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve (18 people – great turnout on these special eves) and to invite you to two upcoming events.
1. EVERY CHURCH A PEACE CHURCH POTLUCK
This year the third Monday of January falls on the day we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday so the ECAPC Steering Committee has chosen a topic and speaker that we feel fits the occasion.
Topic: Martin Luther King and the Nonviolent Jesus
Speaker: Mel Reeves
Monday, January 19, 6:30 Potluck
Hospitality Hall, St. Joan of Arc Church
4537 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis
Mel Reeves has been a human rights activist for the last 30 years. He has led or been involved in struggles against South African Apartheid and struggles for workers rights, and has helped lead several efforts to get justice in some well-known cases of police brutality. He has been a long time anti-war and anti-racist activist. Most recently he worked with Occupy Homes and is the adviser to a fledgling young peoples alternative political party. He has spent most of his time in the Twin Cities, but helped lead anti-war and anti-racist struggles in Miami Florida as well.
Mel is a great speaker and I encourage you to attend this event if you can. And the potlucks are always great!
Sponsored by Every Church A Peace Church
2. THE GHOSTS OF JEJU – Documentary film
Thursday, January 29, 7:00 pm
Hospitality Hall, St. Joan of Arc Church
4537 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis
The Ghosts of Jeju describes the non-violent resistance by residents of a small village on Jeju Island, South Korea, to their government's construction of a gigantic naval base on the island. The film also describes the effect the base would have on the environment and the traditional culture and livelihood of the villagers who live there. And it links the resistance today to the resistance of the peasants to U.S. and South Korean military domination following World War II.
The resistance effort has the support of many Korean and global peace and justice organizations and Christian groups, particularly the Catholic Church.
The base also represents a major expansion of American militarism in that region, the so-called "Pivot to Asia."
Sponsored by St. Joan of Arc/WAMM Peacemakers.
Peace in the Struggle,
