Sweatshop workers share their stories at Purdue.Manuel Pujols and Julio Castillo will be visiting Purdue from TOS Dominicana, a textile factory located in the Dominican Republic.

A different kind of art show at Purdue.An art show that presents a variety of group perspectives on progressive issues as they pertain to Purdue's campus

What would it be like if 8 Nobel Peace Laureates came together across time and space to discuss their ideas of peace with each other? This is the premise of The Invitation, an educational drama which brings together Albert Schweitzer, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alva Myrdal, Mother Teresa, Betty Williams, H.H. The Dalai Lama, and Shirin Ebadi. Join us as they discuss their ideas of peace! The words they speak are taken directly from thieir Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches.
The program will be held on Friday, August 31st at 7 pm at The Church Within, 1125 Spruce St. in Indianapolis. A reception with light refreshments follows, with time to "meet" the Peace Laureates. Sponsored by the School of Metaphysics, The Church Within, and Global Peace Initiatives. Call 317-251-5285 or e-mail somindianapolis@yahoo.com for more information.

March 20th marks the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

This year students and faculty of Purdue University Calumet have gathered together to declare March 19th - 23rd "Peace Week" in an effort to support dialogue about the War in Iraq.

Peace Week events include a faculty discussion on March 19th, and a film festival on March 20th - 22nd where the films, "The Ground Truth" and "Iraq for Sale" will be shown.

For more information please visit www.radiohumanity.org or contact us at campusgreenspuc@yahoo.com.

This event is sponsored by Campus Greens and Concerned Students of Purdue University Calumet.

Media Contact: Eve Bottando

NOTE:  IPJN has agreed to encourage our member groups to support this effort. Let me know if you have any questions. --Sheila

Hello,

The Northwest Indiana Coalition Against the Iraq War is asking for your cooperation in promoting a resolution against escalation of the Iraq war due to be presented in the Indiana General Assembly.

Two NW Indiana legislators, Sen. Earline Rogers and Rep. Charlie Brown, have agreed to introduce such a resolution in the next week or so. The measure will be put forward by Rep. Brown in the House, where it has a better chance of passage, and then will go to the Senate.

Please do what you can to make your local state legislators aware of the resolution and ask them to give Rep. Brown and Sen. Rogers their support. The exact wording will be posted wjen it is available.

You (and they) may be interested to know that to date anti-escalation resolutions have been passed or are pending in 20 states (AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, KS, ME, MA, MN, MO, MT, NJ, ND, OK, OR, RI, TX, VT, WA, WV).

Calls to members of the Indiana House and Senate and to the local press are encouraged. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Tony Shafton
Northwest Indiana Coalition Against the Iraq War PO Box 2855 Gary, IN 46403
www.exitiraq.org
(219) 939-2050

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March on Washington to "End the War and Occupation in Iraq" and Lobby Days

January 27 - 29, 2007

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN, NOW CONGRESS MUST ACT!

On Saturday, Jan. 27th, people from every corner of the country will march on Washington, D.C. Our message will be clear, our voice will be strong:
"End the war in Iraq! Bring all the troops home now!"

We urge you to join us!

On Monday, Jan. 29th, we will take our message directly to the new
Congress during the United for Peace and Justice lobby day.

For more information on the March and Lobby Days, see United for Peace and Justice's website: http://www.unitedforpeace.org

Bloomington Peace Action Coalition is arranging transportation from Indiana to Washington, D.C.

Contact us to join the mobilization.
See: http://www.BPAC.info

E-mail: BPACpeace@hotmail.com
Phone: (812) 988-1917

Congressional Outreach and Nonviolent Action To End Funding for the U.S. War in Iraq and To Support a Comprehensive Plan for Peace

Congratulations and thank you to all who organized and participated in the 375 Declaration of Peace events that took place across the U.S.A. in September 2006!

Bloomington Peace Action Coalition and more than 500 other organizations endorsed The Declaration of Peace. Scores of those organizations engaged in vigils, marches, demonstrations, readings of Iraq war victims, acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, and other activities in 120 cities across the country.

To build on this momentum, Declaration of Peace Phase 2 calls for action to urge the new Congress to end funding for war in Iraq and to establish a comprehensive plan for peace. This plan will include the goals of the Declaration of Peace campaign.

At a time when the violence increases in Iraq, it is clear that the US occupation must end, a comprehensive peace process must begin, federal funding must shift from permanent war to reconstructing Iraq and meeting human needs at home. Now is the time for Congress to defund the war and to declare peace.

Between now and the fourth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq in March, it is the goal of the Declaration of Peace to intensify pressure on the U.S. Congress to cut off war funding, to bring the troops home, and to support a comprehensive plan for peace. If our political leaders won’t carry out their clear mandate for peace, then we will respond in March 16-19 with dramatic and creative forms of peaceful resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience in towns and cities across the country.

"Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers"
Documentary Film Showing/ FREE Bloomington Premiere on October 11, 2006

In conjunction with more than 230 other screenings of this film nationwide this week, Bloomington Peace Action Coalition is pleased to present the 2006 documentary film: "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers"

"Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when profit is the only objective in a war zone.

In his new documentary (released Sept. 2006), acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of corporate greed in the reconstruction of Iraq. "Iraq for Sale" uncovers the connections between private security companies making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.

A Nonviolent Action Campaign For an End to the U.S. War in Iraq

"The Declaration of Peace" is a dynamic campaign to increase pressure on the Bush Administration to end the Iraq War by engaging in nationally coordinated nonviolent action from September 21-28, 2006, if U.S. troops have not been withdrawn by that date.

Sign the Declaration now at www.declarationofpeace.org