Neighbors For Peace
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OCCUPY EVANSTON
Join Occupy Evanston in a vigil every day at noon at Foundtain Square. On Saturdays, look for them at noon in front of various banks and other bastions of the 99% in our city. Then at 1:00, join the group at Panera on Church at Sherman to plan upcoming events.
Posted on 12/20/11 by Rosalie640
Neighbors for Peace to resume Biweekly Thursday Meetings on September 8, 2011
Help us support Occupy Chicago and plan Evanston Library educational events for 2011-2012. We meet in the basement of St. Nicholas Rectory. Contact riegle@svsu.edu for details.
Posted on 10/14/11 by Rosalie640
MISSION STATEMENT
PEACE IS THE WAY TO PEACE
Mission Statement of Neighbors for Peace
We want peace among all people. We support and would take part in peaceful alternatives to respond to September 11 and other conflicts.
We condemn acts of terrorism, including state terrorism, and we mourn its victims. We support an international effort to bring the perpetrators of all terrorist actions before the International Criminal Court.
We demand fundamental changes in U.S. foreign policy: from militarism and global domination to cooperation among all nations in creating a healthy, peaceful and sustainable planet where the dignity of every person is respected. We therefore oppose the U.S. making war in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere.
We adhere to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which among other things prohibits unjust, inhumane and illegal detention. We oppose secret military tribunals and any legislation that limits civil liberties.
We demand our government recognize in practice the worth of all people and work to eliminate ethnic and belief-based discrimination, profiling, and racism. We work for a more equitable distribution of the world's wealth and disapprove the policies of welfare for and protection of multinational corporations at the expense of working people.
We implement practices of peace and justice as we conduct our meetings, sponsor events, and educate ourselves and the public. Peace leads to peace.
Posted on 1/3/11 by Rosalie640
The Cost of Our Wars
Posted on 1/3/11 by Rosalie640
News
Terrorist by Association
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6745/terrorist_by_association/
Wikileaks Info
So far WikiLeaks is still accessible via http://213.251.145.96/ Here you can download archived files from Cablegate. The site states that "On Sunday 28th Novembre 2010, Wikileaks began publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into the US Government's foreign activities"
Winter Edition of the Neighbors Times is Out!
Neighbors For Peace circulates quarterly newsletters. Click on the following link to get to read our Winter Issue.
go to our Resources section or click on the following link:
http://www.neighborsforpeace.net/uploads/resources/1200368732.pdf
The Iraqi Student Project - The Latest Info
For seven thousand years or more, the people in the area now known as Iraq have been a learned people. The fertile crescent bounded by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was home to the world's first known civilization, the Sumerians. Because its peoples produced the earliest writing and some of the first mathematics, science, laws, and philosophies of the Western world, this land has been called the “Cradle of Civilization.” During the Ottoman Empire, the people who lived in this region enjoyed a rich culture full of universities, libraries and museums. Even after the League of Nations created Iraq and during the punitive U.N. sanctions begun under the Clinton Administration, colleges and universities in Iraq continued to operate and struggled to maintain their famed excellence..
Now, however, after the U.S. invasion, occupation, and continuing violence, studies at the undergraduate and graduate level in Iraq have become nearly impossible. Of the millions of Iraqi refugees, the vast majority have little or no access to higher education.
The Iraqi Student Project (ISP), founded by Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak, is designed to address this tragedy. Gabe and Theresa are founding members of Neighbors for Peace who now live in Damascus. There they came to know many Iraqi refugees and last spring began to look for ways to help some of the young people eager for a college education. The result is the ISP.
Modeled after the successful Bosnian Student Project in the 1990s, the Iraqi Student Project is seeking tuition waivers from U.S. colleges and universities and establishing support groups in local communities to facilitate the students’ success while in our country. Currently, the Project has two hard-working staff: Tara Monthir Hasan works from Amman with potential Iraqi students, facilitating their college applications and the necessary language tests, and helping with Visa applications. Natalie Baker Merrill works with the institutions and support groups in the U.S.
Over twenty-six colleges have expressed interest. Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan and Holy Cross College in Indiana have already officially signified their acceptance of Iraqi students for Fall, 2008, and several other institutions are in the negotiating stage.
Members of Neighbors for Peace hope that several Chicago colleges will take advantage of this opportunity to serve Iraq's future. Gabe and Theresa report that the Project is looking for more contacts at Chicago universities and also for funds to pay for language testing and student visa applications. Tax-exempt contributions can be sent to:
Iraqi Student Project
c/o Faith & Values Media
475 Riverside Dr. #530
New York, NY 10115
With Iraq's higher education system in ruins, with more than four million Iraqis displaced inside and outside Iraq, with occupation and sectarian strife continuing, and an estimated death toll of more than a million Iraqis, ISP offers a small but significant effort toward reconciliation and restitution. For more information, see www.iraqistudentproject.org, or write Gabe and Theresa at gabeandtheresa@gmail.com. If you have contacts for area colleges, email pallist3-n4ptimes@yahoo.com.
Neighbors Times Fall 2007 Edition is on the Web
Check out the Web version of our newsletter under Resources. In downloadable .pdf format
http://www.neighborsforpeace.net/uploads/resources/1192408850.pdf
