Please join Larry Darcy & friends for this special event:
The Moral and Spiritual Costs
in a Time of War
a video presentation of a speech by
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
Considered a prophetic voice,
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, founding president of Pax Christi USA,
is an internationally renowned advocate for peace and justice.
Wednesday, June 18 at 7 p.m.
Sponsored by
Peace & Justice Ministry of St. Andrew Church
St. Andrew Catholic Church Parish Hall, Sag Harbor
Kathy Engel: Nakbah
Nakbah
olive world more ancient than these sixty years
more than a number knows
more patient than the mud of coffee
sips my soul
will not let go
to be clear: a wall is not a bridge
it is a mirror
occupation is not business
as usual
it is a sin
an invention
of fear
(fear of invention)
the story
can only be owned by the speaker
60 years
dry as a desert scar
dance of water under water
maps the world as it might have been
saffron petals bless the Jenin night
a grandmother's sage-oiled hands
after the attack
parents become children
children grow old between Nablus stars
and Gaza dawn
then gone
resilience is the geography
of this 60 year day
of separation
over Hebron dusk
the house defies the Caterpillar
the tongue defies silence
names refuse to be erased
identity cards burn themselves
the heart disallows theft of itself
this olive world
these sixty years
make way for something only
love can know
the way a mother knows the meter of her child's breath
and when it doesn't
I invite a new old identity:
you can't take someone's home
to build your own
these sixty years
this olive world
let there be
Kathy Engel
May 2008
Stop the War Mall Tour
Suffolk Peace Network
IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT
Announcing the Summer 2008 Stop the War Long Island Mall Tour
featuring the 4000 Troops 1 million Iraqis DEAD. ENOUGH! T-shirt
On Easter Sunday, March 23, the US casualty count in Iraq reached 4000 dead.
On Saturday March 29 we went to Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove to stand for peace. Two people were arrested inside the Mall. They were wearing T-shirts with our message: 4000 Troops 1 million Iraqis DEAD. ENOUGH!
In the month of April, an additional 52 Americans were killed.
On Saturday May 3 we went to Sunrise Mall in Massapequa . We walked around inside the Mall wearing our T-shirts and displaying photos of the 33 Long Islanders killed in Iraq . We were told the photos had to be put away.
By the end of May, 19 more Americans had been killed.
As of mid-June, 14 Americans have been killed.
The overall US casualty count in Iraq is now 4098.
Do you want to end this war? Were you with us at the Malls? Will you be there in the future? Join the Summer 2008 Stop the War Long Island Mall Tour
June 28 Walt Whitman Mall 2:00 to 3:30 PM
Route 110 south of Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station
AND….add’l demonstrations planned:
July 26 Roosevelt Field Garden City
August 23 South Shore Mall Bay Shore
September Grand Finale! Back to Smith Haven Mall Lake Grove (date not decided yet)
Join us at Walt Whitman Mall. Save the other dates.
Sign-up to be on the mailing list for future details. Order a T-shirt.
Contact Janet Egan : e-mail workforpeace@optonline.net or call 631.424-4647
IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT
Announcing the Summer 2008 Stop the War Long Island Mall Tour
featuring the 4000 Troops 1 million Iraqis DEAD. ENOUGH! T-shirt
On Easter Sunday, March 23, the US casualty count in Iraq reached 4000 dead.
On Saturday March 29 we went to Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove to stand for peace. Two people were arrested inside the Mall. They were wearing T-shirts with our message: 4000 Troops 1 million Iraqis DEAD. ENOUGH!
In the month of April, an additional 52 Americans were killed.
On Saturday May 3 we went to Sunrise Mall in Massapequa . We walked around inside the Mall wearing our T-shirts and displaying photos of the 33 Long Islanders killed in Iraq . We were told the photos had to be put away.
By the end of May, 19 more Americans had been killed.
As of mid-June, 14 Americans have been killed.
The overall US casualty count in Iraq is now 4098.
Do you want to end this war? Were you with us at the Malls? Will you be there in the future? Join the Summer 2008 Stop the War Long Island Mall Tour
June 28 Walt Whitman Mall 2:00 to 3:30 PM
Route 110 south of Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station
AND….add’l demonstrations planned:
July 26 Roosevelt Field Garden City
August 23 South Shore Mall Bay Shore
September Grand Finale! Back to Smith Haven Mall Lake Grove (date not decided yet)
Join us at Walt Whitman Mall. Save the other dates.
Sign-up to be on the mailing list for future details. Order a T-shirt.
Contact Janet Egan : e-mail workforpeace@optonline.net or call 631.424-4647
Week of June 12
"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act" Talmud ( Sabbath, 54b)
Click on the following links:
Stop the War Mall Tour
Preserving Gravesites - Meeting Thursday June 12 at 7pm in Bridgehampton
Click on the following links:
Stop the War Mall Tour
Preserving Gravesites - Meeting Thursday June 12 at 7pm in Bridgehampton
Suffolk Legislature Votes on Worker Status Legislation
Common Cause: Deal or No Deal for Telecom Co's Spying
Peace and Justice Calendar
Suffolk Peace Vigils: East End Women in Black - Sag Harbor 5-6 pm Sunday June 15
John Pilger: Cowardice of Silence
Reading Between the Lines: Remembering Bobby Kennedy's Assasination - Anna Manzo, Dying for Oil - Reginald Johnson
"You have no history and your past does not matter."
Rashid Khalidi - Palestine: Liberation Deferred
Sixty Years of the Palestinian Nakba
Israel at 60: We Will Not Be Celebrating
Palestine: Orphanages Face Threat
Boycott Big Three Oil Companies
Food Crisis in Haiti
Reverend Wright's Sermons - What did he really say?
Long Island Wins: Immigration 101 and more - updated daily
Revealed: the US plan to start a Palestinian civil war
International Food Aid May Be Rationed - BBC Report
Arundhati Roy on Genocide: Listening to Grasshoppers
AFSC Iraq Video on YouTube / and more
Counter Recruiting Schedule Revised Feb 14
Alternative Media
Democracy Now!
The independent news hour with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:
on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold/Shelter Island Channel 20:
Monday 10 pm
Tuesday 11 pm
Wednesday 7pm
Thursday 6pm
Friday 9 pm
Saturday - 6:30 am
Also on WUSB 90.1 FM 5pm Mon-Friday and East Hampton LTV Ch 20
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For more Information on Peace Activism on LI
see North Fork People of Conscience at www.nfpofc.blogspot.com
see Suffolk Progressive Vision at www.spv.active.ws
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Preserving Gravesites
On Tuesday June 10 members of the Inter-tribal Historic Protection Task Force which includes the Unkechaug and Shinnecock Nations on Long Island spoke to a group of people from the local Southampton community and from the Shinnecock and Poospatuck Reservations. They urged their listeners to support efforts to enact grave protection legislation. They were joined by two members of the Lakota Nation from South Dakota speaking about the struggle to preserve the sanctity of the Bear Butte sacred site in the Black Hills.
New York State is one of four states that have no legislation prescribing what is to be done when unmarked gravesites are un-earthed. This has led to many gravesites winding up under newly constructed housing developements.
A bill known as the "Unmarked Burial Site Protection Act" introduced by Steven Engelbright has been introduced in the New York State Legislature for the last two years but has yet to pass both the Assembly and the State Senate.
A meeting at the Hayground School on Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton is scheduled for 7pm on Thursday June 12. Posh Camp and Vic Camp of the Lakota and Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile of Shinnecock, along with Kathy Engel of Sagaponack will talk about honoring and preserving sacred places.
The Inter-Tribal Historic Preservation Task Force can be contacted at PO Box 1404, Southampton New York 11969 and contributions can be sent to that address.
New York State is one of four states that have no legislation prescribing what is to be done when unmarked gravesites are un-earthed. This has led to many gravesites winding up under newly constructed housing developements.
A bill known as the "Unmarked Burial Site Protection Act" introduced by Steven Engelbright has been introduced in the New York State Legislature for the last two years but has yet to pass both the Assembly and the State Senate.
A meeting at the Hayground School on Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton is scheduled for 7pm on Thursday June 12. Posh Camp and Vic Camp of the Lakota and Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile of Shinnecock, along with Kathy Engel of Sagaponack will talk about honoring and preserving sacred places.
The Inter-Tribal Historic Preservation Task Force can be contacted at PO Box 1404, Southampton New York 11969 and contributions can be sent to that address.
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