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Current
Activities of CPNV
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The board meets
the first Wednesday of the month at noon in library of the
First Unitarian
Church.
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Annual
celebration of
St. Marcellus Day on October 30.
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Coordinating
campaign to compel Indiana to comply with federal requirements, and keep
firearms out of the hands of those who are legally prohibited from owning
them.
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The Basis for
Biblical Pacifism: A five week ecumenical discussion course on the
biblical passages supporting nonviolent practice.
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Peacemakers
training to Saint Joseph County women.
Peacemakers is an innovative
program developed by a Mennonite pastor teaching assertiveness and basic
self defense skills.
Some past
projects of CPNV
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Small group
studies of
From Violence to Wholeness, a ten-part study and action course that
explores active non-violence as a creative, powerful and effective process
for addressing and resolving the conflicts in our lives and in the life of
the world.
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“Let Me
Decide” Campaign regarding military recruitment in schools.
A group of current high school
students, recently graduated students, parents, and citizens of Northwest
Indiana, who are concerned about the unprecedented access that military
recruiters have to high school students. We worked to provide truthful
information about the military and recruitment practices to all high school
students.
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First annual
celebration of
St. Marcellus Day on October 30, 2006.
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Sponsored
War Resisters and Conscientious Objectors in the U.S. Military with
Michael Sharp of the Military Counselors Network on June 23, 2006.
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Nonviolence Trainings May 6 and June 3, 2006, with the
Michigan Peace Teams.
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Legislative
efforts to limit utility deposits in South Bend.
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Sponsored
monthly Friday night “Prayer and Peace Walks” from 10 p.m. to midnight.
Teams of Black and white church members walked the streets of the near
northwest neighborhood to talk with youth and others, to pray and to be a
presence in places that have known violence.
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Monitored and
protested gun shows at the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair Ground.
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Organized
day-long January 2002 training in “Kingian Nonviolence” with David Jehnsen
attended by more than 80 people.
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Built
relationships between church leaders that have led to joint projects and
efforts such as witness against the death penalty.
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Co-sponsored
“Music for Peace” on January 18, 2003, which brought together more than 500
people in South Bend to speak out against war with Iraq.
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Organized
children’s peace activities and a panel discussion on “King and War” on MLK
day, 2003.
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Sponsored a
day-long workshop on active nonviolence with civil rights veteran C.T.
Vivian, Feb. 15, 2003.
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Organized a
march for peace with the theme “Invest in People, Not War” on Feb. 15 in
conjunction with marches and demonstrations across the globe. More than 450
people participated in the South Bend march.
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Sponsored
Sheila Provencher on a Christian Peacemaker Teams Delegation to Hebron, West
Bank and organized a community speaking event for her upon her return.
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Organized
“From Violence to Wholeness” training for facilitators for 10 week program
in the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence, Feb. 6-9, 2004
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Sponsored
“The Heartache of War: An Interfaith Prayer Service of Reflection and
Solace,” March 19, 2004 on the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq
War, at Little Flower Catholic Church.
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“Just
Peacemaking as Terrorism Prevention,” with Glen Stassen, Professor of
Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, Sunday April 25, 2004 at
First United Methodist Church, South Bend.
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IURC Utility
Deposit Hearing, Dec. 1, 2004. Through education and organizing, CPNV
churches turned out half of the crowd of 800 participants seeking lower
utility deposits.
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Co-Sponsored
MLK Day Activities, Jan. 2005 with Civil Rights veteran Diane Nash.
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Sponsored
training for fifty people from CPNV member churches with Diane Nash on the
six steps of a conducting a nonviolent campaign, May 21, 2005.
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Initiated and
organized the “Let Me Decide” Campaign with high school students who
have become informed about military recruitment practices and their rights
to “opt out” of having schools give their contact information to
recruiters. Events included two coffee houses with more than seventy
participants each time. In seven area high schools, hundreds of students
have “opted-out.”
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Co-sponsored
press conference announcing legislative effort to limit gas utility deposits
to one month, Jan. 7, 2006.
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Presented
excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech against the war in Vietnam during
2006 MLK Day youth activities. Staffed table with information about King,
war and military recruitment during MLK Day events.
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