Peace & Justice EXPO

The 2nd Omaha Peace & Justice EXPO Saturday April 9, 2005 1:00 - 6:00 pm Lewis & Clark Middle School - 6901 Burt St All the info on: www.ProgressiveOmaha.com SPREAD THE WORD! Keynote Address “Independent Media in a Time of War” AMY GOODMAN of Democracy Now! at 1:00 pm AMY GOODMAN is: an award-winning journalist, host of “Democracy Now!” and author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them

Stand for Peace

Saturday, March 19 is the second anniversary of the war against Iraq. With more than 1,500 U.S. dead and an estimated 100,000 Iraqi lives lost, it is time to end the bloodshed and bring the troops home.

As part of our growing Wage Peace Campaign, we are asking people across the country to organize local events to show that the majority of Americans support peace.

Will you join us in standing for peace in your community on March 19?

Click here for information on organizing or attending a Stand for Peace event in your community.

Events will range from petition drives to candlelight vigils to creating local memorials to honor the war's dead -- whatever best suits your community. The day's events will be anchored by AFSC's Eyes Wide Open exhibit's national tour stop in Los Angeles.

AFSC's second anniversary commemorations are part of larger national calls for action on the second anniversary by our partners in the United for Peace and Justice and Win Without War coalitions. On our Stand for Peace site, you can see what others are organizing in your area and around the country.

Working together, we can make sure that the major story of the war's second anniversary is a peace story. Your participation will help ensure that March 19 is remembered as the day the U.S.'s pro-peace majority turned out to call for an end to the bloodshed.

AFSC will be making a second delivery of its Iraq Peace Petition to the President and Congress shortly after the second anniversary. Local events can give thousands more people the opportunity to sign the petition and join the call to bring the troops home. Please download copies of the petition and take them to your local event to collect signatures and help us to keep the momentum building.

Click here to find or organize an event in your community.

Let's make March 19 the turning point for peace.

Peace, Peter Lems AFSC's Iraq program staff

Pathways to Peace

[click the picture] who we are Pathways to Peace is part of the breakthrough Get Inspired Now series which includes the Internet phenomenon, The Interview With God. Our goal is to create beautiful, inspiring presentations that make a positive difference in the lives of millions of people around the world. our vision Inspiring millions, one soul at a time. our mission In a world of uncertain times, we strive to be a gentle reminder that

peace is possible.

Our mission is to make a positive contribution to the well-being of our world, and to be a major and measurable force for good on the World Wide Web, by creating experiences of inspiration that warm the heart and touch the soul.

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Touching on the principles that lead us to inner peace, individually, and as a world Pathways to Peace features quotes from leaders who show us the way. [ more ] "Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path and the only one upon which you will never get lost." - M.H. McKee "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." - Eleonora Duse "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." - Helen Keller "This is courage… to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends." - Euripedes "Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." - George Iles "We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are." - Desire-Joseph Mercier "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." - Mother Teresa "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on, Hold fast, Hold out. Patience is genius." - Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon "The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right." - Ezra Taft Benson "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, hat is soiled is again made clean." - Dag Hammarskjold "We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.pathways-to-peace.com