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Loving our Immigrant Neighbors: FREE Workshops for People who care about immigrant People and their Rights This two hour program is designed to provide information and answer the practical and legal questions faced by immigrants and people who support them in churches, civic groups and as neighbors. Some topics addressed: Who are the immigrants around us? What rights do immigrants have? What responsibilities do U.S. citizens have? What is the present law? What services are available to immigrants? Sponsored by: Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center and the Sanctuary Immigration Committee. For more information and to get involved call (513) 579-8547 alice@ijpc-cincinnati.org
Monthly meeting - Before You Enlist Campaign meets 3rd Wed. of each at 6 pm - 7 pm....We have some new ideas and some new materials, please join us in seeking to limit the influence of military recruiters on middle and high school students.
Monthly meeting - IJPC General Peace Committee, 7 pm
3rd Wednesday of every month
Peaslee Neighborhood Center, 513-579-8547, All are Welcome!
IJPC Recommends:
Handbook for Discussion on the Islamic Faith and America Post 9/11 This introductory handbook is the product of cooperative work between the Peace Village, Muslim Mothers Against Violence (MMAV), Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Cincinnati, Bridges for a Just Community and National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Nonviolent Communication: A Language for Life book written by Marshall Rosenberg and the Nonviolent Communication Companion Work Book : A Practical Guide for Individual, Group, or Classroom Study written by Lucy Leu. They can be purchased together for a 33% savings in the Getting Started Pack at http://www.cnvc.org/combinations.htm#getstarted It costs $24.95 when you buy them together.
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Ongoing weekly event - Women in Black Vigils, Mondays, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Grassy island at corner of Vine St. and Central Pkwy. Wear black or dark clothes.
All are welcome! more information call 513-579-8547
Ongoing weekly event - Northside Peace Vigil - Fridays, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Hamilton Avenue at Hoffner Park (Blue Rock and Hamilton) - Show your support for peace and human rights. You may bring signs on the theme of peace or anti-torture or anything related, or just bring yourself to stand with us ~ we will have extra signs for those who would like to hold them. For more information on the Women In Black peace movement, please visit: http://www.womeninblack.net/
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Motter at 591-1407 or emotter@fuse.net
Ongoing monthly event - CeaseFire Cincinnati, 3rd Tuesday, 5:30 pm
Want to learn more about CeaseFire? Attend our monthly Community Coalition Meetings
Held at the Avondale Pride Center, 3520 Burnet, CeaseFire Cincinnati:
The Campaign to STOP the Shooting (513) 675 - 4102 www.ceasefirecincinnati.org
Ongoing monthly Event - 3rd Friday of every month, 5:30pm
IRAQ MORATORIUM: Neighborhood Peace Vigils
MARK YOU CALENDARS...
Upcoming dates: May 16th , June 20th, July 18th
WHERE: ALL over the city!!!
Locations:
Winton Place: Corner of Froome & Winton, across from Gray rd.
Price Hill: Corner of Enright and W. 8th
Northside: Hoffner park, corner of Blue Rock and Hamilton
Clifton: Fountain in Burnet Wood, corner of Clifton and Ludlow
Mt. Healthy: Heritage Park, on Hamilton, right after Cross County
Northern Kentucky: Newport Peace Bell, 421 Monmouth St.
Anderson: Beechmont and Forest, in front of Stein Mart
Miami Township: Branch Hill Guinea Pike & Loveland Miamiville Rd (in front of Kroger)
- Bring any relevant peace signs if you have them. IJPC has several banners and signs and will provide some at each site. IJPC will also provide the candles for each site.
- Contact Sue at IJPC for further information.
- Bring any relevant peace signs if you have them. IJPC has several banners and signs and will provide some at each site. IJPC will also provide the candles for each site.
Do you live in a neighborhood that didn't have a vigil? Are interested in having one next month? Great! Just call Sue at IJPC for more details, 579-8547!
April 2008
May 2008
May 17, 9:30am - 12:30pm
The 2008 Day of Dialogue Series- Education and the Common Good:
Our dialogue series "Issues 2008 -What's at Stake?" continues.
Join us for a lively Day of Dialogue on Education and the Common Good.
Opening Panelists:
*Eve Bolton — President of Cincinnati School Board and Social Studies Teacher for 35 years in Wyoming School District.
*Jeff Edmondson— Executive Director of Strive, a community collaboration of public and private sectors promoting educational success in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
*Emmy Partin –Writer and Researcher for Thomas B. Fordham Institute. The institute in part sponsors Charter Schools in Ohio and provides policy analysis.
Six Dialogues on Six Critical Issues: Health Care, Economic Development, Education, Immigration, Campaign Finance Reform and Foriegn Policy. Join us at the First Unitiarin Church, 536 Linton Street. All Are Welcome at these free events, reservations requested. download pdf flyer
May 16, 5:30 pm
Neighborhood Candlelight Vigils for the Iraq Moratorium - see ongoing monthly events for details
May 24, 9 am - 12:30 pm
DAY OF DIALOGUE FACILITATOR TRAINING
Opportunity to facilitate dialogue, active listening, peace & respect in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Join us for an interactive, experiential dialogue facilitator training at Northern Kentucky University in Room 211 in Founders Hall . It will be a great experience for enhancing facilitation skills, active listening skills, and constructive inquiry skills that can be used in the classroom, in the home, and in the community. The training will include self-certification of readiness to serve as a Day of Dialogue facilitator.
June 2008
June 28, 9am - 5pm
Nonviolent Peacemaking Workshop, Presented by the Michigan Peace Team
Experience the transforming power of nonviolence for oneself and society. Participants will learn about and practice skills for nonviolent peacemaking; learn of domestic and international violence reduction peacemaking efforts and opportunities for volunteering in various projects; and will experience working together as a peace team.
Peaslee Neighborhood Center (215 E. 14th St.)
Cost: $30/ person, Lunch will be provided.
(Scholarships available, contact IJPC for info) Limited spaces available. Call 513-579-8547 to sign up!!
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See Death Penalty Calendar
Cincinnati Chapter of Ohioans to Stop Execution Meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7pm at Peaslee Neighborhood Center, 215 E. 14th St. call 513-579-8547 for details.
Ohio Moratorium Campaign Meets bi-monthly via conference call on third Thursday
Execution Alerts - Ohioans to Stop Excutions - download petitions from OTSE
calendar of important events - Ohioans to Stop Excutions
There will be two local screenings of a new film on the death penalty, 'At the Death House Door': one in Cincinnati and one in Northern Kentucky. There have been powerful reviews about the film and we hope you'll be able to make one of the screenings:
TUESDAY, MAY 20TH, 7 pm
AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR SCREENING, download flyer
Thomas More College, 333 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills Steigerwald Hall in the Holbrook Student Center, Discussion and refreshments following. Event is free. RSVP with Sr. Alice at 579-8547.
THURSDAY, MAY 22ND, 7 pm
AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR SCREENING, download flyer
Main Street Theater at the Tangeman Center, University of Cincinnati
Discussion and refreshments following film. Event is free RSVP with Julie at 579-8547.
At the Death House Door is a personal and intimate look at the death penalty in the state of Texas through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain in Huntsville Texas and presided over 95 executions. After each execution, Rev. Pickett recorded an audiotape account of his thoughts and reactions. The film also focuses on the story of Carlos DeLuna, an inmate Rev. Pickett counseled and whose execution troubled him more than the others. He firmly believed DeLuna was innocent and the film tracks the investigative efforts of the Chicago Tribune reporters who turned up evidence that strongly supports this position. At the Death House Door is co-directed and co-produced by Steve James and Peter Gilbert, both award winner in their field.
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April 19, 2008
SPAN Ohio's Fifth Annual State Conference (Single Payer Action Network)
Ramada Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Columbus, Ohio
Keynote Speaker: Quentin Young, M.D., National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health
The purpose of the conference is to bring together supporters of health care for all — unions, health care providers, faith groups, community groups, women’s organizations, businesses and others — to discuss
how best to build the campaign to win publicly funded, not-for-profituniversal health care guaranteeing coverage for all Ohioans. www.spanohio.org
April 22, 5 pm
AN EARTH DAY RALLY FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY: CELEBRATE EARTH DAY 2008 A Rally Calling for Higher Wages & Less Trash, Washington Park, 1225 Race Street, OTR, Cincinnati
Join Community, Labor & Faith Based groups and individuals in support of
Rumpke Workers, The Sierra Club, The Day Labor Organizing Project & The
Blue-Green Alliance download flyer
April 25, 5 - 7 pm
Take Back the Night Rally
The University of Cincinnati’s Take Back the Night Rally begins at 5pm on Bearcat Plaza and will also include an inter-faith vigil, march, an empowering rally and speak out. Buses to the citywide Take Back the Night rally will depart the University at 6pm. The citywide vigil begins at 7pm at Sawyer Point. For more information cincinnati.com or call 1 859-647-2388.
April 28, 7-9pm
CONTRIBUTING TO A PLATFORM FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Xavier University's Schiff Family Conference Center
Bellarmine Chapel is sponsering an eveing to pull together a local agenda of issues for the common good. What issues are you deeply concerned about? What do you want to make sure the political parties and their candidates know are a priority for you? Do you see the candidates talking about these issues in a way that connects with you as a person of faith? This evening aims to develop a set of issues to be delivered to the Convention for the Common Good in July in Philidelphia.
Contact Stephanie Beck Borden at beckborden@xavier.edu or 513-745-1908 for more information or registration.
April 28, 7pm
SOJOURNERS VOTE OUT POVERTY GATHERING
Rohs St. Cafe, 245 W. McMillan in Clifton Heights, The Soujourners Vote out Poverty campaign is a strategic plan to makes poverty an important issue in Congession races in 2008, and to put povery on the poltical agenda for Christian voters. Come to this event to learn more about the effort.
Contact local Sojourners reps at vopcincy@gmail.com
April 30, 2008, 10 am – 3 pm
Ohio Empowerment Coalition Statewide Mobilization Rally/Lobby Day
“Safe & Stable Families Campaign for Kinship Care, Poverty Reduction and Health Care for Ohioans” Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbus, OH 43215. Child Care is Available. Please RSVP.
Call 1-877-862-5179 for more information
ongoing monthly event Mayor’s Night In, 4:30 pm
Citizens are invited to Mayor’s Night In to address a concern or discuss an idea for the city.
Meetings are held at City Hall in the Mayor’s office every other Tuesday. Sign up for meetings begin
at 4:30pm. Five minute meetings will take place between 5 and 7pm with the Mayor.
Upcoming meetings May 6; May 20; June 3; and June 17.
ongoing weekly event - DLOP meets Wednesdays at 9 am at Our Daily Bread
The Day Labor Organizing Project (DLOP) Cincinnati - is proposing several ways to improve worker conditions - for donations and/or volunteering contact The Cincinnati Interfaith Worker Center, 1415 Walnut Street or call (513) 621-5991 for more information or visit website: http://www.dlop.org
ongoing monthly event - 4th Wednesday of every month - 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Neighborhoods United - Building Community across Neighborhoods
Creating community across neighborhoods for mutual support and networking, to build relationships and advocate positive change so as to nurture and celebrate our uniqueness and gifts that benefit each and all. St Joseph Catholic Church, Fellowship Hall, 745 Ezzard Charles Dr. website
ongoing monthly event - every second Sunday - 3 pm - 5 pm
STAR (Students Together Against Racism) Town Hall Think Tank
Essex Place 7610 Reading Road (Across for the Legacy) organize to undo- racism and to build consciousness in our communities! For more information please contact Akosua Favors & Ben Sea via e-mail at star@nku.edu or revol-radio@hotmail.com.
ongoing weekly event - Mondays, 7 pm, Economic Empowerment Movement
Meets at Fins and Feathers Reasturant in Evanston, 3200 Woodburn Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45207. For more information check us out on the web at www.namusa.info
ongoing weekly event - Sunday nights, 8 pm, Flixs and Politixs
Please come out to the Greenwich Tavern, 2442 Gilbert Ave for Flixs and Politixs, enjoy deep conversation and free food. Admission is Free!!!
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AprilL 26, 9:30am- 12:30am
HARNESSING THE POWER OF VIDEO FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: A WORKSHOP FOR ORGANIZERS
Join us for this interactive workshop. Learn how organizers for the Sierra Club and ECO, working with a filmmaker, were able to sucessfully use video to bring about three specific and concrete changes. Come and see if video might work for you. Bring your current campaigns and challenges. Brinastorm how you could use video to move things forward. Presenters and discussion leaders include: Karen Arnett, Susan Knight and Barb Wolf, Peaslee Neighborhood Center, Call IJPC 513-579-8547 for more details
Latinos Organizing
Butler County, whose sheriff has made a mission of targeting undocumented workers, will soon have its own chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens. To join, contact Claudia Aviles at avilesc@ci.hamilton.oh.us or 513-785-7396.
Document LGBT Discrimination
A coalition of national and statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender (LGBT) and civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and Equality Ohio, are working together to compile stories of LGBT discrimination. The goal of sharing stories is to help us convince lawmakers that discrimination is real and that we need to pass laws that protect the rights of LGBT people. To participate, visit http://www.acluohio.org/issues/LGBT/ENDA.htm.
Ongoing weekly event - every Sunday - 6 - 7:15 pm
Yoga Nidra Relaxation & Meditation - Free & open to all. $3 donation welcomed. At the Kula Center, 110 E 8th Street, Newport, KY 41071. More info from Rob @ 859.441.4144 & robburns1008@yahoo.com
Save the Voting Rights Act
Every other Monday - 6:30 pm
Spanish Bilingual Coffee Hours - Share some caffeine with Spanish speakers at the Bilingual Coffee Hour at the Price Hill Branch Library. Spanish speakers practice their English, and the English speakers practice their Spanish. The head librarian speaks both, and she facilitates. Call Price Hill Will for more information at 513-251-3800.
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