The North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice (NSCPJ) is an alliance
of organizations and individuals from Chicago and near north suburbs, united in support of an end to war and in the use of nonviolent methods of social change.
For our Mission Statement Click here
List of current member organizations: click here
NSCPJ will host an action the 3nd Friday of every month
6:30 to 7:30pm
at Maple and Church in Evanston
Next dates July 17th and August 21st
Join the Peace Contingent in the Evanston 4th of July Parade
NSCPJ is making this a costume event with participants coming dressed as current or historical "people of peace and/or justice"- be creative. Some suggestions, so far we have a "Dorothy Day" and a "Julia Ward Howe." What person of peace and justice - - would you like to be?
We have music to accompany us - it will be a lot of fun!
NSCPJ is position #77 for the parade. We are to gather in section 6 which is on Central St. between Prospect and Highland Avenues on the north side of the street.
Right after the parade, join us for more camaraderie
at the 4th of July at a Backyard BBQ Benefit Bash for the
Peace, Justice and Environment Project
Saturday, July 4
4 until 8:30pm
as they celebrate the "Networking of America" this summer
when the sites for the 48th, 49th and 50th states, Alaska, Hawaii and New York go live.
PJEP grew as a direct result of the founding of ICJPE. Members of NSCPJ have been volunteering with PJEP since its inception. For more about PJEP see below the fold.*
Come celebrate the Networking of America at the home of Andrew Lehman and Marcia Bernsten, 1213 Maple, Evanston, IL 60202. We'll have loads of delicious BBQ food, good times and great people. It’s an opportunity to gather our greater progressive community together, socialize and ponder what comes next in our efforts to work for change. Please bring a dish to share. We will be supplying paper goods, BBQs (gas and charcoal), some grill fare and beverages, but would appreciate side dishes, salads, desserts, libations and anything else you want to bring. The party ends just in time for fireworks, just a short walk away.
Your $20.00 ticket enters you into the Raffle. RSVP - Really appreciated!!
If you can't join us - you can still participate! PJEP has just kicked off its first fundraising drive. Please help to support PJEP in its continued work and purchase one or more raffle tickets and/or participate in our silent auction. Here are the details:
DOWNLOAD the Auction Booklet for a catalog of Silent Auction items and instructions on how the Silent Auction and Raffle will work and for details on the Raffle.
RAFFLE: A $20.00 ticket enters you into the multi-prize raffle. You get an additional raffle ticket for every $20 contribution. Click here to buy your raffle ticket(s) NOW.
Anyone anywhere may buy a ticket and enter the raffle to win one of these 3 prizes:
* A 5-page Word Press website including url and design graphics by Andrew Lehman Design
* A basket of assorted gourmet chocolates including a wheel-thrown bowl by a local artisan.
* A basket of assorted fair trade coffees including 2 wheel-thrown mugs by a local artisan.
SILENT AUCTION Our Auction Booklet has a complete list of auction items including estimated value, minimum bid and donor or producer.
Most of the items in the silent auction are products and services offered by local Chicago area businesses. Still, many can be shipped across the country. Andrew@pjep.org with your bid(s) for any specific silent auction item. (Click here to buy your raffle ticket(s).)
On July 4th at 8:30pm Central time we will be tabulating the final bids.
(Bid 150% of an item’s value and you get the item, no other bids taken!)
Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Why This Fundraiser?
PJEP volunteers have given extensively of time, talents and night/weekend minutes; facilitating your efforts at grassroots activity throughout Illinois and the entire US. Howsoever large the vision; the resources are limited. With real funding and staff at our disposal, PJEP could do so much more. What’s envisioned for stage two will require additional programming and, potentially, paid staff in order to develop the project and fully realize the capabilities of a network of networks.
Please help PJEP to help you become more effective. Your tax deductible donation is essential to the growth and success of the PJEP Networks which will help to:
- Encourage facilitation of network operations to empower grassroots driven actions, events and campaigns of participating organizations;
- Expand the commons of resources that we provide to network users and the public at large;
- Assist activists in use of new technologies and help to enhance their web/net presence.
- Help to develop media strategies and resources for grassroots activists.
- Further develop existing networks, by bringing more groups on board to create synergistic communication and cooperation within the greater progressive movement; and
- Improve the cutting edge software necessary to these goals using programming that keeps up with advances in technology.
Parental Advisory
When your kids goes to see a film at the Century Theater complex, they may be shown National Guard or military recruitment propaganda in the form of an extended length music video before the film. They may also be exposed to printed promotional materials as they purchase their tickets.
If you object, as we do, to this misuse of our tax dollars, please contact the Century Theater corporate offices, our elected representatives, the Department of Defense and our local papers to voice your complaint as parents and citizens.
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The National Guard Bureau
1411 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington VA 22202-3231
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Corporate Office:
Cinemark USA, Inc.
3900 Dallas Parkway, Suite 500
Plano, TX 75093-7865
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Senator Richard J. Durbin
John C. Kluczynski Federal Office Building
230 S Dearborn St.
Suite 3892
Chicago, IL 60604
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Congresswoman Janice D.Schakowsky
820 Davis Street
Suite 105
Evanston, IL 60201
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Senator Barack Obama
John C. Kluczynski Federal Office Building
230 South Dearborn St.
Suite 3900
Chicago, Illinois 60604
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Congressman Mark Kirk
707 Skokie Boulevard
Suite 350
Northbrook, IL 60062
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Evanston Roundtable
124 Florence Ave., Ste. 3
Evanston, Illinois 60202
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Evanston Review
Letters
3701 W. Lake Ave.
Glenview, Illinois 60026
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Past Events
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Tuesday May 5th at 7:30pm
St Athanasius Roman Catholic Church
1615 Lincoln St • Evanston, IL 60201
Sallie and Alan Gratch along with Rabbi Brant Rosen will give a talk recounting their recent trip to Iran. The three were part of a Civilian Diplomacy Delegation sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Stand for Peace on Mother's Day 2009!
Sunday, May 10th
1pm to 2pm
(Corner of Church and Maple in Downtown Evanston)
Please Join Us as we honor the original meaning of Mother's Day.
Over 130 years ago, following the American Civil War, Julia Ward Howe wrote the Original Mother's Day Proclamation (see below),
calling upon women of the world to unite for peace.
She said, in essence, "We will not raise our children to kill another mother's child." We'll be collecting your messages of peace to Michelle Obama as we share our hopes and dreams for a more peaceful world.
Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
for more information call - 312.480.1331
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Join us in participating in
Camp Hope
"Countdown to Change"
January 1 through 19th, 2009!
go to CampHope2009 for more details and to sign up
Songs of Peace
in a Time of War
Friday, December 19, 2008
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Church St. and Maple Ave. in Evanston
(near theaters, Metra and "L" stops)
As the shoppers rush home with their treasures,
come home from work or
head off to dinner and a movie,
we will gather to sing songs of peace.
We will remember all those,
in conflict zones around the world
and in our own backyards,
for whom there is no peace .
All are welcome to join us.
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Member Organizations, North Suburban Peace Initiative (NSPI)
and American Friends Service Committee are hosting a forum
A Seriously Flawed U.S. Demand...
The Privatizing of Iraqi Oil!
Thursday, July 26. 2007 • 7:30pm
Beth Emet Synogogue • 1224 W. Dempster, Evanston, IL
with guest speaker Antonia Juhasz,
Ms Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is the Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of THe Bu$h Agenda - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. She is a teacher at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program.
click here for further information
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Click here for information on the May 16th Jeremy Scahill event at Northwestern
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Friday, May 11, 2007 • 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Church and Maple in Evanston (near the theaters)
The theme for this month's 2nd Friday action is the origins of Mother's Day as proclaimed by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 which was begun as a day for women to take a stand against war.
In the same tradition, Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. We will be encouraging women and men to stand on Sunday, May 13 at 1pm whereever they may be for peace. www.standingwomen.org
We are standing for the world’s children and grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them.
We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, and enough food to eat.
A world where they have access to a basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies.
A world where they have a worm, safe, and loving place to call home.
A world where they don’t live in fear of violence - in their home, in their neighborhood, in their school or in their world.
This is the world of which we dream.
This is the cause for which we stand.
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Wednesday, May 16 • 7pm
Jeremy Scahill Tour: BLACKWATER USA
Northwestern University (Evanston campus)
1881 Sheridan Rd.
(Sheridan and Chicago Ave)
Harris Hall room #108; lecture hall holds 225-250. Via public transit: Foster stop (purple line El), walk 21⁄2 blocks east to Sheridan, 1 block south to Harris Hall. Via auto: Parking available nearby in the south parking lot off Sheridan Road, east of Harris Hall.
Join us for Jeremy Scahill’s book tour for his NY Times best seller:
Blackwater, the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
From the blackwaterbook.com website - “Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from deep inside the military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House. Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror,” with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 private contractors at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments, and yet most people have never heard of Blackwater.”
www.blackwaterbook.com
click here to download flyer
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Call any Sen. or Rep. Toll-Free
at 866-340-9281 |
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Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL 5th)
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL 9th)
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL 10th)
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