Dynamic Peace Making

Dynamic Peacemaking is at the heart of democratic principles and is central to a healthy world.  Part of the dynamic peacemaking includes:  education, rallies, demonstrations, and nonviolent radical resistance.  Through consciousness-raising and open dialogue we bridge racial and cultural divisions in our community.  We advocate peaceful conflict resolution.  Our lives are examples of peace.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND FILM FEST & CHILI DINNER
Sunday, May 29, 4:00 - 7:00 pm, First Congregational Church, 20 East Saint Vrain Street
(at Tejon), downtown Colorado Springs

Spc. Mark Wilkerson (US Army), returned Iraq war veteran, recently worked with an independent  filmmaker and has just completed a moving documentary entitled,
The Cost of War. The 50-minute film, produced by New Spark Media & Arts Collective(www.newsparkproductions.org)

in collaboration with Veterans For Peace, seeks to give voice to truth through the experiences and observations of soldiers, veterans, and their families. It offers a brief glimpse of the war in Iraq and its incalculable human, personal, psychological and social costs through the perspective of those who have experienced war first hand. A question & answer forum immediately follows the screening featuring Spc. Wilkerson and other veterans. Copies of the documentary in DVD format will be available for a $20-$30 donation ($15 limited income), with proceeds benefiting the Iraq Veterans Assistance Fund.

A fundraising chili dinner (vegetarian and meat) will be served during a half-hour intermission.
A second documentary feature, Operation Dire Distress, will commence at 6:00 pm. The hour-long video documents the Veterans March that was a part of Operation Dire Distress (ODD) and took place on March 23, 2003 in Washington, D.C. ODD actions included a nationally broadcast teach-in, this massive demonstration, and mass lobbying of Congress over a three day period just as the invasion of Iraq was beginning. Most importantly, this newly released documentary heralds an historic advance in the resurgent veterans movement against war. It is produced by RadioFreeAmerica.TV in partnership with:

Veterans Against Iraq War (www.vaiw.org)
Veterans for Common Sense (www.veteransforcommonsense.org)
Veterans For Peace (www.veteransforpeace.org)
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (www.vvaw.org) that is v-v, not w
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (www.vvaf.org) that is v-v, not w
Military Families Speak Out (www.mfso.org)
Bring Them Home Now (www.bringthemhomenow.org)
 
Come and join us for these inspiring movie premier screenings on Memorial Day weekend and make it a truly meaningful holiday. Support a long established and rapidly growing group of servicemen and women, veterans, and military families who challenge the notion that blind loyalty in time of war is the mark of a patriot, and who reject the claim that supporting the war is supporting the troops.

CHENEY PROTEST AT AFA:
When: Wednesday, June 1, 2005, from 7:30-10:00 am
Where: Entrance to the North Gate, Air Force Academy (Exit 156)
Why: The socio-economic vision that Mr. Cheney adheres to is of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
 
Join the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, Citizens For Peace in Space, Springs Action Alliance, Students for Social Justice, and many others to protest Vice President Dick Cheney in this year's AFA graduation ceremony.

Cheney's policies are destroying the Earth far faster and more overtly than any previous administration ever dared. As the master of disaster, puppeteer plotter and Halliburton hero, chickenhawk Cheney tries to draw attention away from his corporate misdeeds by dragging us into a never-ending war.

Through his energy deregulation policy, he and his cohorts have bilked California billions of dollars. As war profiteer, Mr. Cheney still receives $160,000 from Halliburton in deferred payments, and it is in his best interest that his former corporation perform well. It is time that we intensified our resistance to injustices done by our government, in our names, by corporate crooks like Cheney and start becoming involved in shaping a sustainable vision for the human race. The truth of the matter is that the planet cannot survive our inaction, and we must to put an end to politics of hate and fear.
 

Photos from the Counter-Inauguration rally at Acacia Park in Colorado Springs Jan. 20, 2005

Current Concern: Conscientious Objection/Military Deferment

• Central Committee for Conscientious Observers
• Selective Service System

Contact Dennis Apuan for more information dynamic@ppjpc.org, 719-632-6189