[CCPJ Update] CCPJ update, April 18, 2007

[sue chase]

PLEASE NOTE:  The April 15 Food Not Bombs 5th Anniversary Celebration was
postponed (due to rain).  The new date is SUNDAY, APRIL 22 (an Earthday
Birthday), 1:00 pm at Tonsler Park, Charlottesville.  Help celebrate 5 years
of sharing free food, resisting war and oppression and building community.
Big, potluck meal (bring a dish if you can), Common Ground Chorus, Community
Art Project, face painting, seed sharing, clothes swap, garden planting, and
info on war tax resistance.  Please contact Shell 882-1516
hopefull1 at excite.com, or Jennifer 465-1111 if you can help or have any
questions.  Sponsored by Food Not Bombs.
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Also note:  CCPJ contingent in the Dogwood Parade is position #113.  Look
for big, blue earth flags.  Details in #1 below.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The following E-mail comes from theCharlottesville Center for Peace and
Justice
(CCPJ) (434 961 6278).  CCPJ  Web site:
http://www.charlottesvillepeace.org

Important: Please use the 'Submit Your Event for Listing' form to submit
your event to
the CCPJ web site and email list:
http://www.charlottesvillepeace.org/submit.php

Also: To subscribe  or unsubscribe to the CCPJ email list please use:
http://www.charlottesvillepeace.org/emaillist.php

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CONTENTS:
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CCPJ REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS
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ANTI -WAR DEMONSTRATIONS

Thursday, April 19, 2007             5:00 - 6:00 pm

Federal Building, corner of Ridge and Water St.

ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS - EVERY THURSDAY.

We encourage a LARGE PEACE PRESENCE on the FIRST THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH.
Mark your calendars!    Come weekly if you can.

Bring your own sign or use one of ours.

CCPJ  434 961-6278
Mike:  245-9898

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CCPJ GENERAL MEETING

Sunday, May 13, 2007                 7:00 pm

Friends Meeting House,  1104 Forest, off of Preston

Please join us for our monthly meeting.  Find out what's going on in the
area of peace and justice, offer your ideas, and participate in events and
actions.

Pot luck dinner at 5:45, meeting at 7:00.

All welcome.

CCPJ  961-6278

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CCPJ RELATED NEWS--CALLS to ACTION and CCPJ SPONSORED EVENTS
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(1)  JOIN THE CCPJ CONTINGENT IN THE DOGWOOD PARADE
 Saturday, April 21, 2007

(2)  CCPJ SALON APRIL 28 -  JUSTICE NEXT DOOR: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE
 Saturday, April 28, 2007

(3)  APRIL 28th:  NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT DAY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
 Saturday, April 28, 2007

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OTHER NEWS, CALLS TO ACTION, LOCAL AND REGIONAL EVENTS
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 (4)  A RADIO SHOW:  SONGS OF PEACE IN TROUBLED TIMES
 Saturday, April 21, 2007

 (5)  LEGISLATIVE FORUM ON MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION AND SUBSTANCE
ABUSE ISSUES
 Thursday, April 26, 2007

 (6)  TALK BY SR HELEN PREJEAN: "DEAD MAN WALKING.THE JOURNEY CONTINUES"
 Thursday, April 26, 2007

 (7)  EDIBLE FOREST GRADENING WITH DAVE JACKE
 Friday, April 27, 2007

 (8)  GOING AWAY PARTY FOR HELEN AND PAUL PRIEST
 Saturday, May 05, 2007

 (9)  ONLINE  "CLIMATE CHANGE PETITION" TO G8 SUMMIT ORGANIZATION - SIGN  N
O  W  !
 Thursday, May 31, 2007


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DESCRIPTION: CCPJ SPONSORED EVENTS
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(1)  JOIN THE CCPJ CONTINGENT IN THE DOGWOOD PARADE

Saturday, April 21, 2007        11:15 am

Downtown Charlottesville

Join the CCPJ contingent in the Annual Dogwood Festival Parade in
Charlottesville.

EVERYONE WELCOME.  Bring kids, friends, pets for peace, bicycles, tricycles,
signs, balloons.  We'll have signs available, too.

We are position #113 which will probably be somewhere along Ridge St., but
look for the big, blue CCPJ earth flags.  Please be there by 11:15.

Anyone wishing to join the CodePink for Peace group marching in the CCPJ
contingent, please wear and/or bring something pink.  We'll have signs. (You
can check out CodePink at  www.codepink4peace.org)

Sponsored By: CCPJ

Sue Chase (540) 456-8176 schase at cstone.net

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(2)  CCPJ SALON APRIL 28 -  JUSTICE NEXT DOOR: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE

Saturday, April 28, 2007        7:30 pm

Please call for directions

The Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice invites you to join us for
our April Salon.

Panelists:
HOWARD EVERGREEN, Director Fluvanna-Louisa Housing Authority
DAVE NORRIS, Charlottesville City Counselor
HOLLY EDWARDS, Coordinator PHAR, Public Housing Association of Residents
BLAIR FRENCH, IMPACT

The CCPJ Salon is a gathering to connect people in the peace and justice
community. Our intention  is to create dialogue on peace and justice issues,
to provide a space for interpersonal and group communication, and to further
both enjoyment, and action.

Sponsored By: CCPJ

Susan Oberman  434 244-0374  oberman-s at earthlink.net

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(3)  APRIL 28th:  NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT DAY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

Saturday, April 28, 2007        9 am - noon

Charlottesville Farmers Market

April 28th is a day of creative impeachment events all over the country.
Check out what's
planned: http://www.a28.org

Come to the impeachment stand at the Charlottesville farmers' market to pick
up your (im)peach pie, (im)peach preserves, (im)peach punch, and IMPEACH
Bush and Cheney t-shirts.

Please prepare or purchase peach foods to bring and donate!

Please print out impeachment petitions and bring them with clipboards and
pens:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/petition

For more information, contact: Lorrie Delahanty.

Sponsored By: CCPJ

Lorrie Delahanty  lld3jster at gmail.com

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DESCRIPTION:OTHER LOCAL / REGIONAL EVENTS
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(4)  A RADIO SHOW:  SONGS OF PEACE IN TROUBLED TIMES

Saturday, April 21, 2007          8:00 am - 10:00 am

91.1 FM WTJU Charlottesville

For the Folk Marathon edition of WTJU's Saturday morning radio show,
'Atlantic Weekly', Sumner Brown and Mark Haskins will be bringing you two
hours of peace songs in a show called, "Songs of Peace in Troubled Times".

If you have favorite peace songs you would like us to play, please contact
me as soon as possible and I'll try to get them on. Thank you.

Sponsored By: WTJU

Sumner Brown   295-5538   sumner at healthyself.org

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(5)  LEGISLATIVE FORUM ON MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION AND SUBSTANCE
ABUSE ISSUES

Thursday, April 26, 2007          6:30 pm

Albemarle County Office Building, 401 McIntire Rd, Charlottesville

All area state legislators have been invited to hear from the public about
mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse issues. Consumers,
service providers, advocates, families and friends are welcome to present
testimony on these topics. Speakers will have up to three minutes to make a
presentation to the state legislators.

Sponsored By: Region Ten Community Services Board, Quality Community Council
and Virginia Organizing Project

Joe Szakos  434 984-4655 x222  szakos at ntelos.net

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(6)  TALK BY SR HELEN PREJEAN: "DEAD MAN WALKING.THE JOURNEY CONTINUES"

Thursday, April 26, 2007          7:30 pm

St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 401 Alderman Rd. Charlottesville

Sr Helen Prejean is the author of two books about the death penalty:
"Dead Man Walking: An Eye Witness Account  of the Death Penalty in the U.S."
and
"The Death of Innocents: An Eye Witness Account of Wrongful Executions".

Sr Helen Prejean's talk is free and open to the public.

Following the talk Sr Helen will have a book signing and reception.
Moritorium petitions will be available to sign.

Sponsored By: St Thomas Aquinas Church

Sandy Cook 293-8081  reception at cstone.net

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(7)  EDIBLE FOREST GARDENING WITH DAVE JACKE

Friday, April 27, 2007            7:00 pm

Rockfish Valley Community Center, 190 Rockfish School Lane, Afton, VA

Dave Jacke is the author of "Edible Forest Gardens".   The event is part of
the  Permaculture Design Course: "Sustainability Strategies for the Blue
Ridge".

The suggested donation for the event is $15, and the proceeds will support
the Blue Ridge Permaculture Network (www.rockfishcc.org).

Sponsored By: Blue Ridge Permaculture Network

For more information and to register contact:

Terry Lilley  434 293-8081  tygerlilley at juno.com

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(8)  GOING AWAY PARTY FOR HELEN AND PAUL PRIEST

Saturday, May 05, 2007            2:00 - 4:00 pm

TJ Memorial Church UU, Social Hall, 717 Rugby Rd. Charlottesville

There will be a going away party for Helen and Paul Priest, who will be
leaving Charlottesville in May for a period of travel before returning to
live in England.

BRING:  You are invited to bring finger foods.   Beverages will be served.
WHO: This is a community-wide party to include friends of Helen's and Paul's
from the many orgainzations to which they have so generously contributed
their time and effort while living in Charlottesville.

Sponsored By: friends of Helen and Paul

Lee Willis  434 293-9820   leewillis1 at att.net

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(9)  ONLINE  "CLIMATE CHANGE PETITION" TO G8 SUMMIT ORGANIZATION - SIGN  N
O  W  !

Posted until Thursday, May 31, 2007     Please sign the online petition now.

Summit takes place in Heiligendamm, Germany June 6-8, 2007

>From a global online community comes a call to action regarding the earth's
environment. On March 19th, 2007, Avaaz presented a petition with 100,000
signatures to the G8 environment ministers - and THEY MADE CLIMATE CHANGE
THE #1 ISSUE FOR THE SUMMIT OF THEIR LEADERS THIS JUNE!

G8 or The Group of Eight, you may recall, is an international forum for the
governments of
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the
United States, representing the nations whose businesses contribute to major
environmental degradation in myriad  ways.

The 33rd annual G8 summit meeting will take place June 6-8 in Heiligendamm,
Germany.

To keep the focus on the climate issue by showing that the call for action
is growing, please add  your voice by signing the petition at
http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action_g8

Sponsored By: www.avaaz.org

Please see the website to sign petition

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