[CCPJ Update] CCPJ update, July 9, 2007

[sue chase]

PLEASE NOTE:  Until further notice, please submit events for this update to
Sue Chase: schase at cstone.net   Include the following required information:
title of event/date/time/location/brief description/contact name, phone and
email.  Thank you.

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Monday, July 9, 2007

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

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

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CCPJ REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS:
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ANTI -WAR DEMONSTRATIONS

Thursday, July 12, 2007      5:00 - 6:00 pm

Federal Building, corner of Ridge and Water St.

ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS - EVERY THURSDAY.

Bring your own sign or use one of ours.

CCPJ 961-6278
Mike:  245-9898

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CCPJ GENERAL MEETING

Sunday, August 19, 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)  CCPJ ON THE RADIO
 Wednesday, July 11, 2007

(2)  A JOURNEY FOR HUMANITY with CINDY SHEEHAN  -  Charlottesville, July 20
 Friday, July 20, 2007

(3)  CCPJ's ANNUAL HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI DAY COMMEMORATION
 Saturday, August 04, 2007


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OTHER NEWS, CALLS TO ACTION, LOCAL AND REGIONAL EVENTS
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 (4)  NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT CALL IN WEEK!
 Friday, July 13, 2007

 (5)  ACTION ALERT - VADEQ WATER CONTROL BOARD HEARING
 Wednesday, July 18, 2007

 (6)  FABRICS OF THE COMMUNITY - CELEBRATING HERITAGE, HEALTH, HOME:  EVENTS
IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
 Through Saturday, July 28, 2007

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DESCRIPTION: CCPJ SPONSORED EVENTS
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(1)  CCPJ ON THE RADIO

Wednesday, July 11, 2007        3:00 - 4:00 pm

WMRA radio

CCPJ members Bill Anderson and Susan Oberman
will be speaking on WMRA about CCPJ and our programs, actions, purpose.

Listen in and support by phoning in your questions/comments.

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(2)  A JOURNEY FOR HUMANITY with CINDY SHEEHAN  -  Charlottesville, July 20

Friday, July 20, 2007           6:00 pm

West end of the Downtown Mall, near the Ice Park

Charlottesville will be one of the stops on this Journey which begins in
Crawford, Texas at Camp Casey on July 10.  The Journey will continue through
Louisiana, Atlanta and Fort Benning, GA, and make it's way to
Charlottesville on July 20.

Come out to the rally and support Cindy's Journey to end the war, bring the
troops home, impeach Bush and Cheney, restore New Orleans, fund human needs,
and raise money for medicine and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Following the stop in Charlottesville, Cindy will continue on to Washington,
D.C. where, on July 23, she and those accompanying her will visit
Congressman John Conyers urging him to take the lead on impeachment (the
process starts in the House).  They will sit-in at Rep. Conyers' office if
he does not agree to take this action.
On July 29, the Journey for Humanity will hold a huge GATHER-IN OF HEARTS
FESTIVAL in Central Park, New York City.
For information about the Journey see www.thecampcaseypeaceinstitute.org

BE PART OF THE CHARLOTTESVILLE RALLY WITH CINDY SHEEHAN ON FRIDAY, JULY 20.

Local contacts:
David Swanson   david at davidswanson.org
Linda Lisanti   ll8w at earthlink.net

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(3)  CCPJ's ANNUAL HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI DAY COMMEMORATION

Saturday, August 04, 2007       3 - 5:00 pm

Downtown Mall Central Place

Each year in early August, we join millions around the world who say "Never
Again" to the use of nuclear weapons.
On August 6 and 9 the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan, killing hundreds of thousands instantly, destroying the cities and
leaving countless thousands suffering over long periods of time, some still
today.
The Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice will be near the central
fountain with our
literature, petitions, buttons and bumper stickers, our large sidewalk
panels depicting the
history of nuclear weapons, and our paper peace crane table where you can
learn to make your own paper cranes.

The paper crane, historically a symbol of good fortune in Japan, has come to
represent peace and a fervent wish for peace.  Japanese school children
bring thousands upon thousands of folded paper cranes to the Hiroshima and
Nagasaki Peace Parks every day.  They have been doing this for nearly 60
years.

Stop by our display, fold a paper crane and
Please contact Sue if you can help out at one of our tables.

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

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(4)  NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT CALL IN WEEK!

DURING THE WEEK OF JULY 9-13

We are asking that people call their representatives every day during the
week
of July 9-13, to ask them to investigate and impeach George W. Bush and
Dick Cheney for high crimes and treason.
July 9-13 is the big push.

Need a reason? Here's a long list.
http://leftturnwithfriday.blogspot.com/

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(5)  ACTION ALERT - VADEQ WATER CONTROL BOARD HEARING

Wednesday, July 18, 2007          7:00 pm

Louisa Middle School, 1009 Davis Hgwy (Rt. 22), Mineral, VA

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is poised to re-issue the
permit to Dominion Power which allows it to dump very hot wastewater, used
for cooling its reactors, into Lake Anna without any upper limits.

Dominion treats this a portion of this recreational lake, currently home to
8000 folks, as its
own private Waste Heat Treatment Facility.  These public surface waters have
never been
officially transferred to Dominion ownership by act of the Federal
Government.  Therefore, this is very likely a violation of the Clean Water
Act.  Higher temperatures increase evaporation and decrease downstream
flows.

A third nuclear reactor, which Dominion is planning to build, will further
wreak havoc on an
already impaired ecosystem.  This hearing is also an opportunity to oppose
new nukes (which are neither "clean" or "green") at Lake Anna.

PLEASE NOTE:  If you can't be at the hearing,  please call in or write up
your comments before the 18th to:

Susan Mackert  703 583-3853   smackert at deq.virginia.gov

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(6)  FABRICS OF THE COMMUNITY - CELEBRATING HERITAGE, HEALTH, HOME:  EVENTS
IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

1.  An evening of Jazz, Art and Poetry
     Saturday, July 14

2.  A Festival Gala:  Multi-Cultural Dance and Drum Event      Saturday,
July 21

3.  A Taste of Ghana with a Touch of Gospel
      Thursday, July 26

4.  African-American Cultural Arts Festival
     Saturday, July 28, Booker T. Washington
     Park on Preston, 10:45 - all day.

Sponsored by:  Chihamba/African-American Cultural Arts Festival 2007
For details contact: Page West Hill  977-3265

Page West Hill   977- 3265

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