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Calendar

10,000 Drums V September 2, 2002 (Monday, Labor Day), north of the White House in Peace (Lafayette) Park.

* Saturday, October 13, 2002 in solidarity with people around the world, drums were pounding outside the White House to Stop Star Wars - No Weapons In Space, as well as to pray for an end to the killing in Afghanistan.

Thanks to the 60+ people who joined us on June 3, 2001, to drum, feast, speak, and celebrate the 20th anniversary of this 24-hour-a-day presence. We had a big circle; people had come from as far away as Ecuador, Korea, Florida, Michigan, Baltimore, Fredricksburg. We missed (and appreciate the many messages from) others who were unable to join us. We're always ready for a Peace Park party, so if somebody wants to help get a weekly event going (music welcome), contact us.

Thanks also to those who sent vigiler Ellen Thomas as a delegate to the World Conference Against A & H Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August, 2001. Those who stayed in D.C. participated in the 20th annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration activities the week of August 5th to 9th. And a number of Japanese activists joined us in October to drum against the war.

* Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton re-introduced the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" for the fifth time on July 16th as HR-2503, with a new clause calling for renewable energy. Please call her office (202-225-8050) to thank her, and to inquire how you can help promote the bill!

* Monday, July 16th, 7:00PM : Presenting 2001 "Josephine Butler Nuclear Free Future Award" to: Arjun Makhijani (IEER) Jo Butler Community Center, 2437 15th St. NW, Washington DC

* Tell President Bush, the Congress and their Corporate Sponsors: STOP THE NEW ARMS RACE! Join us at the White House for a rally! Lafayette Park (just across the street) Washington, DC, Sunday, June 10, 2:00 PM - And in the halls of Congress Monday and Tuesday, June 11 and 12. For more information, contact: Project Abolition

* June 3, 2001, "Twentieth Anniversary of the 24-Hour Vigil" outside the White House

* Inauguration 2001

* Palestinian Fasters - October in Peace Park

* Every Saturday and Sunday, 2:00 PM, DRUM FOR DISARMAMENT in Lafayette (Peace) Park! Bring instruments, heartsongs, dance, express yourself! Peace is possible!

* Nuts Not Nukes: Squirrels for Peace

* Global Peace Walk 2000 - DC in October
August Update | http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html
Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html
GLOBAL PEACE WALK SCHEDULE:

* September, 2000 - Ongoing Fast for Justice and Peace in Vieques, Puerto Rico, which includes, Every Week Day, a Vigil in Front of the White House, 6:30-8:00pm. Washington Post.

* September 14-18, 2000 - 5th Annual Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Conference, at the Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, Virginia (Washington, DC)

* On September 22, there will be a "National Day of Solidarity with the People of Vieques" in Lafayette Park. For more information: www.viequeslibre.org and www.viequesvive.com. The 59th day of the Fast for Justice and Peace in Vieques, Puerto Rico, which included a Daily Vigil in Front of the White House, 6:30-8:00pm. Washington Post.

* September 26-28, Washington Gathering to Free Mordecai Vanunu, Israel's nuclear whistleblower, and for a Nuclear-Free World. September 26, Conference, 9-5 p.m., and evening program - 7:30 p.m. at St. Aloysius Church, 900 N. Capitol St. NW (at K St.), four blocks nortwest of Union Station red line Metro stop. Speakers include Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Elizabeth McAlister, Rabbi Phillip Bentley, and Nick & Mary Eoloff, Vanunu's adoptive parents, from Minnesota. Evening program includes music by Ken Giles, lifetime-service award ceremony for Louise Franklin-Ramireaz, and talk by Daniel Ellsberg: "Mordechai is my brother." Vegetarian dinner at 6:30. Wednesday September 27, there will be a dawn-to-dusk vigil at the Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive NW, as well as a lobby day at Congress. September 28, there will be a noon-hour mass rally in front of the Israeli Embassy to mark the 14th anniversary of Vanunu's kidnapping by Israeli agents in Rome after telling his story to a British newspaper. For information and childcare reservations, contact Kathy at Dorothy Day House, 202-882-9649.

* September 4, 2000 - 10,000 Drums III

* August 30, 2000, 7 p.m. Memorial for friend of the vigil, Winnie Gallant.

* 19th Hiroshima/Nagasaki Days on August 5th and 8th, sponsored by Gray Panthers' Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee and Proposition One Committee

* Hiroshima week activities - Saturday, August 5, 6:30 p.m. to dark, Lincoln Memorial - Tuesday, August 8, 7:30 p.m to 10:30 p.m, Nagasaki Remembrance and dedication of Hibakusha Peace Statue at Josephine Butler Arts Center. For information, contact jsteinbach@igc.org, 703-369-7427.

* July 1 to August 9, Fellowship of Reconciliation's "People's Campaign for Nonviolence," 40 days of actions embracing a multitude of issues, including nuclear disarmament and Iraq sanctions.

* July 25, 2000 - An Indefinite Fast for Peace and Justice in Vieques begins in Vieques - in front of the main gate of Camp Garcia - and in Washington, DC, in Lafayette Park in front of the White House. Some participants in this witness in DC will carry on an open-ended, liquid-only fast (with calories) until the meeting with Clinton is granted. This fast will become a liquid-only no-calory fast if the USS Harry S Truman Carrier Group begins bombing Vieques, which the Navy has announced will take place between August and October. This fast will continue open-ended until Clinton grants the meeting to the leaders of Vieques, even after the bombing stops temporarily. All who share the commitment to stop the bombing in Vieques are invited to support this fast as called.Please contact Andres Thomas Conteris at 202-232-1999 for more information

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* July 4, 2000 - "A Clown, a Hammer, a Bomb and God", a one-man play about the Plowshares Movement, in support of the Fellowship of Reconciliation's People's Campaign for Nonviolence, a 40-day series of teach-ins, protests and nonviolent civil disobedience that begins on July 1.
- 2 p.m. - Performance, along with the play "A GOOD DAY TO PIE," in Upper Senate Park (juncture of Constitution Avenue, Delaware Avenue and New Jersey Avenue, NW - Union Station metro exit)
- 6 p.m. - Performance in Lafayette Park outside the White House (McPherson Square metro exit)
- For information call 2Clown Central at 212-841-0105.

* FYI (for the young at heart): Also on July 4, 2000, "High Noon": annual Rainbow Family Gathering prayer for peace on earth (in Montana), and 4th of July Smoke-In (in Lafayette Park).

* June 26, 2000, 7:00 a.m. - 24-hour Vigil on UN Day In Commemoration of Torture Victims and Survivors, by Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC).

* Fast and Continuous Vigil by for Vieques, Lafayette Park, which began Wednesday, June 14, 2000, by Hector Rosario, Dartmouth Ph.D. student (mathematics). Hector ended his fast on June 20th, and left for Vieques, upon hearing that the U.S. Navy had begun firing on Vieques once again. June 14 Message Delivered to Clinton | June 16 Letter from Rep. Gutierrez to Clinton

* Update on Global Peace Walk 2000, due in D.C. in October (see below)

* Millenial Anniversary Drum Council! June 3 and 4, 2000, and the First Sunday of each month, 2:00 PM, Lafayette (Peace) Park - Bring instruments, heartsongs, dance, express yourself, and celebrate the 19th anniversary of the vigil! Peace is possible!

* Los Alamos Smoke Plume - by satellite | from Earth | Tony Auth Cartoon | Glenn McCoy Cartoon | Los Alamos Labs Update | Forest Service Fire Report | Los Alamos Radio KRSN Disaster Relief News

* Japan cities should adopt Kobe Formula, since the national government has been lying for 40 years. -- message from Gensuikyo-Kobe's Sec.Gen. Kajimoto.

* Vieques, Puerto Rico - Vigilers Under Siege. Updates at www.viequeslibre.org

* May 12-16, 2000 - Shut Down the Nevada Test Site for Mother's Day! - Shundahai - Invitation from Corbin Harney. Link your website to www.shundahai.org/Momspring00.html

* DC Days May 7-10, 2000: In each of the past eleven years, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability has hosted four days of training, education, and political advocacy that bring activists from around the country to Washington, DC, to explain the concerns of their constituencies. It is an opportunity to make your voice heard at the national level and to network with people and organizations working on similar issues. ANA Washington, DC Office - 202-833-4668, kathycrandall@earthlink.net, to sign up for next year's DC Days. It's well worth the effort!

* Wednesday, April 19, 2000, at 12:00 noon in front of the White House: next event for Vieques in DC. National Day of Solidarity with the People of Vieques. Tell Congress and the White House ... "Not one more bomb in Vieques, Puerto Rico" .... National Day of Solidarity with the People of Vieques in memory of David Sanes Rodríguez, who was killed in Vieques as a result of a Navy F-18 aircraft dropping a 500 pound bomb on April 19, 1999. Contact: David Santiago: 202-223-3915 ext. 308; email: nprc@aol.com

* Saturday, April 15, 2000, Lafayette (Peace) Park: Rainbow Potluck Picnic - food, drums, friends! Call Rainbow Hotline: 202-PYREMAL (202-797-3625).

* No Nukes in Space! Seminar/Lobby Days/Tax Action, April 14-17, 2000, "Star Wars Revisited: An International conference on Preventing an Arms Race in Space" -- Four days of events to protest the resurgence of Star Wars. Included in the events: a protest at the Treasury Department to highlight the enormous waste of our tax dollars being spent on space weapons; an international organizing conference; the general membership meeting of the Global Network; and a lobby day on space issues. (See also CND's Space Info Page.)

* Protest IMF/World Bank, April 9-17, 2000, Washington DC
See and Save A-16 Posters: Scales and Guns - from Mike Fluguennock -- see also John Tarleton's Reports

* March 5, 2000, April 2, and the First Sunday of each month, 1 PM - Lafayette (Peace) Park - bring instruments, heartsongs, dance (Millenial Drum Council). Express yourself! Peace is possible!

* February 29 to March 3, 2000 - Walk on February 29th for Campaign Finance with 90-year-old Granny D - who has spent a year walking across America! Come party (for free) with Granny D on March 3, 2000, 7 pm to midnight, Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th St. NW. Call George Ripley at 202-483-3541 for details. E-mail: grassrootsunity@juno.com - www.grannyd.com

* February 28, 2000, DC Rally & CD for Mumia & Political Prisoners. http://www.brechtforum.org/mumiacd.shtml

* February 28 Deadline - Kobe (Japan) Appeal for Letters of Solidarity Against Japan-US Guidelines, by February 28, 2000

* February 26, 2000 at 6.00 p.m. - DC Coalition to Stop the War Against Iraq commemoration and forum - ninth anniversary of the Highway of Death massacre of Iraqi troops by US forces in the Gulf war. All Souls Church, 16th and Harvard Streets, NW (entrance on Harvard Street). Metro = Cloumbia Heights. From: Marvin Wingfield

* Wednesday, February 23 at 7:00PM - STUDENT Mobilization for Global Justice
Where? University of the District of Colombia (UDC) 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW, Building 39, Room 205 (at UDC-Van Ness metro stop on red line)
Who? progressive student activists from all area universities and high schools - Important strategizing meeting for DC area students so that we can mobilize THOUSANDS of students for A16 events. Pizza and Beverages provided! Contact Melinda - Melinda@afgj.org 202-544-9355 or Smriti 202-667-9328 for questions.

* February 22, 2000, DC:
** Democracy On Trial 8 am Superior Courthouse ** "Nonviolence Training Working Group meeting at 6:30 PM at 726 7th Street SE (a couple blocks from Eastern Market metro)"
** "Facilitation and Consensus Process Training, 7pm at the Greenpeace office, 1436 U ST NW, 1 block down from the U St metro stop on the green line. Starting right at 7, so please be on time. RSVP to liz_guy@hotmail.com or call 202-745-0026."

* Saturday, February 19, 2000 - "Tell President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - SEND ELIÁN HOME! Rally and march in Washington, D.C. Assemble at 11:00 am at Lamont Park (Mt. Pleasant St. at Lamont St. NW) and march to the White House. Sponsored by the National Committee for the Return of Elián to his Father in Cuba. International Action Center (202) 544-5752."

** "SEAC Mid-Atlantic (region 13) organizing meeting Feb 19th-20th, 2000 in Baltimore - All sorts of people from around our region (PA, MD, DE, NJ and DC). For a list of the people: http://www.seac.org/cgibin/region.pl?reg=13"

* FEBRUARY 16, 2000 - REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CAMPS IN VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO -- 4:00PM Demonstration in front of the White House).

* January 22nd-23rd, 2000 - Third National Conference on Civil Disobedience, Ward Building at American University . If you want to help with the War Tax Resistance Table give Carol Moore a call 202-635-3739 ASAP

* January 19, 2000, 7-9 pm - Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, will speak about "Ballistic Missile Defense: The Return of Star Wars." All Soul's Unitarian Church (Pierce Hall) at 1500 Harvard St., hosted by DC Green Party and Washington Peace Center.

* January 18, 1-2:30 p.m., Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant (MD) Licensing Hearing - at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, MD office: One White Flynt North (Bldg), 11555 Rockville Pike (White Flynt Metro Station), 301-415-1973 David Solorio (contact) - 800-952-9674 - http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/meet.html

* January 11, 2000 - 5:30 p.m., Lafayette Park - Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, and anyone else who, regardless of political ideology or partisan affiliation, is opposed to the US Navy's occupation of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

* Y2K NUCLEAR COUNTDOWN - White House. Here's a great photo-essay by Carol Moore.
See Y2K World Atomic Safety Holiday, Nuclear Information Resource SErvice, and De-Alert Campaign.

* Friday, December 10, 1999, 7:30 p.m. Catholic Workers brought weekly meeting to Lafayette Park to hear vigilers' witness. Concepcion, Thomas, and Ellen spoke about what brought them to the White House, and what keeps them there.

* Thursday, November 18, 1999, 7 p.m., Bruce Gagnon's Speech about Nukes in Space, at Washington Peace Center, 1801 Columbia Rd. NW (234-2000); call for participation in April 14-17, 2000, "Star Wars Revisited: An International conference on Preventing an Arms Race in Space"

* Friday, November 19, 1999, "6:00PM, in front of the White House, with drums, banners, picket signs, bull horns, etc., and demand from President Clinton once again, loud and clear, that he must order the US Navy out of Vieques now and must not allow one more bomb to be dropped or one more bullet to be fired in Vieques. Contact: Flavio Cumpiano, Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, Washington, DC (202-721-4688). For more information on Vieques and updated information on events and news, please visit http://www.viequeslibre.org."

* LEONARD PELTIER FREEDOM MONTH - NOVEMBER 1999
Tel (temporary DC office)- 202-548 2408; lpdc@idir.net
Saturday November 20, 1999, noon, vigilers speak up for irradiated peoples
Monday, November 15, 1999, Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney spoke in Lafayette Park, calling for thousands to come shut down the Nevada Test Site on Mother's Day (May 2000)

* Shut Down the School of Americas! Buses driving from DC to Fort Benning Friday-Monday, November 19-22.

* November 2-9, 1999 - Project Abolition Wall of Denial - Mike Flugennock's Daily Update

* October 26, 1999 - Vieques Events in DC

* US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Meeting
* Free Republic maintains weekly vigil for a year, September 18, 1999
* Disarm Bazaar, September 13-14, 1999
* 10,000 Drums II, September 6, 1999 (Labor Day)
* Disarm Bazaar - September 1999
* Hiroshima Commemoration Week (call 703-369-7427):

* July 16, 1999 - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Re-Introduced the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act -- HR-2545 in 1999.

* Kosovo Actions - Depleted Uranium in the Balkans - DC Actions (Mike Flugennock's page)

* June 8, 1999 - Lafayette Park - "US Navy Out of Puerto Rico!" | Puerto Rico Index

* 5 June 1999, Stop Bombing Yugoslavia - 12 noon, several thousand gathered at Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington, DC, and marched to the Pentagon

* June 3, 1999 - Peace Park 18th Anniversary

* 21 May 1999, South Asian Community Call for Global Peace - 12 noon at Dupont Circle, afterwards in Peace Park. Global Peace March http://www.aidindia.org/peace contact Aravinda aravinda@unforgettable.com

* 22 May 1999, Peace Action / DC Coalition to Stop NATO bombing - 12 noon at Dupont Circle, march to White House.

* May 17, 1999 - NIX MOX - Atomic Train Action Day

* May 15, 1999, The Hague - Conference on depleted uranium

* May 6, 1999 - Puerto Ricans lobby to stop War Games

* May 5, 1999 - Catholic Workers Flier

* Saturday-Monday, May 1-3, 1999 - School of Americas actions in Lafayette Park and at the Pentagon (numerous people arrested). Also "Impeach Clinton" demonstrators on Saturday (they've been coming for months), stressing the China nuclear technology/spy transfers.

* Sunday, April 25, 1999: 14th Street Bridge to be Picketed by anti-bombing demonstrators while NATO dignitaries head for the airport.

* Saturday, April 24, 1999: Serbs protest the bombing in Lafayette Park at noon.

* Friday, April 23, 1999: Thomas was Arrested holding the peace line in Lafayette Park while Albanians chanted "Bomb! NATO BOMB!" nearby in the park, and the Citizens Summit called for denuking NATO on the other side of the White House. NATO ministers in Washington, D.C., prompted an armed police camp during the 50th Anniversary Summit, April 23-25, 1999. Depleted Uranium Keeps On Killing and "Bill Clinton says: 'Solve differences with words, not guns' - Stop Bombing" were the messages on Thomas' confiscated signs. When Thomas retrieved the sign the next day, he added the message "Welcome to the Police State" and positioned it next to the fence for the cameras of tourists.

Police did nothing but order the victim out of the park when a nonviolent "Stop Bombing" advocate dressed up as Uncle Sam was beaten by some of the Albanian demonstrators, many of whom were wrapped in American and Kosovan Liberation Army flags. "They're lucky the flag amendment hasn't passed," Thomas says.

* Reuters, March 14, 1999 article about Peace Park

* White House Comprehensive Design Plan Submission 3/11/99

* Open Air Revival, Lafayette Park - Easter Saturday (April 3) 1999, 1 to 4 p.m. (See Rudy in Peace Park for details, every afternoon.)

* Monday, March 8, 1999, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Nuclear Y2K Symposium, Canon House Office Building, Caucus Room 345, Speakers: Dr. Helen Caldicott, Rep. Ed Markey, Sen. Tom Harkin, Bill Ulrich, David Lochbaum, Michio Kaku, Rock Cowles, Paul Gunter, Michael Murphy, Judith Johnsrud, Dan Plesch, Dr. Ted Taylor, Bruce Blair, Michael Kraig, Stephen Young, and others.

1998

September 1998:
* Disarm Bazaar (Catholic Workers and other friends at Marriott) September 15, 1998

July - August, 1998:
* Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration Activities, August 4 through 8, 1998
* Protests against Sudan/Afghanistan Bombings, August 20, 1998

June 1998:
* Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey's briefing on her nuclear weapons convention resolution, Monday, June 1, 1998, 441 Cannon HOB, 2:30 - 4 pm -- Dr. Ted Taylor spoke warmly about Proposition One/HR-827, as well as Congresswoman Lindsey's resolution.
* The 17th annual Anniversary Picnic in the park, June 3, 1998. Hope you'll put this date on your calendar this and every year as "Peace Park Day"!
DC Initiative 59 Proposer Steve Michael Funeral
* June 16, 1998, 5-6:30 p.m., Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Detroit, spoke in Lafayette Park about nuclear weapons and human rights (and the vigil!).
* June 24, 1998: Press Conference at the United Nations, follow-up on October 1997 Anti-Cassini rally in Lafayette Park, New York, -- Noflyby Action calls for reprogramming of Cassini plutonium probe, due to swing by Earth in June, 1999. E-mail Jonathan Haber or call Tina Bell (212-533-2125) for details.

April 1998 -- Some Other Demonstrations:
* School of Americas rally April 26, 1998; SOA daily vigil at the Capitol
* Hondurans vigiled the last week of a month-long fast to stop deportations of Latin American immigrants.
* Puerto Rican activists staged Earth Day appeal
* Japanese peace delegation visited and shared concerns about U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines -- Peace Constitution is threatened.

March 1998:
* Toby Keyes fasted for a lift of sanctions in Iraq
* Action call to stop US-Japan Defense Agreement. Hyogo Council Against A & H Bombs
* March 27, 1998, Jericho March for Freedom

February 1998, once again there were vigils and drumming against war and sanctions in Iraq outside the White House. Rallies were organized through Washington Peace Center, 202-234-2000
* February 21, 1998, March against Iraq sanctions

October 12, 1997 -- Rally to "Break the Nuclear Chain"