CCPJ Events

With Performance by: Trees on Fire
Ralph Nader will speak on responsible energy solutions for the 21st century
Sponsored by: People's Alliance For Clean Energy - PACE
Contact: Elena Day (elena.day@gmail.com)
www.pacevirginia.org
...Co-sponsored by Charlottesville Earth Week, Charlottesville Center for Peace & Justice, People United, Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park, Joyful Dissent, Food Not Bombs, & Socialist Party of Central Virginia

(born Feb. 27, 1934, Winsted, Conn., U.S.) U.S. lawyer and consumer advocate. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In 1963 he left his private law practice in Hartford, Conn., to hitchhike to Washington, D.C., where he began public interest work.

His concern about unsafe car designs resulted in the best-selling book Unsafe at Any Speed (1965), which led directly to the passage of national auto-safety standards. Since then he and his associates, known as "Nader's Raiders," have performed numerous studies on consumer health, safety, and financial issues and have lobbied for greater government regulation of business and industry in a variety of areas.

He was instrumental in the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (1966) and in establishing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency. He also founded the consumer organization Public Citizen and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, an umbrella organization for other public interest research groups.
As the Green Party candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, he won 3% of the national vote. Nader also ran for president in 2004 and 2008. His work has had major and lasting effects on many aspects of American life.

CCPJ is having a field trip! Join us for our next general meeting at the Wayside Center for Popular Education.
We have decided that we should really take a look at what Wayside is up to, and what better time than to use the space than a CCPJ general meeting!
We'll be discussing more in depth general strategies and plans for CCPJ in the coming year, increasing participation in CCPJ and how we can build peace in our communities over the coming year.
Anyone can vote at our meetings, all are welcome there is no requirement for membership.
Let us know if you would like to carpool to Wayside for this meeting.

Join us for quiet reflection on the use of atomic weapons on the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Aug. 6 and 9, 1945.

See:
http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/
http://www.hiroshimaandnagasaki.org/

Join us for our monthly membership meeting. All are welcome, no requirements for membership. Help us set a course for peace in the coming year!

Over 25 local peace and justice groups are invited to send representatives to give 2-minute reports on their group's most pressing issue(s). You will be amazed and inspired to hear about all the wonderful things being done here!

5:30pm Gather and pot luck
6:30pm Community reports followed by informal
conversations and networking

Brown Bag Lunch Demonstration for Peace

VA's 5th district is one of over 100 districts to hold a vigil against war funding at congressional offices.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Yet more than 40 years later, our country continues its plummet into a state of warfare and occupation that many fear is becoming permanent.

Polls show a majority of Americans want our involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to end. Brown-baggers are asking members of the House to publicly commit to voting NO on any bills that fund wars and to publicly urge their colleagues and the House leadership to make the same commitment. This position necessarily includes opposition to the proposed $33 billion supplemental expected in the coming weeks to fund an escalation of the war in Afghanistan.

Starting in May 2010, we take our case to Congress through our Brown Bag Lunch Vigils—BBLVs. There is a better way to resolve the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and remove the U.S. from the role of occupier. The BBLVs will send a message to our senators and representatives that through humanitarian programs to feed, educate, rebuild, and employ these war-wracked people, we can effectively help these countries reach peace.

Join over 100 Congressional Districts in Changing the Conversation and Legislation every third Wednesday of each month.

Print Flyer http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/new...

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More Info: (434) 249-3312.