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The Glendale Peace Vigil gathers 5-7 pm each Friday on the corner of Broadway and Brand to distribute educational materials, talk about current events with neighbors and peacefully demonstrate for ending the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and for improving other unacceptable U.S. policies. We also sponsor educational programs involving peace and justice issues. Everyone welcome!
Volunteers from Glendale Peace Vigil, Montrose Peace Vigil and Glendale Education/Social Justice Advocates shared a community group booth at Cruise Night, the City of Glendale's classic car event on Brand Boulevard. People answered the question "What have you done recently for peace, justice or the environment?" before they spun our prize wheel for a prize related to peace and justice. (Photo from Cruise Night 2008)
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Volunteers from radio station 90.7 fm KPFK, the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition, Another Mother for Peace, Population Connection, Glendale Education/Social Justice Advocates, Converging Storms Action Network, the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Verdugo Hills and the Middle East Ministry of All Saints Church had information tables at our screening of “Rethink Afghanistan.”
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Folks arrive as the community group tabling volunteers set up at 6 for our 7 pm event at the Glendale Central Library.
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Audience members were not in the least bit shy about expressing a range of opinions about the war in Afghanistan during the after-film discussion led by Glendale Peace Vigil volunteer Lisa Lubow.
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Film and Audience Discussion May 7, 2010
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“Rethink Afghanistan is a brilliant masterpiece” - Thom Hartmann
“A wakeup call for those who still believe our military should be in Afghanistan -- Rethink Afghanistan should be the Saturday matinee at the White House.” - Michael Moore
“In-your-face, makes-you-think documentary. What are we doing there? Do these people really want us? An indispensable guide to what’s really going on in Afghanistan. Not what you read in the mainstream newspapers or see on television.” - Oliver Stone
Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post, 10-4-09: “In Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald's powerful look at the war (and a film Joe Biden should see right away), Robert Baer, a former CIA field operative says, ‘The notion that we're in Afghanistan to make our country safer is just complete bull****... what it's doing is causing us greater danger, no question about it. Because the more we fight in Afghanistan, the more the conflict is pushed across the border into Pakistan, the more we destabilize Pakistan, the more likely it is that a fundamentalist government will take over the army -- and we'll have Al-Qaeda like groups with nuclear weapons.’”
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Friday May 7, 2010
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Glendale Central Library
222 E. Harvard Street, Glendale, CA 91205
NEW FOR THIS EVENT:
A hip hop lyrical poem performed by DragnKid
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Some of the folks at a March 2010 Glendale Peace Vigil at Broadway & Brand.
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Audience members at the Glendale Central Library raise their hands before the film as moderator Lisa Lubow asks where they heard of the event.
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Volunteers Ted Nagy, Dick Seeley and Sharon Weisman speak to audience members at information tables for the California Fair Elections Act, Population Connection and Glendale Education/Social Justice Advocates. There were also tables for Another Mother for Peace, Converging Storms Action Network, radio station KPFK, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and Veterans for Peace.
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Film and Audience Discussion 12/4/09
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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Glendale Central Library
222 E. Harvard Street, Glendale, CA 91205
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Fridays at Broadway & Brand
(May 2009 photo)
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Below is our local newspaper's article about a special event at the nearby peace vigil in Montrose.
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Glendale News-Press
Antiwar activists invoke John Lennon, Yoko Ono’s peace message of 40 years ago.
By Veronica Rocha
March 28, 2009
Demonstrators took turns lying on an inflatable mattress at the corner of Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard on Friday while others passed out daisies and sang songs of peace in commemoration of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 40th anniversary Bed-In for peace.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE
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MARCH 13, 2009 "GAZA STRIP" DOCUMENTARY SCREENING WITH SPECIAL GUEST DON BUSTANY AND COMMUNITY GROUP INFORMATION TABLES
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READ MORE ABOUT OUR MARCH 2009 EVENT
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Glendale News-Press 8-23-08 front-page article and photo about Glendale Peace Vigil
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PHOTO CAPTION: Glendale Peace Vigil members Julianne Spillman, center, and Nancy Kent protest Friday at Broadway and Brand Boulevard. (Tammy Abbott/News-Press)
[NOTE: Henry, who is quoted in the article, is also in this photo.]
Area reacts to Iraq news
Anti-war protesters are out again, but a planned date to bring more troops home excites many.
By Jeremy Oberstein
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Richard Johnson gets a pedestrian at Broadway and Brand to sign a postcard to Congressman Schiff to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq now.
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Contact the Glendale Peace Vigil:
- by email at nnbbkk@att.net
Include "GLENDALE PEACE VIGIL" in the subject line of your email.
Please do not send attachments. They will not be opened.
- by phone at 818-242-4320 or 818-484-5635
- by visiting us on the corner of Brand and Broadway any Friday 5-7 pm.
The Glendale Peace Vigil was established in 2002 by community members of Glendale, California. We have met every week on the corner to voice our opinions and distribute educational materials about various peace and justice issues, including our objections to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the PATRIOT Act and the militarization of our schools.
In addition, we have put on programs for the community, bringing films and speakers, drawing hundreds of neighbors to our events.
Please join us on the corner!
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