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The Great Basin Peace and Justice Network (GBPJN) is your portal to northern Nevada groups and individuals participating in peace and social justice activism.
This site serves as an information clearinghouse where we can gather to network our energies.
All groups and individuals that are listed here and members of the network are asked to respect and use non-violent communication.
All events and actions advertised here are non-violent.
For more information please email us at info@renopeace.org.
~ Network Groups ~
(Click on a group to be redirected to their website.)
Alternative Transportation Club, EAA
Conscious Community and Business Network
International A.N.S.W.E.R, Reno
Great Basin Community Food Cooperative
HOME, Healing Ourselves and Mother Earth
No New Mushroom Clouds Over Nevada, or Anywhere Coalition
Peace Action 2008
Reno AntiWar Coalition (RAWC)
Reno First United Methodist Church
Reno Free Store
Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace (SIAP)
Voices for Peace
Youth Militarization Awareness Project (Y-Map)
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~ EVENTS - Take Action NOW! ~
Nonviolent events, campaigns, & actions sponsored by individual groups or coalitions of groups.
Click <HERE> for the Great Basin Peace & Justice Network CALENDAR.
(Events section last updated 5/17/08. Calendar is maintained by the public.)
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Good Music and a Good Cause
Friday, May 23 @ 9:00 PM
Silver Legacy - Grande Exposition Hall
Bonnie Raitt to Play Reno and support efforts to Stop the Yucca Mountain Project!
Special ticket sales donated to HOME (Healing Ourselves and Mother Earth) in its work against the Yucca Mountain Project.
For more information and ticket availability contact John with HOME at 775.284.1989 or hadder"AT"gbis.com
www.h-o-m-e.org - www.nukefree.org - www.guacfund.org
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Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace to Honor American Military Personnel Who Have Died in Iraq
WHEN: May 26, 3:30 PM event begins, also good photo-op's at 5:00 PM
WHERE: Thompson Federal Building at Liberty and S. Virginia Streets
CONTACT: John Hadder; 284-1989; hadder"AT"gbis.com
Download: Event flier (b&w); Event flier (color); press release.
Starting at 3:30 PM, on Memorial Day, Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace (SIAP) will read the names of those fallen from the war in Iraq. Members of the public are encouraged to join SIAP in placing hundreds of small American flags on the lawn in front of the Bruce R. Thompson Federal Building to symbolically represent the fallen. There will also be several "honor flag chains" (see photo) that we are creating, and photos of all the Nevadans who have fallen to bring special attention and a more tangible feeling of our loss due to the Iraq War. Included in this action is our wish to honor all life lost in battle or as a consequence of hostility now or in the past. SIAP welcomes all to join us on this important day of remembrance and reflection. Each Monday evening at 5:30 (also at the Federal bldg.) for over 6 1!2 years, people of all walks of life have gathered to quietly pray or reflect, sing, and talk. The unifying theme of these meetings has been that hostility breeds further hostility and that we wish to offer hope for an alternative to violence. Each evening meeting begins with the same promise to act in a nonviolent manner and ends with a prayer, the Pax Christi Prayer for the Decade of Nonviolence. “Our meetings often ponder the seeds of injustice and violence,” said Betsy Gledhill, former schoolteacher and member of SIAP. “We recognize the longing to ‘put things right’; the desire to end victimization and wrong doing. We grieve for all who have fallen in their struggles to accomplish such goals and the innocent bystanders swept into the accompanying chaos. And we join symbolically with the families of 9/11 victims who declared ‘our grief is not a cry for war’, “ she said.
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~ Ongoing Meetings and Doings ~
Click <HERE> for the Great Basin Peace & Justice Network CALENDAR
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Peace Action 2008
Peace Action 2008 is a coalition of peace activists who are processing ways to influence elected officials and others to end the war in Iraq. Please review the meeting notes for more information on the process. You may also contact Peace Action 2008 coordinator, John Hadder, at 775.284.6234 or email him at hadder"AT"gbis"DOT"com
Peace Action 2008 - Statement to End the War and Occupation of Iraq
The US/British war and occupation in Iraq has burdened us all for five years. No end is in sight. Costs of all kinds are staggering – billions of public dollars, thousands of combat dead and wounded, hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties — emotional and psychological costs to veterans, families, social services, congregations, communities – displacements of millions of Iraqis without infrastructure and security to go about normal living.
As social workers, mechanics, warehouse workers, teachers, businesspersons, cooks, etc. who live and work in Reno and Sparks, we are compelled to see this war not just as a political issue. We address it as a deeply personal and social issue of our common health and well-being. It is an issue for all who have been hurt directly by the war. It is an issue for all who have watched on helplessly and hopelessly to stop it. It is an issue for all who have fought the war. Our very characters as persons, nations and faith traditions hang in the balance.
With imperfect but growing clarity and conviction, we say, this war and this occupation must end now! We call for no more funding of military pursuits in Iraq -- no more arms, no permanent installations. We call for funding only to remove our troops and to rehabilitate Iraq. We call for bringing our military personnel home to be healed as quickly as possible. We call for renewed commitment to national humility and international cooperation.
Cost to us for 2008: taxpayers in Congressional District 2 (Heller) will pay $455.9 million for proposed Iraq War Spending for FY2008. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:*
• 103,949 People with Health Care OR
• 413,991 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
• 10,848 Public Safety Officers OR
• 9,940 Music and Arts Teachers OR
• 139,845 Scholarships for University Students OR
• 35 New Elementary Schools OR
• 2,434 Affordable Housing Units OR
• 156,551 Children with Health Care OR
• 51,849 Head Start Places for Children OR
• 9,940 Elementary School Teachers OR
* Figures from the National Priorities Project- http://nationalpriorities.org
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Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace weekly Peace Vigil, Reno, Mondays
You're invited to join area peaceniks every Monday evening at 5:30 PM in front of the Bruce R. Thompson Federal Building & Court House at the corner of Virginia and Liberty Streets in downtown Reno.
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Voices for Peace, weekly Peace Vigil, Carson City, Mondays
Voices for Peace are people witnessing publicly for peace and justice. The back drop is the war in Iraq, but it is also a nation that seems to have a need to be reminded that acting as caring, merciful, and fair minded individuals is what we are made for. Many, but not all, attend the First United Methodist Church in Carson City. We would love to have more people join us. We meet in front of the Nevada State Legislature every Monday at noon.
Contact: Ed Skudlarek, 882-1847, epskud"AT"aol"DOT"com
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Molly Ivins Pots ‘n’ Pans Brigade, Tuesdays
Every Tuesday (starting February 6) between 11:00 and 11:30am, Bruce R. Thompson Federal Building, at Liberty and S. Virginia. We will be on the public sidewalk, where our Congressional representatives maintain offices, to raise a little hell with implements of cooking to end the war in Iraq. The late columnist, Molly Ivins, suggested this tactic in her last column in January. More here.
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Food Not Bombs, Sundays
Food Not Bombs - Free Vegan Meals - Serving times and location: Every Sunday, Noon at Fisherman's Park I, Galetti Way at Kietzke, and 3pm at Bicentennial Park (1st & Ralston) by the water.
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Poetry, Peace and Music 1st & 3rd Fridays of each month
Poetry Peace and Music happens from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. the first and third Fridays of each month at Dreamers Coffeeshop on the first floor of the Riverside Artists Lofts in downtown Reno. Music is provided by Lee Dazey, Kim Elise and Chris Good, and the microphones are open for you to perform, too. Call Chris at 843-8026 for more information.
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Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace meetings, monthly
The Sierra Interfaith Action For Peace is a network of peacemakers whose mission is to listen, respond, and work together for justice and peace. Sierra Interfaith Action For Peace has been serving our community for nearly twenty years and is an affiliate of Fellowship for Reconciliation. For more information, please call Patsy Gehr at 775.326.4739.
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Reno AntiWar Coalition meetings
Call 775.232.2823 for more information.
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Youth Militarization Awareness Project (Y-Map) meetings
For more information please contact Lee Dazey, 775.324.4027.
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RAWC Presents, Reno AntiWar Coalition television show
The Reno AntiWar Coalition does programming on Reno's community Access Television, Sierra Nevada Community Television, cable channel 16. Most of these shows are a two sided discussion of peace and justice issues. You can find air dates by going to The Media Center's website at http://sncat.org. Click on the Programming Guide, and look for RAWC Presents. If you have any ideas for upcoming shows, let us know by calling Lisa at 775.232.2823.
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~ Keep in Touch ~
For those who like to interact, post news stories, and generally discuss and debate please join the Washoeantiwar list. With this option you may receive several emails per day.
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For those who wish to be altered to local peace events and meetings please join the Peace Presence list. With this option you will generally receive less than one email per week.
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~ Data from a Wasteful & Violent Society ~
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Iraqi civilian casualty count:
For updated coalition forces casualty counts click > HERE <.
Cost of the War in Iraq:
To see more details, click here.
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~ Links ~
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
Antiwar.com
Culture of Peace News Network
Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace
Non-intervention.net
Not In Our Name
Peace Action West
Peace Resource Project
Peace.protest.net
Poets Against the War
Quakers: Religious Witnesses for Peace
The Truth About War
United for Peace & Justice
War Resisters League
Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom
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