Conscientious Objection
Honoring Veterans Day/Armistice Day
Friday, 11/11/2011from the Center on Conscience & War
It was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen that the guns fell silent on the Western Front in Europe. Many people have described this moment; one of the most poignant is by Kurt Vonnegut in his book Breakfast of Champions: “It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God.”
Christian Peace Witness: Conscience in War Project
Monday, 8/15/2011Christian Peace Witness is committed to making "Conscience in War" the major theme for our work in 2011. We seek to foster a serious nationwide discussion on following Jesus in matters of conscience and duty, violence and nonviolence, war and peace.
Civilian Public Service Picnic / Internat'l Conscientious Objector Day
May 15, 2011
Civilian Public Service
Celebratory Picnic and Website Launch
May 15, 2011
70th anniversary of the first camp opening at Patapsco State Park, MD
Picnic: Relay Town Hall, 1:00-3:30 p.m.
1710 Arlington Ave., Relay, MD
(Halethorpe post office)
For detailed directions, see:
Midshipman, Then Pacifist: Rare Victory to Leave Navy
Wednesday, 3/09/2011From the New York Times
The question that changed Michael Izbicki’s life appeared on a psychological exam he took not long after graduating in 2008 near the top of his class at the United States Naval Academy: If given the order, would he launch a missile carrying a nuclear warhead?
Congress on Urban Ministry: Peacemaking in a Culture of Violence
March 1-4, 2011
http://www.congressonurbanministry.org/
The 2011 Congress will EQUIP you to:
- FIGHT the systems that create poverty
- CONFRONT violence with the GOSPEL
Ecumenical Advocacy Days
March 25-28, 2011
Training Day: March 25th. Special training for Presbyterians:
Compassion Peace and Justice: Church Models that Work
Location: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC
Truth Commission on Conscience in War Releases Groundbreaking Report
Saturday, 11/13/2010The Truth Commission on Conscience in War, a national coalition of over 60 religious, veterans, academic, and advocacy groups, recently released a groundbreaking report on the need for greater religious freedom and protection of moral conscience in the military.
Hear testimony of veterans and download the full report at www.conscienceinwar.org.
