Nonviolent Witness

The Olive Branch Peace Partnership, an interfaith coalition dedicated to nonviolent advocacy of which PPF is a founding partner, is mobilizing for a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday on January 19th, one day before the Presidential Inauguration.

In Washington on January 19, the Olive Branch Interfaith Peace Partnership will hold a celebratory service and teaching at which Vincent Harding of Iliffe School of Theology, one of Dr. King's closets advisers; Rev. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Sayyid Syeed, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America; Sammie Moshenberg of the National Council of Jewish Women; Mubarak Awad of nonviolence International; and Rev. William G. Sinkford of the Unitarian Universalist Association are already scheduled to speak.

Join Christian Peace Witness for Iraq in Washington!

Join the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and thousands of others this November 21-23, 2008 in Ft. Benning, GA, for the Vigil and Direct Action to Close the SOA/WHINSEC.

Join Presbyterians for a breakfast on Saturday at 7am ($10; $5 for student). Reservations are required.

March with PPF during Sunday's vigil.

Visit www.southwestwitness.org or contact ppfwitness@gmail.com for more info

by Matt Black

Peacemaking is not a fair weather activity.

Last year, at the first Christian Peace Witness for Iraq, I was one of the 222 who were arrested in front of the White House. We had moved through snow throughout the day and struggled in the bitter cold late in the evening until we were arrested.

This year, it was the rain.