[Sundaycommunity] Voices for Peace - John Dear - Sept. 16, 7 p.m.

[Tina Neves]

Thank you Mariann.
I am planning to attend it


On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:44 PM Maryanne Stone-Jimenez via Sundaycommunity
<sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Dear Sunday Community,
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> [image: V4P Sept 16 Instagram.PNG]
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> *What shape might resistance and hope take in these times? What sort of
> spirituality can sustain us in the work for peace?*
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> Dear Friends,
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> The military budget for the USA for 2022 will likely be over $700 billion
> and includes money for updating nuclear weapons. In the UK, the government
> wants to invest an additional $20 billion to "focus on technologies that
> will revolutionize warfare." And in Canada, the annual military budget of
> $18 billion is to be increased by $60 billion over the next two decades, as
> the government feels the military has been underfunded.
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> Canada, the UK, and the USA have not signed the United Nations Treaty on
> the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Their military spending commitments
> make their commitments to the ecological crisis, poverty, racism, and
> non-violent conflict resolution seem hollow.
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> What shape might resistance and hope take in these times? What sort of
> spirituality can sustain us in the work for peace?
>
> Our final Voices for Peace session on September 16, 2021, with the help of
> John Dear and Cesar Jaramillo, will focus on these questions.
>
> Cesar Jaramillo is the Executive Director of Project Ploughshares. We will
> celebrate with him Project Ploughshares' 45 years of collaborative work
> towards peace, reconciliation, and disarmament. Cesar will provide us with
> current information on policy and politics in the Canadian context.
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> John Dear is the Founder and Executive Director of The Beatitudes Center
> For The Nonviolent Jesus. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Award;
> served on the staff of Pace et Bene; and co-founded Campaign Nonviolence, a
> week of action against poverty, war, racism, and environmental destruction.
> Drawing on Gandhi and the Beatitudes, John will speak on "Returning to the
> Nonviolence of Jesus: Following in the Footsteps of Active Nonviolence,
> Living Gospel Nonviolence Today."
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> [image: John4.jpg]
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> We invite you to join us in resistance, hope, and prayer.
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> You can register here:
> *https://link.edgepilot.com/s/7aac3514/euJep7G2W0SSEp-pdDfDVQ?u=https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/voices-for-peace-2021-radical-hope-radical-resistance-event-3-tickets-160976002557
> <https://link.edgepilot.com/s/7aac3514/euJep7G2W0SSEp-pdDfDVQ?u=https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/voices-for-peace-2021-radical-hope-radical-resistance-event-3-tickets-160976002557> *
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