CAMPAIGN NONVIOLENCE NC INVITES YOU
THOUGHTS ON “DISMANTLING TODAY’S JIM CROW”
GUEST SPEAKERS: Melissa Florer-Bixler, Author/Pastor Raleigh Mennonite Church; Sage Chioma – Poet / Counselor / Motivational Speaker / International Civil Rights Museum Interpretive Staff and Tour Associate
Love offerings accepted for Campaign Nonviolence NC’s 2019 series of speakers & events on anti-racism
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, September 17, 7:00 - 9:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Highland Methodist Church, 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC
NOTE: Participants will have an opportunity to meet local grassroots activists working for justice in policing, public school advocacy for children of color, affordable housing, immigrant rights, and environmental justice
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PRAYER VIGIL FOR NON-VIOLENCE
WORSHIP LEADERS / CHOIRS from HOLY NAME OF JESUS CATHEDRAL and CUCC
DATE/TIME: Thursday September 19, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
LOCATION: CUCC - Community United Church of Christ, 814 Dixie Trail, Raleigh, NC
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NC PEACE ACTION’S “PEACEMAKER FUNDRAISING DESSERT SOCIAL”
GUEST SPEAKER: Kathy Kelly, peace activist/ a founding member of Voices in the Wilderness/ and
co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. $25 donation suggested. No one will be turned away.
DATE/TIME: Friday, September 20 Time 6:30
LOCATION: Highland Methodist Church, 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC
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SHARING & CELEBRATING OUR DIVERSITY WITH A POTLUCK DINNER & TALENT SHOW!
MASTERS OF CEREMONIES: Representing & reflecting the diversity of participating races & cultures
DATE/TIME: Saturday, September 21, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Please bring a dish to share.
Talent to be pre-arranged by members of CNV with participating grassroots organizations & congregations
LOCATION: Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, 1801 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC
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Help build a Community Committed to Nonviolence here in the Triangle
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Finally…. Be sure to join CNV Raleigh in October!
First Wednesday Vigil in Raleigh, NC
First Wednesday monthly vigils began in May 1982 and have continued every month since then. The group originally choose to work for peace by educating others about the huge amount of money spent for armaments. This is the theme that the vigil still highlights along with
other messages for nonviolence. The vigil meets from noon until 1:00 pm in front of the post office located in downtown Raleigh, NC on the first Wednesday of each month. The group holds signs and hands out information to passersby and through the mail to non-passersby such as congresspersons, governors and presidents. A long-time member who is now deceased had a favorite quote to hand out that was by Dwight Eisenhower:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron”.
Campaign Nonviolence NC will join the vigil on October 2, 2019 as we celebrate the UN International Day of Nonviolence.