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[SharonRB]

IRAQ
A NEW COURSE?
NOW WHAT?!
an interesting and informative conversation regarding the war in Iraq
Town Hall Meeting
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Speakers include:
• Fred Pearson, Director, Center for Peace & Conflict Studies
“The Global Picture”

• Jodi Nachtwey , Political Science Department
“What Iraqis think”
(both from Wayne State University)

• Al Fishman, Peace Action, Detroit Area Peace with Justice Network
“Ending the War: Our Tasks and Prospects”

WHEN: Sunday, February 25, 2007
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Workmen’s Circle
26341 Coolidge (west side of street)
Oak Park, MI (4 blocks s. of 11 Mile)
sponsored by Huntington Woods Peace, Citizenship and Education Project & The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring

Coffee, Juice & Bagels
donations appreciated
more info: Joyce Gehringer: [e-mail]_ (mailto:[e-mail])
248 546 6834


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March 17 at noon. Vigil at 11 mile and Woodward sponsored by HW Peace

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February 27 at 6:30p.m. Michigan Coalition for Human Rights,the Cranbrook Peace Foundation and Marygrove College present the film:

"You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train"

The life and times of Howard Zinn
A Film by Deb Ellis & Denis Mueller
Featuring Music by Billy Bragg, Woody Guthrie and Eddie Vedder

Tuesday, February 27
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Southfield Public Library Auditorium
26300 Evergreen Road (south of I 696)
Cosponsored by Cranbrook Peace Foundation.

Plenty of secure lighted parking available. The 78 minute film will be followed by a facilitated discussion.

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February 22 at 1:30p.m.
Raging Grannies plan to visit the offices of Sen. Carl Levin and Rep.Sander Levin. You are invited to join us. The purpose of our visit is to urge our officials to get us out of Iraq ASAP.
Sen. Carl Levin (meet there at 1:30p.m.)
30500 Van Dyke, 3/4 mile north of 12 Mile on the east side of street
Warren

(then go to Sandy Levin’s office)
Rep. Sander (Sandy) Levin
27085 Gratiot
Roseville
To go from Carl Levin's to Sandy Levin's, go south to 696. Take 696 East to
Gratiot. Turn north on Gratiot and do a U turn to go south. The office is
just north of 696 on the west side of the street.

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Feb. 25 at 12:45 p.m. "Fog of War" - Award winning documentary - Sunday - at Birmingham Unitarian Church on Woodward and Lone Pine ---- 38651 Woodward Ave - Bloomfield Hills.............all are welcome.
info 248-258-6826.............................


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Ongoing: St. John's Episcopal Church's Reverend Linda Northcraft is
conducting a daily session of prayers for peace from 7:00a.m. to 7:30a.m. each
Monday through Saturday. Reverend Northcraft is looking for people of all
religious denominations to come with a prayer or prayers for peace. St. John's
Episcopal Church is located at the southeast corner of 11 mile and Woodward (it
is the church where HW Peace holds its vigils).
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