Tulsa Peace Events This Week

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All events free and open to the public!!


Wheels of Justice Bio-diesel Powered Bus Rolls into Tulsa

7:00 pm, Wednesday, April 13
Saffron’s Coffee House
1148 S. Harvard

1:00 pm, Thursday, April 14
Phillips Theological Seminary Commons.
901 N Mingo.
(The public may have lunch with the speakers at noon but will need to bring their own sack lunch)

7:00 pm, Thursday, April 14
Islamic Society
4620 S Irvington.

Since July, The Wheels of Justice tour has traveled over 20,000 miles and brought its witness of war and occupation to twenty states. While the cast of characters may changes, the participants on tour have first-hand experience traveling, and sometimes serving as mediators in violent war-torn and/or occupied areas around the world, including Iraq, Palestine, Chiapas, Mexico, Central America and Cuba.

Please come and welcome this intrepid troupe of peace pilgrims!

Ceylon Mooney: Coordinator of the bus tour for Voices in the Wilderness, which has campaigned since 1996 to end economic and military warfare against Iraq. Broke U.S. laws twice by traveling to Iraq to bring medical supplies to hospitalized children. Returned to the U.S. to protest economic sanctions against Iraq in a 40-day fast outside the U.N.

Father Jerry Stein: Retired Catholic pastor who has served as a Christian Peacemaker Team member in Chiapas, Palestine, Canada and most recently Iraq, where he worked as an advocate for families of prisoners being held in Abu Ghraib. Arrested several times for non-violent direct actions at nuclear missile and test sites. Believes if soldiers can put their lives on the line in war, he can do it for peace.

Bill Hill: Vietnam vet who drove a napalm-throwing tank during the war. Now goes wherever his conscience demands to work on behalf of the poor, whether in the U.S. Mexico, Central America or Cuba.

Mazin Qumsiyeh: Palestinian-American author of Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle and co-founder of Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, who, in 1998, won an Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee award for his advocacy work on behalf of Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank. In his spare time serves as an Associate Professor of Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine.

For more information about the Wheels of Justice, visit
www.justicewheels.org
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5:00-10:30 pm, Friday, April 15
Downtown Post Office, 3rd and Denver
North Side of Building
War Breaks the Budget Tax Day Protest

If you didn’t make it to last year’s protest, bring a chair, a sign and come and see what your missed! The bio-diesel Wheels of Justice Bus, a giant protest sign in itself, will be right there with us be. We’ll have live music from Tom Skinner, Jay Lesickar, Ray Rodgers and others to entertain us and the drivers waiting in long lines to mail their tax returns. Drummers are welcome too! This will be a party with a purpose! The Wheels of Justice Folks will also be joining us there.

Make a statement about the harmful cuts in human, healthcare, environmental protection, health and the high cost of the war, both in capital and human lives! Media coverage and lots of fun guaranteed!



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7:00 pm, Saturday, April 16
Higher Dimensions Family Church
8621 S. Memorial

Beyond Retribution: Lessons from Families Affected by Terrorism

Family members who have lost loved ones in terrorist attacks look deep into their hearts and ask, “What does justice look like without revenge?”

Please lend your listening ear and compassionate heart to these men and women who have suffered such great losses.

Michael Berg, father of Nick Berg who was beheaded in Iraq last May by Al Qaeda operatives: Calls his son, “the kindest, gentlest human being I have ever known.” Blames the policy makers in the Bush Administration, who started the war in Iraq as much as he does Nick’s killers for his death.

September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows’ Loretta Filipov, Andrea LeBlanc and Terry Kay Rockefeller: Their cry of grief did not become a cry for revenge which would bring about more deaths of innocent people and more grieving families like them. They now honor their loved ones by dedicating their lives to breaking the cycle of violence engendered by war and terrorism.

Wes Young, an 88 year old survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: Adds a local perspective on terror, loss and regeneration when he recounts how forty square blocks were laid waste by fire, 9,000 made homeless and 75-100 lives lost in one day when he was a little boy.


If you're in OKC, check out the Beyond Retribution Events the weekend of the 16th at www.palfound.net