United Methodist Witness @ Rally for Peace

MFSA will participate in an Interfaith Service and Prayer Vigil at the tent of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Iraq at 11:30 on Saturday morning. After the service, this contingent of people of faith will march the few blocks over to the Rally on the Ellipse. Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, National Coordinator of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Iraq has suggested that all clergy wear vestments for this service and march.

March and Rally SCHEDULE:

We will gather at Foundry United Methodist Church between 10 am and 10:50 am at which time we will march together to the corner of 17th and Constitution Avenue (not 15th and Constitution). We will arrive at the corner of 17th and Constitution sometime between 11:15 and 11:30 for those wishing to join us there. Those who want to continue straight from there to the Rally on the Ellipse will do so. Those who want to take part in the Interfaith Service first and then march to the rally at 12:30 will do so.

OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST

SATURDAY, September 24th

10:00 AM "Seek Peace and Pursue It" Shabbat service will still be held at the Historic Synagogue at Sixth and I Street. The service, led by the Shalom Center, will be for people with deep experience in Jewish prayer and for those with none at all. NOTE CHANGE: THERE WILL NOT BE AN INTERFAITH CONTINENT MARCHING FROM THE SYNAGOGUE TO THE RALLY THAT WILL ALREADY BE TAKING PLACE ON THE ELLIPSE

3:00PM -1:00AM: Operation Cease-Fire, a concert with speakers on the Washington Monument Grounds. Julian Bond and Cindy Sheehan, and progressive Hip Hop artists are featured Boots Riley and The Coup

SUNDAY, September 25th

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee will host a MOCK TRIAL on Sunday Sept. 25th at 1:30pm
Location: Federal Ball Room, Holiday Inn on the Hill : 415 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington DC

Formal Mock Trial of Mr. Rumsfeld, Mr. Tenet and Mr. Gonzales based on international and US laws prohibiting torture. Real lawyers, real law, and real cases histories will be used. Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate will serve as commentators. Witnesses will include actual torture survivors from Latin America, as well as Prof. Michael Yellow Bird of the University of Kansas, who will speak on similar civil rights violations within the US.

11am-1pm: Training for nonviolent civil disobedience at CALC-I tent; an intro to CD for anyone planning on participating in CD events through the weekend and particularly Monday.

1pm-2pm: A panel will follow on the History and Practice of Religious Traditions and Civil Disobedience. Featuring noted theologian Walter Wink;

6:30pm-9pm Interfaith Tent Revival featuring Princeton Professor Cornel West, Honorary Chair, CALC-I; Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate; Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine; Mary Lord, Director, American Friends Service Committee’s Peace Building Unit; Imam Madhi Bray, Director, Muslim Freedom Foundation; Rev. Michael Banks, Bishop, New York City Council of Mennonite Churches; Rev. Dr. Joan Brown-Campbell, Director of Religious Life , Chautauqua Community; El Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, Imam, Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood; Ve. Suhita Dharma, Chua Dieu Phap Buddhist Temple; Rev. Claudia De la Cruz, Community Organizer; Dominican Women’s Development Center; Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President, Hip Hop Caucus; Rev. Emilee Whitehurst, Executive Director, Austin Area Inter-religious Association; Drew Dellinger, Founder; Poets for Global Justice ; Freda Payne, Singer; Adrienne Maree Brown, League of Youth Voters; members of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out;

MONDAY, September 26

9am-11am: Over 300 individuals willing to risk arrest will gather at Foundry United Methodist Church at 16th and P Street, N.W. There will be a processional to the White House and acts of righteous indignation will ensure. Please join us even if you are not willing to risk arrest.