2014 Highlights (see newsletters too)

vigils continued

11/18 Stone Soup Supper. Brayton Shanley described the Agape Community in Western Mass and living at peace with Earth. Lively discussion followed.

10/3: Two of us attended the North Shore groups event: Waging Peace: David Hartsough spoke about creative and courageous ways he has worked.

10/9: Thur. Keep Space for Peace Vigil, at Raytheon.

9/1: Again, our table at Lawrence's Bread and Roses Festival was next to the Bread and Puppet stage.

9/16: MVPP member, Arthur Brien's speech for the Merrimack Valley Project helped them get an ordnance passed in Lawrence City Council that there can be no eviction from foreclosed property until there is actually a buyer for the property.

9/20: Some of us saw Helen Caldicott and others speak at Newton, MA City Hall about continuing dangers of nuclear war and energy.

9/21: The MVPP regular vigil expanded to solidarity with Pace e Bene this day, in Shawsheen Square, Andover

7/26: Our table at the Lowell Folk Festival was well attended.

6/20: We celebrated the 30th Anniversary of MVPP at our annual meeting.

Members of MVPP attended the "Building a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence Conference, in Manchester, NH. The main speaker, John Dear, urges anyone who says "I'm for peace" to realize that if that is what they claim and they are not working with others for peace, they are actually cooperating with the evils that are being perpetrated." A drama about Rachel Corrie, and several workshops were valuable.

April 2014

4/18: The Good Friday vigil in Reading, against the death penalty, had special meaning in this season when the marathon bomber, Dzokhar Tsarnaev, was facing capital punishment.

Again, we marched behind the main St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston, with gays and labor.

Boryana set up our tabel when Mass Peace Action held a conference including speakers Kathy Kelly, Barney Frank and Andrew Basevich.

The 'peace monks' from Leverett visited Lawrence on their walk to DC.

1/10: Our January potluck had small attendance but we ate well and enjoyed singing anti-war and pro-labor songs.

Arthur's sign still makes a point at our Sunday vigil.

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