2020 Highlights (see newsletters too)

Our Thursday and Sunday vigils, and Reading's Saturday vigils kept the message out there.

Brian attended the VFP Armistice Day vigil at Boston Common.

We dedicated our Oct 8 Raytheon vigil to Keep Space for Peace.

Some attended Indivisible Andover Black Lives Matter vigils.

We lost Ruth Bader Ginsberg September 18, 2020

Some, especially Boryana, wrote postcards to encourage Southern voters to vote early.

Some attended Indivisible Andover Black Lives Matter vigils.

We had twenty people at our vigil for Hiroshima, including sisters from Pax Christi, Veterans For Peace, and Mass Peace Action.




Photos thanks to Tim Jean of the Eagle Tribune (article)

Some attended Indivisible Andover Black Lives Matter vigils.

Some attended Black Lives Matter vigils on Saturdays at 10, organized by Andover Area Solidarity Group.

Individuals attended Zoom meetings and signed internet petitions.

June 1. Black Lives Matter demonstration at Shawsheen Sq June 1, organized by Andover Area Solidarity Group (many pictures) and others, had a thousand peaceful people, keeping six feet apart. The Eagle Tribune said 500 people.

June 5 and June 7. Lawrence had Black Lives matter rallys. Brian had seen the National Guard vehicles Friday, literature warning of looting, and stores boarded up. There was no violence. I attended the one Sunday arranged by Mayor Rivera in front of City Hall. The only sound system was bullhorns, covered by helicopters and people yelling. About 200 attended.

Annual meeting June 19 on line

VFP Memorial Day commemoration was online.

April 2020

Covid-19

impeachment hearings
Covid-19

1/4/2020 Vigil at Shawsheen Square to say no war with Iran or Iraq. Code Pink called for a vigil after protests in Iraq and US military buildup. After this was organized, the US blew up general Soleimani. On schedule the next day, 21 people braved the rain (which held off till 11:50).

Phil and Allan joined about 35 people at a demonstration against Elbit , a large construction fabricator of drones, at its headquarters in Merrimack, New Hampshire. There were many young people, mainly from Jewish Voice for Peace.

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