4/30 Peacebridge (lake/marshall ave) 15th year anniversary, come join us
Dear Peacemakers,
I am writing to invite you to join the WAMM End War Committee and Twin Cities Peace Campaign in celebrating 15 years of resistance to war and the weapons of war on the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge on Wednesday, April 30, 2014.
15 YEARS OF RESISTANCE TO WAR AND THE WEAPONS OF WAR
Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Peace Vigil
APRIL 30, 2014
WE SAY “NO” TO WAR
PEACE VIGIL: 5:00 - 6:00 PM Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge
(spanning the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul)
POTLUCK: 6:15 PM St. Albert the Great Church
2836 - 33rd Avenue South, Minneapolis
PROGRAM: A short history of the bridge
A 15 min. video covering highlights of the vigil for the past several years
An evening of music and sharing
Musicians will include Fred and Anna Vagle, Bret Hesla, the McDonald sisters, Chickpea and Garbonzo, and others.
In the spring of 1999, in response to the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, members of Twin Cites area peace groups and a number of local faith communities started the weekly vigil on the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge.
We have been committed to the vigil for these 15 years because we believe it is important to have an ongoing public witness against war. For several years, the vigil focused on opposing the sanctions on Iraq and the wars on and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, but vigilers have frequently raised their voices relative to other issues: threats of war against Iran, North Korea, Libya, Mali, and Syria; torture; attacks on civil liberties; and U.S. support for the occupation of Palestine, always calling on our government to fund human needs, not war. We have also focused attention on the weapons of war -- most recently on drones, our government’s current weapon of choice.
Thousands of people from the Twin Cities and many outside the Twin Cities area have participated in the vigil on the bridge. We hope the 15th anniversary of the vigil on April 30 will be an opportunity to come together to support one another in our continuing struggle to end the war and occupation of Afghanistan, stop the drone strikes in Pakistan, put an end to U.S. threats of war in the Middle East and elsewhere, and focus our government’s attention on issues of jobs, education, housing, health care, renewable energy, and other human needs.
We hope to see you there.
