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| THIS WEEK IN PEACE & JUSTICE HISTORY | |
August 26: The French National Assembly agreed to document known as the "Declaration of the Rights of Man." (1789) 
Sept 1 is War Tax Resistance Day!
August 26: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was passed by Congress (1920) August 28: The Abolition of Slavery Act was passed by the British Parliament. (1833)
August 29: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of half a million gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C. (1963) August 30: The Democratic Party National Convention refused to seat any delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, instead seating the all-white delegation despite overwhelming evidence of the state party's efforts to disenfranchise Mississippi's African-Americans. (1964)September 1: International Day of War Tax Resistance. September 4: Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) began Operation RAW (Rapid American Withdrawal). Over the following three days more than 200 veterans, assisted by the Philadelphia Guerilla Theater, staged a march from Morristown, New Jersey, to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, reenacting the invasion of small rural hamlets along the way. (1970)
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Focused on the vision of God's peace, the peaceCENTER supports the learning of peace in our lives and the demonstration of peace within our community
 The Art of Happiness: Buddhist Philosophy and Practice
Presented by Lama Passang Gelek
Three Wednesdays: July 23 - August 27 - September 17, from 6 to 8 pm at Viva Books, 8407 Broadway, San Antonio 78209. Co-presented by the peaceCENTER. Free and open to the public. |
 Author signing of DETOUR TO DEATH ROW by David Atwood, Founder, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty with a foreword by Rosalyn Falcón Collier. At Viva! Bookstore, 8407 Broadway, San Antonio from 6-8 pm. This is the newest publication of peaceCENTER Books and we are excited to have David drive over from Houston for the book launch! Can't make the book signing? You can buy the book online
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The weekly VIGIL FOR PEACE, every Thursday, 4-5 pm, now takes place at the corner of Flores and Commerce Streets, one block west of Main
Plaza / Plaza de las Islas.
San Antonio's Tents of Hope will be on display at Main Plaza on October 19, prior to being shiped off to Washington DC for display on the National Mall on Nov. 7-9 as part of a campaign to get greater action for Darfurian victims. For more information about Tents of Hope, visit www.tentsofhope.org. To learn how you or your group can participate, contact Susan Smylie, saidc@earthlink. net.
August 28: Greg Mortenson, co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time, will share his inspiring message of hope, peace, and our individual and collective responsibilities as global citizens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, in Trinity University's Laurie Auditorium. The presentation is free and open to the public, with a book signing immediately following the lecture. Also, Mortenson will speak at 7 pm on Friday, Aug. 29 at the Carver Cultural Center; free, open to the public.
August 30: The Know Why You're Marching Civil Rights and Film Series is hosting Joyce Ann Brown, author of "Justice Denied," the story of her trial, conviction and 9-year imprisonment for a crime she did not commit. Noon on Saturday at the Martin Luther King Academy, 3601 MLK Drive in San Antonio. There will also be a civil rights panel that will address, "Justice for All in the 21st Century: Truth or Fiction?" Panelists include the Rev. Howard Anderson of the NAACP; TC Calvert, President of Neighborhoods First Alliance; Patrick Filyk of the ACLU; Rosa Rosales of LULAC and Mario Salas, Chair of the San Antonio Coalition for Civil and Human Rights. For more information call 210.223.8621. Free and open to the public.
Sep 12-14: Eyes Wide Open, an exhibit chronicling the deaths of Texas soldiers in Iraq through the use of combat boots on display and also calls attention to the deaths of Iraqi civilians, will be at Auditorium Shores, Lady Bird Lake IN AUSTIN. For more info,
eyeswideopenaustin2008.org/
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