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The Pen

And now we will explain why this action page is so critical. To understand the current political dynamic, first you must understand that the Democrats are planning on losing the next couple election cycles. Until you understand that, the events to unfold in the next couple years (unless you act to derail them) will make no sense to you.

You don't have to believe us. Just listen to the way the Democrats themselves are talking. Nancy Pelosi concedes that they will likely suffer substantial losses in the House come November, though she still will not admit that they will lose their majority in the next round. Barack Obama says doesn't "know" how his ever more determined push of the universally despised Senate health care scam will play politically. He doesn't know??? Was the loss of the eternally Democratic senate seat in Massachusetts not enough of a wake up call?

Religious Nonviolence in a Warlike Culture

Rick Bernardo, Network of Spiritual Progressives

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Amelia Kroeger

Join us for an inspiring joint meeting with Every Church a Peace Church, Jackman Room, Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicolett Avenue,  Minneapolis, MN  55403 (Enter parking lot from Franklin Avenue.) 612-871-7400  <>

6:30 potluck – bring a dish to pass. We hope to make this a low waste potluck, and  encourage potluckers to bring their own reuseable plate, cup, silver & napkin. For those who cannot bring their own setting/s, disposables will be available.

7:00 Welcome, followed by - Kathy Kelly: “The Price of Peace and the Cost of Discipleship: Religious Nonviolence in a Warlike Culture”

Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org <http://www.vcnv.org/> ), a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. As a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, Kathy helped form 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq from 1996-2003. Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing.

More recently, she visited Gaza and Pakistan, writing eyewitness accounts of war’s impact on civilians. Kathy was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) and served three months, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning’s military training school.