When: Saturday afternoon, Oct 30th, from 12 noon to 4pm. Parade starts at 2pm
Where: Brookside, in Tulsa, up and down Peoria Avenue
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Please note TIME CHANGE: Originally scheduled for Saturday morning, the event is now to be held Saturday afternoon. Line up at 12 noon, for 2pm start. Volunteers needed! Advance notice of your planned participation required
- Please call 918-398-6506 if you would like to march together with TPF
members in the parade.
PRESS RELEASE
15th Oct 2010 contact: TPF President, 918-398-6506
Nuke Weapons are Scary.
The theme of the TPF entry in the Boo-HaHa! parade is "No Nuke Weapons" -- with an emphasis on the international symbol of peace, the Origami Crane.
In lieu of handing out candy, TPF volunteers will be handing out an
international symbol of peace, the Origami Crane.
The Origami Crane has become a symbol of world peace through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who tried to stave off her
death from leukemia as a result of radiation from the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima during World War II by making one thousand origami cranes.
Her story is told in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand
origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or
recovery from illness or injury. The crane in Japan is one of the
mystical or holy creatures (others include the dragon and the
tortoise), and is said to live for a thousand years. In Asia, it is
commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's
wish come true.
Several temples, including some in Tokyo and Hiroshima, have eternal
flames for World Peace. At these temples, school groups or individuals
often donate origami cranes to add to the prayer for peace. See details
below.
The banner in the TPF float reads:
“Give our children a world without nuclear weapons.”
Tulsa Peace Fellowship is an advocacy group which has united to break the endless cycle of violence and retaliation engineered by war. By conscientiously exploring peaceful options and just solutions, we hope to spare the lives of more innocent people affected by violence throughout the world. The Tulsa Peace Fellowship is the activist wing of the peace movement in Eastern Oklahoma.
Our slogan, borrowed from the American Friends Service Committee, is: "Waging Peace One Person at a Time."
TPF offers citizens and community groups tools and resources to participate personally in our democracy, to help shape federal budget and policy priorities and to promote peace, social justice, economic justice, and human rights. The Tulsa Peace Fellowship's advocacy on behalf of peace will continue until this nation makes peace, social uplift, and nonviolence its priorities, rather than militarization. We advocate for the return to a genuine time of peace, with reduced military spending, in other words, the Peace Dividend. A good place to reduce spending is to de-mobilize and de-commission the thousands of nuclear weapons stockpiled in this country.
Through its counter-recruitment task force, TPF is a member of the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY). TPF counter-recruitment task force works together with parents and students to counter the presence of military recruiters on school grounds. Instead of military enlistment, we promote peaceful vocations for today's young people.
TPF is a registered non-profit civic-sector organization and a non-partisan group, loosely affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration, 1314 N. Greenwood Ave, Tulsa (close to the corner of Pine Ave).
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"Cranes for Peace" -- Symbol of Peace in the Nuclear Age
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Cranes for Peace began as a project to collect paper cranes to be sent to Hiroshima, Japan for the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima in honor of the children. You can send your collection of 1,000 origami peace cranes to the children's monument at Hiroshima Park:
Office of the Mayor
City of Hiroshima
6-34 kokutaijai-Machi
1 Chome Naka-Ku
Hiroshima 730 Japan
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“Demand
Zero.” -- Strategic Arms Elimination
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When: film released in Summer 2010
Where:
at fine cinemas everywhere
previous
event listing at Circle Cinema, Tulsa
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COUNTDOWN TO ZERO traces the history of the
atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possess nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident. Written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight), the film features an array of important international statesmen, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. Magnolia Pictures is releasing the film in North America; HISTORY™ has North American broadcast rights. The film was produced by Academy Award® winner and 2009 nominee Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds, An Inconvenient Truth) and developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, together with World Security Institute.
Film review
The Nuclear Abolitionist Movement is Now Being Mainstreamed
By Hugh Gusterson
3 August
2010
in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Looking
Ahead!! Put on your calender for Nov 6th
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When: every first Saturday of the month, with the
next rally planned for
November 6th, 2010, from 12 noon to 2pm.
Volunteers should arrive at 11:45 am, for 12 noon start.
Where:
outdoors, corner of 41st & Yale, southwest corner, on public ground
E 41st St & S Yale Ave, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135
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On November 6th, TPF will support the nationwide movement for peace with a
local rally outdoors at the corner of 41st & Yale, the most central
and busiest intersection of the city. The Tulsa Peace Fellowship
intends to spread our message and voice our demands:
Cuts in military spending to fund human needs
Peace abroad and renewable energy at home
Bring the troops and war dollars home now
Jobs and economic recovery at home
TPF is a part of the people's movement for peace and justice raising a voice of
concern over the din of the media, which these days is all too often in
the war camp.
It was people protesting in millions across the United States in 1969 that
brought the Vietnam War to an end. It was the people united that moved
the Civil Rights Bill into law. It was the people united in the 1920's
that finally brought about passage of the 19th Amendment for a woman's
right to vote. Every human rights law written in the United State of
America is as a direct result of people standing in solidarity and
demanding justice.
Join us on November 6th!
Just weeks after a USA Today/Gallup poll showed support for the Afghan
War was plummeting, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows the trend
continuing, with 58 percent of Americans now firmly opposed to the war.
"All of the questioned showed a trend toward greater opposition to the
war and greater pessimism about the war. It seems that, nearly nine
years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, war exhaustion is driving
Americans to increasingly call for a pullout."
~Jason Ditz, news editor at antiwar.com
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