Monthly TPF organizational meeting

Tulsa Peace Fellowship Monthly Meeting
-- Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009 6:00 PM --
Agenda

The Steering Committee meets at 6:00 PM
Other members of TPF are encouraged to attend.

1. Ongoing Business

A. Book/Movie/Pamphlet/Video Exchange
B. Review of this month's past anti-war demo “U.S. Out of Afghanistan!!” 3rd Oct 2009. The same theme is planned for our next monthly antiwar demo, on the first Saturday in November.
C. Review of training session held 23 Sept, organized by the Quakers, to provide orientation for volunteers working on the upcoming anti-war memorial, 17th & 18th October
C. Organizing for the upcoming memorial displaying the boots of the fallen, from Iraq & Afghanistan.

We have been asked to help set up, attend, watch over, and dismantle the event, on both days, in shifts of two hours each. Volunteers still needed.

TPF hopes to add an anti-war photo exhibit, inside the church, as an addition to the boot display outdoors.

2. Activities/Events

two-days only, in Tulsa:
American Friends Service Committee’s “Eyes Wide Open” boot display.
Date and Time: October 17, 2009 at 10am to 4pm, and October 18, 2009 at 10am to 4pm (times confirmed)
Location: Fellowship Congregational Church, outside, on the lawn
Street: 28th and Harvard
City/Town: Tulsa
Phone: 918-810-4190 (Don Satterthwaite)
Event Type: anti-war exhibit, honor-the-dead, wall-of-remembrance, candlelight vigil, non-partisan
Organized By: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Quakers in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, and the Tulsa Peace Fellowship
Event posted online: https://tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com/events

3. Open Discussion (time permitting)

A. Religious Freedom Peace Tax Bill – 2009 : “The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund“ for more information, go to: http://www.peacetaxfund.org/ or see the endorsement of this legislative initiative by Friends Committee on National Legislation

B. Situating TPF as community partner for Youth PROMISE Act. Viz. courses in Non-Violent Communication (NVC)

4. Adjourn by 7:30 pm