Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace
PO Box 363 Geneseo NY 14454 <www.gvcp.org>
“Human Race Not Arms Race”
January 30, 2004

 
Dear GVCP Member:
 
NEXT GVCP MEETING:  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 2:00 PM, 36 WESTVIEW CRESCENT, GENESEO.  [Westview Crescent is on the north side of the village of Geneseo, east off Rte 39.]
 
WEEKLY SATURDAY MORNING VIGILS FOR PEACE!  10:30–11:30 AM in Honeoye, Richmond Mem. Park, Route 20A.  (Not Honeoye Falls!)  [Judi Taylor 585-229-4963 <jsalsburg@monroecc.edu>]
 
Help Free Lori Berenson!  Phone in to the White House every Wednesday and Thursday.  Call the White House Hotline: (202) 456-1111, press "1.”  Lori has been in Peruvian prisons for eight years. Ask the operator if she/he knows about Lori.  (Most of them do.)  If she/he doesn’t know who Lori is, say, “She’s a US citizen who has been in jail in Peru for eight years.”  Then ask the operator to tell President Bush to use the authority of his office to free Lori.
 
SAVE THE DATES: Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7:00 PM Downtown Presbyterian Church 121 N. Fitzhugh St., Rochester.  FACES OF GLOBALIZATION: ARGENTINA AND THE FTAA.  Photos, stories, and discussion with Jim Harney.  Jim is a respected photojournalist who recently returned from Argentina.
 
Sunday, February 8 The St. Patrick's 4 will be in Rochester to speak and share at the Pax Christi monthly meeting. All invited!  The St. Patrick’s Four are four activists who tried to prevent war in Iraq by an act of civil disobedience for which they will be tried on March 29 in Tompkins County Court. We all wanted to prevent this unnecessary war. These four carried this opposition to the level of civil disobedience.  Schedule:  Saturday, March 8th: 2:00 PM Outdoor Mass at the Armory [490 & Culver, Rochester]; 3:00 PM Potluck meal at Corpus Christi Church [Main and Prince St. Rochester]; 4:00 PM Talk with the St. Patrick's 4 at church. For potluck, bring something hearty--main dish or dessert.  Dress very warmly for the Mass at the Armory. It's cold and windy!
 
Saturday, March 20 The World Still Says No to War!  Peace rally in NYC.  Buses leave from Rochester and Geneseo late at night & arrive NYC in the morning.  Call Metro Justice 585-325-2560. More info: 
<unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2136> or  <internationalanswer.org/news/update/010204mar20.html>
 
Saturday–Tuesday, March 27-30 Shut down the SOA! Washington, DC.  "Not in Our Name and Not with Our Tax Money!"  A vote on the School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation is coming up in the U.S. Congress in the summer of 2004! It is our job to make sure that enough Representatives vote against the school. Hold your Representative accountable. The SOA Watch Spring Mobilization will include trainings, skill-shares, street theater, social and educational events.  Check SOAW website: <http://www.soaw.org> for more information.
 
Peace,
 
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