Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace

PO Box 363 Geneseo NY 14454 <www.gvcp.org>

“Human Race Not Arms Race”

May 1, 2004

Dear GVCP Member:

NEXT GVCP MEETING: SATURDAY, JUNE 5^th, 2:00 P.M. 2290 ANDERSON RD, LINWOOD. [Anderson Rd. runs west off Rte 36, one road south of Rte 20. 2290 is 1.7 mi. west of Rt. 36. Mailbox on right, driveway on left.]

WEEKLY SATURDAY MORNING VIGILS FOR PEACE! 10:30–11:30 AM in Honeoye, Richmond Memorial Park, Route 20A. (Not Honeoye Falls!) [Judi Taylor 585-229-4963 <jsalsburg@monroecc.edu>]

SAVE THE DATES: Sunday, May 9^th: Mother’s Day March to Halt the Assault! Americans from across the nation will come together in Washington, D.C., to demand that Congress save the Federal Ban on Assault Weapons. <www.mmm2004.com>

Sunday, May 16^th, 7:00 PM. 80 Westminster Rd, Rochester: Ciudad Hermana’s 11th Annual Classical Concert. This year the concert features classical jazz—the excellent group Trio East will perform a benefit concert. For more information call Susan Ruhlin: 585-461-5949. Help CH continue its important Nicaragua solidarity work.

August 2^nd–9^th: 2004 World Conference against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. For more information: <antiatom@topaz.plala.or.jp>

November 19^th—21^st : Annual demonstration against School of the Americas. Ft. Benning GA. Justice for the people of the Americas! Close the SOA! <www.soaw.org>

GVCP’s ANNUAL PEACEMAKER AWARD. Please notify high school seniors that GVCP will again select a graduating senior as our Peacemaker. Guidance counselors in the Livingston County schools—and a few other schools—have received information packets about the award. Encourage graduating seniors to check with their guidance counselor. If the guidance counselor doesn’t know or doesn’t care, email <jsalsburg@monroecc.edu>. Deadline is May 15^th. Find that senior right away!

Honeoye Citizen’s Peace Award, is for graduating seniors in Honeoye Central School. These are independent awards. Honeoye students can apply for both. Check with the guidance office at Honeoye CS.

Petition against A & H Bombs: Please get four signatures on this important petition, and mail it directly to the Japanese group, or to GVCP. If you want to find WMD’s, just look in the arsenals of the U.S. and Russia!

This Month’s Recommended Book: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. South End Press. <www.southendpress.org>.

This Month’s Recommended Peacemaker: Fr. John Dear, a Jesuit priest, has written a moving account of an incident caused by his opposition to the war in Iraq. To read this piece, and for more information about Fr. Dear, check <www.johndear.org/>.

Peace,