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PeaceWeek Sept. 14-21

I'm so excited I want to tell everyone! I believe this is a major step forward in building the attractive, collaborative energy, voice, and influence of the peace movement.

PeaceWeek, the largest virtual peace summit ever created, will offer profound insights to create peace in your life, your family, your community and in our world. It is a week-long global telesummit featuring more than 50 groundbreaking and inspiring peacebuilders, including; Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Johan Galtung, Aqeela Sherrils, Ambassador John McDonald, Michael Bernard Beckwith, the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and many more - all for free!

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David

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Comment by Peace Day TV on September 15, 2010 at 3:09pm: Blessings David, Peace Week is great, good summit yesterday; hey come on down to the studio during the broadcast, 55 W. Broadway and we'll interview you live during the Peace Day Global Broadcast to promote DOP if you like.
Peace,
Stephen (you know the number)

Comment by Dr. Peter Stockdale on September 4, 2010 at 9:38am: This is what we've been doing in Ottawa for the past 4 years. It's been coordinated by the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative departmentofpeace.ca but is an amalgam of different groups talking, walking, singing etc. about peace

4th Annual Ottawa Peace Festival

Together with Ottawa peace and justice civil society groups, the Canadian
Department of Peace Initiative (CDPI) and the United Nations Association of
Canada - NCR Branch invite you to take part in a 13-day Festival of Peace.
The 4th Annual Peace Festival with a theme of Peace, Unity, and Harmony will
mark two important UN International Days of Peace and Nonviolence, September 21

and October 02. All events are free and open to public. Please contact
event coordinators for confirmation in case there are changes due to
unforeseen circumstances.

Tuesday Sept 21, 11am - 2pm, International Day of Peace: "Paddle for Peace",
Victoria Island (Romola, Circle of All Nations, www.circleofallnations.ca)

Thursday Sept 23: 6.30 pm: NFB's documentary, "The Peacekeepers" with live
music from "Grateful We are Not Dead" band at Ottawa Public Library
auditorium, Laurier and Metcalfe St. (Ottawa Public Library and Iman Ibrahim, CDPI,
[email protected],
613-276-6764, www.departmentofpeace.ca )

Saturday Sept. 25: 6 - 8 pm - Documentary film :"For the Next 7
Generations: 13 Indigenous Grandmothers" at Prana Shanti Yoga Studio, 52
Armstrong Street, (Cindy Gaudet —Global Heart Beat, [email protected],
613-761-9642, www.forthenext7generations.com )

Saturday Sept 25: 1 - 5pm: "Peace Meditation as Art" Exhibit at TrikaArts
851Gallery, 1390 Clyde Ave., suite.206 (Shiban Raina, [email protected],
613-224-9179, www.TRIKArts851.com) adjacent to Denny's restaurant on Clyde.
Free parking at the back.

Sunday Sept 26: 11 am- 4pm: "Path of Peace" Walk from Peacekeeping Monument
to Victoria Island, followed by Arts for Peace open-air music concert
(Anita Rizvi and Joe Staresinic, City of Peace Ottawa, [email protected] ,
613-841-9785),

Sunday Sept 26: 1 to 5p.m. "Peace Meditation as Art" Exhibit at
TrikaArts851 Gallery, 1390 Clyde Ave., suite.206 (Shiban Raina, [email protected]
613-224-9179, www.TRIKArts851.com) adjacent to Denny's restaurant on Clyde.
Free parking at the back.

Monday Sept. 27: 7- 8.30 pm: Panel on "How can world religions advocate peace and

promote human rights of all people?" Saint Paul University, 223 Main Street (Qais
Ghanem, Dialogue with Diversity, [email protected],
613-265-4654 and Brian Strom, CICR, [email protected], 613-235-5800)

Tuesday Sept 28: 7.30 am: Councillor George Bedard will speak on his Peace
Park Proposal at Donna's Express. 322 Churchill Ave., North of the corner
of Scott St. & Churchill Ave. Complimentary breakfast (National Capital Peace
Council —Peter Stockdale, 613-852-4527, [email protected])

Tuesday Sept 28: 6.30-9.30 pm: Music Concert for Peace, Saint Paul
University Amphitheatre, 223 Main Street (Sacred Initiatives and CDPI:
Daniel Mauro, [email protected] , 613-204-5229)

Wednesday Sept 29: 7-9 pm: Panel on "Conflict and Peace: Views from the
Field", Ottawa Public Library Auditorium at Laurier and Metcalfe
(CDPI -CPSC: Iman Ibrahim, [email protected],
613-276-6764, www.departmentofpeace.ca and Gord Breedyk,
[email protected] , 613-612-0306, www.civilianpeaceservice.ca)

Thursday Sept 30: 7- 9 pm: Panel on "Dissent and Democracy in Canada:

Should Dissent be confined to Peace Activists?", 233 Gilmour Ave.
(Larry Rousseau, [email protected] , 613-565-1915, www.no-warpaix.ca)

Friday Oct. 01: 7- 9.30 pm: This Precious Life- My Conscious Creation —
Workshop. Public Library, 1574 Merivale Rd. (Vesna Scott,
[email protected], 613-224-5489)

Saturday Oct 02: 10am-4pm: 8th Annual Friends for Peace Day at City
Hall — A day full of peace events including music, peace awards, silent
auction etc. (Ian Prattis, [email protected] , 613-726- 0881, www.
friendsforpeace.ca)

Saturday Oct 02, 2 - 4pm: Mahatma Gandhi Birthday commemoration, Keynote by
Dr. Lawrence Carter, Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International
Chapel and Professor of Religion, Morehouse College, Atlanta; Kailash
Mital Theatre, Carleton University (Jagmohan Humar, Mahatma Gandhi Peace
Council of Ottawa, [email protected] , 613-736-0783, www.gandhiji.ca)

Peace Exhibits:

Sept. 01- 30: Leo Tolstoy photograph exhibit at Ottawa Public Library, Laurier and Metcalfe (Koozma
Tarasoff, 613-737-5778);

Sept 21 - Oct 02: No-War Paix: An Outdoor Peace Exhibit, 250 Range Rd.,
Sandy Hill (Terry Stavnyck, [email protected], 613-565-1915)

Sept. 27-Oct 02: "Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace" exhibit,
Loeb Lounge, Carleton University. (John Callahan, SGI Ottawa,
[email protected], 613-232-1100 , www.
sgicanada.org and Jagmohan Humar, Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa,

[email protected], 613-736-0783, )

Sept 21-Oct02: Dr. Martin Luther King.Jr. photograph exhibit (venue to be

determined, Daniel Stringer, NCPC, 613-792-1431, [email protected] )

For further information, contact Festival conveners: Bill Bhaneja, [email protected],

613-244-1979 and Peter Stockdale,[email protected] , 613-863-4527. Final

program to be posted on www.departmentofpeace.ca , www.civilianpeaceservice.ca,

and www.cicr-icrc.ca.

Comment by Tricia Idrobo on September 3, 2010 at 12:15pm: Thanks, David, I'll be passing this along to lots of people. I think a virtual Peace Summit will inspire a lot of interest.

Comment by Patricia Simon on September 3, 2010 at 11:19am: During Peace Week we will celebrate "Peacebuilding", with jazz at the Acton Jazz Cafe, and with special guest, State Senator James Eldridge. He will read the Resolution, in support of the Youth PROMISE Act, which he will submit to the MA Legislature. We will demonstrate what peace looks like, with testimony from community projects and from Alternatives to Violence (AVP) workshops in prison. It was very moving to see inmates taking on leadership roles in transforming their lives.