The Cleveland Nonviolence Network Presents Two Days of Participatory Education About Peace

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Fri 12/4 @ 7PM

Sat 12/5 @ 9AM-3:30PM

If watching the nightly news gives you a throbbing headache — a civil war here, bands of murderous rebels there, constant drumbeats for the U.S to go invade something, anything — you need an antidote. And the two-day “State of Nonviolence” event could be just the thing.

The Cleveland Nonviolence Network, which for a decade produced the Labor Day Cleveland Peace Show, as a non-militaristic alternative to the Cleveland Air Show, is hosting what it plans to be the first of a new annual event. Its aim, they say, is “to bring nonviolent practitioners together to appraise and educate people about the current state of nonviolence domestically and internationally.”

It kicks off Friday evening with a presentation by keynote Speaker Paul K. Chappell (pictured) at the Breen Center in Ohio City. Chappell is a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran whose war experiences led him to choose a different path. He is director of the nuclear Age Peace Foundation, under whose rubric he lectures and teaches workshops about how to be a leader in replacing war with peace. He’ll talk about the current state of nonviolence in the world and what we can do to further the cause.

That evening there will also be poetry performances, a hip-hop poetry workshop and a participatory program of universal dances of peace.

On Saturday at Trinity Cathedral, the day will be filled with workshops, performances and a community forum on how progressive anti-war Clevelanders should interact with those coming to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention next year. There will be a vegetarian lunch, which you should pre-register for (although the entire event is free). Go here to do so or for more details about what’s on the schedule.

The event is sponsored by Cleveland Peace Action Education Fund; Council on American-Islamic Relations-Ohio, Cleveland and Northern Ohio Chapter; Creating Communities of Peace; Imagine Peace/West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church; National Lawyer’s Guild, Cleveland Chapter; Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee; North Presbyterian Church; State Rep. Nickie Antonio; Saint Ignatius High School; St. Paul’s Community Church; Thomas Merton Society; University Circle Methodist Church; and Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice.

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Cleveland, OH 44113

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