Please join us on Saturday, October 6, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM for a peace vigil on the Walpole Commons across from the Post Office to protest the Iraq war. As Congress take little action to end this disastrous war it is important that we publicly demonstrate our opposition. Depending on the weather we will be holding a 60 foot banner with stars representing the first 2,129 U.S. soldiers killed in the war. Tragically the total of U.S soldiers killed is now over 3,800 and the number of Iraq civilians has been estimated as high as 1,000,000. Please join us as we will need additional people to hold the banner.
Next Talk: At Hell's Gate by Claude Anshin Thomas, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the Walpole Public Library. In this talk Claude Anshin Thomas’ recounts his dramatic coming-of-age story and spiritual odyssey as well as an offering of his profound insights into suffering and violence, and how we can end them in ourselves and in our world. “Everyone has their Vietnam,” Claude writes, everyone has experienced trauma and everyone, if they want, can find healing and peace through looking deeply at the nature of their suffering. “War is a collective expression of individual suffering.” The seeds of war and violence are planted early and often, and it is only through our actions and insights personally that we can hope to end war globally. Claude Anshin Thomas went to Vietnam at the age of eighteen, where he received numerous medals, including twenty-seven Air Medals, a Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart. Today he is a monk in the Soto Zen tradition and an active speaker and Zen teacher in the United States and Europe. He is also the founder of the Zaltho Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes peace and non-violence.
For the Walpole Peace and Justice Group
Philip Czachorowski
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