"The Truth in Military Recruiting" at Walpole Library Sep 12

Dear Peace Group Friend,

Please join us for an important talk on the truth in military recruiting by Bill Sweet of the American Friends Service Committee. This talk will be particularly important for high school students and their parents.

The Truth in Military Recruiting

Bill Sweet, American Friends Service Committee

Walpole Public Library

Wednesday, September 12 at 7:30 PM

Sponsored by the Walpole Peace and Justice Group, Bill Sweet of the American Friends Service Committee will address the concern of military recruiting in the public schools. Falsification and glorification of the terms of enlistment, racial inequities in recruiting, loopholes which negate the “opt-out” provision for our young people, all are the product of a $6 billion budget directed to military recruitment by the Department of Defense. Come see DVDs, used in recruiting. Learn what the recruiters are telling our children in grades K through 12. Discuss the issues these advertising practices raise. Military recruiting dramatically affects our young people as they determine their futures; it has a significant impact on all of us in the militarization of our society. The public is invited to join in discussion and pursuit of the truth in military recruiting.

Next Peace Vigil: Saturday, September 15 at the Walpole Common across from the Post Office from 10:00 to 11:00 AM.

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