THE FIRST NOBLE TRUTH
No one really cares when soldiers get killed. Most of us are OK with that as long as we are comfortable here in the Home Land. But I draw your attention to the suffering of those who have put in disability claims--a quarter of a million. That suffering will go on for ever. So what is a follower of the Buddha to do?~*~
Please join me at this event sponsored by Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice. Please send me an email so we can arrange some carpooling.
LAMENTATION and PROTEST
Remember the Dead ♦ Count the Cost ♦ End the War
Wednesday, March 19 at Noon
HARTFORD
Interfaith Prayer Service
Center Church
Corner of Gold Street and Main Street
(diagonally across from the Wadsworth Atheneum)
followed by a silent procession, ending with a
Public Witness to the Destruction of War
Federal Building
450 Main Street
Remember the Dead ♦ Count the Cost ♦ End the War
Wednesday, March 19 at Noon
HARTFORD
Interfaith Prayer Service
Center Church
Corner of Gold Street and Main Street
(diagonally across from the Wadsworth Atheneum)
followed by a silent procession, ending with a
Public Witness to the Destruction of War
Federal Building
450 Main Street
Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice, a statewide interfaith network of religious leaders and people of faith, will mark this 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by bearing witness to the horrifying costs of war (human, economic, and moral) and to the complicity of silence (by individuals, institutions and corporations).
A brief interfaith prayer service on the steps of Center Church (featuring AFSC’s “Cost of War” banners and boots representing CT’s soldiers who have died) will be followed by a procession to the Federal Building, stopping in front of United Technologies headquarters along the way.
Participants are encouraged to wear black and to bring one or more stones to add to a pile, making visible the destruction and human cost of the war. On each stone, please inscribe the name of an Iraqi civilian who has died in the war (one list is available at www.iraqbodycount.org/database/individuals/). Stones should be large enough to write on with a permanent marker but small enough to carry five blocks. Clergy are asked to wear visible signs of their office.
A brief interfaith prayer service on the steps of Center Church (featuring AFSC’s “Cost of War” banners and boots representing CT’s soldiers who have died) will be followed by a procession to the Federal Building, stopping in front of United Technologies headquarters along the way.
Participants are encouraged to wear black and to bring one or more stones to add to a pile, making visible the destruction and human cost of the war. On each stone, please inscribe the name of an Iraqi civilian who has died in the war (one list is available at www.iraqbodycount.org/database/individuals/). Stones should be large enough to write on with a permanent marker but small enough to carry five blocks. Clergy are asked to wear visible signs of their office.
