Meeting Notes: December, January, & February

Sunday, 6 December 2009

Present: Kate, Marjorie, Mary Pat, Nick

Recollection of the Dorothy Day event.

We need a cache of presentation and table display materials.

Kate has a DVD of Paul Milanowski's commentary on the nuclear video.

MaryPat reports that we will at Barbara Hanson, OP some time after March.

Hiroshima Day preparations coming along well. Publicity blitz will come after New Year.

Need to edit video to shorten.

MaryPat will show it next weekend with NAPF package at Marywood.

Need to add intro material, including Pax Christi info.

MaryPat will pull out old Peace material to add.

Sunday, 3 January 2010

Present: Kate, MaryPay, Marjorie, Kyla, Nick.

Discussion of "The Green House"—community on Eastern Ave.—rehabing and rerenting houses

New Member!

Kyla is a senior at Aquinas; Psychology, Spanish, and Writing major; interested in the Catholic Worker movement; connected to the Peace House in Kalamazoo.

Discussion of Nuclear Weapons videos:

We still need to re-edit our video shorter and add the priests.

Handouts are available.

Check libraries of "Original Child Bomb" video—30 min.—for younger audiences, more experiential than informational.

Also check out "The Day After"—about 25 years old, very scary.

Our veterans noted that it was very effective in Michigan in the 1980s to FOLLOW THE LITURGICAL YEAR for peace actions, prayers, and demonstrations.

So, what are we doing next?

CONFERENCE: JOBS, ENVIRONMENT, AND PEACE

"Think Outside the Bomb" (.org) will be here mid-May—Kyla

Economicology & Peter Wege

Van Jones—ideas

Location: urban, outdoors—Wealthy? IGE parking lot?—block party

Music, speakers, tables

Urban gardening

Intentional Community—Joy?

International Day of Peace

Nick will talk to people in the Wealthy business district about hosting the event.

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Present: Kyla, Kate, MaryPat, Marjorie, Nick.

Think Outside the Bomb will be in GR 18 May.

They are thinking about having their event at the DAAC.

Fall Conference/Festival

Eastown Street Fair—IGE table last year went well

Cranes videos from Japan available

Film

still need to edit and copy

NCR had a good article three weeks ago on nuclear weapons—good information for presentation.

Nick will check with Diocesan Catechetical Office about showing the film at the next Catechetical Conference.

Upcoming Events

Pax Christi Michigan State Conference (see post)

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photo Poster Exhibition (see post)

Words Against Hunger—annual program at Aquinas College—Sunday, 28 March, 3:00 p.m. in the Moose Café

Our next meeting will be Sunday, 7 March, 4:00 p.m. at Katie's house.

Pax Christi Tecum