 Site Map · Who we are · Archive · BullBoard · Minutes · Patriot Act · Pax Christi · News from E'burg · Links · Photos · Nion · Cheney · 1000 Dead · Signs/resources · Media Analysis · US Casualties Map · March 19 · Peace Groups Under W |
| Working for peace in the Yakima Valley and
throughout the world.
The
Mission of the Yakima Valley Peace
Advocates Network is to educate ourselves and others regarding issues that
threaten peace by conducting positive activities to further the cause of
peace. We
unite with others in voicing our opposition to war, violence and military force
as a means of settling conflict. We
are determined that a peaceful world is
possible.
Who we
are click here YVPAN statement
We stand for
peace and justice
Questions? contact information? email us at
yvpan@hotmail.com
Bulletin Board, click here for informational messages which we have
received.
Archive of previous YVPAN activties, including 1/5/07 3000 Dead Memorial
Service,
click here
Join
YVPAN online discussion group for activity planning and
announcements, click the link below:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YakimaValleyPeaceAdvocatesNetwork/
Next
meeting: Monday, May 12th. 7 to 8:30 PM. St
Michael's Episcopal Church in Yakima, 5 S Naches Avenue, in the Library.
Joint meeting with Pax Christi.
Street corner Signing for Peace
No Iraq/Iran War
They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this
they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.
--Tacitus, Roman historian
Saturday May 17
2:30 to 4 PM
40th Avenue and Summitview (note location for Saturday
signing)
bring or make your own signs. We have signs too!
Sunday May 18
12 Noon to 1 PM
16th Ave and Nob Hill Blvd (YVCC)
bring or make your own signs. We have signs too!
  
Arlington Northwest
Hosted by YVPAN/Pax Christi/Veterans for Peace
Saturday and Sunday April 26-27, 2008
Franklin Park in Yakima
click
here for news article, link to video, photos
Second weekend in June ~ Saturday June 14, 2008 at Fulbright Park, Union Gap,
WA 98903. From 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. YVPAN/Pax Christi will have a
booth at Pridefest .
 July 11-13 Veterans for Peace with YVPAN/Pax Christi will have a booth
at Yakima's Folklife Festival in Franklin Park
Tukwila 6
BRIEF BACKGROUND:
On November
16th, over 1,000 students in Washington State walked out to
protest the war in Iraq and the presence of military recruiters in public
schools. Students at Foster High School in Tukwila,
Washington organized and 150 walked out, saying “Money for Schools, Not
War.”
Foster students rallied at the school flagpole, marched down to the
I-5 overpass, and then marched to the Tukwila City Hall. The march and rally
were student generated and entirely
peaceful.
In reaction the Tukwila School
District has done the following:
· Suspended
one Social Studies teacher, Brett Rogers, who supported his students in a
student generated democratic
movement
· Threatened
administrative action against five other
teachers
· Threatened
to discipline students for exercising their First Amendment Right to free
speech
When Brett Rogers was asked if he had a personal stake in the war,
he said: “It’s an illegal war and my cousin is deploying December
4th, and I’m not happy about it.” Click here for link
to Tukwila 6 update.
Youth and Countermilitarism Program
War Resisters
League
click
here for their website
From NCW Peace (Wenatchee)
As you may know, the "No Child Left Behind" Act requires high schools to
give the names, phone numbers, and addresses of all students to military
recruiters. It also requires that students and parents be given the
opportunity to "opt-out"; that is, to request that their information be kept
private and not given to military recruiters. This request can be made by
either the student or their parents.
ncwpeace.org now has an Opt-Out form available for download at:
http://ncwpeace.org/ResourceFiles/Opt-Out_Form.pdf
The student or parent need only fill out the form and turn it in to the
school to ensure that student information will be kept private.
Please pass this information along to any student or parent who may be
interested in this.
|
| Military Recruitment in
High Schools |
|
Whether your school has informed you or not, military recruiters are likely
to request all student directory information from high schools. Under the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2002, schools must turn over student directory
information to military recruiters who request it.
The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to inform students of their
right to "opt out," which keeps their information from military recruiters.
Schools may have different procedures for doing this, but in most cases, simply
informing the school in writing that you wish to keep your information private
is enough. Keeping your information from the military should not mean that you
must also be excluded from the yearbook, the school directory or from college or
job recruiters.
Sample "opt
out form" »
The military may use many different sources besides school records to
populate their database of prospective recruits. If you want to ensure that the
Department of Defense does not contact your child, you can contact the Direct
Marketing Program Officer to opt out of the database.
Sample letter
to the Department of Defense »
|
What's happening in North central
Washington
click here for NCW Peace website
click here for list of activites
Saturday, March 17
2007 - March and Demonstration: Iraq War Anniversary
Click here
for press coverage, photos, and Union Gap liability
flap.
Freedom of information Act
News
ACLU of Washington
1) FOIA request:
http://www.aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=420
2) Groups filing the request including YVPAN: http://new.aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=419
3) The actual request (requires Adoble Acrobat to open file):
http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/FOIA-%20DFISR.pdf
PEACE MARCH to protest Iraq War
Sunday March 19 2006
click here for newspaper coverage
click here for photos
etc
click
here for Veterans for Peace Website
Domestic spying on anti-war groups forces ACLU into
action
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
By MIKE BARBER
P-I
REPORTER
Monica Zucker and three other members of Seattle's Raging
Grannies, a peace group of older women who dress in outrageous hats and sing
protest songs, lifted up their voices in response Tuesday to recent Seattle P-I
disclosures that they were in federal anti-terrorism files. Read more here
Peace
groups under watch
Authorities keep tabs on non-violent Seattle activists in
hunt for al-Qaida
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
By MIKE BARBER AND PAUL SHUKOVSKY
P-I
REPORTERS
In the post-9/11 world, some unlikely figures have attracted the
attention of local police and federal agents: the Raging Grannies, known for
musical satire, and Quaker peace activists, known for non-violence.
Update January 2007
Read
more here
click here Quagmire
accomplished, 2nd Anniversary
click here
What's happening
in the Puget Sound area. Check
here List of events click here SNOW weekly bulletin on our website here
Seattle NION Website click here
American Friends Service Committee Wage Peace Campaign Building
Momentum
Thanks to thousands of you, our
Wage Peace Campaign is off to
an extraordinary start. We've had more than
25,000 signatures on
the Iraq Peace Petition and more than that have watched
the two-
minute online Wage Peace Movie about the human costs of war.
The
Wage
Peace bracelets are so popular they're now available for
bulk
order at a reduced price. And many, many people have told
their
friends about the campaign, sharing the movie and asking people
to
sign the petition.
Please tell your friends, neighbors, family and
colleagues
about the Wage Peace Campaign. Together we can
promote a path to
peace.
Go to the Wage Peace Campaign homepage now:
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/
Our congresspeople
with email, address and phone. Click Here.
Oppose the Patriot Act click
here
Motion's
presented to city councils opposing Patriot Act:
US Fatalities in Iraq,
US Map by home of record, click
here
Iraq coalition casualty
count, click
here
Casualty counter click
here
Click link below to view civilian casualties
Iraq Body
Count
You are here: Home
Subtopics: Site Map Who we are Archive BullBoard Minutes Patriot Act Pax Christi News from E'burg Links Photos Nion Cheney 1000 Dead Signs/resources Media Analysis US Casualties Map March 19 Peace Groups Under W
