Archive for May, 2018

21 May

Sixth Annual Peace Feast

Posted by Alan Batten in News.

Celebrating Peacemakers in Our Community!

Saturday, 2 June 2018, Noon to 2:00 pm

Square Dance Pavilion, Pioneer Park

5th Annual Peace Feast, Pioneer Park, June 2017. The 2018 event will be at the Square Dance Pavilion (not Wilderness).

Come help us celebrate at the Pioneer Park Square Dance Pavilion! We’ll have our traditional free famous barbecue. Please bring a dish to share and eating utensils if possible. This will be an opportunity to relax in the summer sun and share ideas and interests. Everyone welcome! We’ll be featuring short presentations of work of peace, justice, and sustainability being done in our community.

17 May

Viet Nam 50 Years After the War

Posted by Alan Batten in News, Uncategorized.

Friday, 18 May 2018, 6:30 pm at the Temporary Quaker Meeting House, 1744 Farmers Loop Road

(at the end of Short Road, the next road northeast of the light at Ballaine Road)

For those who missed it the first time, Alan Batten will report on the Commemoration in Viet Nam of the 50th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre. On March 16, 1968, soldiers from Charlie and Bravo Companies of the Americal Division killed 504 unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, in My Lai and adjacent subhamlets of Son My Village. This past March the Vietnamese held a commemoration at the site, and Alan was there as part of a Veterans For Peace delegation. He will report on the event and give an update on the two legacies of the war (unexploded ordnance and agent orange dioxin contamination) that continue to impact the Vietnamese people.

Sponsored by the Chena Ridge Friends Meeting, Alaska Peace Center and North Star Veterans For Peace and will be held at the Temporary Quaker Meeting House, 1744 Farmers Loop Road (at the end of Short Road, the next road northeast of the light at Ballaine Road).