The March 2010 ICPJ Newsletter is now on the web. Download it to read all about our Faith and Food project, supporting restaurant workers at Andiamo in Detroit, and much more.

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One year ago the peace movement was jubilant at the election of a new administration. One year after a new administration came to office, where does the peace movement see itself?

A panel of community leaders and peace activists from ICPJ task forces will discuss the policies and actions of the administration of the past year and the effect on the peace movement. Panelists will focus on ICPJ’s issue areas including climate change, Latin America, hunger, Israel/Palestine, war and disarmament, and racial & economic justice.

Date: Wednesday, January 20th
Time: 6:30-8:30pm. Join us for dessert and coffee/tea at 6:30pm, followed by panel speakers and discussion.
Location: Church of the Good Shepherd (2145 Independence Blvd., Ann Arbor). 

For more information, call (734) 663-1870 or email info@icpj.net.  Free and open to the public. Join us!

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The 2009 November ICPJ Newsletter is now online and ready to download. See the photos from CROP Walk, read about our Iraqi Refugees Speak program, and learn more about the achievement gap in Washtenaw County.

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Rev. Reid Hamilton's opinion piece against toture apeared in The Record, the newspaper of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan.

The Record, the newspaper of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, published an editorial by Reid Hamilton that ICPJ helped to get posted.  It’s a good article, give it a read…

Torture is a Terrorist Tactic
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Unexploded cluster bombs like these in a fig orchard in Yaroun, south Lebanon, remain a risk to civilian populations long after military conflict ends.

Over eighty Michigan clergy and religious leaders urged Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan to support efforts to ban the use of cluster munitions in or near civilian populated areas and to prohibit the use, sale and transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate of over one percent.

“Cluster bombs continue to kill and maim civilians long after armed conflict has ended,” said Chuck Warpehoski, Director of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, “It is time for Senator Levin to support eliminating the out-dated, inhumane weapons.”

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Today the Detroit News ran an op-ed by Bishop Wendell N. Gibbs, Imam Dawud Walid and Rabbi Robert Dobrusin that ICPJ helped place. Check it out:

Abolish torture without exceptions

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