Past Events of Participation
2005:
SOA Watch November 19, Ft. Benning in Columbus Georgia.
Home of the infamous School of the Americas (now titled Western Hemisphere
School of Strategic Studies). Join us in protest of the US training
facility for assassination and torture, the 12th year.
September 24-26 3 Massive Days of Action at D.C. Mobilization in
Washington, DC. Help end the war on Iraq! Hold President Bush
accountable for the Deaths, the Lies, the Destruction, and the toll on our
communities! Rally, March, Concert, AntiWar Festival featuring 14 theme
tents on Iraq, Real Support for the Troops, CounterRecruitment, Global Justice,
the Wars at Home, Nuclear Disarmament, Direct Action, etc..
Saturday: March on Washington to End the War, Rally, Antiwar Festival w/
Information Tents
Sunday: Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training,
Monday: Lobby Day, Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience.
We had a great turnout of Sheboygan folk, there are lots of pictures
in the Vets
for Peace Sheboygan web site.
Saturday August 13th. EarthFest at Sheboygan's Fountain Park.
Artists, performers and musicians (including
Lil' Rev!), peace loving entertainment. Fun-raising, earth
friendly vendors. Environmental organizations, speakers,
consciousness-raising participants. Music and art festival serving good
food and free spirits. We will have an informational table and materials,
and welcome discussion about our group, this decade's wars, the draft and
registration, high school recruiting. For general event details please contact Kathy at 920-452-3805 or Uriah and Michelle at 920-331-0285.
August 6th. 60th year anniversary recognition of the bombing at
Hiroshima. A sunset Hiroshima Memorial Lantern Float is planned in the Sheboygan River with
viewing from the Sheboygan Rotary Riverfront
Park. View the artwork and meet the artists at 7:30, Lantern Float
and Memorial comments between 8pm and 9pm. Hope to see you there! Our informational links about
Hiroshima.
Wednesday March 27. Work for congressional and public enlightenment
about the "nuclear option" attempt by the Republican administration to change
the rules and force acceptance of judicial appointments by minority Democrats.
Protest this potentially devastating move against democracy and our
constitution. Join us as we join hundreds of other cites around the
country. We will be protesting in Milwaukee, 5pm till 6pm at the Federal
Building in Milwaukee! Departing the Sheboygan Park and Ride (Home Depot)
at 4:15pm, returning to Sheboygan by 7pm. Bring signs!
The week ending with Saturday March 19, 2005. We will
mark the anniversary of the 2003 Iraq invasion AGAIN with a recognition of and
demonstration against the preemptory strike against Iraq. (March 20th is
the real date, but that's Palm Sunday and we don't want to mess with that [did
you know we invaded Iraq on the eve of the Islamic New Year?]) There will be
numerous events around the country that week and that weekend, some of our
members will be attending those, and others will create another moving and
thought provoking statement here in Sheboygan.
Laramie Crocker, folk and anti-war performer extraordinaire will be with
us that week from California to
share his powerful music and ideas. This is amazing
material..... preview his songs and media at
http://provisionalauthority.us Laramie is
looking to extend his trip to Wisconsin, we are looking on
his behalf for more venues..... theatrical stage, schools, coffeehouses.....
if you know a place or are a group that would like to help share his message,
please
email Chris Kuehnel, 920-693-3141, or
email
Phyllis Bergquist. You can help us publicize this event and fill the
house if you would like to view/print your
own color poster or
"take-alongs".
Wednesday March 16, 2005 7pm till 10pm.
Laramie Crocker
will be joined by Holly Haebig and Dena Aronson of DevavNation, in addition to other local musicians for a
"Peace and
Justice Event" at UW Sheboygan. This will be a multimedia all ages
'show' with audience involvement. Free! Donation or canned goods
requested. Hear Laramie perform his award winning "Cargo" with Flash
movie, along with other anti-war songs. Hear students of all ages
presenting essays on war and peace issues. Many groups will have
recordings, merchandise, and information available. Please plan to join
us! Info:
email
Phyllis Bergquist.
Wednesday March 9, 2005 The Sheboygan Human Rights Assoc. Inc.
invites the public to come to Mead Public Library, 7pm, for a free showing of
the video "When They Came for Ward Churchill" and discussion about Ward
Churchill's controversial statements, Free Speech protections, and the new
threat of college professors' tenure removals. To be presented by
Sheboygan Peace and Justice.
Inauguration Day - January 20, 2005 On Inauguration Day,
there will be activities in Washington, DC and across the country. We will be
speaking out against the war and saying loud and clear: Bring Them Home Now!!!
Another major group's statement will be about Election Deception and the
stealing of the 2004 election.
We will be posting information on events in Washington and elsewhere as we
receive it. At least one bus will be going from Milwaukee and currently
there is reportedly space available. Go to www.mfso.org for national
updates, and stay tuned here for our localized response.
Just in: Lakeshore PeaceMakers is organizing an "inauguraction"
bus trip. Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and Green Bay based interested
people are being advised to contact them, full details at::http://lakeshorepeacemakers.org/index.php?p=12#comments
Thursday
January 13. 7pm-9pm Member Phyllis Bergquist will share her multi-media presentation
regarding her recent middle east trip with
the Christian Peacemaker Teams.
She will speak about "Palestine, Israel, and the Wall". Mead Public
Library, Sheboygan, WI.
2004:
November 18-22 Bus or Nov 18-21 via airplane. School of the
America's protest at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia. A joint trip
with Sheboygan Veterans for Peace in conjunction with PeaceAction Milwaukee.
Come and protest the continuing training by the US Army of covert operations,
assassination, and torture to police and military of and for Central and South
America governments.
General background, click here. More localized details soon!
October 29th and November 5th will both be special protest and
awareness days in Sheboygan, come join us at Fountain Park, 5pm to 6pm.
October 29th help to activate people to vote in our presidential elections.
November 5, work with us no matter who are next president will be, to help
residents realize that we all STILL need to work for improved international and
domestic policies that do not include war, nor building our economy on
industrial military, nor on covert overthrow of elected governments.
Months of September and October. We will be active with Get Out the Vote
planning. We are working to become deputized to sign up voters for the
fall elections. Please contact Rhie for more about the Get Out the Vote
program, or to find out more about where you should go to vote, or how to vote,
she is available at 920-457-4713.
September 23rd, Thursday. The
Wheels of Justice Tour will be
coming to Sheboygan. Mead Public Library, downtown Sheboygan WI, 7pm to
9pm. Speakers will be Michael
Birmingham who has spent most of the last 16 months in Iraq, and
Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, an Associate
Professor of Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine and a Palestinian
American. Click on the names for full bio's and more details.
Click here to view/print an event
poster.
Appearances for and with students are also scheduled throughout the day at
Plymouth High School, Sheboygan's North High School, and UW Sheboygan.
Members of
Voices in the Wilderness, the
Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the
Middle East Children's Alliance, and affiliates of the
International Solidarity Movement take to the road in a colorfully decorated
full-size school bus for the Wheels of Justice Tour. Starting in mid-August
2003, this tour has canvassed the western and mid-western United Sates to
challenge and educate North Americans on the occupation of Palestine and Iraq.
Donations gratefully accepted, buttons and t-shirts will be for sale. Read more about Wheels of Justice
in Sheboygan, or about the organization at their website
http://www.justicewheels.org.
Sept 29 Wednesday 2-2:30pm an interview with Birmingham and
Qumsiyeh will be re-broadcast on Sheboygan cable channel 8.
September 11, Saturday. A remembrance of those killed on that
date 3 years ago. Also, a reflecting on events of that day and the days,
months and years that have followed, that have caused and continues to cause,
unbelievable horrors, death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of people
all over the world. Prayers of peace, Lighting of Candles of Remembrance,
Drumming Circle, Silent Reflection, beginning at 6 pm at Fountain Park,
Sheboygan, corner of 9th and Erie streets.
September 10, Friday. Mr. Cheney will be coming to Johnsonville
Sausage (Johnsonville WI), to speak at a "Town Meeting" at 11:55am. As one
of the darker sides of our government, we will protest his presence there.
Please join up with us at Saron UCC, .8mi east of CTH "M" on CTH "J" at 10:30am
or at the Emil Mazey UAW Hall at 5425 Superior Avenue on the west side of
Sheboygan at 10:30am. Johnsonville Sausage is a non-union shop, we will
join the AFL-CIO in protesting Bush/Cheney anti-union policies and all of their
inequitable national and international priorities. Questions about the
protest? Call 414-350-8463.
August 11, Wednesday. Stop the Wall. The Stop the Wall
Campaign is pulling the Wall across the US. The STW campaign is visiting
local communities with its Wall Trailer (an auto trailer built to look like a
section of the Wall that Israel is building on the West Bank) and full-scale
replicas of the Wall. The Wall being built in Israel/Palestine, with aid
from the United States has been condemned by the International Court of Justice.
This is an effort to educate the American public about the Wall being built, and
its effects on the people living in the shadow of it. Join the Sheboygan
Area Peace Seekers on August 11th, at Deland Park or Mead Public Library based
on weather. More Info about our event,
or learn more about how the Wall is being built with your tax dollars at
www.stopthewall.us.
August 6, Friday. Hiroshima Day. 7pm.
Remembering the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers
and Sheboygan Veterans for Peace will hold a candlelight vigil and march in
remembrance of the dropping of the first and second (the only) atomic bombs on
civilian populations. We take this opportunity to remember this part of
our history so that it might never happen again. Join us at Deland Park,
Sheboygan, on Lake Michigan as we light the candles for remembrance and
peace, and join us in the march to Riverfront Park where we will sow the seeds of
change. Yes, we will also be demonstrating
that day, if you come please bring a nuke related sign!
For background
reading on Hiroshima please visit our special links page.
July 6th Sheboygan City Hall. A member of Milwaukee's Common
Council (Don Richards) will present details of their recent ordinance that locally rescinds
portions of the USA Patriot Act. In attendance will be Committee Members
of the Sheboygan Common Council. No public input is expected but your
attendance is encouraged in support of this important topic. Sheboygan
City Hall, 3rd floor, 6pm.
June 20 Member Phyllis Bergquist will be presenting
the sermon and also a short multi-media about her recent middle east trip with
the Christian Peacemaker Teams.
She will speak about "Palestine, Israel, and the Wall" for both the 8:00am and
9:30am services at Saron United Church of Christ.
May 19 Diversity Day at Lakeland College.
Member
Tom Contrestan speaking at 1:45pm to high school attendees. Phyllis Bergquist will be speaking at 9:50am to 10:50am and 1:45pm to 2:30pm about The
Reality of Occupation and "The Wall". Other members speaking as
well.
This event is organized by high schoolers for high schoolers. Other
speakers will be presenting religions of the world, world cultures, alternative
organizations in the region, etc.. Go to our
downloads page to review a program.
May 9 Earthfest (a/k/a Motherfest) 12 noon till 9pm at the
Quarryview Shelter in Sheboygan.
Musicians, craftspeople, holistic health practitioners and eco-friendly
product information.
Contact Kathy or Craig at 920.452.3805 for details.
April 29 George Martin traveled to Iraq in January 2004 representing
United for Peace and Justice, the United State's largest anti-war coalition in a
fact finding trip to listen to the Iraqi people. He will speak 7pm to 9pm at
Sheboygan's Mead Public Library with his first hand information about what is
really going on there. Review or print
the poster or go to our downloads page for a
PDF version.
April 15 Tax Day. To help with increasing awareness of tax and war costs, we will be
leafleting at key IRS and Federally related locations.
March 20, 2004 in Sheboygan, at Fountain Park. Sheboygan Veterans for
Peace is sponsoring a "Time to Reflect on the Effects of War" from 6:30pm till
9:30pm. Join us for a Memorial of Luminaries for those Americans
and Iraqis that have lost their lives in Iraq
Download a flier about the
day's event or a great poster
(high speed connection suggested for the first poster), or a
slightly smaller poster if you use dialup.
March 20, 2004, Global day of Protest
General Information
March 11
Clear-Cutting in Canada
and Indigenous People. Sheboygan's Mead Public Library 7pm till 8pm.
A video, short presentation and answers to questions will be offered by Phyllis
Bergquest regarding her recent trip with CPT to Grassy Narrows, Ontario, Canada.
She will speak on clear-cutting that is taking place in the Whiskey Jack Forest,
the Native peoples fight to stop it, and the plight of the "First Nation"
people of Canada and the U.S.. More info at left or
download a poster if you have a
high-speed connection.
February 28
Free Peace Activist Training at First Congregational United
Church of Christ. 9am till 12:30pm. Presented by Peach Action
Wisconsin. More info at left, or
download and print a few posters.
January 22
Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness spoke in
Sheboygan.
Three time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, active in Iraq since 1996
intriguing and thought provoking commentary.
2003:
October 30
Plan Columbia - Cashing in on the 20 year Drug War failure.
September 11
Aftermath from 9/11 - Unanswered Questions.
July 23
Wheels of Justice Tour.
May 23
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 7 people
May 19
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at the 1st
Presbyterian Church from 4 to 5 PM with the Sheboygan Human Rights
Association.
Attendance: 8 people
May 16
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 10 people
May 12
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at the 1st
Congregational Church of Christ from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: 7 people
May 9
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 20 people
May 5
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at the 1st
Congregational Church of Christ from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: 9 people
May 2
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 30 people
April 28
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at the 1st
Congregational Church of Christ from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: 8 people
April 25
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 30 people
April 21
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at the 1st
Congregational Church of Christ from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: 10 people
April 18
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 30 people
April 14
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at Mead Public Library
from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: 11 people
April 11
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 30 people
April 7
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at Mead Public Library
(because of being locked out of the Ebenezer Church) from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: 7 people
April 4
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 12 people
March 28
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 50 people
March 21
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 50 people
March 20
Protesting the start of the Iraq war in front of a government building
because of our opposition to our federal government's foreign policy. City
Hall, 4 to 6 PM.
Attendance: 20 people
March 18
Peace meeting of the Sheboygan Area Peace Seekers at the Ebenezer Church
from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: 13 people
March 14
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 60 people
March 7
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Attendance: 50 people
February 28
Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
From 5 to 7 PM debated with pro-war people.
Attendance: Over 80 people
February 26
1 hour video Hidden Wars of Desert Storm shown at Mead Public
Library from 7 to 9 PM.
Attendance: Over 40 people
February 21
Fourth Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Sheboygan Press article on February 23rd only stated 70 people.
Attendance: 80 to 100 people
February 14
Third Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Sheboygan Press article on February 15th.
Attendance: 70 people
February 7
Second Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Sheboygan Press article on February 8th.
Attendance: 60 people
January 31
First Peace March at Fountain Park from 4 to 5 PM.
Two Sheboygan Press articles on February 1st. Excellent
coverage.
Attendance: 30 people
