Friends for a Non-Violent World
May 7, 2010
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Time for more Uproar!
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Looking for Office Space? Check out FNVW

Friends for a Non-Violent World is looking to share our spacious offices with a compatible community organization or non-profit.

 

          Space at 1050 Selby Ave, St Paul  55104

          $800/mo for 800 sq. feet

          Plus shared full kitchen & bathroom

          Street-level office space

          Access to a large conference room

          Sharing high-speed internet and printer/copier is negotiable

          Utilities not included; charged on prorated basis


FNVW is looking to share our office space with an organization or individual who honors our mission:

FNVW is a Quaker-inspired organization of people who affirm the dignity inherent in each human being. We share a commitment to advancing non-violence as an ethic for honoring human dignity and a strategy for achieving peace and justice. 


For more information, please call Ava at the FNVW office, 651-917-0383 or email to [email protected].

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FNVW Grant research volunteer opportunity

FNVW is looking for a volunteer for an  approximately 10-hour commitment to look on line and in other resource materials for foundations that are a good fit with FNVW's mission.  This work can be done at home or at our office.

Our mission & values:
"FNVW is a Quaker-inspired organization of people who affirm the dignity inherent in each human being.  We share a commitment to advancing non-violence as an ethic for honoring human dignity and strategy for achieving peace and justice."

Guidance will be provided by Interim Executive Director Erika Thorne.  Interested?  Contact Erika at the office.

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The Sun Came Out--Twice!

Last Sunday I was at UPROAR!--the 36th annual May Day parade and pageant in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis*. 

UPROAR was "a call to be fully present to the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theateruncertainties of these shifting times."  There's a different theme each year to this beloved event, and UPROAR goes to the heart of our work at FNVW. 

In our multi-leveled approach to non-violence, we call everyone working for progressive social transformation to be fully present with our bodies, voices, minds, hearts and spirits.

The transformational power of political art work was evident Sunday, with those in the pageant and those watching caught up in laying out four stages that the world's peoples are going through: 
  • Growl under the burdens,
  • Breathe to reawaken our collective destiny,
  • Return to the wisdom of our ancestors, and
  • Roar with exuberance to protect this world of infinite wonder. 
We saw these stages unfold through the breathtaking beauty of puppets ranging from the size of a child's hand to 11 feet tall, on a cloudy, blustery day.  Yet, the sun broke through the clouds when the huge puppets of the Land, Water, Earth and Sky encircled the pageant's ceremonial site, and the crowd of thousands cheered in delight and disbelief.  Then again as the Tree of Life puppet was re-awakened and raised to bless all of us, the sun came shining down on us, and this time the crowd united in UPROAR, roaring as if we were one.  I am sure that all who were there will carry that power within us for a long time.

The challenge, then, is to keep nourishing that Roar of power, individually and collectively.  The opportunities to be fully present in non-violence as an ethic and strategy are many at FNVW: 

* individuals transforming conflicts in prisons and jails and during re-entry

* people of faith & of ethics recovering the non-violence rooted in Islam, Christianity and other faith & secular traditions

* families of all configurations living in a community of non-violence, committed to justice, every summer

* precincts gathering as neighbors as well as caucuses to make the peace and justice vote the vote that matters most

If these opportunities sound like what you have been looking for, to be fully present in transforming society, please call me at Friends for a Non-Violent World's office:  651/917-0383.

Let's cause a mighty UPROAR!

Erika Thorne

* Designed and coordinated by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater (www.hotb.org) with hundreds of community volunteers, the festival is a miracle to behold.  Anyone can get involved. Some families are in their second and even third generation of participation. 


Being Peace
Guided Meditation

All are Welcome!

Thursday
5/20
From 7-9pm
At  Friends For a Nonviolent World Office
1050 Selby Ave, St Paul


Join Peace in the Precincts as we explore guided meditation as a way to focus our healing energy on a wounded world. For six sessions we will join together in mindfulness about an issue of justice and peace. Our inner work is designed to bring transformative power to bear, within each of us and throughout our communities and nation. Each session will include some light guidance in meditation techniques, and an opportunity for discussion after the meditation. No experience is necessary and everyone is welcome.


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Thanks to FNVW member and Treasurer David Woolley, FNVW has a profile on Facebook.
 
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(If you're already logged into Facebook, you can do a Facebook search for "Friends for a NonViolent World".)


David is open for suggestions about how to make our presence on Facebook as useful as possible to FNVW and denizens of Facebook.
Erika Thorne,
Interim Executive Director

Friends for a Non-Violent World
1050 Selby Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104
651-917-0383
www.fnvw.org