Wednesday, November 5, 2014

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REMINDER: If you're planning on going to the annual School of the Americas Vigil and Action this year in Georgia, plan on getting there in time to join us for the annual "Pax Christi USA at the SOA" program on Friday evening. We've reserved a space at the Columbus Convention Center from 6-7:30pm on Friday, November 21. Click here for more information.

Below is the e-Update for November 2014, a recap of all of the items you may have missed which are still relevant from the past month or so. We hope you'll take a few moments today or later this week to review them and use them as you see fit. 

Pray-Study-Act e-bulletins

• Campaign Nonviolence, September 15
• Ferguson and Racial Justice, September 23

Special Resources and Alerts

• Join Pax Christi USA at the SOA this month
• Obituary for Mary Eoloff, long-time Pax Christi USA member
• PCUSA signs onto NGO statement on nukes and security
• Creative Voice from Education for Justice, featuring PCUSA staff member Johnny Zokovitch on "Discipleship, Word and Witness"
• PCUSA signs onto petition regarding Ferguson
• PCUSA signs onto letter opposing family detention
• PCUSA has signed onto this letter from PCUSA Teacher of Peace Ruben Garcia calling for specific and concrete action on immigration
• The Children at Our Border resource webpage
• Iraq-Syria: Ending the Spiral of Violence resource webpage
• Third Thursday for Israel-Palestine action for October

Recent News Items, Calendar Items and Other Items of Interest 

• Nov. 7-9: Call To Action in Memphis, TN
• Nov. 8: Pax Christi Metro New York Fall Assembly, "The Joy of the Gospel: The Peace Passages." with Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

• Nov. 9: PC Metro D.C.-Baltimore's Annual Peacemaker Award Dinner, honoring Judith Kelly, in Washington, D.C.; contact jjmchale@verizon.net to make reservations

• Nov. 21: Pax Christi USA at the SOA, "Resisting Militarization of Our Youth-from Central America to Ferguson," 6pm at the Columbus (GA) Convention Center, room 205 (more info on the PCUSA website soon)

• Nov. 21-23: SOA Vigil and Action, Ft. Benning, GA

• Nov. 30: Advent begins (resource page for 2014 will be posted in late November)

• Dec. 1: World AIDS Day

• Dec. 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception

• Dec. 10: Human Rights Day

• Dec. 12: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

• Dec. 25: Christmas

• Pax Christi International marks 70 years of pursuing peace
• October's edition of On The Line,  a digest of PCUSA news from around the nation
• Summer 2014 Pax Christi USA Newsletter, The Peace Current, online
• Pax Christi International October 2014 newsletter