WNPJ + WI Peace WAVE + Gun Violence Prevention Summit + SAVE the date Oct 19th for WNPJ Annual Fall Assembly + November’s Referendum + other statewide events
The WI Network for Peace and Justice is the umbrella non-profit organization
supporting the work of 86 member groups around Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Peace Wave - Tuesday, October 8th
WNPJ, in remembering its origin as a network of organizations and individuals who united in a stand for peace at the time of the Gulf War, is inviting people from around the state to again stand together for peace.
Whatever divides us must be secondary to our common goals and demands - diplomacy and peace.
The US government and military agencies have supported Israel in its defense, but the ongoing slaughter of innocents and now the escalation into Lebanon cannot continue. US complicity and support of warfare must end.
We are certain there are better ways to resolve conflict and recognize that we must make our voices heard. On Tuesday, October 8th, we invite everyone of conscience, regardless of political views, to make a statement for peace. We invite our member organizations to help create this wave of peace throughout our state. Welcome your allies, friends and communities to stand together.
Wherever you are in Wisconsin, at whatever time works best – gather with colleagues and stand for PEACE! More information and details will be forthcoming. Your help in getting the word out is essential. Contact: dena.eakles@gmail.com
Vigil for Palestine - Killing the Flowers Will Never Delay Spring
Tuesday, October 8th, at 7 PM at the Islamic Community Center (815 W Layton Ave). Remember all the beautiful lives the world has lost at the hands of the apartheid state.
One year of genocide. One year of resistance. Remember the martyrs. Remember the 40,000+ men, women, and children killed. Remember the children, the health care workers, the journalists. Remember the thousands of unrecognizable bodies. Remember the tens of thousands of innocent people lost under the rubble. See this Instagram post for more information. Peace Action of WI https://www.peaceactionwi.org/
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Peace Singing
Tuesday, October 8, 5:00 pm
Madison Friends Meetinghouse parking lot
1704 Roberts Court, Madison
Bring instruments! We have plenty of copies of Rise Up Singing.
This is our contribution to the WNPJ Oct 8 Wave of Peace - and a way to bring some joy to troubled times.
Gun Violence Prevention Summit - Milwaukee
Thursday, 10 October, 8 am – 4 pm at the Baird Center - 400 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee
Join Forward Latino, WAVE, the 80% Coalition and others at the 2nd annual Gun Violence Prevention Summit on October 10 at the Baird Center. The summit brings together community members, local and national experts, faith-based leaders, elected officials and more to discuss solutions to gun violence prevention in both urban and rural communities.
It will be this year's largest gun violence prevention event in the state, and is sure to be a day of impactful learning and action. WAVE Educational Fund is a presenting cosponsor of the event. Register today to join a diverse group of advocates, experts, and community members to drive meaningful change. (Lunch option is SOLD OUT – Attending the Summit is free – lunch option on your own.)
Find sponsorship opportunities and additional information at www.emergencygunviolencesummit.org! Contact: Heidi Johnson hj@waveedfund.org
Join WNPJ for the 2024 Fall Assembly!
Our 2024 theme will be "Mobilize: Creating a Collective Shift from Militarism to a Culture of Peace and Environmental Justice".
Join in Madison, connect on your own, or meet with a group to connect via Zoom. Some locations may offer social/potluck/networking opportunities.
Register HERE to receive the Zoom link - it's free, and open to all!
Saturday, October 19th @ 10am-1pm
Madison: Madison Friends Meeting House
Would you be interested in being part of the 2024-2025 WNPJ Board? If so, let the nominating committee know before October 14th!
Send us a short bio and why you'd like to be part of this 33 year-old WI non profit organization!
We meet once a month via zoom and we're looking for a Board that represents all of Wisconsin. We ask that you be a member of WNPJ or a member of one of WNPJ's 86 member organizations and committed to peace, justice and sustainability!
Here we are in this photo - at work at a Board meeting with guests from one of our member groups, Faith in Place.
Questions? Contact info@wnpj.org Join us - and make a difference!
Constitutional Amendment on the Ballot November 5th!
The Constitutional Amendment on the November 5 ballot is harmful and can diminish our voting rights. Learn from the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin why you should vote no to this constitutional amendment. This constitutional amendment aims to divide us. Let's come together and vote no! Learn more and watch the webinar recording HERE. Questions? Reach out to lwvwisconsin@lwvwi.org.
WNPJ Member Group Events
Click here to see a listing of recurring Vigils across the state!
Madison
10/7 @ 12pm-1pm: Vigil for Peace - Meet at the corner of MLK Jr Blvd and Doty St. Questions? Call Tim at 608-630-3633
10/7 @ 6:00pm: Antiwar Film Series - From Ground Zero - new films from Gaza
At the Madison Central Library. Trailer is here. Madison World BEYOND War will join campus activists to show a brand new collection of 20 short films from Gaza, made with renowned director Rashid Masharawi. The film was excluded from Cannes, and Masharawi showed it on an exterior wall there, details. Zoom Q and A with film producers after. Contact warabolition@gmail.com
10/8 @ 6:30pm-8:30pm: Madison Democratic Socialists of American General Meeting - with pizza . Social Justice Center, 1202 Williamson St For more details, zoom links to all of the above, and a subscribe link to the Madison DSA calendar, visit madison-dsa.org and https://actionnetwork.org/groups/madison-dsa.
10/8 @5 pm Peace Singing. Madison Friends Meetinghouse parking lot
1704 Roberts Court, Madison. Bring instruments! We have plenty of copies of Rise Up Singing. This is our contribution to the WNPJ Oct 8 Wave of Peace - and a way to bring some joy to troubled times. https://www.wnpj.org/.../madison-friends-meeting-(quakers)
10/10 @ 3:30pm-6:30pm: Los Volcanes Launch Party - Join Worker Justice WI celebrating National Cooperative Month. 8508 Fairway Drive, Middleton. Enjoy good music and food, and stay for our 5:00 p.m. program to hear from members of our Collective and the Co-op Support Network who made our incubation possible. The event will feature speakers including Charity Schmidt from Madison Cooperative Development Coalition, who has helped secure funding and resources for Los Volcanes while serving as a liaison with the co-op network, Damon Etawlyah, a lawyer from Small Axe Cooperative specializing cooperative law, and Arlene Bollig, a bilingual business counselor with WWBIC and the Small Business Administration (through Comienzos) who has expertise in supporting aspiring business owners. We also wanted to extend a big thank you to our sponsors who are making this event possible: Willy Street Co-op, Common Wealth Development, and Kids Forward. If you have questions or you're interested in sponsoring this event, please email Worker Cooperatives Organizer, Frida Ballard, frida@workerjustice.org.
10/12 @ 5:30pm-8:30pm: Yom Kippur- Judaism Beyond Zionism-themed High Holiday event. Village Co-housing 1104 Mound St. - followed by a break-the-fast potluck
The public is invited. Sent to WNPJ by Madison Rafah Sister City Project
Milwaukee
10/8 @ 7:00pm: Vigil for Palestine, Killing the Flowers Will Never Delay Spring
At the Islamic Community Center (815 W Layton Ave). Remember all the beautiful lives the world has lost at the hands of the apartheid state. One year of genocide. One year of resistance. Remember the martyrs. Remember the 40,000+ men, women, and children killed. Remember the children, the health care workers, the journalists. Remember the thousands of unrecognizable bodies. Remember the tens of thousands of innocent people lost under the rubble. https://www.instagram.com/p/DAhH1T2uDZh/
Peace Action of WI https://www.peaceactionwi.org/
10/10 @ 8am-4pm: Gun Violence Prevention Summit - at the Baird Center, 400 W Wisconsin Ave. Learn more in the SPOTLIGHT above.
10/12 @ 12pm-1pm: Peace Action WI Weekly STAND for PEACE at Sherman and North. Join us and bring your signs. Questions? Contact: info@peaceactionwi.org
Racine
10/12 @ 12:30-1:30pm:Vigil to Honor the Innocents Killed in Gaza. Join the Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice for a vigil to honor the innocents killed in Gaza during the past year. We will have signs and speakers. Location: Martin Luther King Plaza, 909 Dr. Martin Luther King Dr., Racine 53404. We will have signs and speakers.
Contact: Elaine Kinch, 262-456-0574 https://racinepeace.wordpress.com/
La Crosse
10/10 @ 12pm-12:30pm: Weekly Women in Black Peace Vigil. Meet at Main St & 4th Street South. A weekly vigil for peace every Thursday. Questions? Email dbuffton@yahoo.com
Viroqua
10/12 @ 11am-12pm: Driftless Palestinian Solidarity Weekly Vigil. Meet at Decker and Main. Action Alert: The Driftless Palestinian Solidarity group has a petition to demand that Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and end financial aid to Israel's military. If your group is interested in getting signatures, please email driftless.solidarity@gmail.com. Thank you for your help!
Osceola
10/10 @ 6pm-8pm: 3rd Annual Harvest Party of the St Croix Valley Food Alliance(SCVFA). At Community Homestead near Osceola. If you love real, fresh food and want to know who grew it, where, and how, there is only one event to go to, to check all those boxes with a plateful of yummy goodness. Dinner from Fiddlehead Kitchen costs Adults-$20. Children $7.50. Live music from local band HWY Y.
Food, fun, and fundraising will be the focus for the evening of this burgeoning organization whose mission is to “strengthen and promote a thriving, resilient, and equitable local food economy in the St. Croix River Valley. More info? www.scvfoodalliance.org Contact information for Mike Miles of Anathoth Community near Luck: tel: 608 886 0030
Virtual
10/7 @ 7pm: 350 Wisconsin Monthly Meeting to understand and discuss extreme weather events ONLINE VIA ZOOM: Register in advance for the meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting via computer, tablet, or smartphone. Ken Van Horn, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, and Jeffery S. Lafferty, Public Health Epidemiologist, from Public Health Madison & Dane County will present and discuss air quality and extreme heat in Dane County, Wisconsin. The presentation will provide an overview of air quality and extreme heat and its impact to the health in Dane County communities with a focus on health equity.
In addition, the presenters will discuss emergency preparedness efforts to help reduce the potential health implications, and improve the ability of our community to respond as these events become more frequent due to the effects of climate change. While the speakers represent Dane County Public Health, this presentation should provide useful information for people living anywhere in Wisconsin about dealing with extreme heat, poor air quality and ways to prepare in communities for adverse weather events. 350 Wisconsin contact@350wisconsin.org
10/8 @ 2pm-3pm: Monthly zoom call for WNPJ's Environmental Justice Check-In
You are welcome to attend monthly zoom calls for WNPJ's Environmental Justice - Check-in. The calls occur the second Tuesday at 2 pm every month. The zoom link is always the same and is offered below. These calls are a chance for EJ organizations to draw attention to their activities, petitions, actions and more. It is an opportunity to learn from one another and to bring focused awareness to the most important actions occurring in a given month. We are seeing the importance of these communication and are hoping more people can join the discussion. Please be prepared to offer a 3- 5 minute synopsis of your organization's efforts and participate in the think-tank that occurs among us towards EJ. If you would like to have your efforts listed in the agenda please contact; dena.eakles@gmail.com at least one week before the call.
Join Zoom Meeting - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88143370873
10/8 @ 6:30pm-7:30pm: Webinar: "White Christian Nationalism and Project 2025: What Do We Do Now? Part of WISDOM's Faithful Stance for Equity. Breanna Illéné from the Wisconsin Council of Churches, our presenter, will guide us through a review of the ideological parallels between White Christian Nationalism and Project 2025, a current news story. It looks like a really engaging evening, especially in terms of enabling us to explain why White Christian nationalism is more than just a theoretical theological concern. You can register in advance here.
WISDOM contact: office@wisdomwisconsin.org
10/8 @ Noon: Webinar, Multifamily Metering: Updating the Rules to Accelerate Decarbonization and Energy Savings in Wisconsin Online, via ZOOM. RSVP now! Deploying clean energy technology on multifamily buildings (apartments, condos, coops) can be more complex than other buildings. Currently, Wisconsin's rules governing electric metering of Wisconsin residential buildings, (PSC 113.0803), urge individual units to have their own electric meters. Electric metering can impact installation costs and ongoing energy costs for buildings with solar, heat pumps and other clean energy technology. We invite you to watch this short video of the award-winning '1300 Residences' clean energy housing development in River Falls, Wisconsin. The project shows how tailored building metering can make a building more efficient and deliver clean energy savings to Wisconsinites! contact@350wisconsin.org
10/10 @ 6:00pm-7:30pm: Webinar "From Truman to Biden: US Policy toward the Ongoing Palestinian Nakba" with Josh Reubner, Policy Director, IMEU Policy Project. Voices for Justice in Palestine (VJP) invites you to a stimulating discussion with Josh Reubner, Policy Director at the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project and an adjunct lecturer in Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University. He is pursuing his PhD at the University of Exeter’s European Centre for Palestine Studies. His dissertation is entitled A Tragedy of Catastrophic Proportions: United States Policy Toward the Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1949. He is the author of Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State? Free. Register here. More info from MRSCP rafahsistercity@yahoo.com
Join WNPJ - Individual members and groups welcome!
For individuals, join at a sliding scale rate of $35/year – or whatever fits your budget!
For between $50 - $75/year, a WNPJ membership keeps your group connected with peace and justice efforts and helps keep the Network going - and growing!
Visit our website to find out more about the benefits of membership and join us!
We help our member organizations reach a wider audience by amplifying your peace and justice events and actions on our list-serve and Facebook page. Membership also provides access to our community tabling opportunities, our online toolbox of peace and justice resources, and a community that cares about your peace and justice journey.
Here's an opportunity for WNPJ member groups!
WNPJ member groups can sign up to table at the Dane County Farmers Market on Capitol Square every Saturday from April 13th through November 9th at 7am - 1pm. Bring your own table and handouts to SITE 10 on the King Street corner of the Square (next to Veterans for Peace) - you can't sell anything at the non-profit table, but donations to your group are acceptable. Sign up today!
Questions? Contact info@wnpj.org
If your group would like to get your events posted in the weekly e-bulletin – JOIN US!
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The WI Network for Peace and Justice is the umbrella non-profit organization
supporting the work of 86 member groups around Wisconsin.
From the WNPJ archives! Some of our WNPJ members may still have these Immigrant Welcome yard signs we were selling back in 2008. If you do, send us a photo of the sign in your yard – and we’ll post it on our WNPJ Facebook page! Stand up for immigrant rights. These signs featured handwritten messages of "welcome" in six languages by people from many of Wisconsin’s immigrant communities. The two-sided yard sign featured "welcome" in Spanish and Hmong, and we had single-sided window signs featured in either Spanish or Hmong.
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