WNPJ + WNPJ’s Virtual Spring Meetings are this week! + Farley Center spring schedule + Get on the Bus – and encourage people to VOTE April 1 + other statewide events
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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.
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Join the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice for our Virtual Spring Assembly!
March 24-28, 2025
Each evening from 7-8:00 pm WNPJ brings you the voices of Wisconsin activists as we champion our diversity and our unity.
Topics:
Coalition and Community Building: Our Common Denominators · Immigration & Palestine: The Connections · Protecting All Our Rights · Environmental Justice · Anti-war / Anti-militarism / Abolition
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Saturday, 29 March, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
2299 Spring Rose Rd
Join Natural Path Sanctuary Board Member Brenda Emerson for a day of outdoor work in the Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) from 12:00-3:00. Please meet in front of the red packing shed at 11:55.
Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles. Wear comfortable, sturdy shoes or boots.If you have any questions, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org .
....and watch for these upcoming programs at the Farley Center in Verona:
Sat., May 17 - Exploring the Understory of the Natural Path Sanctuary
Tues., June 3 - Taco Tuesday with Navajo Fry Bread Team and Music by "Down from The Hills"
Sat., June 21 - NPS Death Education Market
Tues., July 1 - Taco Tuesday with Navajo Fry Bread Team and Music by "Too Sick Charlie"
Tues., Aug. 5 - Taco Tuesday with Navajo Fry Bread Team and Music by "People With Strings"
Aug. 9- Oct. 31 - Peace Songs, Farley Center Land Art Exhibition
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Building Unity’s MARCH to ELECTION Day Tour!
The Bus is Touring WI through April 1st!
On the "March to Election Day Tour," we will stop in over a 18 communities including Columbus, Beaver Dam, Fond du Lac, the Brothertown Nation, Oshkosh, Appleton on March 16th!, the Oneida Nation, Green Bay, the Menominee Nation, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Metropolitan Milwaukee.
We are in an unprecedented time of uncertainty. It is our duty to build a united movement for the
good of all. Three of the most important things that we can do at this time is to:
* find each other,
*get organized for solidarity and collaborative action,
*and, elect leaders who share our commitment for Peace, Justice, Sustainability, & Democracy. At each tour stop on the March to Election Day we’ll listen and learn; share plans and ideas; and explore the possibilities of acting together. And we will explore solidarity actions to address critical issues:
* End U.S. support for genocide and crimes against humanity.
* Learn how we can better keep each other safe including our immigrant, BIPOC, and
transgender neighbors.
* Help Indigenous water protectors Stop Line 5! and other environmental issues.
* Demand universal health care that includes legal and safe abortion care.
* Educate and activate voters to the extreme importance of the April 1st Wisconsin Supreme
Court race.
Please help and support the March to Election Day Tour if you have the capacity to help
with securing our three basic tour stop needs, in any Wisconsin community: * places to park the
UnityMobile for a day An indoor space where 30 or more people could gather. One-night
indoor sleeping space & bathroom access for 1 or more tour volunteers.
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The April election is only a week away! Make sure you have a plan to vote, and encourage your friends and family members to do the same.Please feel free to use the voter guide at the link below, created by our partners at Guides.vote, to learn about the candidates and where they stand. |
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WNPJ member group events….
Click here to see a listing and details of recurring Vigils across the state.
LaCROSSE
Thurs Mar 27, 12 noon – 12:30 pm Weekly Women in Black Peace Vigil. Meet at Main St & 4th Street South. Details at the Vigils list. Contact dbuffton@yahoo.com
MADISON
Tues Mar 25, 11:30 am to noon. Weekly Vigil for Peace with the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa. At the corner of Monroe St and Edgewood Ave. near Edgewood High School. Details at the Vigils list. . opjustice@sinsinawa.org
Wed 26 Mar 26, 7 – 8 pm UNA Dane membership meeting. In person at the Sequoya Public Library, 4340 Tokay Blvd., Community Room. Our agenda will include a vote on a more complete list of our Board of Directors. Join us! And if you'd like to be on the Board, contact Sam Romano, unausadanecounty@gmail.com
Fri Mar 28, 12 noon – 1 pm Madison Weekly Vigil in support of Palestine. Meets near the entrance to the Memorial Library across from the Catholic student center. Signs not provided. Contact joel.garb@gmail.com
Sat Mar 29, 1 – 4 pm, Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop (aka Pysanky) .At James Reeb UU Congregation on Madison's east side 2146 E Johnson St. Join in the artistic fun and meditative state of Ukrainian Egg Decorating, aka Pysanky, with a donation to JRUUC. Pysanky is the ancient art of layering wax and dyes to create beautiful designs. Attend the whole time, or for as much as you are able; people seem to prefer about 45 min to an hour per egg. All supplies provided. Suggested donation: $20-40+, 100% of which will go to support James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Congregation. No one will be turned away for inability to donate, provided we have not met capacity. Contact: Karol Niemann president@jruuc.org
MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE Tues Mar 25, 7 pm Veterans for Peace #102 monthly meeting. At St. John's on the Lake, 1840 N. Prospect Ave.If you can't attend in person, here's a Zoom link.
vfpchapter102@gmail.com Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86974077426?pwd=wLwxCM3D5iATLtaIvERfDEDvxjTTGT.1 Meeting ID: 869 7407 7426 Passcode: 880623 Dial in • +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
MILWAUKEE Fri Mar 28, 2 pm Action: Witness for Peace - It’s Time to Come Together. Meet at Postman Square, 811 N. Plankton St. National War Tax Resistance and Catholic Worker movements and other peace-oriented organizations will join the leadership of Pax Christi USA for a public action. All are welcome to bear witness to the power of prayer, study, and action in advocating for peace, justice, and nonviolence in the name of Jesus Christ. Participants will include Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, Pax Christi USA bishop president, its executive director Charlene Howard, and Michelle Sherman, director of Nonviolence and Campus Outreach. They will be in Wisconsin for the group’s National Council meeting in Racine that weekend. Representatives of local War Tax Resistance, Pax Christi and Catholic Worker groups are also involved. Postman Park is directly across the street from the building (then the Brumder, now the Germania) from which the Milwaukee Fourteen took and burned draft records on September 24, 1968. Contact: dennis.collier@hotmail.com
Sat Mar 29, 12 noon - 1 pm Peace Action WI - Weekly STAND for PEACE: 16th and Greenfield. Each Saturday, a different location. Details at the Vigils list. info@peaceactionwi.org .
RACINE
Sat Mar 29, 12:30 – 1:30 pm Weekly Stand for Peace. Meet at the NW corner of Highways 31 and 20. Park in the SW corner of the Kohl's parking lot near the AT&T store. Supported by the Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice. Details at the Vigils list. Contact https://racinepeace.wordpress.com (this event is cancelled when weather is below 25 deg F and check our website for cancellations due to snow)
SUPERIOR
Sun Mar 30, 12 noon – 12:30pm Women in Black weekly silent vigil. Meet at Center City Park on the Corner of Tower and Belknap. Details at the Vigils list. Contact Christine christineolson3@gmail.com
VERONA
Sat Mar 29, 12 noon – 3 pm Farley Center Volunteer Work Day NPS
2299 Spring Rose Rd. See the Spotlight on the Farley Center above for more information…
VIROQUA
Sat Mar 29, 11 am - 12 noon Driftless Palestinian Solidarity Weekly Vigil. Meet at Decker and Main. Details at the Vigils list. Contact driftless.solidarity@gmail.com.
VIRTUAL
VIRTUAL Mon Mar 24, 7 pm UN in the News zoom monthly meeting. We'll be trying to find the right adjectives to describe the Trump administration’s dizzying, maddening, disheartening, dispiriting new policies toward the UN and U.S. foreign assistance. Here are instances and changes: withdrawal from the World Health Organization, withdrawal from the Human Rights Council, withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement and the accompanying climate development fund, stopping funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), freezing all foreign assistance for a 90 day period to vet whether funding for assistance is consistent with an America First goal. So far, the USAID agency which has annually provided $40 billion in aid annually will be shuttered. The UN operated International Organization of Migration and The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee agency are experiencing huge cuts in U.S. contributions. UNICEF and the World Food Program will be experiencing significant cuts in U.S. funding. UN agency are being asked to complete a questionnaire to determine whether their purposes align with America First and reinforce U.S. sovereignty and whether their mission does not include references to climate change or DEI related activities. And finally, the Secretary of State’s office is charged with reviewing all U.S. treaties and conventions over the next 180 days to determine if they again align with “America First”. JOin the zoom mtg here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87135091815
Meeting ID: 871 3509 1815 Contact: sromano@charter.net
Thurs Mar 27, 9 am Virtual Know Your Rights Training.
Join the Wisconsin Council of Churches and Voces de la Frontera for a Know Your Rights Training in English. Led by Ruby De Leon and Voces de la Frontera staff. This training will be recorded. Ruby De Leon is an immigration attorney at Voces de la Frontera. Ruby has a passion for helping underserved communities and provides pro bono legal advice at the Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic each month at their only Spanish-serving location at the United Community Center. Ruby is also active within the legal community and is on the board for the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association. We will also host a Spanish version of this training on March 24 at 6:00pm. Contact the Wisconsin Council of Churches for Registration information. To register go to https://www.wichurches.org/events/kyrenglish
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Join the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice for our Virtual Spring Assembly!March 24-28, 2025
Each evening from 7-8:00 pm WNPJ brings you the voices of Wisconsin activists as we champion our diversity and our unity.
· Mon Mar 24, 7 – 8 pm Coalition and Community Building: Our Common Denominators
· Tues Mar 25, 7 – 8 pm Immigration & Palestine: The Connections ·
· Wed Mar 26, 7 – 8 pm Protecting All Our Rights ·
· Thurs Mar 27, 7 – 8 pm Environmental Justice ·
· Fri Mar 28, 7 – 8 pm Anti-war / Anti-militarism / Abolition
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WNPJ has a NEW website page on IMMIGRATION JUSTICE * https://www.wnpj.org/post/statewide-organizing-around-immigrant-justice
Many WNPJ member groups are organizing around Immigration - with webinar events and more. Send any events you're involved with to WNPJ info@wnpj.org and we'll add them to this developing page!
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