What are you doing for the Fourth of July? Barbeque with friends? A drive to the Lake? Maybe go see the Fireworks?

How's this sound, what if you get your swim and lounging time in during the afternoon, and then come out to Take a Stand for Peace between 5:30-7:30 p.m.? After that, you can still catch the fireworks.

We all know, but seldom reflect upon the fact that the Fourth of July celebrates independence or self-determination. As President Dwight Eisenhower once stated, "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

What better way to honor our national tradition than to spend an hour or two on Independence Day taking a public stand against an illegal, immoral war of aggression that our government has initiated in an attempt to control an oil rich region and deny its people the right to self-determination?

Usually, we gather each Wednesday from 4:15-5:45 at Broadway & Providence for a Rush Hour Peace Demonstration.

On Wednesday, the Fourth, there won't be a Rush Hour, so we are moving the time and location.

This coming Wednesday (& only on this one day) we will gather at the intersection of Stadium & Providence from 5:30-7:30 p.m. to make our call for peace visible to the thousands who will be arriving for the annual fireworks display.

We will have an ample supply of signs and banners, but you are welcome to bring your own.

PARKING: There is lots of parking available within about two short blocks of the intersection. Go east on Stadium to Maryland Ave., turn north, and when you come to the stop sign at Hospital Dr., make a left and park on the left side. You can then walk back to the intersection by going west on Stadium.

HOURS: It would be great if you could come for the whole two hours, but if this isn't feasible, please come for whatever time you can. We expect that there will be more traffic during the 6:30-7:30 hour, so if you can only come for part of the time, you might try to come then. If you have questions, please give a shout.

This is a great event to bring friends and family to. Please JOIN US in STANDING for PEACE.



We have recently begun collecting signatures on the Columbia Peace Coalition's signature ad. The text calls for an End to the Iraq War, No War with Iran, and an End to the Nuclear Threat. We will be running this on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 2007. While we just started on Memorial Day, in a week and a half we have collected near 1,000 names. We hope to make this our largest signature ad ever.

We would like to urge you to put your name on the statement, and also hope that you might help collect the names of others.

** If you are active with a house of worship, please see if you can arrange times to collect signatures there, perhaps at the conclusion of a worship service.

** Please consider collecting names of friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, etc. If you are going to an event that will draw a crowd, please consider taking signature forms and collecting names.

** Please consider volunteering to join our organized effort to collect names at events including Twilight Fest and other public events.

Note that donations are optional, but are needed to pay for the ad(s), which are likely to cost several thousand dollars. Please do what you can to collect donations w/o letting this become an obstacle to folks signing if they are not inclined to, or able to, contribute financially.

To print out a signature form, please click on the orange "Signature Ad for Peace" box to the left. You will find that there are two options, one for 8.5 X 14 and one for 8.5 X 11 paper. If you have the legal paper, we suggest printing it on this, as the longer form has more lines for signatures and is in a slightly bigger (more readable) font. Either, however, are fine.


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