FOR Executive Director Mark Johnson’s presentation at the Cape Cod FOR’s annual luncheon will focus on the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s new campaign to Demilitarize Life and Land, as it relates to the national rallies that occurred on April 9 opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He will outline the work FOR does, aligning programs in Latin America and the Middle East with the roots of the “triple evils” that Martin Luther King, Jr. named -- militarism, materialism/poverty, and racism.

Also honored at the Cape Cod FOR luncheon will be Peggy and David Lilienthal, who have been peace activists on the Cape since the 1940s and will receive the Olive Branch Award in recognition of their many years devoted to supporting victims of injustice throughout the world. During the civil rights movement, the Lilienthals participated in the Freedom Rides, which earned Peggy a two-night stay in a North Carolina. Beginning in the 1970s, they worked to stop discrimination against gays and lesbians, and made numerous trips to El Salvador and Nicaragua to escort refugees in the 1980s. In recent years, they have worked to end the occupation in Palestine and secure an independent Palestinian state with a just settlement for the Palestinian people who have lost their homes.

Finally, Cape Cod FOR will honor Juliet Bernstein, retiring after 30 years as the Cape Cod FOR coordinator. Juliet will be 98 this summer, and has been an activist since the 1930s, working in the labor movement and for racial equality and women’s rights. An annual award will be established in Juliet’s name for a young person working for a just world on Cape Cod and beyond.