Friends,
FOR's Mark Johnson will be giving the keynote presentation at the ninth annual Chicago West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition gathering this weekend. And newly announced, he'll also be speaking at an "Alternatives to War in the Middle East" event in Rockford the same day.
Please join us at one of these free events in Lombard and Rockford this Saturday!
Liberating Civil Society: Nonviolence in Service to Justice
Saturday, March 3, 1:00 PM
Lombard Mennonite Church, 528 E Madison St, Lombard, IL
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Alternatives to War in the Middle East
Saturday, March 3, 6:00 PM
201 7th St, Rockford, IL
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Mark has visited and talked with individuals involved in Occupy events in New York, Washington D.C., Nashville, Memphis, Oakland, San Francisco, and Chicago. He has just returned from a visit to Cairo and Jerusalem, and he is working to support local organizing around the NATO/G8 meetings in Chicago in May. He will be speaking to the broadest issues of "occupying" or "liberating" civil society and citizenship. |