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Helena
Peace Seekers |
CAKE & ROSES: WITNESS THROUGH ART May 1– May 29 • 15 W. Placer St, just off Last Chance Gulch (Click here for full schedule) Grand Opening - May 1
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Mission
Statement
We the people of the Helena Peace Seekers are committed to
alternative non-violent methods to realize a vision of world peace,
justice and ecological responsibility.
To achieve these goals we will educate and empower ourselves, and
members of our local and global communities, to find the resources
to “be the peace we seek.” December 2001 |
The Helena Peace Seekers Website is under going major reconstruction and moving to a new server! The move and new pages and features will be going live Tuesday May 1, 2007. It is a work in progress. Please check back. Working Groups Helenans Support for Troops and Military Withdrawal formed in January of 2006 to pass city-level measures for withdrawal from Iraq and full funding for the Veterans Administration. This campaign has blossomed into a statewide effort that has placed referendum on the ballot in Helena and has resolutions pending in both Butte and Missoula. The Earth Justice Committee of the Helena Peace Seekers acts on the connections between our lifestyles and conditions of war or peace. We support initiatives for renewable energy systems, local agriculture, and immediate and dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Our members work with AERO (the Alternative Energy Resource Organization) on projects such as Pesticide-Free Parks and Community Gardens. The Montana Depleted Uranium Education Project has been meeting for the last 4 months discussing the issue of Depleted Uranium munitions and it's effects. DU is chemically and radiologically toxic , it alters DNA causing multiple profound birth defects and has a half life of 4.2 billion years. The project is working to legislate mandatory pre deployment education of our troops, mandatory post deployment testing for exposure of the troops and most importantly to educate the public as to the use of these weapons and the health and environmental dangers to us all.The Art and Activism Sub-Committee of the Helena Peace Seekers
promotes and encourages artwork that bares witness to the condition
of the world. The sub-committee works from the premise that art is a
crucial part of community building and social change. For the past
seven years the sub-committee has organized "Cake and Roses: Witness
Through Art" a festival celebrating socially conscious poetry,
music, theater, visual art as well as cake. A Four-year Vigil Transformed into New Actions The Helena Peace Seekers produces a TV show called Everybody’s Business on Helena Civic Television “Nuclear War or Not a Concern?” by Jonathan Matthews
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For more information, contact HPS co-chairs: Rachel Carroll: 442-1989 * Valerie Hellerman: 443-2605 * Katie Knight: Email: peace@helenapeaceseekers.org |
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