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From: Michigan Peace Team, Lansing, MI and Neahtawanta Education and Research Center
Date: Sunday, November 25, 2012
Where: Ciccone Vineyard & Winery 10343 E. Hilltop Rd, Suttons Bay, MI 49682.
We all Care Deeply
In collaboration with Neahtawanta Education and Research Center, Michigan Peace Team is sponsoring a peace event on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at Ciccone Vineyard & Winery 10343 E. Hilltop Rd, Suttons Bay, MI 49682. The Wine & Cheese Reception is scheduled for 2 PM - 3 PM and the Program will take
place from 3 PM - 5 PM. The theme of the event is “WE ALL CARE DEEPLY.” The cost is $20 and $15 for Senior Citizens & Students. If you can’t afford these requested amounts, please know that you are most welcome! Two outstanding speakers will be presenting at this event:
Peter Dougherty presenting “Our Urgent Task Is to Create a Culture of Nonviolence”
Anabel Dwyer presenting “Achieving Complete Nuclear Disarmament, A Job for Us All”Peter Dougherty, age 78, is a founder and the Outreach Coordinator of Michigan Peace Team. He is a Catholic priest involved in full-time peacemaking the last 35 years. He co-founded many nonviolent direct action organizations over the years. Peter has led nonviolence training in preparation for international and domestic peace teams, disarmament and anti-war actions, anti-apartheid activity, labor strikes, and other
such activity. He has been on violence reduction peace teams – Shanti Sena - in the West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, Bosnia, Haiti, Chiapas-Mexico, as well as in the U.S. He conducts many presentations on the work of MPT, nonviolence, and nonviolent action for social change. Peter draws on his experience of peacemaking, telling first-hand stories of nonviolent empowerment. He has been arrested and in jail many times for civil resistance actions, most often to end the madness of nuclear weapons. Peter has received several awards in recognition of his peacemaking, and in November 2009 received the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award in India for fostering Gandhian Values Outside India.Anabel Dwyer is a Michigan attorney who works primarily on the illegality of nuclear weapons. She acted as principal research and writing attorney for the Michigan Nuremberg Campaign, has defended individuals resisting nuclear weapons and is a Board member of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy. She was an active participant in the World Court Project in The Hague. (The World Court found
that any threat or use of uncontrollable and indiscriminate nuclear weapons is unlawful and that complete nuclear disarmament is a universal obligation). She has taught law school seminars and presented papers on these topics at many conferences including at the U.N. and in the U.S, Japan and Belgium. Anabel is also a founding member of Urban Options and worked as part of the Lansing Area Peace Center on civil rights and to end wars, apartheid and the nuclear system. She holds degrees from Wellesley College (music), Michigan State (Masters in Urban Planning) and the Cooley Law School (J.D.).Michigan Peace Team’s mission is to pursue peace through active nonviolence in places of conflict. Neahtawanta Education and Research Center’s mission is to work on peace, community, sustainable use of resources and personal growth issues.Michigan Peace Team
808 W. Barnes Ave.
Lansing, MI 48854
517 484-3178
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