Event to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights

Bros:

We have been invited to attend a prayer service at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer on Forbes Ave next to St. Edmund's Academy on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008.

Please respond if you are able to make it.

We will leave from Central at around 6:45 pm. Dinner in the form of a pie with cheese, tomato sauce, and some other topping will be provided.

See info below for more details:

The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer


On December 10, 1948, the brave new voices of the newly formed United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, calling for “the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want…” Please join other members of the community as we share several events in commemoration of this world-changing declaration.



Wednesday, December 10, 7:30 pm


Interfaith Reflections on Human Rights:

A community of voices will be sharing prayers, reflections and song.

End the Use of Child Soldiers

Students, Teachers, Parents: Help End the Use of Child Soldiers

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/features/childsoldiers/video.htm

This issue is a concern of the larger Catholic Lasallian educational mission.
As the Apostle Paul writes to the Galatian Christians, let us good while we have the opportuity.

Close the SOA: Sign the Petition to OBAMA

Copy and paste the link below into your web-browser, sign the petition, and consider yourself an activist!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/t/3823/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1732

School of Americas Watch

Bros:

We will implement a school-wide petition on Thursday, November, 20, and Friday, November 21,2008, asking President-elect, Barack Obama, to close the SOA.

They are Days 3 and 4 respectively. If you have a free period and wish to sit at table in front of the cafeteria, please see me to sign up. I am in Room 407.

In the meantime, this is the sign-up thus far:

Day Three, Thursday, November 20, 2008

1 - Peach, Smith
2 - Joyce
3 - Devine, Noel
4 - Smith, Pickle
5 -
6 - Peach, Joyce, Welch, Pickle, Noel
7 - Smith
8 -

Day Four, Friday, November 21, 2008

1 - Peach, Kizior
2 - Joyce
3 - Peach, Noel
4 - Smith, Pickle
5 - Joyce
6 - Peach, Noel
7 -
8 -


Be there!

President Peach


www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOeaG6-qsVc&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW0k3v1RivA&feature=related

Building New Hope

CCHRIST brothers, and all women and men of goodwill,

Reminding ourselves that we are part of a global Lasallian community (80 countries), please allow me to introduce you to SECOLI, the SEGRETARIAT SOLIDARITY AND DEVELOPMENT MISSIONARY COOPERATION, an arm of the central government of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Go to http://www.lasalle.org/English/Mission/SECOLI/misese.php. Note that SECOLI's major objectives are informed by CST---Catholic Social Teaching.

Let me also share with you information about Building New Hope, an organization based in Pittsburgh and Granada, Nicaruagua. Go to http://www.buildingnewhope.org/.

Let us pray that the Holy Spirit, the sweet Holy Spirit, fall down fresh on us and on our world.
Amen.

Stay strong! Keep the campaign for peace and justice alive in your school community and beyond.

Smile.