Memorial Day for Peace

Memorial Day for Peace
May 27, 2013, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Christopher Columbus Park
105 Atlantic Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts

Please join us!

Please join Veterans For Peace, Smedley D. Butler Brigade, Chapter 9, and Samantha Smith, Chapter 45, Military Families Speak Out, Mass Peace Action and United for Justice with Peace as we commemorate Memorial Day on Monday May 27, 2013.  See the Facebook Event page at this link.

There will be no parade, no marching band, no military equipment, no guns and drums, no Air Force fly-overs.

There will be veterans and supporters who have lost friends and loved ones. There will be veterans who know the horrors of war and the pain and anguish of loss. There will be friends and families of soldiers, remembering their loved ones. There will be Iraqi Refugees who have suffered terrible losses and will join us as we remember and show respect for their loss.

There will be flowers dropped into the harbor for each fallen U.S. soldier from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Flowers will also be also be dropped into the harbor remembering the loss of Iraqi family and friends.

St. Patrick's Peace Parade: People’s Parade for Peace, Equality, Jobs, Climate Justice, Social & Economic Justice

St. Patrick's Peace Parade 2013:

UNITE, PARTICIPATE, CELEBRATE


Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/464556630273778/

Date: March 17, 2013 (Sunday)
Assemble Time: 2:00 p.m.
Parade Start: 3:00 p.m.

Start Location: D Street and West Broadway, South Boston ("Southie")
Look for white "Vets For Peace" Flags



There are various parade divisions -- decide which one your group belongs in, and bring your banner! 

The DIVISIONS are: Veterans groups; Peace groups; LGBT groups; Religious groups (including congregations); environmental groups (Climate Justice); social and economic justice groups; labor groups; political groups. Please invite your group(s) to come! (For Religious Division, please contact Lara Hoke at minister@uuandover.org) 

There will also be bands and bagpipers! 

Let us know you plan to join us.  Contact:

CONTACTS
VFP: Pat Scanlon
978-475-1776 info@massvfp.org

MassPeaceAction: Cole Harrison
617-354-2169
info@MassPeaceAction.org

Read an article in the RAINBOW TIMES at this link!

Parking available for participants in

Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade

If you are in a band or group or an individual walking in the Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade and need parking for the parade we have secured a parking lot on D Street. It is best to come in from the north by the Convention Center (The Convention Center is located on Summer Street and D Street)

Parking is at 383 D Street, Boston (same street where parade assembly takes place) Look for lot with 40 foot white truck trailers. We must come in off of Summer Street, at the Convention Center. There will be no access coming from West Broadway (The other direction).

From North

Route I-93 to South Station exit (20 A)

Merge onto Purchase Street to light (100 feet)

Make a left onto Summer Street (will pass South Station on right). Go approx. 1 mile to Convention Center. Turn right onto D Street, parking lot .2 mile up on left, (look for VFP Flag)

From South

Route I-93 – Take exit 20 toward South Station. Follow signs for Chinatown, continue straight onto Lincoln Street, turn right onto Kneeland Street, turn left onto Atlantic, south Station will be up on your right. Take a right onto Summer Street. Go approx. 1 mile to Convention Center. Turn right onto D Street, parking lot .2 mile up on left, (look for VFP Flag)

 
WEBSITES: 

Parade: http://stpatrickspeaceparade.com 
Web: http://smedleyvfp.org/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SmedleyVFP
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/smedleyvfp

FLYER:

 

Our ad in the Rainbow Times:

PARADE ROUTE

The parade route is a little more than 4 miles; last year it took about 1 ½ or 2 hours to march.  There will be a Duck Boat and trolley available for those unable to walk the distance of the parade.  We will assemble on “D” Street and West Broadway (look for white “Veterans For Peace” flags). 

Music, dinner, raffle FUNdraiser at Johnny D's!

FUNDRAISER AT JOHNNY D'S
 
Please join us Wednesday evening, November 28, 6:00 - 10:00 pm
17 Holland Street, Somerville, MA
 
Dine: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - music by Willie Sordillo Jazz Trio
 
Dance to the music of Public Interest - 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

FLYER ATTACHED - PLEASE CIRCULATE

Please come and support all the work of the Smedleys, bring your dancing shoes. It is a great time, great friends, great food, great music and guess what:
 

OVER 50 GREAT PRIZES FOR OUR RAFFLE

We have gift certificates to numerous restaurants, movies, gift shops, sports stores etc.

Plus numerous other gifts including photography, lobsters, gift baskets - WOW!

Local businesses have been unbelievably supportive - MORE GIFTS THAN EVER!

LET'S MAKE THIS THE BEST FUNDRAISER EVER!
ALL THAT'S LEFT IS YOU! PLEASE COME!
PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN US.
PICK UP THE PHONE AND PERSONALLY INVITE VFP MEMBERS WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN A WHILE, FRIENDS AND ALLIES TO JOIN US.

WE ONLY HAVE THREE DAYS TO TURN OUT OUR FRIENDS AND ALLIES

All year we meet together, work together, march together -- for one night, let's party together!

HOPE TO SEE YOU ON WEDNESDAY.

Upcoming in November: Veterans (Armistice) Day for Peace, and fundraiser...

Veterans / Armistice Day
Gathering for Peace
Parade & Rally

Veterans, Friends & Allies please plan to join us November 11th for
the Veterans / Armistice Day for Peace Parade. We will meet at
noon on the Boston Commons, corner of Beacon & Charles
Streets. Parade kicks off at 1:00 PM. Once again we will proudly
march behind the Street Sweepers in a show of opposition to all
wars and in support of peace. This year’s parade has two themes:

“NO WAR ON IRAN” & “FREE BRADLEY MANNING”
 

Faneuil Hall – Sam Adams Park
Rally and Music
Immediately following the parade

Upcoming fundraiser:Please don’t forget our fundraiser at Johnny Ds!
Where – Johnny Ds - 17 Holland St., Davis Square, Somerville, MA
When – November 28th, Starting at 6:00 PM – RAFFLE with great prizes
Dinner 6:00 to 7:30 pm. Music and Dancing 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Musicians – Willie Sordillo Jazz Trio & Public Interest (great rock group)
Come and enjoy the music and food while supporting peace

"The Story of God", anti-war opera, Save the Date!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: 

"The Story of God", a comic, anti-war opera
Facebook event page: click here

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2012, 1:00 PM

It will be performed at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House
5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge (Off Brattle Street coming from Harvard Yard)

Directions: Take the T to Harvard Square, walk down Brattle Street to Longfellow Park.
Turn in Longfellow Park, Friends Meeting will be on the right.

The Story of God: A Comic Opera
By (the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of VFP's own) Severyn Bruyn
September 9, Sunday, 1:00pm
God (Played by Louise Bruyn)
Satan (Played by Severyn Bruyn)
Pianist: Steve Bass
Singers:
Messengers: Soprano, Jessica Trainor
Friend: Tenor, Brendon Quinn
Songs
1. Lao-tzu and Yinxi (Taoism)
2. Buddha and Ananda (Buddhism)
3. Job and Bildad (Judaism)
4. Jesus and Peter (Christianity)
5. Rumi and Shams (Islam, Sufism)
6. Gandhi and Hermann Kallenback (Hinduism)

Memorial Day for Peace: May 28

Photo from http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/1857

Please join Veterans For Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade, Chapter 9 and Samantha Smith, Chapter 45, Military Families Speak Out, Mass Peace Action, United for Justice with Peace as we commemorate Memorial Day on Monday, May 28, 2012, 1-3 p.m.  Facebook event page here.

Location: Christopher Columbus Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Massachusetts
(near the Long Wharf Marriott on the waterfront - Aquarium stop on the MBTA Blue Line and a short walk from Haymarket on the Orange Line).
 
There will be no parade, no marching band, no military equipment, no guns and drums, no Air Force fly-overs.

There will be veterans and supporters who have lost friends and loved ones. Veterans who know the horrors of war and the pain and anguish of loss. There will be friends and families of soldiers, remembering their loved ones. There will be Iraqi Refugees who have suffered terrible losses and will join with us as we remember and show respect for their loss.

There will be flowers dropped into the harbor for each fallen U.S. soldier from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Flowers will also be also be dropped into the harbor remembering the loss of Iraqi family and friends.

PROGRAM
Memorial Day for Peace
May 28, 2012 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Christopher Columbus Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Massachusetts

Brian Quirk, Scottish Bag Pipes
Merrimack Valley People for Peace

Rev. Lara Hoke, Opening
Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Andover
Secretary VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade

Pat Scanlon, Welcome
Coordinator, VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade

Lee VanderLann, In memory of our friend Capt. Paul Brailsford
Executive Committee VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade
VFP Samantha Smith Chapter

Bradford Adams, A short rememberance of my friend Zalmai
VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade
Afghanistan Veteran (2002-2003)

Kevin Lucey, Return to Hell
Parent of Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey USMC

Si Kahn, Song – Hunter –(Music from CD)

Bob Funke, What Memorial Day Means to Me
Smedley D. Butler Brigade

Bonnie Gorman, Suicide: The hidden wounds of war
Military Families Speak Out,
Gold Star Families Vietnam
VFP Smedley D. Butler Brigade

Nancy Wrenn, Are we finished with war yet?
Mass Peace Action

Webb Nichols, Poet
Smedley D. Butler Brigade

Ahmad & Leyla AlZubaydi
Babylon Restaurant, Lowell
Iraqi Refugees

Farouq Ali
Arab Spring and Hypocrisy of the West
Iraqi Refugee

Brian Quirk, Scottish Bag Pipes

Flower Ceremony

Rev. Ralph Galen, Closing
Community Church of Lawrence

Jesse Perrier, Taps
Executive Committee Smedley D. Butler Brigade

Latest flyer and parade route information: SAINT PATRICK'S PEACE PARADE

The St. Patrick's Peace Parade is THIS Sunday, March 18! We should have beautiful weather.

For the latest flyer, click here.  To see the Facebook event page, click here.

Latest assembly and parade route information:

Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade
For Peace. Equality, Jobs, Social & Economic Justice

Sunday, March 18, 2012
Start Time: 2:00 pm (assemble at 1 pm)
Start Location: D Street and West Broadway
Just three blocks east of the MBTA Redline Station
(Corner of Dorchester Ave. and West Broadway)
Look for Veterans For Peace Flags
End Location: Andrew MBTA Station(Corner of Dorchester Ave. and Dorchester Street)

The St. Patrick’s Peace Day Parade STARTS on D Street and will enter West Broadway (easterly), left onto East Broadway, Right onto “P” Street, Right onto “East 4th” Street, Left onto “K” Street, Right onto “East 5th” Street, Left onto “G” Street, Right onto the ‘Southerly Arm of Thomas Park’, Left onto “Telegraph” Street, Left onto “Dorchester Street” and ENDING at “Dorchester Avenue”.

We have a lot on D Street, across from Louis Street.

FROM points North via I-93:Take I-93 South to Exit 20A “South Station.” At the end of the ramp, take a left at signal, onto Summer Street at South Station. Follow Summer St. for approximately 1 mile, the Boston Convention Center will be on your right, D Street is just past the Convention Center. Make a ight and go up to Louis Street. The parking lot will be on your left, dirt lot with parked truck trailers.

FROM points South via I-93:Take I-93 North to Exit 20 "South Boston". Follow the signs to "I-90 East". Take the first tunnel exit to "South Boston". At the first set of lights, take a right onto Congress Street. Take the second right onto D Street. Continue on D Street, past the Convention on your right. Drive up D Street to Louis Street. The parking lot will be on your left, dirt lot with parked truck trailers.

Coming by the T:Take the Red Line to the Broadway T Station (South Boston) on the Red Line. Upon exiting the T Station walk four blocks east on West Broadway to D Street and make a left. The parade staging area is two short blocks from West Broadway. Look for VFP flags upon exiting the T station and along the way. People will be there to direct you.