August 5-9
Saturday, August 9, 6:30-9:30
The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth
Updates on Nebraska's tiny reservation border town.
Impeachment is on the table.
By Paul Olson, NFP President
By Professor Bruce E. Johansen
Omaha NFP Newsletter
An Injury to One is an Injury to All…
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November 4
General Election Day
(the clock is ticking)
Atomic Bombings of Japan Vigil
August 5 through 9
Tentative schedule, contact people are Jerry Ebner, cwomaha@gmail.com, 402-502-5887 or Frank Cordaro frank.cordaro@gmail.com 515-282-4781. More information is available at www.OmahaSOS.org
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Lantern Float 2008
Saturday, August 9, 6:30-9:30:
Holmes Park, Lincoln, NE
The event will be held at Holmes Lake on the northeast side of the lake and will be sponsored by a variety of churches and peace and justice groups. The primary groups are Nebraskans for Peace, First Mennonite Church, Lutheran Justice and Advocacy Ministries, Blue River District, UMC/Nebraska Conference, and First United Methodist Church. The last of these furnishes the insurance coverage that makes this event possible, and the Lutheran ministry furnishes the sound system. The full list of sponsors will be announced at the event.
Lantern floats in Japan are used to guide the souls of the dead to their rest; for many years in recent times they have been used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to commemorate the people destroyed by the first atomic bombs. The purpose of the event in Lincoln is to remind us of what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to will that such events never again occur, even though we hear that in several areas of the world the nuclear option has not been taken off the table.
Sunset occurs on August 9 at about 8:30 PM; darkness will come about one-half hour later.
Materials for the lanterns and plans for making them will be provided at the site or see how to make a shade and base.
Schedule for the evening (times are approximate):
6:30-7:00: Assemble at Holmes Lake site to assemble lanterns and socialize;
7:00-7:25: Bill Behmer and Gwen Meister music;
7:25-35: Marilyn Mecham of Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska presents a statement about the religious implication of nuclear war;
7:35-7:45: Lela Shanks, peace and justice advocate of Lincoln, reading account of Nagasaki bombing;
7:45-7:55: David Orr reading from literature written by nuclear radiation victims after Nagasaki, from John Howard Yoder's theological writings, and from President Truman;
7:55-8:25: William Kloefkorn reading from his own poetry about his remembrance of the first nuclear weapon and the renewal of the natural world possible;
8:25-8:40: Poetry about hope from nuclear radiation casualties read by Pastor Jamie Norwich MacClennon of First Methodist Church — also her own poetry perhaps;
8:40-8:50: Josie Toda on nuclear warfare, read by Kate Honeyman;
8:50-9:00: summary music by Chuck Bentjen, ELCA-NE Justice and Advocacy Ministries;
9:00-9:30: Native American flute music by Michael Murphy. The assembled group carries the lanterns down the peninsula as the sky darkens and places the lanterns in the water. The assembled group accompanies the processional to the water to music of bluegrass hope.
NFP’s Palestinian Task Force meeting
In July
Contact person is Anne Else at 556-5184.
Peace Vigils
Mondays
7:45-8:15 a.m. Outside of Kinney Gate at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue. Sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters in South Omaha. Contact person is Sr. Marian Klostermann at 731-2910.
Anti-War Vigils
Wednesdays
Lincoln Federal Building, 15th & 'O' Streets, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Call 402-499-6672 for more information.
StratCom Vigils
Wednesdays
4:30-5:30 pm behind the Scott Technology Center at 6825 Pine Street, Omaha, NE. 16 blocks South of Dodge and 4 blocks East of 72nd Street. For details call the Omaha Catholic Worker, Jerry Ebner at 402-502-5887 (Cell phone: 402-670-3745). Email: omahacw@hotmail.com
Progressive movies and dinner at McFoster's
Wednesdays
Natural Kind Cafe at 38th and Farnam Streets. Free admission. More info.
To list an event, submit in writing by the tenth of the month preceding the event to: NFP, 941 'O' Street, #1026, Lincoln, NE 68508, or email: NeReport@neb.rr.com.
