Fall Calendar of Events
September 14 2008
OREPA celebrates 20 Years of Working for Peace!
The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance turns 20 this year, and we’re celebrating with a series of events starting with Helen Caldicott’s visit in October and concluding with a concert for nonviolence on November 1. Please mark your calendar now for these important events, come join us as we travel through time, looking back on twenty years, and forward to the abolition of nuclear weapons and the establishment of a culture of peace and nonviolence!
Helen Caldicott comes to Knoxville!
The Medical Implications of the Nuclear Age
Friday, October 17, 2008 • 8:00pm
The Great Hall • St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral
413 W Cumberland Avenue • downtown Knoxville
Widely regarded as one of the most articulate and passionate advocates of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr. Helen Caldicott has devoted the last 30 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. A longtime friend of OREPA, Helen comes to join in the celebration of our 20th birthday and to speak on the perils of nuclear weapons in the 21st century.
In 1971, Dr. Caldicott played a major role in Australia’s opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific, and in 1975, worked with the Australian trade unions to educate their members about the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, with particular reference to uranium mining.
While living in the United States from 1977 to 1986, Dr. Caldicott co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. She has helped start similar medical organizations in many other countries. The international umbrella group for PSR, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She also founded Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the U.S. in 1980. In 2003, Helen won the $350,000 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.
She has written for numerous publications and has authored several books exploring nuclear and environmental issues, the most recent of which is entitled War in Heaven; The Arms Race in Outer Space (2007). Other books include: Nuclear Power is Not The Answer (2006), The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex (2002, New Press.), Nuclear Madness (1979), Missile Envy (1984, Bantam), If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992, W.W. Norton) and A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography (1996, W.W. Norton).
Helen has been the subject of several documentary films, including Eight Minutes to Midnight, nominated for an Academy Award in 1982, and If You Love This Planet, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1983.
Dr. Caldicott founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1975 and was an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, specializing in cystic fibrosis, and on the staff of the Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass., until 1980, when she resigned to work full time on the prevention of nuclear war.
She divides her time between Australia and the United States.
Frida Berrigan Comes to Knoxville!
The Campaign for a Nuclear Free World
Friday, October 24 • 7:30pm
Church of the Savior • 934 Weisgarber Rd • Knoxville, TN
Frida Berrigan is a senior program associate with the New America Foundation’s Arms and Security Initiative and a member of the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World.
Frida grew up in a house deeply committed to peace; the daughter of Phil Berrigan and Liz McAlister; she is a living legacy, taking the work for peace into the corridors of power in think tanks and Congress as well as into the streets. She comes to Knoxville to help OREPA celebrate its 20th birthday and to speak on the challenges facing those who work for nuclear abolition in 2008.
Frida’s Arms Trade Resource Center publications educated a generation of activists; her recent articles continue to provide critical information that equip everyone working on issues of violence and militarism with the facts we need to speak the truth to power.
A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, Frida spent two years working with the Latin American solidarity movement before moving to the World Policy Institute’s Arms Trade Resource Center.
Frida doesn’t leave the work to others, though. She serves on the National Committee of the War Resister’s League and her work can be found at www.alternet.org. and is a member of the Campaign for a Nuclear Free World (along with OREPA). On August 6 of this year, Frida and Susan Gordon, director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, published Honor Our Vow To Ban Nuclear Weapons, an oped in the Albuquerque Journal, which says, “The Department of Energy plans to build new or upgraded facilities at all of the nuclear weapons-related sites. This proposal builds on the Bush Administration’s quiet surge in nuclear weapons spending… The United States must commit to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. As we recall the terrible mushroom clouds incinerating Japanese cities 63 years ago, that work is the only fitting memorial.”
Frida has traveled to Cuba as part of a witness against the illegal detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and was subsequently arrested with 34 others at a protest of torture at the US Supreme Court; you can find Google images of her lying on the street at a die-in during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
The evening with Frida will also feature a reprise of a memorable OREPA celebration of life first presented at our 2005 Convocation of People of Faith in Knoxville.
Walk for Nonviolence
Saturday, November 1, 2008 • 2:30pm
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Kingston Pike • Knoxville, TN
The third annual Walk for Nonviolence is for everyone!
It’s a fundraising event; it’s great exercise; it’s a chance to do something worthwhile with a great group of people; it’s a way to raise the profile of nonviolence in our community!
The 2008 Walk for Nonviolence will:
• raise awareness in our community about efforts to build alternatives to the violence that saturates our culture
• connect you with other people who believe in nonviolence and are working for social change
• celebrate the powerful history of nonviolence movements
• raise funds to support organizations and groups working for nonviolent social change in our community
Why Walk?
Nonviolence is, too often, an orphan in our society. The Walk is an opportunity to raise awareness about the history and power of nonviolence and to show our community that we are serious about working on many issues in our community to bring about nonviolent social change. And it’s an easy fundraiser for your group or project.
How Can You get Involved?
Contact us at 865 776 5050 or orep@earthlink.net. We welcome individuals or groups, and we are hoping to build a large base of co-sponsoring organizations. Deadline for co-sponsors is September 15, 2008.
What do co-sponsors do?
At a minimum, you help publicize the walk and encourage your members to participate. Beyond that, we’d be delighted to have all kinds of help with the walk and the events surrounding it. We will have a Walk Celebration at the end of the walk and we are planning to have a Concert for Nonviolence the evening of November 1.
How Does The Fundraising Work?
We provide sponsor sheets which you can use to ask people to sponsor you in the walk (for $2/mile, for instance). You bring your sponsor forms and any money you collect in advance to the walk. OREPA, as walk organizers, collects the money and returns a percentage to your group or project. You can raise money for any organization or project you want to—last year students at Greenway raised money for Hope for Haiti, a school project, and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship raised money for its work throughout the year.
How much do you keep?
Your group/project will get a percentage of the money you raise in the walk. Here’s the breakdown:
75% • Cosponsors which actively help with planning and organizing (a person on the planning committee and some help on the day of the Walk)
60% • Cosponsors who help publicize and get members to walk
50% • Non co-sponsoring groups and individuals
80% • The Group raising the most money
* Every walker who has $40 or more in sponsors receives a free T-shirt celebrating nonviolence.
We’ll be glad to talk with you or your group about participation. Call OREPA at 776 5050 or email us at orep@earthlink.net for information, flyers or sponsor forms.
OREPA 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
CELEBRATE NONVIOLENCE
Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:00pm • Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Knoxville, TN
We’re celebrating OREPA’s 20th birthday with music, a walk down memory lane and lots more. Musicians who have been part of OREPA’s work for the past twenty years will join us to play, including Sean McCollough, Nick Boulet, Mary Johnson, Ga-Na-Si-Ta, Larry Osborne and more!
Ticket prices are $20 for adults; $5 for students. Adults, wear your T-shirt from the Walk for Nonviolence and get in for half price—students, your T-shirt gets you in free!
You’ll enjoy great music and have a chance to recall the work OREPA has done over the past twenty years.
Concert starts at 8:00, but doors will open by 7:00 to allow time for a leisurely stroll down memory lane—several exhibits in the TVUUC fellowship hall will celebrate OREPA’s last 20 years.
The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance turns 20 this year, and we’re celebrating with a series of events starting with Helen Caldicott’s visit in October and concluding with a concert for nonviolence on November 1. Please mark your calendar now for these important events, come join us as we travel through time, looking back on twenty years, and forward to the abolition of nuclear weapons and the establishment of a culture of peace and nonviolence!
Helen Caldicott comes to Knoxville!
The Medical Implications of the Nuclear Age
Friday, October 17, 2008 • 8:00pm
The Great Hall • St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral
413 W Cumberland Avenue • downtown Knoxville
Widely regarded as one of the most articulate and passionate advocates of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr. Helen Caldicott has devoted the last 30 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. A longtime friend of OREPA, Helen comes to join in the celebration of our 20th birthday and to speak on the perils of nuclear weapons in the 21st century.
In 1971, Dr. Caldicott played a major role in Australia’s opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific, and in 1975, worked with the Australian trade unions to educate their members about the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, with particular reference to uranium mining.
While living in the United States from 1977 to 1986, Dr. Caldicott co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. She has helped start similar medical organizations in many other countries. The international umbrella group for PSR, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She also founded Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the U.S. in 1980. In 2003, Helen won the $350,000 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.
She has written for numerous publications and has authored several books exploring nuclear and environmental issues, the most recent of which is entitled War in Heaven; The Arms Race in Outer Space (2007). Other books include: Nuclear Power is Not The Answer (2006), The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex (2002, New Press.), Nuclear Madness (1979), Missile Envy (1984, Bantam), If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992, W.W. Norton) and A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography (1996, W.W. Norton).
Helen has been the subject of several documentary films, including Eight Minutes to Midnight, nominated for an Academy Award in 1982, and If You Love This Planet, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1983.
Dr. Caldicott founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1975 and was an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, specializing in cystic fibrosis, and on the staff of the Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass., until 1980, when she resigned to work full time on the prevention of nuclear war.
She divides her time between Australia and the United States.
Frida Berrigan Comes to Knoxville!
The Campaign for a Nuclear Free World
Friday, October 24 • 7:30pm
Church of the Savior • 934 Weisgarber Rd • Knoxville, TN
Frida Berrigan is a senior program associate with the New America Foundation’s Arms and Security Initiative and a member of the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World.
Frida grew up in a house deeply committed to peace; the daughter of Phil Berrigan and Liz McAlister; she is a living legacy, taking the work for peace into the corridors of power in think tanks and Congress as well as into the streets. She comes to Knoxville to help OREPA celebrate its 20th birthday and to speak on the challenges facing those who work for nuclear abolition in 2008.
Frida’s Arms Trade Resource Center publications educated a generation of activists; her recent articles continue to provide critical information that equip everyone working on issues of violence and militarism with the facts we need to speak the truth to power.
A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, Frida spent two years working with the Latin American solidarity movement before moving to the World Policy Institute’s Arms Trade Resource Center.
Frida doesn’t leave the work to others, though. She serves on the National Committee of the War Resister’s League and her work can be found at www.alternet.org. and is a member of the Campaign for a Nuclear Free World (along with OREPA). On August 6 of this year, Frida and Susan Gordon, director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, published Honor Our Vow To Ban Nuclear Weapons, an oped in the Albuquerque Journal, which says, “The Department of Energy plans to build new or upgraded facilities at all of the nuclear weapons-related sites. This proposal builds on the Bush Administration’s quiet surge in nuclear weapons spending… The United States must commit to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. As we recall the terrible mushroom clouds incinerating Japanese cities 63 years ago, that work is the only fitting memorial.”
Frida has traveled to Cuba as part of a witness against the illegal detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and was subsequently arrested with 34 others at a protest of torture at the US Supreme Court; you can find Google images of her lying on the street at a die-in during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
The evening with Frida will also feature a reprise of a memorable OREPA celebration of life first presented at our 2005 Convocation of People of Faith in Knoxville.
Walk for Nonviolence
Saturday, November 1, 2008 • 2:30pm
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Kingston Pike • Knoxville, TN
The third annual Walk for Nonviolence is for everyone!
It’s a fundraising event; it’s great exercise; it’s a chance to do something worthwhile with a great group of people; it’s a way to raise the profile of nonviolence in our community!
The 2008 Walk for Nonviolence will:
• raise awareness in our community about efforts to build alternatives to the violence that saturates our culture
• connect you with other people who believe in nonviolence and are working for social change
• celebrate the powerful history of nonviolence movements
• raise funds to support organizations and groups working for nonviolent social change in our community
Why Walk?
Nonviolence is, too often, an orphan in our society. The Walk is an opportunity to raise awareness about the history and power of nonviolence and to show our community that we are serious about working on many issues in our community to bring about nonviolent social change. And it’s an easy fundraiser for your group or project.
How Can You get Involved?
Contact us at 865 776 5050 or orep@earthlink.net. We welcome individuals or groups, and we are hoping to build a large base of co-sponsoring organizations. Deadline for co-sponsors is September 15, 2008.
What do co-sponsors do?
At a minimum, you help publicize the walk and encourage your members to participate. Beyond that, we’d be delighted to have all kinds of help with the walk and the events surrounding it. We will have a Walk Celebration at the end of the walk and we are planning to have a Concert for Nonviolence the evening of November 1.
How Does The Fundraising Work?
We provide sponsor sheets which you can use to ask people to sponsor you in the walk (for $2/mile, for instance). You bring your sponsor forms and any money you collect in advance to the walk. OREPA, as walk organizers, collects the money and returns a percentage to your group or project. You can raise money for any organization or project you want to—last year students at Greenway raised money for Hope for Haiti, a school project, and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship raised money for its work throughout the year.
How much do you keep?
Your group/project will get a percentage of the money you raise in the walk. Here’s the breakdown:
75% • Cosponsors which actively help with planning and organizing (a person on the planning committee and some help on the day of the Walk)
60% • Cosponsors who help publicize and get members to walk
50% • Non co-sponsoring groups and individuals
80% • The Group raising the most money
* Every walker who has $40 or more in sponsors receives a free T-shirt celebrating nonviolence.
We’ll be glad to talk with you or your group about participation. Call OREPA at 776 5050 or email us at orep@earthlink.net for information, flyers or sponsor forms.
OREPA 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
CELEBRATE NONVIOLENCE
Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:00pm • Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Knoxville, TN
We’re celebrating OREPA’s 20th birthday with music, a walk down memory lane and lots more. Musicians who have been part of OREPA’s work for the past twenty years will join us to play, including Sean McCollough, Nick Boulet, Mary Johnson, Ga-Na-Si-Ta, Larry Osborne and more!
Ticket prices are $20 for adults; $5 for students. Adults, wear your T-shirt from the Walk for Nonviolence and get in for half price—students, your T-shirt gets you in free!
You’ll enjoy great music and have a chance to recall the work OREPA has done over the past twenty years.
Concert starts at 8:00, but doors will open by 7:00 to allow time for a leisurely stroll down memory lane—several exhibits in the TVUUC fellowship hall will celebrate OREPA’s last 20 years.
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