Register Now for Advocacy Training Weekend March 21-24 in
Washington DC!
Discount Ecumenical Avocacy Days Registration Ends
Today! Discount Hotel Rate Ends March 1!
Are you interested in learning more
about the different types of violence that afflict our world, and what you can
do to help seek peaceful solutions? Register for Compassion, Peace and Justice
Training Day (CPJ Day) on March 21 and Ecumenical Advocacy Days from March 21 –
24 in Washington, DC.
Workshops for CPJ Day will cover a
variety of topics. And, all will show Presbyterians are involved in finding
solutions to transform violence. Workshops include: “Is Poverty a Form of
Violence?”, “Ending Violence Against Women”, “The Presbyterian Response to the
Conflict in Syria”, “When the Global Market Gets Violent” and “Nonviolent
Responses to the Occupation” among many others. Featured speakers for these
events include:
·
James “Jim” Atwood, a retired Presbyterian minister who has spent nearly 40
years working on issues of gun violence prevention;
·
Herman Kumara, an
internationally recognized organizer in the fisheries sector and a prominent
voice for human rights in Sri Lanka;
·
Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, II,
the director the Office of Public Witness (OPW) for the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) in Washington, DC;
·
Shaya Gregory Poku, an advocate for reconciliation and staff member of the Center for
Spirituality, Dialogue and Service at Northeastern University, where she
directs the Social Justice Resource Center to train the next generation in
critical thinking, interfaith cooperation, global awareness and self-knowledge
·
Linda Eastwood, a
Presbyterian teaching elder who has recently spent several years coordinating
the Colombia Accompaniment Program, a partnership between the Presbyterian
Peace Fellowship, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Presbyterian Church
of Colombia (IPC, Iglesia Presbiteriana de Colombia.)
