Dear SIDA members,
Sally Jones would like to invite you to attend this event.
Subject: Women on War and Peace Forum on March 10
Peace Action of Staten Island is having a Women on War and Peace Forum next Thursday.
Thank you so much,
Sally
Sally Jones
Women on War and Peace Forum
Thursday, March 10
6:30 to 8:30 PM (Doors open at 6 PM)
Unitarian Fellowship Hall. 312 Fillmore Street, Staten Island, NY
Peace Action of Staten Island is holding a Women on War and Peace Forum
on Thursday, March 10th - 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Unitarian Church of
Staten Island, 312 Fillmore Street (at Clinton Ave, in New Brighton, near Snug Harbor),
in honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History
Month. In addition to the forum, the PASI nominating committee will submit
its report of nominations to the PASI board. The PASI Board election will
take place at the annual meeting on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
On Tuesday, March 8th, International Women’s Day, two days before
the forum, Peace Action of Staten Island will hand out purple ribbons
at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. Many people do not know that International
Women’s Day began in 1908 in New York City with the Socialist Party
of America marking the strike of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union. Today, it is celebrated at the United Nations and
around the world, sometimes as a day to mark the achievements of women
and in some countries as a way to show love for women, in the way Mother’s
Day is celebrated in the U.S.
The forum on March 10th, will bring women together from different countries
to share their direct or indirect experience of war and peace. Too little
attention is paid to the effect of war on women's and their families’
lives. Women are not equal partners in the processes that could have prevented
conflicts in the first place. The United Nations Security Council Resolution
1325, on women and peace and security, passed on October 31, 2000, calls
for equal participation of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts,
peace negotiations, peace-building, and in post-conflict reconstruction.
We have a long way to go in realization of this goal.
Forum speakers will be:
Madeline Akibo-Betts from Sierra Leone.
Jenna Bitar from Adalah-NY is a young Palestinian-American interested in the rights of women political prisoners.
Iram Ali from Pakistan and raised in Brooklyn, former Associate Director, Operations & Development, Iraq Veterans Against the War and currently Kairos Fellow at MoveOn.org.
Adama Demby from Sierra Leone who came to the U.S. in 1985.
Jennifer Gray-Brumskine from Liberia who came to the U.S. in the late 1980’s as a student and is currently President of the Liberian Community Association.
Parvina Olimova from Tajikistan, active in theTurkish Cultural Center, and interested
in the role of women’s education.
Each forum panelist will address an aspect of how women are affected by
war or how they are part of the changes needed to bring more peace and justice.
Peace Action of Staten Island welcomes everyone to come to its meetings.
New faces are very welcome. Doors will open at 6 pm.
Please bring something to share for our light refreshment table.
Bus Directions from Staten Island Ferry Terminal: Take S40 Bus to Clinton Ave and Richmond Terrace. Walk 2 blocks. The Unitarian
Church is at Clinton Ave and Fillmore St.
For more information please visit: Peace Action of Staten Island
http://www.peacesi.org/
Photo: from
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a documentary about the women's peace movement of Liberia, where
Christian and Muslim women banded together to end their country's
civil war.