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DESCRIPTION:'NOT AT HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS' \n\nPLEASE COME AND PLEASE DISTRIBUTE 
 WIDELY!!\n\n'Not at Home for the Holidays'\nA Vigil and Action for Peace 
 Now!\nSaturday, December 16th, from Noon to 2PM\nin front of the Military 
 Recruitment Center \n2121 41st Avenue, Capitola\n\ndear Friends of 
 Peace\n\nAs we enter into this holiday season, let us remember that:\n 
 \nthere are over 140,000 American families who will face this season with 
 an ever present fear and anxiety for the safety of their loved ones living 
 in harm's way in Iraq or Afghanistan, loved ones who will not be 'home for 
 the holidays',\n\nthere are over 2900 American families caught in the 
 terrible, pervasive grief of the loss of a loved one who will never again 
 be 'home for the holidays', and  \n\nthere are over 14,000 families of 
 American soldiers who will be spending this season helping their loved 
 ones, who have made it home, deal with the lifelong effects of devastating 
 wounds and trauma suffered in a war that seems to have no end.\n\nLet us 
 also remember that there are hundreds of thousands of families in 
 Afghanistan and Iraq who live with these same daily 
 realities.\n\n\nWhatever our spiritual tradition, whether we are trimming 
 the tree for Christmas, preparing the menorrah for Hannukah, gathering sage 
 for the Winter Solstice, dancing the Universal Dances of Peace, or....... 
 there are those among us who face a very difficult and aching reality this 
 year.\n\nIn the beginning and in the end, it is "we the people" who have 
 and will create the tide that will bring war, occupation, and imperialism 
 to an end, and usher in an Everlasting Peace.\n\nPlease express your 
 concern and your caring at this very special time of the year,\nand take an 
 hour or two out to join us for:\n\n'Not at Home for the Holidays'\nA Vigil 
 and Action for Peace Now!\nSaturday December 16th, from Noon to 2PM\nin 
 front of the Military Recruitment Center\n2121 41st Avenue, Capitola\n\nthe 
 Recruiting Center is just two blocks from the main entrance to the Capitola 
 Mall, and so this is a VERY VISIBLE location - it would be wonderful to 
 have enough people there to line both sides of 41st Avenue!!!\n\nto get 
 there, take the 41st Avenue exit off Highway 1, go toward the mall, and the 
 Recruiting Center is on the east side of the street, across from Master Car 
 Wash and next to (would you believe it?), Burger King - there is a large 
 parking lot behind it, accessed from Clares Street\n\nwe WILL have extra 
 signs, banners, flags, etc.\nbut please consider taking the time to make 
 your own as well\n\nco-hosted by (a growing list): the Women's 
 International League for Peace and Freedom of SC, the GI Rights Hotline and 
 Draft Alternatives Program of the RCNV, the Resource Center for 
 Nonviolence, the Santa Cruz Peace Coalition, Code Pink Santa Cruz, Families 
 Against War of SC, Peace and Freedom Party SC, Women in Black of SC, 
 Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, Central Coast Workers Against the 
 War, .....\n\n\n"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."\n  
               Thomas Paine\n\n"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire 
 world all at once, but of\nstretching out to mend the part of the world 
 that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to 
 help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, 
 will help immensely. \n\nIt is not given to us to know which acts or by 
 whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is 
 needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, 
 adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take "everyone on Earth" 
 to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not 
 give up during the first,\nsecond, or hundredth gale.\n\nOne of the most 
 calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is 
 to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark 
 times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds 
 signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the\nlantern 
 of the soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy 
 toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest 
 necessity.\n\nStruggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully 
 lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is 
 one of the strongest things you can do".\n                                  
       Clarissa Pinkola Estes\n                          (author of Women 
 who Run with the Wolves)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/08/18336061.php
SUMMARY:Not at Home for the Holidays
LOCATION:in front of the Military Recruiting Center\n2121 41st Avenue, 
 Capitola\njust off Highway 1, across street from Master Car Wash
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/08/18336061.php
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