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DESCRIPTION:The women and men of WILPF (Women's Intl. League for Peace & Freedom) vigil 
 silently (in Quaker tradition), with our signs and banners speaking for us, 
 every Friday at the Palo Alto corner of El Camino & Embarcadero, outside 
 Town & Country shopping center, on the public sidewalk. \n\nWe will gather 
 again the Friday after Thanksgiving for an end to these wars. And as we do 
 so, we also remind Americans that many/most of our nation's "first people," 
 indigenous Native Americans, do not celebrate the traditional Thanksgiving 
 day feast of the Pilgrims, but the month of November as “Native American 
 Heritage Month." And since the passage by Congress of HR 40 (Pub. L. 
 111-33), the “Native American Heritage Day Act of 2009” which 
 designates the Friday immediately following Thanksgiving Day of each year 
 as “Native American Heritage Day.” We support their special observances 
 of their culture, and we mourn the injustice of their treatment as the 
 settlers and following decades took their land, waged war and herded them 
 into reservations. As we stand outside a busy shopping area on commercial 
 "Black Friday" we recognize those who now - indigenous Americans, and those 
 who are under siege in wars around the globe, who have no justice, no 
 peace, no feasting, no normal meals with family, perhaps no family. And we 
 recognize our obligation to justice - and if we can - we should at the 
 least stand in public vigil for peace, and work for an end to war. We have 
 signs and banners to share, and hope to have others join us. Contact us at 
 wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/11/23/18860621.php
SUMMARY:Silent Vigil for Peace in Ukraine and Palestine and honoring Native American Heritage Day
LOCATION:corner of El Camino & Embarcadero, outside Town & Country shopping center, 
 on the public sidewalk\n855 El Camino \nPalo Alto, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/11/23/18860621.php
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