North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice, formerly North Shore Anti-War Coalition

The North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice (NSCPJ) is an alliance
of organizations and individuals from Chicago and near north suburbs, united in support of an end to war and in the use of nonviolent methods of social change.

For our Mission Statement Click here
List of current member organizations: click here

NSCPJ will host an action the 3nd Friday of every month
6:00 to 7:00pm
at Maple and Church in Evanston
Next Vigil Dates - April 15, May 20

As part of the Tax Day Protest Actions of North Shore Coalition for Peace, Justice and the Environment and Neighbors for Peace...

April 16 - Concert with Tom Neilson
April 18 - Tax Day Leafletting at the Evanston Post Office

April 16, 2011 • 7pm -9:30pm

Perla Café
presents an evening of
Political Satire, Parody & Social Commentary
with award winning songwriter and performer
Tom Neilson

1813 Dempster St., Evanston ~ 847.424.1382
$15 at the door ... and you’ll want to try some of Perla Café’s delicacies

“Politically cutting-edge, incisive, warm, & very funny; Raucous political satire &, quick wit; had everyone laughing” - Cathy Gilbert, Miami Dade Green Party

“Creative & compelling; skewers the outrageous behavior of the greedy & powerful in corporations& government.” Ray Korona, People’s Voice Café Collective, NYC

“Does a great job of reminding people of what is really important, and the power of folk music to say it.” - Michael Stock, WLRN, Miami, FL

“This is very good music and very good politics.” Tom Paxton

“He’s the Jon Stewart of folk music.” Kerville Folk Festival

2011 IMA Song of the Year nomination
2011 IFA War & Politics
2010 Alternate Root, Songs with Vision
2010 USSF Music for Social Change
2009 Winner, Kerrville Folk Festival
- IMA Song of the year nomination
- SAW folk song of the year
- JPF folk CD
- Hon Mention, Great Lakes
- Music for Social Change, UK
2008 Finalist, Ploughshares
2007 Winner, South FL Folk Festival
2006 JPF awards folk song & CD

Click Here for Tom's website
Click here to download flyer

Monday, April 18, 2011

CAN YOU SPARE AN HOUR OR TWO TO TELL PEOPLE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FEDERAL BUDGET AND WHERE THEIR INCOME TAX MONEY REALLY GOES?

Every year on the last day in which to income taxed, people of peace in the North Shore distribute "Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes," a detailed and accurate flyer produced by the War Resister's League. This year, "tax day" falls on Monday, April 18.

Sponsored by Neighbors for Peace and the North Shore Coalition for Peace, Justice, and the Environment, the leafleting takes place from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Evanston Post Office on Davis and Oak, just two blocks West of the El. All materials are furnished and parking is generally available on Davis. To see the flyer, go to www.warresisters.org

Sixty volunteers are needed-or more-to sign up for one or two-hour shifts. It's easy, it's fun, and it's a day when people are genuinely receptive to the message for peace. Contact Rosalie Riegle at 847. 644.2281 (or through this site) with the hours you'd like to leaflet. Show citizens of the North Shore a different message than that of the "tea baggers."

To help us in this endeavor, you could also order your own leaflets from War Resisters League and coordinate one at your local post office.

"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the
sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its
children. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket
fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and
are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- Dwight D.
Eisenhower

Parental Advisory

When your kids goes to see a film at the Century Theater complex, they may be shown National Guard or military recruitment propaganda in the form of an extended length music video before the film. They may also be exposed to printed promotional materials as they purchase their tickets.

If you object, as we do, to this misuse of our tax dollars, please contact the Century Theater corporate offices, our elected representatives, the Department of Defense and our local papers to voice your complaint as parents and citizens.

The National Guard Bureau 1411 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington VA 22202-3231	Corporate Office: Cinemark USA, Inc. 3900 Dallas Parkway, Suite 500 Plano, TX 75093-7865
Senator Richard J. Durbin John C. Kluczynski Federal Office Building 230 S Dearborn St. Suite 3900 Chicago, IL 60604	Congresswoman Janice D.Schakowsky 820 Davis Street Suite 105 Evanston, IL 60201
Evanston Roundtable 124 Florence Ave., Ste. 3 Evanston, Illinois 60202	Evanston Review Letters 3701 W. Lake Ave. Glenview, Illinois 60026


Past Events
	March 19, 2010 • 6pm -7pm Wars Without End Vigil in Evanston Just east of the Metra station Seven years ago on March 19th, the US invaded Iraq - a war that continues with no end in sight. In December, President Obama began to escalate the war in Afghanistan - when only 100 Al Qaeda members remain in that country. Scheduled Iraq troop withdrawals still leave thousands of contractors and mercenaries behind as occupiers. In the face of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the US continues to finance Israel's war on Palestine. Now, the Obama administration has introduced a budget that includes the largest amount for "defense" spending ever - while freezing domestic spending for human needs. There is no health care bill, no action on climate change. All Washington can agree on is to feed our tax money to big banks and an endless war. Politicians' excuses for these failures have ranged from blaming immigrants and other working people to scaring us with 'terrorist' threats. These same politicians will not end the violence until we force them to. With rampant job losses and cutbacks in social services, it's time now more than ever to oppose costly wars that rob precious public resources from housing, healthcare, education, and a host of other public needs. Join us - and thousands throughout this nation to mark the grim anniversary of seven years in Iraq. We have some signs, but feel free to bring your own End the Wars & Occupations Now! Fund People's Needs, Not Corporate Greed Join us for the 3rd Friday action! This Friday, January 15th at 6:00pm at Church and Maple, just east of the Metra tracks Chicagoland Calls for Emergency Aid For Haiti Evanston Alderman Lionel Jean-Baptiste who is also the Chairman of the Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti, will join with other Chicagoland residents with up to date information on conditions in Haiti and what we can do to help. Click here for a PDF with more information Join us for the 3rd Friday action! Next Month - February 19th Tuesday May 5th at 7:30pm St Athanasius Roman Catholic Church 1615 Lincoln St • Evanston, IL 60201 Sallie and Alan Gratch along with Rabbi Brant Rosen will give a talk recounting their recent trip to Iran. The three were part of a Civilian Diplomacy Delegation sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Stand for Peace on Mother's Day 2009! Sunday, May 10th 1pm to 2pm (Corner of Church and Maple in Downtown Evanston) Please Join Us as we honor the original meaning of Mother's Day. Over 130 years ago, following the American Civil War, Julia Ward Howe wrote the Original Mother's Day Proclamation (see below), calling upon women of the world to unite for peace. She said, in essence, "We will not raise our children to kill another mother's child." We'll be collecting your messages of peace to Michelle Obama as we share our hopes and dreams for a more peaceful world. Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870 Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, For caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs." From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe out dishonor, Nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil At the summons of war, Let women now leave all that may be left of home For a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means Whereby the great human family can live in peace... Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, But of God - In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask That a general congress of women without limit of nationality, May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient And the earliest period consistent with its objects, To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, The amicable settlement of international questions, The great and general interests of peace. for more information call - 312.480.1331
Join us in participating in Camp Hope "Countdown to Change" January 1 through 19th, 2009! go to CampHope2009 for more details and to sign up Songs of Peace in a Time of War Friday, December 19, 2008 6:30pm - 7:30pm Church St. and Maple Ave. in Evanston (near theaters, Metra and "L" stops) As the shoppers rush home with their treasures, come home from work or head off to dinner and a movie, we will gather to sing songs of peace. We will remember all those, in conflict zones around the world and in our own backyards, for whom there is no peace . All are welcome to join us.
Member Organizations, North Suburban Peace Initiative (NSPI) and American Friends Service Committee are hosting a forum A Seriously Flawed U.S. Demand... The Privatizing of Iraqi Oil! Thursday, July 26. 2007 • 7:30pm Beth Emet Synogogue • 1224 W. Dempster, Evanston, IL with guest speaker Antonia Juhasz, Ms Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is the Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of THe Bu$h Agenda - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. She is a teacher at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program. click here for further information
Click here for information on the May 16th Jeremy Scahill event at Northwestern


Friday, May 11, 2007 • 6:30pm to 7:30pm Church and Maple in Evanston (near the theaters) The theme for this month's 2nd Friday action is the origins of Mother's Day as proclaimed by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 which was begun as a day for women to take a stand against war. In the same tradition, Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. We will be encouraging women and men to stand on Sunday, May 13 at 1pm whereever they may be for peace. www.standingwomen.org We are standing for the world’s children and grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them. We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, and enough food to eat. A world where they have access to a basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies. A world where they have a worm, safe, and loving place to call home. A world where they don’t live in fear of violence - in their home, in their neighborhood, in their school or in their world. This is the world of which we dream. This is the cause for which we stand.

Wednesday, May 16 • 7pm Jeremy Scahill Tour: BLACKWATER USA Northwestern University (Evanston campus) 1881 Sheridan Rd. (Sheridan and Chicago Ave) Harris Hall room #108; lecture hall holds 225-250. Via public transit: Foster stop (purple line El), walk 21⁄2 blocks east to Sheridan, 1 block south to Harris Hall. Via auto: Parking available nearby in the south parking lot off Sheridan Road, east of Harris Hall. Join us for Jeremy Scahill’s book tour for his NY Times best seller: *Blackwater, the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.* From the blackwaterbook.com website - “Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from deep inside the military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House. Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror,” with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 private contractors at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments, and yet most people have never heard of Blackwater.” www.blackwaterbook.com click here to download flyer




Call any Sen. or Rep. Toll-Free at 866-340-9281

Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL 5th) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL 9th) Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL 10th)

For further information on any of our member organizations or to find out how you can become involved please Contact Us.

List of current member organizations: click here