Olive Branch Interfaith Peace Partnership

Here are some of the photos taken at our inauguration eve event Rebirthing King, Rebirthing America. Click here to browse the album at Flickr, or enjoy the slideshow below.

We've been scanning the Internet for mentions of last week's wonderful Rebirthing King, Rebirthing America event (photos coming soon) and came across this interesting blog called The FundamentaList by The American Prospect. They've been tracking the religious right for some time, but are now looking at the religious left as well, as we immediately popped onto their radar!

In addition to noting other inauguration-related items (including the Rev. Rick Warren's comparison of himself to Dr. King!) blogger Sarah Posner attended our event last week and had this to report:

When Barack Obama was elected as our country's first African-American president in November, many peace activists raised our voices in celebration. On the FORpeace blog, we discussed our reactions - a lot of joy mixed with some skepticism - about what changes this might bring to Washington, D.C. and to the nation. Today we observe Martin Luther King Day on the cusp of Obama's inauguration, and the juxtaposition of these two events couldn't be more powerful.

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If you have clikced on the donation link on the left side of our web site recently, you may have noticed that the donation form was broken! We apologize for this problem, and have now set up an improved donation form where you can easily make an online donation of any size to help sustain our interfaith peacework.

I hope you will consider making a contribution, even if it is just $10, to show that there is a real need for this effort and that there is a strong community backing it up. Thank you for your patience and support!

Here are some photos from last Thursday and Friday. Most are by me, but other folks can tag their pictures OBIPP in Flickr to be added to thhis slideshow. You can also browse the images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/obipp/

This morning I attended a training on nonviolent civil disobedience and got to know a few dozen of the hundreds of other people here for today's Interfaith Peace Witness. It looks like there is a group of about 50 or more who are planning to get arrested this afternoon. I've decided not to join in them in that act, which leaves me all the more impressed with their sacrifice. I will take as many pictures as I can of the action and will post them at http://flickr.com/photos/forpeace

If you want to post your own updates from Washington, DC or your own peace witnesses wherever you are, check out http://olivebranchinterfaith.org/community-updates and follow the instructions there.

Today dozens of volunteers worked to assemble thousands of peices of fabric that were contributed by peace activists from aruond the country. More photos will be posted later, here is a small video I made with my phone of just a small part of the Rope of Hope.

You can add to our community updates page by using any of the following social media tools and tagging your entries OBIPP.

• Technorati  (blog entries)
  
• Flickr  (photos)
  
• YouTube  (video)
  
• blip.tv  (video)
  
• Twitter/hashtags  (text messages)

If you would like to suggest another media source to be added to our aggregator, let us know!

Whether you are attending this week's activities in DC or a local peace vigil in your own community, you can help lift up your voice for peace by posting photos and blog entries online, and tagging them "OBIPP." (Learn more about tagging.)  We are aggregating your photos, text updates, and blog entries on our Community Updates page.

If you are looking for other ways to promote the events and spread the message of peace, please visit our outreach section for more resources and ideas: www.olivebranchinterfaith.org/sections/outreach