Olive Branch Interfaith Peace Partnership

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.

Interfaith Peace Witness 2008 in Washington, D.C. includes Worship in diverse traditions, a mass Public Witness, workshops and other events. This is a faith-based witness. We ask everyone to participate in both a worship service and the Interfaith Peace Witness at the Capitol on Friday.

Please register for all events as they may fill up. Sign up for:

Thursday evening & Friday morning workshops

FRIDAY NOON WORSHIP SERVICE

Friday Public Interfaith Peace Witness (and civil disobedience, if applicable)

Saturday activities

If you are considering civil disobedience, you must have prior nonviolence training or sign up for one on Thurs. or Fri. All who will join in the prayerful civil disobedience must register for and attend a legal briefing either Thurs. at 8:45pm or Fri. at 10:15am.

Join us March 7, 2008.
Religious services will take place in houses of worship, followed by a national interfaith witness at the U.S. Capitol, including rituals, vigiling, and faith-based nonviolent civil disobedience.

Join us by sending your section of the “"Imagine 10,000 feet of hope."

Dr. King reminded us that we are all "caught in an inescapable web of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly." All of us are wounded by the war in Iraq, and we must work together to end it.

Whether or not you can come to Washington in March you can be part of the web of resistance by offering a strand of hope.

Here's how: send or bring to Washington a six-foot length of light rope (multi-colored easy-tie clothesline is ideal). Attach to the rope ribbons or bands of cloth with your own hopes for a peaceful Iraq, your own prayers for peace, your own definitions of peace. Imagine something like Buddhist prayer flags.

Leave a foot at each end of your length of rope (so they can be tied together) and fill the remaining four feet. Please keep the ribbons or bands of cloth or prayer flags to two feet or shorter (so they can be carried without dragging the ground), and make them whatever width you like (keeping in mind that onlookers will want to be able read your hopes and prayers).

On Friday, March 7th in Washington, DC, people from across the United States will attend religious services at over a dozen different houses of worship and centers of faith at noon. Then we will come together for a public witness and demonstration against the war, including inspirational and diverse speakers, opportunities for civil disobedience, and the creation of a "rope of hope."

Please join us for this act of faith, and for related workshops and gatherings. Click here to sign up!

Christian Peace Witness for Iraq highly recommends that you consider participating in Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD), Friday evening through Monday. You have three options...