Event Description:

Northeast Ohio’s 5th Anniversary
Memorial, Peace Rally, and March
Saturday, March 15th, 2pm

Falls River Square Amphitheater, Cuyahoga Falls

Broad Blvd. at Front St. Free parking in 2nd St. decks

In commemoration of those, both American and Iraqi, who have fallen, those who have been injured, and those who carry their suffering into the future, we come together to remember and to commit ourselves to being peacemakers and agents for change.

Memorial Service and Peace Rally

Rev. Melissa Carvill-Zeimer, Minister, UU Church of Kent
Greg Coleridge,Director of Economic Justice and Empowerment, American Friends Service Committee
Thomas J. Allio, Jr., Executive Director for the Catholic Commission of Summit County
Ted Voneida, Veteran, Peace Activist, Founding Chairman of Neurobiology, NEOUCOM
Greg Reimer, U.S. Rep. Sutton’s District Director will read a statement by Congresswoman Sutton

Eyes Wide Open Exhibit
Peace March

“High School Students for Peace Support Our Troops” will be collecting small toiletry items, phone cards, socks, gloves, batteries, flashlights, and letters of support for local soldiers on that day. HSStudents4PeaceSupporttheTrps@gmail.com

Hosted by: Progressive Democrats of America – Ohio www.pdaohio.org <http://www.pdaohio.org/>
American Friends Service Committee www.afsc.net <http://www.afsc.net/>

Co-sponsored by Portage Peace, Interfaith Council for Peace in the Middle East, Freedom Journal TV, Portage Democratic Coalition, Northeast Ohio Anti War Coalition, Unitarian Universalist Church of Akron- Social Action Committee, World Can’t Wait-Cleve Chapter, High School Students for Peace Support Our Troops, and Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent

Event Type: March 19th Actions

Max Attendees: 300 (Currently 0 Registered)

Location:
Front and Broad

Directions:
Off interstate Route 8, visible from expressway

Eyes Wide Open Memorial - The boots of 181 Ohioan service men and women signifying the human cost of war, along with shoes of the Iraqi men, women and children showing the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have died and the 4 million displaced by the war an


Progressive Democrats of America''s Healthcare Not Warfare campaign www.pdamerica.org and SPAN Ohio single payer health care for all Ohioans www.spanohio.org - were in tow to highlight the wasted dollars spent on an unjust war while 47 million Americans a


Peace activists gather in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio to memorialize the deaths of Ohioan service men and women and Iraqi civilians before the march.


Activists march for peace.


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