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After The Elections: Creating Vision For Change!

Saturday, 13 November 2004
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Organizer: Witness For Peace New Englang

November 12 & 13

After The Elections:
Creating Vision For Change!

Learn to weave our stories from facts, wrap them in emotion
that compels action and together we will transform the world.

With the inspiration and guidance of two spirited activists, join us as we:
• as peacemakers gather to share, reflect and energize..
• explore the challenges we face in the upcoming year,
• learn the art of story telling as a means to send our message
• participate in commUNITY drum circles drumming for peace

Avi Chomsky is professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College.  Her books include West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica; Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean; The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics.  She has worked with Central America, Cuba and Colombia solidarity groups during the past 20 years.

Andy Davis is a storyteller and political activist who lives in the shadow of Mt. Chocorua in the southeastern corner of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was on the WfP International Team in Guatemala from 1991 to 1994 and helped found the Guatemala Accompaniment Project. For the last four years, he and his wife Andrea (also a WfP former IT member) have co-directed the World Fellowship Center, a progressive educational family camp and retreat enter.

Andy has a special interest in promoting a human-scale, face-to-face culture in which we entertain and nurture each other. He looks for and crafts stories in which the underdog triumphs, the mighty are brought low, the Joan of Arc figure marries the wizard's apprentice, and then everybody gets together over soup.

Drumming: A commUNITY drum circle grows out of a realization that rhythm is a language that can unite the diverse elements of humanity. Rhythm succeeds where words fail. Drumming puts you in touch with your natural rhythm. It takes you out of the head and into the heart and it is through the heart that we connect with all of humanity.
If you have drums, please bring them. There will be some extra drums that can be shared.


For retreat information contact Joanne Ranney • wfpne@witnessforpeace.org • 802-434-2980
Registration form and directions on other side

Retreat Fee $115.00
(includes Event, four meals and Friday night lodging)
Additional night $50.00
( to enjoy the shore)
Retreat Fee (commuter) $95.00
(includes Event and meals)
Limited financial aid is available Please indicate the amount desired

Location:
Nov. 12-13 at Notre Dame Mission Center
30 Jeffreys Neck Road
Ipswich, MA 01938

Cost: $115.00 Includes lodging $95.00 Commuter rate

Directions: www.sndden.org/ndmcips/directions.htm

URL: http://www.witnessforpeace.org/newengland