The Peace & Justice Center, and affiliated groups are proud to announce the second Vermont Peace Conference: Building a World Beyond War, on Saturday May 12 from 9:30 – 4:30 pm at the Old North End Community Center on 20 Allen St., Burlington. Walk-ins are welcome. You can register at the door.

The keynote speaker is Beata Tsosie-Peña from the Tewa tribe near the Los Alamos National Laboratory New Mexico. Tsosie-Peña is a poet, performer, and mother who has spoken out about the nuclear industry that has occupied the sacred ancestral homelands of the Tewa people since the establishment of the Manhattan Project in 1943. The realities of living next to a nuclear weapons complex has called her into environmental health and justice work with the local non-profit organization, Tewa Women United for the last ten years. She will bring her vision of the sustainability of our Earth for future generations to our conference.

Fifteen hour-long programs will fill most of the day. They will address aspects of what it will take to build a world beyond war. Participants will have the opportunity to choose three of the fifteen. Activist and organizing groups are encouraged to attend as a team so as to gain information from as many topic areas and people presenting as possible. The content is designed to work in collaboration with other topics and issues covered. The conference will focus on specific aspects of building a world beyond war. Programs will include panel discussions, group trivia games, workshops, and presentations and are led by organizers, authors, and activists from around the state including Bennington, Randolph, Montpelier, Bristol, Burlington, and more. All programs can be found at www.pjcvt.org/vt-peace-conference-2018.

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