DJPC BUILD FOR PEACE WORKATHON Dear friends of Justice and Peace: We are excited to invite you to join the Denver Justice & Peace Committee in our annual Fall Build for Peace fundraiser and community service project. The date is set for Saturday, October 13, from 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM. We will be working … Continue reading Join the “Build-for-Peace” team!
Salon Discussion Series on Mining & Indigenous Rights
DJPC 2012 SALON DISCUSSION SERIES PRESENTS MINING & INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN HUEHUETENANGO, GUATEMALA by Pascual Bernabé Velásquez Pascual Bernabé Velásquez, a Q’anjob’al Mayan, is a city council member of San Juan Ixcoy and a representative of the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. This Assembly has sought to make Huehuetenango a “Mining-Free Territory” and now struggles … Continue reading Salon Discussion Series on Mining & Indigenous Rights
Summer Potluck Social
DJPC’s SUMMER POTLUCK SOCIAL Friday, July 27, 2012 6:30 – 8:30 PM at DJPC at Highland’s United Methodist Church 3131 Osceola, Denver CO 80212 *************** · Bring a dish to share with DJPC friends! DJPC members love food and always bring great dishes! (In a nice cool church basement hall, too!) · Bring a friend … Continue reading Summer Potluck Social
DJPC Salon on Tz’utujil Mayans of Guatemala
DJPC SALON DISCUSSION SERIES PRESENTS LIVING IN A TZ’UTUJIL MAYA COMMUNITY by Tommy Timm Tommy Timm is active with DJPC’s Caminos group and a member of DJPC’s Board. He recently spent 5 months living with the Tz’utujil Maya in Santiago Atítlan, Guatemala. Come to learn about the Mayan people’s history, culture and spiritual practices. Find … Continue reading DJPC Salon on Tz’utujil Mayans of Guatemala
Living in a Tz’utujil Maya Community in 2012
June 15, 2012 Dear advocates of world justice, There is a taste of harmony, unity and justice in the air……something we have dreamed about, worked to achieve, and, at some level of our being, never believed could be possible. Mystics are expressing it. Psychics are channeling it. Ancient Mayans predicted it. And now, we also … Continue reading Living in a Tz’utujil Maya Community in 2012
June 21 Salon presentation: GRANITO
DJPC’s 2012 Salon Discussion Series presents: GRANITO: How to Nail a Dictator a documentary film by Pamela Yates Guatemala’s genocide in the past comes to light in the present. The quest of many witnesses to bring a malevolent dictator to justice. Thursday, June 21, 2012 Starts on time at 7:00 PM English version, runs 1 … Continue reading June 21 Salon presentation: GRANITO
Sponsor a “Builder”!
It’s time for DJPC’s Fall “Build-for-Peace”! Build-for-Peace is a workathon (like marathon or walkathon). DJPC members who will be working as “Builders” need your pledge of support for their work this Saturday, Oct. 13th. Our “Builders” will be helping Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization that builds and repairs homes with low-income families (http://www.habitatmetrodenver.org/). “Builders” … Continue reading Sponsor a “Builder”!
THANK YOU, RICK CLIFFORD!
A huge THANK YOU to Rick Clifford for organizing DJPC’s first ever “Beer-Tasting” fundraiser last Thursday, May 3, at Renegade Brewing Company, 925 W. 9th Avenue, Denver. (http://www.craftbrewerydenver.com/Renegade_Brewing_Company.html). And thank you also to all the teachers and DJPC members who came to taste a lot of beer! It was a great “fun-raiser”!
DJPC Salon Discussion on Nicaragua
DJPC’s Salon Discussion Series Presents Nicaragua Health: Past, Present, and Future Facilitated By: Jeremy Lee (Director of Service Learning) Sharif Abdelhamid (Associate Director of Service Learning) Regis University – Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions Thursday, May 17th 7:00PM-9:00PM Highlands United Methodist Church 2nd Floor Community Hall 3131 Osceola St. (Northwest Denver) Free parking in church … Continue reading DJPC Salon Discussion on Nicaragua
Thanks for the potluck fun, food and friends!
Thanks to all who helped make DJPC’s Spring Potluck so much fun (and delicious) last Friday, April 27. It was great food and company as always! Special thanks to our friend, Bill Sulzman, from Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission, arriving with justice and peace shirts and caps for sale by Alterni-Tee (www.alterni-tee.com), and … Continue reading Thanks for the potluck fun, food and friends!