Plowshare Peace & Justice Center

Local Colors is a terrific festival of diversity and unity –  this saturday, 11am – 5 pm join us!

We will have an information Booth vendor #102, and could still use a couple more helpers at the table.  If you can sit for a little while please call Polly, 556-0825.  Or e-mail acornbranch64@aol.com   We share what Plowshare is all about with brochures and conversation.  This will be the second festival since the Vigil conflict downtown,  and there will be many new and young and interested people meeting with us to learn about the Peace Center.  We will have T-shirts and Stickers along with all of our literature, and calendar of events.  The Plowshare Information Table needs people to sit at it between 11 AM - 5 PM,  Saturday  Thanks so much and hope you can make it to the festival!

Earth Day Roanoke 2012 -  Was Great!  thanks for your help, April 21;

Dear friends,
Recently Occupy Roanoke has encouraged others to join the Move Your Money movement.  As a result, Plowshare Peace Center has moved its treasury to a local credit union.  We urge you to do so, too.  Below is a link to the Move Your Money group and some information from their website:
http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/
The Move Your Money project is a nonprofit campaign that encourages individuals and institutions to divest from the nation's largest Wall Street banks and move to local financial institutions. Little has changed to prevent another financial crisis or to end 'Too Big To Fail,' and with Congress unwilling to act, we are encouraging individuals to take power into their own hands by voting with their dollars and no longer contributing to a financial system that has led our country astray. We are a campaign that gives people real, concrete actions they can take to create a more sane, stable and localized banking system.
Gary Sandman Plowshare Director

Dear friends,
Thanks to those who turned out for the silent peace vigil today.  We had about 40 people, twice our usual group.  We were particularly pleased to see Occupy Roanoke people present.
Passerby were very supportive, honking and flashing peace signs.  Some people brought us donuts and others hot chocolate.  The businesses -whom the City Market Building Foundation were concerned we were going to disrupt -in fact, offered to bring us out water and to store people's belongings during the vigil.  And after the vigil, most of us went into the City Market Building and had lunch. 
This is what free speech look like.  Thanks, Roanoke!
Gary Sandman Plowshare Director
540-989-0393 www.plowshareva.org Facebook page at plowshare peace center
PS Channels 7 and 10 and the Roanoke Times covered the event.  Please check them out.