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CONNECTICUT

Join the worldwide movement to create a Global Ceasefire and Day of Peace & Nonviolence in our homes, our communities and between nations on September 21, The International Day of Peace. Peace Day has been a focal point for community-uniting and peace-inspiring events since its inception in 1981. This year will be the greatest Peace Day, yet. Together we can create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world, one heart, one family, one community at a time. Join the Countdown To Peace and help inspire your community to celebrate humanity's first day of peace, ever.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

  • Ask your favorite organization, group or religious institution to support the International Day of Peace
  • Plan or attend a Peace Day Event in your community (scheduled events include concerts, parades, marches, fasts, conferences, festivals, gatherings, service projects, ceremonies, children's activities such as peace art & essay contests and pinwheels for peace, Peace Day parties and peace vigils)
  • Ask your Mayor, City Council, Governor and President to declare a Proclamation of Peace
  • Print out Flyers, Posters and other Resources

2006 PLANS
(Please check PinwheelsForPeace.com for additional Pinwheels For Peace locations)

Proclamation issued by Governor M. Jodi Rell!

Print out for your Peace Day event. (PDF - 274K)

Please ask your Mayor or City Council to issue a proclamation and scan and email to peaceday@pathwaystopeace.org
or fax to 503-214-6864 to post on this website
BALTIC
Sprague Public Library
Email: librarian@ctsprague.org
Web: http://ctsprague.org/library%20Home%20NE
EVENT: with story and crafts at 11 AM, and the again at 1 PM, as well as making Pinwheels for Peace!
BALTIC
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
BRIDGEPORT
St. Vincent's Medical Center
EVENT: Interfaith prayer service. Origami cranes with a card explaining their origin will be place on every patient's lunch tray. Our lobby ceiling will be strung with origami cranes and all visitors will be handed a crane when they enter!

BRIDGEPORT
Service for Peace
Contact: Courtney Jaser
Email: cjaser@serviceforpeace.org
Web: www.serviceforpeace.org
EVENT: The theme of the Bridgeport Project will be how poverty is a form of violence. A refugee will be speaking in a local high school about her personal experiences and the importance of peace. They will also observe a Moment of Silence in the school at noon. The following Saturday, they will carry out a service project at a local homeless shelter named Prospect House, painting and decorating their community room. This is a way to give back to the community suffering from poverty and supporting organizations that help them.

Partner Organiation: RYASAP

CHESHIRE
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
GLASTONBURY
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
GREENWICH
Round Hill Community Church
Group size: 450 Contact person:
Kerri Ann Hofer Phone:
Email: kerriann@mac.com
Website: www.roundhillcommunitychurch.org
IDP Vigil : We will be holding a candlelight peace vigil and labyrinth walk. We will also be ringing our bell at noon and inviting other local places of worship to do the same.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
GUILFORD
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
HADDAM
Brainerd Memorial Library
Email: library@brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org
Web: http://www.brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org/
EVENT: Having a special Peace Day Storytime, and making Pinwheels for Peace.
HADDAM
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
HAMDEN
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
HARTFORD
Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry
Contact person: Steven Pavignano o.f.m.
Phone: 860-756-4034
Email: s.pav@stpatrick-stanthony.org
IDP Vigil : A BREAD, WATER AND SILENCE LUNCH: A Time for Fasting, Prayer and Silence 12:30p in Franciscan Urban Center (call Office 756-4034 if planning to participate)and AN HOUR OF PRAYER FOR PEACE 7p in Church.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
MONROE
Chalk Hill School
EVENT: Reading Peace Begins WIth You (Sierra Club) and making 75 Pinwheels Discuss what peace means to us. and collectivally shouted, "May Peace Prevail on Earth" We did this in 3 different classes. .
NEW BRITAIN
Contact person: Char Corbett
Email: charcorbett@snet.net
IDP Vigil : Pinwheels for Peace on lawn; 1/2-hour prayer vigil for peace; tolling church bells at 12Noon EST.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
NEW MILFORD
Northville Elementary School 2nd Graders
EVENT: My second grade students are creating Peace pinwheels to grace our front entranceway, singing a peace song for parents, and designing "peaceful" people with messages of peace on them.
OLD SAYBROOK
CT Network of Spiritual Progressives
Email: MarianDobbs@comcast.net
Web: spiritualprogressives.org
EVENT: On 9-11 and on 9-15, we are hosting a house party to watch the 1982 film "Gandhi"
REDDING
Redding Elementary School
Email: kkelly@reddingps.org
EVENT: displaying 750 (# of students) pinwheels in front of the school
SOUTHINGTON
Briarwood College
Email: careers@briarwood.edu
Web: www.briarwood.edu
EVENT: College community will gather for a speech by the President, songs, and reading of quotations on peace
TRUMBULL
Faifield County Peace Alliance
Email: inspirit3163@yahoo.com
Tel: 2035458123
EVENT: A peace walk supporting the national Peace Alliance campaign to establish a cabinet level dept of peace in Washington. The walk wil begin at St Augustine Cathedral at 9 am on Sept 23 and end at the band shell in seaside park.
WETHERSFIELD
PINWHEELS FOR PEACE confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
WILLIMANTIC
Northeast Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice
Email: westerfield@sysmatrix.net
Tel: 860-423-3974
EVENT: peace vigil.

 

PEACE DAY ARCHIVE

BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, USA
2005- A Bridgeport couple invited 120 students and their teachers from 3 local schools to dedicate a peace pole in their yard. The children paraded to the event with peace signs and posters, and after the dedication 3 monarch butterflies were released. The children each placed a stone around the peacepole as they left as a remembrance, and each of the teachers was given a miniature peace pole for their classroom. The entire event was covered by local television.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/2005wpps/us-connecticut.htm)
COLUMBIA, CONNECTICUT, USA
2005- Students at H.W. Porter School celebrated the International Day of Peace with pinwheels for peace. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
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Peace Day CONTACTS

Service For Peace Affiliate
Contact: Edina Osterreicher
University of Bridegport
244 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604
Tel: 203-576-4487
Email: edinao@ub.edu
Web: www.ServiceForPeace.org

Season For Nonviolence Network
Meridien, Monroe, Torrington
snv@agnt.org

Connecticut Peace Day
SUPPORTERS

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The International Day of Peace

(*The opinions of these organizations are their own.
Pathways To Peace and The International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN
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that support the International Day of Peace.)

 

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