VOICES is CKCPJ's October 2009 event series.  Join us to hear voices that are too often not heard.  (Click here to go see the list of event.  Click here to see calendar version of the schedule.)

45,000 Americans / year ~ 123 / day

die because they have either no

or inadequate health care coverage

We need 123 people to help us illustrate

what's at stake in health care reform

123 Each Day Event

- How Our Health Care System Fails Americans

observing the

National Day of Remembrance & Hope

5:30 p.m. Gather

6:00 p.m. Seeing & Remembering

October 20, 2009

Lexington Theological Seminary

631 South Limestone

Lexington, KY

123 people will lie, wrapped in a white shroud, in rows on the LTS lawn.  If you are willing to lie with us for less than 30 minutes bring a garbage bag and a sheet.  Wear a white shirt.  Tell us that you will be participating by contacting us at (859) 327-6277 or Richard.Mitchell@insightbb.com.

Gathering to Remember 123 Deaths Daily

from Lack of Health Coverage

45,000 deaths / yr; 123 / day

123 luminaria to solemnly remember the dead

Join us to call for health care reform

5:30 p.m. Arrive; 6:00 p.m. Gathering Begins

Tuesday October 20, 2009

Lexington Theological Seminary

631 S. Limestone; Lexington

Details: Click here

The CKCPJ's

Peace Action Task Group

invites you to

Observe, mourn, protest

- the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Wednesday

March 19, 2008

Triangle Park

Corner of Main & Broad, Lexington

Postponed from 3/8 to 3/15/08 - Winter Storm

CKCPJ Annual

Dinner & Resource Fair

Theme: Stopping Hate

with William Wharton, Executive Director

LFUCG Human Rights Commission

Saturday March 15

Fair 5:00 p.m.

Dinner: 6:00 p.m.

Program: 7:00

First Baptist Church Bracktown

Bracktown Road, Lexington

Our Little World Peace Fair

11- 7 p.m. Saturday May 20th, 2006

Bluegrass Community & Technical College

Lexington

Think.  Act.  Discover.

Music ^. Exhibits ^. Local & Global Products ^. Food & Farm ^. Workshops

Click here to view workshop schedule.

Click here to view music schedule

Click here to download & print the black & white version of the Fair poster (PDF)

Click here to download & print the color version of the Fair poster (PDF)

Click here for details

Monday March 20th, 2006,  on the 3rd Anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the CKCPJ's Peace Action Task Group held  a rally at Lexington's Triangle Park (corner of Main & Broadway). 

'We mourned, and protested  on the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  We want to go beyond statistics.  The statistics are numbing: 2,307 U.S. dead, 16,653 U.S. wounded, over 30,000 Iraqi civilians dead, and an unknown number of Iraqi insurgents dead.  The numbers are numbing.  Our goal is to focus is to focus attention on the individuals whose lives have been sacrificed in this unwise, unnecessary, and illegal war. 

From 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. peace activists read the names of U.S. and Iraqis who have died in the award.  After the activist read the name, he or she placed a flower at the foot of a coffin covered  with both U.S. and Iraqi flags.  While the names are being read, other activists, holding signs and banners, lined the curbs on both sides of the streets that border Triangle Park. 

At 5:30 p.m. we had a brief program.  Anita Dennis and Missy Comley Beattie spoke.  Dennis is the mother of Darryl Anderson, wounded Iraq veteran who has gone to Canada rather than accept a second tour of duty in Iraq.  Beattie is the Aunt of Marine Lance Corporal Chase Comley who died in Iraq on August 6, 2005.  Beattie, Chase's father Mark Comley, and several other families are members of Gold Star Families for Peace.