Tuesday, June 30, 2015

SECOND PEACE WEEK ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING minutes

WHERE and WHO:  ACTIVITIES ROOM (BETWEEN LD AND PD) ??Grace P., Carmen C. Patti W.  Johnny, Safra, Miriam, Sara and Dylan e-mailed regrets.  Others: no contact

WHEN it was:  WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 6:00-7:00 PM  Pizza Dinner ordered  $11  
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WHAT did we do:  PEACE VILLAGE RESOURCES PROVIDED BY DIOCESES. Peace team viewed the resources and created a plan on how to use them.

a. 9/11-9/19  Peace Village Posters in buildings in host areas inviting exploration at will from intrinsic motivation.  Grace will head the Exploring the Peace Village Initiative with the theme.  Peace begins with ME/YOU/US

b. 9/21 Peace Day Possible Peace Walk for all divisions to view Peace Village  Music/food to motivate exploration.  We also need to explore connections with chapel services and priests leading the exploration in tandem with blessing/planting of pinwheels and poppies for peace and maybe labyrinth???  Connections to parents, teachers, coaches, restaurants might be needed.


WHY did we decide to embrace the Peace Village: Give greater connections to peace even for the most skeptical.   The process will be an invitation to explore the peace village with collaborations from Peace Team members, administration and faculty.  It will also be an invitation to share and reflect at will.

The Casady service-learning program aims to help others (teens, children and adults) find their passion to serve and empower entrepreneurial experiences of service for peace and social change. The peace village and the compassion games international http://compassiongames.org/ are unobtrusive suggestions to focus on our capacity to build bridges of understanding that peace begins with me/you/us and that we need to MAKE TIME for kindness, compassion and service if we are to give PEACE ONE DAY a chance.

The compassion games international are a global resource to intentionally focus on small deeds to "just do acts of kindness, compassion and service" as part of our daily routines. Being a good, ethical person is not easy and the compassion games international celebrate our intentional commitment to helping create caring and ethical communities

Process and to do list until next meeting?  .  We got a few of the resources and decided to meet on Wednesday, July 22 at a time convenient to Grace - Mrs. Clay and Mrs. Morgan have cleared schedules to be at Grace's and other members of the peace team in town convenience.
Grace took a few of Mrs. Morgan's Peace Village Resources and left with a to do list
a. Get a time on Wednesday, July 22 to meet to go over all the materials and allocate peace team welcomed assignments during the week
b. At next meeting we will approve the t-shirt design for the peace team.  We have a suggestion from last year created by Grace and Johnny.  Are there any other suggestions?
c. Grace has graciously confirmed her desire to be "YAC communication and marketing in 2015"  After Wednesday meeting, Grace and Mrs. Clay will get together to create the Peace Week flyer as well as YAC and Service-Learning flyers and logos.


Emerging calendar for 11 days of Global Unity 2015  The calendar, subject to additions and changes we have are as follows on 7/16/2015:

a.  9/11-9/21 The YAC Peace Team will promote Peace begins with ME/YOU/US by inviting high school youth and adults to explore the PEACE VILLAGE to build as Pope Francis stated, "bridges of understanding" of our diversity through the unity of the Golden Rule.  We are assessing our resources and we should have a plan of action at  http://casadypeaceweek.blogspot.com/

On the daily announcements and bulletin boards, suggestions for the Compassion Games International will be made public.  We are promoting the screening of Kindness is Contagious at a local theater in August and September as a possible motivator and perhaps "catching kindness" with Instagram might be an option to motivate enthusiasm to participate in the games.

b. Service for Peace  Sponsors:  The Casady Service-Learning Program, YAC, YLOKC, Community Partners for Service for Peace

Tuesday 9/8th-Thursday 9/10th:  YAC Peace Team sets-up Peace Village at UD

Friday 9/11 Unity:  YAC Good Deed: Service for Peace:  TBA  In the past:baked cookies for police and firefighters. MD new YAC will be sending letters to Veterans.

Saturday 9/12: Interdependence:  Day @ Food Bank. 400 volunteers possible.  Oklahoma Department of Forestry seedling giveaway.

Casady encouraged to volunteer with Boys and Girls Club, Positive Tomorrows, The Hugs Project, YMCA-YLOKC.  Oklahoma Forestry Department seedlings giveaway- Eno Global tree planting days http://www.enoprogramme.org/

Sunday 9/13 Environment:  Peace One Day movie screening @ Casady Wing. Pot luck Recipeace Meal http://www.recipeaceday.org/stories.  Oklahoma Forestry Department seedlings giveaway http://www.enoprogramme.org/

Monday 9/14 Economic Justice:  Global Compassion Games - Peace Village

Tuesday 9/15 Health: Global Compassion Games- Peace Village

Wednesday 9/16: Children and Youth: Global Compassion Games- Peace Village  Pinwheels for Peace, Poppies for Peace

Thursday 9/17: Women: Global Compassion Games- Peace Village

Friday 9/18 Human Rights:  Set-up Peace Village at Boys and Girls Club.  Boys and Girls Club Oklahoma Department of Forestry seedling give away.  Pinwheels for Peace, poppies for Peace, Interfaith peace art at Boys and Girls Club

Saturday 9/19 Freedom  Day for Kids Fair and school supplies give away.  Peace Village and seedlings give away.  Interfaith peace art station at Kids Fair.  Possible Youth LEAD OKC training day.

Sunday, 9/20 Disarmament  1:00-5:00 Interfaith Youth Tour sponsored by Oklahoma Conference of Churches.  Dinner and screening of Peace One Day at local restaurant with recipeace elements

b. Monday 9/21  Celebration on Monday 9/21.  Peace music, golden rule, peace prayer at each station.  Possible ethic food provided by parents and/or international food restaurant donations.  Stations open during chapel times.  Blessing and planting of pinwheels PD, LD, MD/UD (language/religion classes, YAC).  Viewing of Peace ONE Day telecast of global peace day celebration http://www.peaceoneday.org/

Possible Peace Team members9TH GRADE: ?
10TH GRADE: MARIAM, SAFRA, SARA, KIRA
11TH GRADE: JOHNNY, CATHY, GRACE, HAMZA
12TH GRADE: DYLAN
FACULTY:  MRS. MORGAN, MRS. CLAY, MRS. CZERWINSKI, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Robertson, Father Youmans, Father Blizzard


Food for Thought:  On parking lot-  NOT COVERED because the meeting only lasted one hour.


1. Compassion Games 9/11-9/21 has funding for projects available.  Grant application at http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=18513a22108989dad7e255cfd&id=f1d70d8c7b&e=53391a8053

2. Casady Faculty In Service:  Serving together at the Food Bank, August 18, 2015  8-12

3. YLOKC posssible training on weekend of 9/18-9/21.  Johnny will update

4. August 10th premiere of Compassion is contagious

5. Minutes from first meeting:  Thank you very much for the ones who were able to attend the meeting .  Find minutes below .  Updates to the minutes until the next time here!.  Next  meeting: date set by Johnny, July 15, 6:00 PM at the After School/Activities Room.  Main agenda: See resources, set calendar of activities.

June 13th 2015: Peace Week meeting @ Orange leaf  3:30-4:30 Meeting  4:30-5:00 Ice Cream  
Participants:  Johnny L.(facilitator)  Grace P.  Cathy Z (minutes)  Mrs. Morgan,  Mrs. Czerwinski,  Mrs. Clay.  Update: Hamza sent an e-mail stating that he could not make it.  Heather is not going to be able to be part of this group.  We did not hear from Mariam and Safra or Isabelle Update: Kira might be interested in being part of the team. Sara stated that she wanted to be part of the meeting.

Cost: $22 with tip from S-L Budget

Agenda facilitated by Johnny.  Minutes by Cathy, updates by Mrs. Clay.
1. Introductions and Goals
2. Show and Tell: Peace Village, Pinwheels for Peace, Episcopal Dioceses and PEACE ONE DAY and Shinnyo-en Foundation resources Pinwheels at advisory time, inter-grade connections for pinwheel making UD/LD. UPDATE:   MD: International Club. New YAC, Religious Education classes? UPDATE: The Peace Poppy Project
3. New Ideas
4. Next Meeting and to do list
5. Yogurt time - Meeting adjourned

1. Introductions with personal goals for involvement with the week
-Goals
To spread awareness  learn behind the scenes through peace week get students more connected to Peace Week.  Be a resource for peace team  Do and inspire acts of kindness, compassion and service during peace week.

2. Show and Tell;  Resources with suggestions for new paths to  accomplish goals
a. Mrs. Morgan ( 1st grade teacher) 
     - peace village (peace with all different religions)
          - each language has different word for peace + golden rule.why isn't it more powerful?
     - being interactive with peace is the most effective
     - books ( can be used for chapel talks, activities, ect.)
          - peace begins with you
          - the peace book
          - peace
b.. Pinwheels - quality over quantity (colorful) 
     - make during advisory?  Check schedules.  Talk to Dr. Powell and Coach T.
     - how to increase excitement in high school  Connect pinwheel making 1st with 9th grade.
--------Check schedules.  Check with division directors
     - works better in small groups 
c. . Labyrinth 
     - week before peace week UPDATE: Mother Susan requested September 3rd.  Checking with pertinent administrators via e-mail.  Mr. fFresonke and crew might be ble to draw a labyrinth on grass the week of September 3rd.    We hope the paint will whole at least until 9/11.
     - metaphor for our journey in life
     - Canon Susan / mother Susan 
          - High ranking female priest - High administrative position in the episcopal Church
          - explain the labyrinth in chapel? Update:  Mrs. Morgan will talk to Cannon Susan about small labyrinths for younger children and to recommend an invitation to walk the labyrinth for the UD to increase the possible response from teens.  Father Youmans is welcomed working with Cannon Susan on September 3.  Still pending approval for speech by Father Blizzard.
d. Peace Village Materials at Casady School now
          - place banners around the lake ?  Update: Too costly $ and time around the lake.  Two suggestions: on fence or on trees..  Either way administrative approval pending. Update 0n 6/29/2015 Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Clay and Johnny had a brief meeting looking at the materials provided by the dioceses.  It was decided that the second organizational meeting will be July 15 with one agenda items, looking at the resources provided and making decisions about using them or not.  Johnny will provide the time for the meeting, but due to working schedules, it will probably be a late afternoon meeting at the after school activities room.
          - next to the thinking person statue
          - field next to the chapel 
     - have a walk leading to the labyrinth and have people of different religions along the way 
e.   Pinwheels ( primary division )  Mrs. Czerwinski
     - 4 things that make them feel peaceful
     - about 20 cents each
     - father blizzard blesses them and they plant their pinwheels 
     - sing a peace song
     - high school watch the little kids do this to make an impact 
           - high schoolers blow bubbles for peace during this
 f.   create designs and give t-shirts away UPDATE:  Mrs. Seitter is asking Fiona R. to create a design for Peace Week  Art club can make a stamp and make t-shirts for the whole school.  Mrs. Clay will have a meeting with Mrs. Thompson to brainstorm possibilities for LD Peace Art.  Mrs. Nielsen is already working on a choral piece of peace.  We need to contact the orchestra faculty to see if they could also have a piece of peace during Peace Week.
      - Find donors to buy the white t-shirts or sell ice cream from Orange Leaf  $ 4 per person cost.  Sell at $ 5 to buy t-shirts.  Orange leaf can deliver for $50.  The contact person at Orange Leaf is the owner at the store on May avenue Taunda Jenkims 503-0193. Orange leaf
    
g. Peace Paper flowers PD idea for Grandparents day
  - Flowers for Peace  UPDATE:  The Poppy Peace Project .  E-mail from Poppy Peace Project: Thank you for your enquiry into The Peace Poppy Project, sorry I have taken a while to reply as I have been to Australia on holiday.
This project is based in New Zealand, were you aware of this?
The project has been running for three years and has gathered great momentum here, especially this year as we have been commentating the 100 years since ANZAC events in Turkey..  I do have some kitsets left but obviously would need to post that over to you.  The cost of each kitset is $250 NZ and has all the materials to make 250 poppies ( they stand about 40mm high) I would also need to cover the postage costs.
The project run with some funding from local council grants to cover some costs and the rest was volunteer work by myself and a dedicated team of people. 
cristina.b@xtra.co.nz via yahoo.com
     - plant around campus or wear it on peace day  
There is a White Poppies for Peace Poppies project too.  http://www.ppu.org.uk/whitepoppy/

3. New Ideas to follow up with decision makers to turn into action
a. Create meaning in the lower division about peace week
  - Place banners around the lake  Mr. Fresonke and Crew
  - Inter-grade and advisory connections
     - pair high schoolers with lower division students and talk about peace
     - during high school chapel time?    Division Directors, Priests
          - need to write letter to 4th grade P.E. Teachers
     -need to be at a time that everything is set up 
          - activity building ?  Small Groups    Classroom Teachers
b. Tango Peace at Mrs. Lopez studio: First Friday in September  Mrs. Lopez, Marketing the month's activities
c. OKC Peace Day Celebration:  Mrs. Clay is meeting with organizers   United Nations of OKC- Bill Bryant.  UPDATE:  Next meeting June 28, 5:30 Edmond Trinity Christian Church1400 NW 178th
Edmond, OK  73012, UN General Assembly has declared as a day "...devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples."The theme of this year’s commemoration is “Partnerships for Peace – Dignity for All” which aims to highlight the importance of all segments of society to work together to strive for peace.
c. September 20, Sunday:  OCCC Interfaith Youth Tour will go to the following three places, almost 99% sure
1. Saint Paul's Episcopal  2. Raindrop House  3. Emmanuel Temple
c. People to People Classroom:  Reference #: SCHOOLCLASS-06262015-120842831-8413

4. Next Meeting  and to do list
-at Casady School Activity Room -Johnny will check with Mr. Bonfiglio and will let us know date and time.  Tentative Agenda:  Theme of the Week.  Activities for the week based on resources.
- Labyrinth on grass during summer - Mrs. Clay will do this next week
- Grace will see about ice cream connection with braum's and possible adult sponsor for trip to San Francisco Retreat, if Casady is invited.  Johnny and Grace are interested!
-Johnny and Cathy will facilitate the next meeting.  Mrs. Clay requested the group to please visit 

After the meeting
a. San Francisco trip  Update: Retreat full by 6/19/2015.  Casady Peace Team will not attend
     - need to find a teacher or parent  advisor .  Mrs. Clay cannot attend conflict with back to school
          - ms stone?  mrs. Patton  Grace will bring reply
     - Johnny is interested in treasury YAC position and Grace is interested in Marketing and Communication position.  Cathy will take these requests to the YAC officers.
    - Mrs. Clay provided Shinnyo-en Foundation, Be The Peace Cards to youth participants
- Grace took Peace Village and Peace One Day resources to read.

Monday, June 29, 2015

A message from Jeremy Gilley, founder of PEACE ONE DAY

Dear Casady Peace Team

With just three months to go till Peace Day, momentum is really starting to build. We would love to hear about your plans for the day, and how you and your communities intend to celebrate 21 September
. Be a part of building this amazing movement for change! Here are some of our ideas for celebrating the day.

One plan that we are delighted to announce is that Peace One Day will be putting on a youth event in Kigali, Rwanda, on Peace Day this year. We will bring together thousands of young people, thanks to the generous support of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The Peace One Day Celebration: Educating a New Generation of Peacemakers will highlight the power of youth to make our world a more peaceful place, whilst also showcasing the incredible range of activities taking place across the Great Lakes on Peace Day. Designed to inspire young people in Rwanda, the Great Lakes and beyond, it will also serve to raise awareness of Peace Day, help manifest action on the day and send a positive and constructive message from the region to the wider world.

Support for 21 September in the region continues to grow. The team and I have just returned from another inspiring Countdown to Peace Day forum in Nairobi. More than 350 people discussed how to engage their constituencies in marking Peace Day. We look forward to our final forum in Kampala on 30 June. We’ve connected with well over 1,500 organisations across the Great Lakes through these events – a wonderful launch pad for the most successful Peace Day in the region yet.

The Peace One Day Celebration in Kigali is one example of our commitment to promoting peace education. Another is our education poster project, which has already seen thousands of posters delivered to schools across the Great Lakes. If you’re in Uganda and would like free peace education posters for your school, please pre-order them here.

I wanted to share these videos with you to provide a flavour of some of the things we’re doing at the moment:

CTPDF Highlights2Education Poster Film

Please also help us make the Peace Day Google Doodle a reality – we want to spread the message of Peace Day as far and as wide as possible, and with your help we know we can!
Your support is invaluable in raising awareness of the day and I can’t wait to hear about your plans for21 September 2015, so keep in touch and good luck with your planning!
In peace,
Jeremy
Jeremy Gilley, Founder, Peace One Day
 

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Peace Week 2015- First Meeting Minutes


Thank you very much for the ones who were able to attend the meeting .  Find minutes below .  Updates to the minutes until the next time here!.  Next  meeting: TBA by Johnny via e-mail  and text

June 13th 2015: Peace Week meeting @ Orange leaf  3:30-4:30 Meeting  4:30-5:00 Ice Cream  
Participants:  Johnny L.(facilitator)  Grace P.  Cathy Z (minutes)  Mrs. Morgan,  Mrs. Czerwinski,  Mrs. Clay.  Update: Hamza sent an e-mail stating that he could not make it.  Heather is not going to be able to be part of this group.  We did not hear from Mariam and Safra or Isabelle Update: Kira might be interested in being part of the team.

Cost: $22 with tip from S-L Budget

Agenda facilitated by Johnny
1. Introductions and Goals
2. Show and Tell: Peace Village, Pinwheels for Peace, Episcopal Dioceses and PEACE ONE DAY and Shinnyo-en Foundation resources Pinwheels at advisory time, inter-grade connections for pinwheel making UD/LD. UPDATE:   MD: International Club. New YAC, Religious Education classes? UPDATE: The Peace Poppy Project
3. New Ideas
4. Next Meeting and to do list
5. Yogurt time - Meeting adjourned

1. Introductions with personal goals for involvement with the week
-Goals
To spread awareness  learn behind the scenes through peace week get students more connected to Peace Week.  Be a resource for peace team  Do and inspire acts of kindness, compassion and service

2. Show and Tell;  Resources with suggestions for new paths to  accomplish goals
a. Mrs. Morgan ( 1st grade teacher) 
     - peace village (peace with all different religions)
          - each language has different word for peace + golden rule.why isn't it more powerful?
     - being interactive with peace is the most effective
     - books ( can be used for chapel talks, activities, ect.)
          - peace begins with you
          - the peace book
          - peace
b.. Pinwheels - quality over quantity (colorful) 
     - make during advisory?  Check schedules.  Talk to Dr. Powell and Coach T.
     - how to increase excitement in high school  Connect pinwheel making 1st with 9th grade.
--------Check schedules.  Check with division directors
     - works better in small groups 
c. . Labyrinth 
     - week before peace week UPDATE: Mother Susan requested September 3rd.  Checking with pertinent administrators via e-mail.  Mr. fFresonke and crew might be ble to draw a labyrinth on grass the week of September 3rd.    We hope the paint will whole at least until 9/11.
     - metaphor for our journey in life
     - Canon Susan / mother Susan 
          - High ranking female priest - High administrative position in the episcopal Church
          - explain the labyrinth in chapel? Update:  Mrs. Morgan will talk to Cannon Susan about small labyrinths for younger children and to recommend an invitation to walk the labyrinth for the UD to increase the possible response from teens.  Father Youmans is welcomed working with Cannon Susan on September 3.  Still pending approval for speech by Father Blizzard.
d. Peace Village Materials at Casady School now
          - place banners around the lake ?  Update: Too costly $ and time around the lake.  Two suggestions: on fence or on trees..  Either way administrative approval pending. Update 0n 6/29/2015 Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Clay and Johnny had a brief meeting looking at the materials provided by the dioceses.  It was decided that the second organizational meeting will be July 15 with one agenda items, looking at the resources provided and making decisions about using them or not.  Johnny will provide the time for the meeting, but due to working schedules, it will probably be a late afternoon meeting at the after school activities room.
          - next to the thinking person statue
          - field next to the chapel 
     - have a walk leading to the labyrinth and have people of different religions along the way 
e.   Pinwheels ( primary division )  Mrs. Czerwinski
     - 4 things that make them feel peaceful
     - about 20 cents each
     - father blizzard blesses them and they plant their pinwheels 
     - sing a peace song
     - high school watch the little kids do this to make an impact 
           - high schoolers blow bubbles for peace during this
 f.   create designs and give t-shirts away UPDATE:  Mrs. Seitter is asking Fiona R. to create a design for Peace Week  Art club can make a stamp and make t-shirts for the whole school.  Mrs. Clay will have a meeting with Mrs. Thompson to brainstorm possibilities for LD Peace Art.  Mrs. Nielsen is already working on a choral piece of peace.  We need to contact the orchestra faculty to see if they could also have a piece of peace during Peace Week.
      - Find donors to buy the white t-shirts or sell ice cream from Orange Leaf  $ 4 per person cost.  Sell at $ 5 to buy t-shirts.  Orange leaf can deliver for $50.  The contact person at Orange Leaf is the owner at the store on May avenue Taunda Jenkims 503-0193. Orange leaf
    
g. Peace Paper flowers PD idea for Grandparents day
  - Flowers for Peace  UPDATE:  The Poppy Peace Project .  E-mail from Poppy Peace Project: Thank you for your enquiry into The Peace Poppy Project, sorry I have taken a while to reply as I have been to Australia on holiday.
This project is based in New Zealand, were you aware of this?
The project has been running for three years and has gathered great momentum here, especially this year as we have been commentating the 100 years since ANZAC events in Turkey..  I do have some kitsets left but obviously would need to post that over to you.  The cost of each kitset is $250 NZ and has all the materials to make 250 poppies ( they stand about 40mm high) I would also need to cover the postage costs.
The project run with some funding from local council grants to cover some costs and the rest was volunteer work by myself and a dedicated team of people. 
cristina.b@xtra.co.nz via yahoo.com
     - plant around campus or wear it on peace day  
There is a White Poppies for Peace Poppies project too.  http://www.ppu.org.uk/whitepoppy/

3. New Ideas to follow up with decision makers to turn into action
a. Create meaning in the lower division about peace week
  - Place banners around the lake  Mr. Fresonke and Crew
  - Inter-grade and advisory connections
     - pair high schoolers with lower division students and talk about peace
     - during high school chapel time?    Division Directors, Priests
          - need to write letter to 4th grade P.E. Teachers
     -need to be at a time that everything is set up 
          - activity building ?  Small Groups    Classroom Teachers
b. Tango Peace at Mrs. Lopez studio: First Friday in September  Mrs. Lopez, Marketing the month's activities
c. OKC Peace Day Celebration:  Mrs. Clay is meeting with organizers   United Nations of OKC- Bill Bryant.  UPDATE:  Next meeting June 28, 5:30 Edmond Trinity Christian Church1400 NW 178th
Edmond, OK  73012, UN General Assembly has declared as a day "...devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples."The theme of this year’s commemoration is “Partnerships for Peace – Dignity for All” which aims to highlight the importance of all segments of society to work together to strive for peace.
c. September 20, Sunday:  OCCC Interfaith Youth Tour will go to the following three places, almost 99% sure
1. Saint Paul's Episcopal  2. Raindrop House  3. Emmanuel Temple
c. People to People Classroom:  Reference #: SCHOOLCLASS-06262015-120842831-8413

4. Next Meeting  and to do list
-at Casady School Activity Room -Johnny will check with Mr. Bonfiglio and will let us know date and time.  Tentative Agenda:  Theme of the Week.  Activities for the week based on resources.
- Labyrinth on grass during summer - Mrs. Clay will do this next week
- Grace will see about ice cream connection with braum's and possible adult sponsor for trip to San Francisco Retreat, if Casady is invited.  Johnny and Grace are interested!
-Johnny and Cathy will facilitate the next meeting.  Mrs. Clay requested the group to please visit 

After the meeting
a. San Francisco trip  Update: Retreat full by 6/19/2015
     - need to find a teacher or parent  advisor .  Mrs. Clay cannot attend conflict with back to school
          - ms stone?  mrs. Patton  Grace will bring reply
     - Johnny is interested in treasury YAC position and Grace is interested in Marketing and Communication position.  Cathy will take these requests to the YAC officers.
    - Mrs. Clay provided Shinnyo-en Foundation, Be The Peace Cards to youth participants
- Grace took Peace Village and Peace One Day resources to read.

Thursday, June 4, 2015




 Peace Building




 

Peace Week (11 Days of Global Unity, 9/11-9/21 International Day of Peace) Team 2015 seeks new members. 

Contact Mrs. Clay,clayc@casady.org, 405-520-1325, Cathy Z'17  or Johnny L'17 if interested.  

Youth Members: 
Juniors: Johnny L, Cathy Z, Heather T Grace P., Isabelle S
Sophomores: Mariam S., Safra S. Hamza G.

Adult Members:  
PD: Mrs. Czerwinski, Mrs. Fowler , Mrs. Linn
LD: Mrs. Morgan
MD: Father Youmans, Mrs. Robertson
UD: Father Blizzard, Mrs. Clay


The first Peace Week 2015 Team meeting will be Saturday  June 13 at 3:30 pm @ Orange Leaf on May.  Facilitator: Johnny L'17 

Meeting Suggested  Agenda Items
a. Theme:  ?
Ideas for consideration:
-Interfaith Golden Rule: Peace Village ????  by Mrs. Patti Morgan
-From Fear to Trust  by Nathaniel Bachelder, Peace House
-Celebrate Diversity  Mennonite Church
-Who will you make peace with in 2015?  Peace One Day
-There are infinitive paths to Peace, What is yours?  Shinnyo-en Foundation
-Compassion is contagious, Catch it!  The charter for Compassion
-Beyond Co-Existence  : Interfaith Alliance of OKC and Oklahoma Conference of Churches

b. Calendar of Youth Led Activities for 9/11-9/21 Peace Week 2015 ??
 Initiatives for consideration
-Peace One Day:  Who will you make peace with in 2015?  
- Compassion is Contagious! Catch it!  Screening date of the documentary
Peace Week 2014 T-shirt Brainstorming 
 - Pinwheels for Peace : Quality not quantity
- Peace Sticks 
- Peace Poles 
- Peace banners 
- Peace T-shirts  
- Peace Flowers
- Labyrinths for Peace
- Peace screenings at Paramount Theater

c. Possible Collaborations for Peace
=Arts for Peace:  Tango for Peace  International Dance Studio,  Documentary screenings  Possible on 1st or 4th Friday in September.  Get art teachers on board  Mrs. Seitter, Mrs. Pardue, Mrs. Thompson, Mr. Moore.  Mrs. H.  Mrs. Nielsen (department head)  All arts for peace

Sports for Peace: Terry's softball Fundraiser  Date TBA  Soccer for peace??? softball for Peace???  Other Spring sports for Peace???

Academics for Peace;  Connections to Don Quijote in Spanish Classes with pinwheels _Make pinwheels with quality of reflection not quantity, Religion classes- Connections to Icon theme at chapel.  Labyrinth Walk.  connections with art installation:  Pinwheels, flowers, banners???  Literacy project webcast: September 8

Clubs for Peace:  International Club (Mrs. Robertson , UD YAC (Planning Team), MD YAC,-SEE Program (Mrs. O'Melia)  Language Clubs (IDP), YLOKC, YMCA, Boys and Girls Club: Day for Kids: 9/20

OKC organizations for Peace: UN, Respect Diversity Foundation, Peace House, Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum (Hope Trunk and the Oklahoma Standard connections).  UN Peace Day Celebration 9/21 evening at time and place TBA)

Faiths for Peace: Oklahoma Conference of Churches, Interfaith Youth Tour: 9/21 Interfaith Alliance, Catholic Charities, Love OKC Saint Paul's Episcopal: Labyrinths for Inner Peace  Communication with Mother Susan Jopin and Dr. Diane Rudeback   dianerudebock@gmail.com and Cannon Susan Joplin canonjoplin@stpaulsokc.org  I think the process should start with painting a grass labyrinth, once during the summer and then the week before Peace Week (9/11-9/21). 
Peace Village: : Sabrina Evans from the Episcopal Dioceses provided all the materials ,

Sabrina Evans SEvans@epiok.org



OKC COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
CALENDAR LISTINGS


Friday  9/4/2015 International Dance Studio:  Tango Peace Ms. Lopez 

Monday 9/21/2015: Peace Day Evening Celebration:  
UN OKC, Peace House, Mennonite Church, Respect Diversity Foundation

Sunday, 9//20/2015  Interfaith Youth Tour:  
Oklahoma Conference of Churches

Saturday, 9/19/2015  Kids Day: Boys and Girls Club @ Memorial Park
Casady Service-Learning Program, Interfaith Alliance, OU, OCU, UCO

Friday 9/11- Monday 9/21 2015 Casady School Service-Learning/Peace Education Program
The Peace Village & Labyrinth: From Episcopal Dioceses

June 2015 Brainstorming

Everything starts here

12 Days -4- Peace:  We the World, 11 Days of Global Unity (9/11-9/21)  + The Peace Village

Brainstorming Service Action Activities


Campaigns that together form a blueprint of change for a peaceful, sustainable, transformed world

From Previous years, for consideration for the Peace Team 2015

Goal and Activities
Objectives
September 11, Friday
Campaign Theme 1:
UNITY
I will do a Good Deed
Bake goods for firefighters
Service Project with Interfaith Alliance??? 4-6 at Boys and Girls club>>>Teach Hope trunk
Commemorate the anniversary of September 11th 2001, and other dates of significance to humanity, emphasizing Global Unity
Strengthen interfaith dialogue and understanding
Empower grassroots organizations
Develop global partnerships and build coalitions - UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) #8
Recognize global awareness
Promote the role of values, ethics and spirit in creating positive change
Carry out programs to achieve other Unity goals
September 12  Saturday
Campaign Theme 2:
INTERDEPENDENCE
Generation 9/12:  
Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum visit with interdependence as a theme

Alzheimer's Walk Scheduled for this day
Celebrate Interdependence Day September 12th and participate in the Interdependence Movement
Expand awareness and action to protect and preserve our global commons (water, air, etc.)
Honor indigenous wisdom
Promote Conscious Interdependence
Create an Interdependence Curriculum for Schools
Carry out other Interdependence programs
September 13  Sunday
Campaign Theme 3: 
ENVIRONMENT

Trees from Forestry Department
Peace Walk around the lake??
Promote investment in renewable, non-polluting energy systems and fuels
Protect eco-systems and biodiversity - end the Mass Extinction of Species
Protect and provide clean water for all
Address the Climate Crisis: from International Agreements to Local Policies
Support local, organic, sustainable agriculture
Carry out other programs to achieve Environmental goals
September 14, Monday
Campaign Theme 4: 
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
 Healthy snacks for boys and girls club?
End poverty (MDG #1)
Fulfill all basic human needs
Expand socially conscious business and investment
Conduct global financial reform
Promote Fair Trade and other fair labor practices
Participate in the movement to reduce economic inequality and end economic injustice
Carry out other programs to achieve Economic Justice goals
September 15 Tuesday
Campaign Theme 5:
HEALTH
MOVE, MEDITATE, MINDFULNESS\

Labyrinth Walk
Support holistic, proactive and preventive health practices
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG #6)
Provide for universal healthcare
Promote the connection between individual well-being and societal health
Carry out other programs to achieve Health and Wellness goals
September 16  Wednesday
Campaign Theme 6: 
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Pinwheels and more
Teach the Children - a comprehensive program to serve children and transform neighborhoods like the South Bronx in New York City
Advocate for universal literacy and a minimum of 8th grade education worldwide (MDG #2)
Reduce child mortality (MDG #4)
Promote Peace Education programs at all grade levels
Promote the rights of the child
Encourage youth activism for a peaceful sustainable world
Carry out other programs for Children and Youth
September 17 , Thursday
Campaign Theme 7: 
WOMEN
  Collaboration with YWCA

Advocate for gender equality (MDG #3)
End violence against women
Establish economic empowerment of women
Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Full implementation of UNSCR 1325 for ensuring women's equal representation at all decision-making levels
Carry out other programs that support Women
September 18, Friday
Campaign Theme 8: 
HUMAN RIGHTS
Respect Diversity Foundation Connections
Tango for Peace???
End persecution in all forms
Promote judicial transparency
End torture in all forms
Promote civil rights and civil liberties
Carry out other programs that support Human Rights
September 19  Saturday
Campaign Theme 9: 
FREEDOM
Kids Day @ Boys and Girls Club.  Boys and Girls Club, Service Programs from different universities
Hear the voice of the people
"Make Your Voice Heard" (UN 2011 Theme for Peace & Democracy)
Promote responsible governance (of, by and for the people)
Promote public financing of local and national elections
Fully fund and support independent media in the public interest
Protect freedom of expression in media, culture and the arts
Carry out other programs that support Freedom
September 20 -Sunday
Campaign Theme 10: 
DISARMAMENT
Interfaith Youth Tour -Oklahoma Conference of Churches
Reform and improve laws governing gun sales and the global arms trade
Abolish nuclear weapons and all WMDs
Promote diplomacy and nonviolent conflict resolution
Reduce military spending
Carry out other programs that support the goal of Disarmament
September 21, Monday
Campaign Theme 11:
PEACE
 UN Peace Day Celebration:  Location TBA, time TBA.  Team started to work in April
Celebrate the UN International Day of Peace September 21
Promote "Peace Day LIVE" a global concert for the International Day of Peace
Work to create a culture of peace
Promote a global military ceasefire on September 21
Call for a day of nonviolence in media
Call for a day of nonviolence in our communities
Establish departments and ministries of peace around the world
Highlight our personal and collective progress towards a culture of peace
Promote observing a minute of silence at 12 noon globally on September 21
Carry out other programs that support Peace


Food for thought


I cannot be free while my neighbor is wearing chains.
I cannot know happiness while others are forced to live in despair.
I cannot know health if plague and famine thrive outside my door.
I cannot expect to know peace if war rides forward under my flag and with my consent
Walter Mosley



Charter for Compassion: Kindness is Contagious 
http://kindness-is-contagious.com/watch-the-first-20-minutes/

Labyrinth:  It is solved by walking
The labyrinth is viewed as a metaphor for life's journey.
It offers lessons as we walk the path.
Walking the labyrinth can assist us to address challenges.
Meditate, Pray, and Find Peace and Serenity

Casady Peace Week Connections



Shinnyo-en Foundation: Infinitive Paths to Peace



Peace One Day: Awareness/Celebration: International Day of Peace



InfiniePaths_FINAL-02What is yours?



Peace Week is 11 Days of Global Unity 
 We, The World.  From I -2- WE







THE CHARTER FOR COMPASSION- THE COMPASSION GAMES

        




A School plays the Compassion Games







9/21 United Nations International Day of Peace 

Peace Day is an initiative of PEACE ONE DAY
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