Ecumenical Peace Institute (EPI) with Tri-Valley CAREs is once again hosting a Good Friday event on April 3! We will be gathering from 8:15-10am at the East Avenue entrance to the Livermore and Sandia nuclear weapons labs, located on East Avenue just east of Vasco Road in the publicly accessible parking lot. This year’s witness will be a hybrid event, held on site at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab; also by Zoom. Do you need a ride or can you offer a ride? Please RSVP so we can help to coordinate in advance.
Berkeley: Meet at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College, Berkeley at 7am.
Contact www.epicalc@gmail.com.
Sacramento: Contact: Rev. Grant Bakewell: RevGrant.DNC@gmail.com
On the 58th year since Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and the 59th year since Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beyond Vietnam speech, join us for a morning of prayer, music, dance, scripture, and poetry. We will have a homily by Rev. Grant Bakewell, followed by a nuclear update from Scott Yundt of Tri-Valley CAREs, music by Francisco Herrera with Benjamin Mertz, and end with movement/dance by Kathleen Robbiano.
In a 1957 speech, Birth of A New Nation, Dr. King said, “The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation. The aftermath of violence is emptiness and bitterness.”
A year later, in his first book Stride Toward Freedom, Dr. King reiterated the importance of nonviolence in attaining The Beloved Community. In other words, our ultimate goal is integration, which is genuine inter-group and inter-personal living. Only through nonviolence can this goal be attained, for the aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of the Beloved Community.
The Good Friday Interfaith Witness at the Livermore Lab has been held every year since 1983. Livermore Lab was founded to develop the hydrogen bomb. New weapons of mass destruction are still designed there. For more than 35 years, people of faith and others concerned about the ongoing proliferation of nuclear weapons have gathered on Good Friday outside the Laboratory in Livermore. We strive for the healing of all nations. We pray, envision and work for repair, reconciliation, restoration, and transformation: toward the abolition of war, and, most especially nuclear weapons, worldwide.
We invite your participation in this event, your financial support, and, when possible, your organization’s co-sponsorship. Co-sponsorship donations this year are requested to be $100 or more. Please send your Co-sponsorship contribution by April 1st in order to be listed in our program (email or call us if you have sent a check in). Donations can be made by check or by PayPal online, using the Donate button in the EPI website or by signing into PayPal and send to epicalc@gmail.com. Please indicate if your contribution represents organizational co-sponsorship. If not, please just let us know your affiliations, for potential future networking. Please reference “Good Friday” or “Livermore” on your check (made out to EPI) or in Paypal (send to epi@gmail.com). Please send the information below with your donation or email it separately. Proceeds will be split evenly between EPI and Tri-Valley CARES.
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