Since the NC State Fair has been canceled, The Peace Booth for 2020 will be a Virtual Peace Booth! We will provide on-line resources for the friends of the Peace Booth (old and new) to connect and share how we can all make this a more peaceful world. Our theme this year is Know Justice, Know Peace, and we want our community of peace lovers to share what that means to them.
We will list all 2020 Virtual Peace Booth activities on this page, so bookmark it and come back!
| Sat, Oct 24 | UNC Students |
| Fri, Oct 23 | Father Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House |
| Thu, Oct 22 | Community United Church of Christ and Friends of St. Michaels |
| Wed, Oct 21 | Triangle Interfaith Alliance and Veterans for Peace |
| Tue, Oct 20 | Triangle Raging Grannies and North Carolina Council of Churches |
| Mon, Oct 19 | Wake Lutheran Peace Fellowship and Pullen Memorial Baptist Church |
| Sun, Oct 18 | Amnesty International and NC Interfaith Power and Light/North Carolina Council of Churches |
| Fri, Oct 16 | NC Peace Action, St. Francis of Assisi |
| Thu, Oct 15 | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship |
| Peace Quote of the Day | Kid’s Activity of the Day |
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| The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic. — John Hinton |
Activity Planet (UK) offers a Hand Banner exercise – cut out hand outlines, with peace quotes in them, and string them together. This one is themed for MLK, but you can choose other themes.
Download our Hands and words are not for hurting coloring sheet |
Featured Updates
- The Peace Booth is sponsoring three webinars on Peace:
- On Sunday October 18, Christina Cowger presented NCSTN for NCSTN: Making Peace by Ending Torture.
- Martin Gugino suffered a head injury when he fell to the pavement after law enforcement shoved him during a George Floyd protest. Martin and Wes Hare (a long-time Triangle peace and justice activist) will discuss Our Nation’s Relationship with Law Enforcement on Wednesday, October 21.
- Join Patrick O’Neill on Sunday October 25 for our final webinar, Kings for Bay Plowshares: Action and Hope. Learn more about the action, the trial, and get an update after Fr. Steve Kelly’s and Patrick’s sentencing. (Please register here)
- Sign our 2020 Petition: True Police Accountability
- The Peace Booth was a sponsor of the Bread for the World North Carolina Statewide Convention on Saturday, October 17.
Getting Involved
Here are some ways you can get involved in our Virtual Peace Booth:
- Please follow us on our Twitter feed @ThePeaceBooth or our Facebook page – and engage with us – to stay informed of future activities. We love retweets!
- Not on Twitter or Facebook? Join our PeaceBoothDaily mailing list to get a daily digest of Virtual Peace Booth updates and content, such as the Peace Quote of the Day or info about new content.
- Sign our 2020 Petition: True Police Accountability
- The Peace Booth was a sponsor the Bread for the World North Carolina Statewide Convention on October 17.
- Sign our Guestbook. Don’t know what to say? Add a reflection on what our theme “Know Justice, Know Peace” means to you!
- Have a favorite Peace Quote? Share it with us at Add a Peace Quote!
- Do you have a photo from the Peace Booth that we can share on our social media streams? Send it to us at info@ncpeacebooth.org
- Download a bookmark – print your own bookmarks on card stock, and give them to friends
- Download a coloring sheet and share your kid’s coloring
- Share a Peace Selfie on Twitter or Instagram, and tag #ThePeaceBooth
- Ask your church or peace organization to “sponsor” the Peace Booth for a day via social engagement. Please email info@ncpeacebooth.org and we will contact you about how you can sponsor a day.
Messages of Peace
Some biographers have noted Gandhi’s lack of interest in the arts. He rarely read a novel, or went to the theater or an art gallery.
He did not possess Thoreau’s eye for beauty, or Schopenhaer’s ear for music. ..
It would be a mistake to conclude Gandhi was not creative. He was, only not in the usual way.
Gandhi’s paintbrush was his resolve, his canvas the human heart.
“Real beauty,” he said,”is doing good against evil.”
All violence is a failure of the imagination demands creativity. Gandhi was always searching for new, innovative ways to fight.Contributed by Michelle Rose, long time Peace Booth Volunteer