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· (May 2) FW: It's almost time! Peace Heroes Walk this Saturday!
· (May 3) FW: Mt Vernon neighbor leads Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon May 3
· (May 7) FW: Community Dialogue, Mental Health & Its Impact on Youth
· (May 9) FW: Dakota Center --- The 50th Anniversary Celebration
· FW: Help the earthquake victims in NEPAL
· FW: The Truth - What's On My Mind and Heart!
· FW: Stopping the school to prison pipeline in Dayton
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From: NCCJ of Greater Dayton
Subject: It's almost time! Peace Heroes Walk this Saturday!
It's almost here! Join us this Saturday for the historic first Peace Heroes Walk at RiverScape. Registration starts at 8:00 a.m. and we will walk starting at 9. 
It's not too late to join! You can still sign up at our Peace Heroes Walk website. While the walk is this Saturday, you have until June 7th to raise and turn in money! Celebrate peace heroes while supporting NCCJ and the Dayton International Peace Museum!
Find out more in our Peace Heroes Fact Sheet
Instructions for team captains:
If you are already signed up, thank you!!!
Team Captains should arrive around 8:00 - 8:15 AM when registration first opens. This will give you time to assemble your team and meet some of the local Peace Heroes.
Each Team Captain will have an assigned round green table where they can meet-up with their team. These tables will be well-marked.
We also hope to get a Team Captains photo at 8:45 AM on a set of risers we have rented. After the walk, Teams will be invited to pose for a photo on the risers.
If you have questions, email Mark Willis.
Thank you!
Just added!!!
A musical celebration of the Peace Heroes Walk
Neon Movies
Sunday, June 7
3:00 p.m.
Featuring Sandy and Michael Bashaw!
Sandy and Michael have combined their love of music with their passion for peace and social justice, including special performances honoring the Dayton Peace Accords here and in Bosnia.
Start your own team or join an existing team and walk with us this Saturday, then keep raising money to support the Dayton International Peace Museum and NCCJ. Join us at this musical event, turn in the money you raised and help us celebrate peace and social justice!
Click here to sign up:
THANK YOU!
PEACE HEROES WALK
Fact Sheet
The Peace Heroes Walk is an awareness/fundraising event honoring inspiring leaders. Each team will choose a peace hero to be their focus and motivation. Team members will share the story of their peace hero while raising funds. The teams then come together for a lively community walk!
Who: The walk is hosted by the Dayton International Peace Museum and NCCJ, two organizations sharing a vision of a more peaceful world created by the efforts of each individual.
What: It's a short walk, perfect for all ages and all fitness levels, and ideal for families. Anyone willing to make a commitment to building a more harmonious community needs to participate!
How Can You Participate: Be a team captain! Choose your peace hero, recruit your team, spread the word and raise money to support peace and social justice. We'll provide you with all the tools you need to be successful, including a personalized web page. Get started at
Take the first step to a better tomorrow -
Sign up to be a team captain today!
If you can't be a team captain, you can walk with us in spirit by supporting our team. Simply click here to donate!
You have until June 7th to raise money for your team!
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From: Igor Golovcsenko
Subject: Mt Vernon neighbor leads Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon May 3
To the Miami Valley community:
Mr David Dietrick, Music Director of the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra and resident in the Mount Vernon Neighborhood, will lead a special concert Sunday May 3, 2:00 pm, at Bellbrook High School. The performance, "Freedom and Joy", features Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, with Dayton's distinguished poet, Dr. Herbert Martin, retired U.D. professor and former resident in the Mt Vernon Neighborhood, providing the emotional narration for the Lincoln Portrait. The program includes Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the choral), with many voices from the community, including yours truly.
Inside Arts
Making Music for Over 25 Years.
By Brian Sharp
Dayton Magazine February 2015
http://www.thedaytonmagazine.com/DM/Articles/Inside_Arts_4330.aspx
(excerpts)Dayton has a rich arts community. We are blessed to have professional theater, philharmonic, ballet, opera, community theatre and even a community symphony. That symphony, the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Don't be fooled—just because this is a volunteer effort doesn't mean you won't hear professional-quality musicians. In fact, some have studied at institutions like Juilliard, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and even the Interlochen Center for the Arts. This little gem of the community has a very full plate this year that is sure to please!
The 25th anniversary for MVSO is one of collaboration. …. The season will culminate with a performance called Freedom and Joy with Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, with Dayton's own poet, Dr. Herbert Martin, providing the emotional narration for the Lincoln Portrait. This production will include Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, with voices from the community.
While the symphony has endured 25 years and is stronger than ever, it is going through some leadership changes. David Dietrick has taken over the baton for the symphony as the new music director. Dietrick has a rich history, full of highlights. Dietrick has played for six United States presidents and held the baton for performances at the White House, Carnegie Hall, the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics and even the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty in New York City. Dietrick's history goes back to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he was the music director.
From: Cheryl Scroggins
Subject: Community Dialogue, Mental Health & Its Impact on Youth
Space is limited! Please RSVP by May 5, 2015 by calling:
Ms. Robbie Brandon at (937) 307-3127 - or Dr. Karen Townsend at (937) 602-4641
From: Sharon Mitchell
Subject: Dakota Center --- The 50th Anniversary Celebration
From: Turkish American Society of Ohio
Subject: Help the earthquake victims in NEPAL
Help the earthquake victims! An earthquake killed more than 2,400 people and injured about 5,900 in Nepal. As part of TASO and Embrace Relief's mission, we initiated a campaign to help those who are affected by the earthquake. The campaign has officially started and we are currently collecting donations.
To make a donation please go to
www.embracerelief.org/donation
and click on Nepal Earthquake.
As always we thank you for your continued support of our organization as we aim to help those less fortunate than ourselves and to give back to our communities.
From: Jule Rastikis
Subject: Re: The Truth - What's On My Mind and Heart!
Hello David - thanks for your well thought and written comments. I think we all at some level feel the anxiety of an social and economic system that is biased. It's important for us to know, practice and strive for a community that is based on a shared destiny. We are all in this together and as we strive in a collaborative manner, the peace (safety, prosperity and quality of life ) we seek will become reality.
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On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, David K. Greer wrote:
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First, let me say that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and the head of my life! The travesties that our society, communities, and neighborhoods are inundated with continue to fester themselves. Under the cancer shrouded in racism and targeted primarily against African American males at the hands of some law officers who are trusted to protect and to serve us, this is similar to the same facade and misnomer we are forced fed institutionally and systemically. By design, economics is the mechanism that has been used for decades to keep the poor, poor. This is the same bureaucratic mechanism that emanates from some of those same elected politicians, from the Federal Government level on down! Those mechanisms that are the vehicles of the "good ole boy network", who since the civil war still primarily believe that African Americans and minorities, and those kept in poverty, are the contributors of what is wrong with our country. Don't get it twisted! This smoke screen has truly ran its course and had blown up in their faces. Those political and money driven decisions that have fooled and blinded so many of us, no longer have credence. The end results of the tainted bureaucracy that was once part of the greatest democratic mechanism in the world, has blown up and is destroying us all! My City, the City of Dayton, Ohio is not exempt from it, either. Case in point: as a community leader, I was invited to become part of a viable and reputable mechanism that was established in late 2011. The Community Police Council (CPC) was made up of Pastors, Priority Boards leaders, elected officials, city employees, police officials, and citizens. Its formation was to primarily be that conduit to inform the residents of the community about issues that occurred in our City. Other than the initial standup and press conference held at Bing Davis' Studio, every attempt to promote and make visible those community leaders and their involvement was for whatever reason, was bureaucratically denied. Even the recent initiative of the billboards with the Kin Killin Kin, that included a bus tour to spark dialog about gun violence, excluded the CPC that contains the community leaders. Another case in point: the Priority Board system that emanated from the Model Cities Program developed by African Americans in the early 1970's, was disbanded as it was known to function in partnership with the City of Dayton, in 2014. It contained residents and community leaders as volunteers and was the official voice of the people. The end result mechanism is the exact same mechanism that the Priority Boards was designed to do. The end results of these two case in points are no different than of the end results of the bureaucratic travesties we have been subjected to by the institutional and systemic means, that I opened up this expression with! Solidarity, unification, education, and the willingness to work out and on the resolutions to manifest change, is a must! - David K. Greer
From: West Dayton Youth Task Force
Subject: Stopping the school to prison pipeline in Dayton
Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline in Dayton
The West Dayton Youth Task Force is a partner of Racial Justice NOW! and a member of the National Dignity in Schools Campaign to stop the school to prison pipeline.The term "school-to-prison pipeline" describes what is view as a widespread pattern in the United States of pushing out (suspending/expelling) students, especially those who are already at a disadvantage, out of school and into the American criminal justice system. This "pipeline" is the result of public institutions being neglectful or derelict in properly addressing students as individuals who might need extra educational or social assistance. The resulting mis-education and mass incarceration are said to create a vicious circle for individuals and communities.
The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) challenges the systemic problem of pushout in our nation's schools and advocates for the human right of every child to a quality education and to be treated with dignity. The DSC unites parents, youth, educators and advocates in a campaign to promote local and national alternatives to a culture of zero-tolerance, punishment and removal.
"Racial Justice NOW! (RJN) is a community based organization made up of youth, educators, parents, clergy, and grassroots activists. RJN is a community activist organization dedicated to fighting institutional and systemic racism. By focusing on human rights, RJN seeks to empower other grassroots activists to challenge systemic racism by organizing and holding people in power accountable.
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