Dutchess Peace Coalition

Contact: 845 452-4013
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What we have done:
Events Blog

Who We Are

Current Projects

We meet 7 PM the first
Monday of each month
at the UUFP, 67 South
Randolph Avenue, in
Poughkeepsie. Come to
one of our meetings and
help us plan peace and
justice events.

Dutchess County
Progressive Calendar
Scheduled Meetings
Peace Vigils
Progressive Radio

Activist Radio: We are
on 91.3 FM (WVKR) every
Thursday from 5:00-6:00 pm
Listen to past programs on the
webpage or as a podcast.

Watch a Dutchess Peace poetry
reading on YouTube.

Diane Sommer, local activist
and member of the Dutchess
Peace Coalition, has recently
returned from a trip to Syria
where she helped film Iraqi
refugees.

The Iraqi Student Project
Link to Diane's great photos

Print out flyers against empire:
Empire.pdf and HiddenCosts.pdf.

The Bard/Mid-Hudson ~
Larreynaga Sister City
Project: active in promoting
peace and social justice
through its links with
Nicaragua.

The Story of Stuff.

Interview with former Israeli pilot
Yonatan Shapira about Gaza.

Counter Recruitment PDF:
HS Handout 1
HS Handout 2
Opt-out form
Print them out and give them
to a student.

"Before you enlist"
Watch before you join.

You and the US military:
Draft registration
Enlistment rights
Know enough to enlist?
Click here before joining
Poisoned by DU
DU testing for vets
CO while in the service
GI Rights and legal advice
Leave my child alone
Common recruiting abuses
Student Privacy Protection Act

GI Rights Hotline:
877 447-4487

We Can't Make It Here Anymore
by James Mcmurtry. What life
is like in the empire.

We joined two peace groups:

Peace Action NY State

and

The Peace Alliance

End the War! Yard Signs $5.00

America's image in the world
(picture from Abu Ghraib)

WebCounter

Give Peace a Film Series

The Dutchess Peace Coalition will offer a free film on the second Saturday of each month. The films will be shown at the Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting, 249 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY.

Movies for 2009:

The Ground Truth - Free Film Screening

7:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday, July 11
Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting
249 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq. "By far the finest film to emerge from the awful tangle of 9/11 and the Iraq War" - Time Magazine

Print out PDF flyer for the event (coming soon).

We continue to get good crowds for our monthly movies now
that we have changed to the Friends Meeting House.

Our movie nights were beginning to draw some big crowds.
But the Muddy Cup in Poughkeepsie closed and we moved
our films to the Friends Meeting House.

We decided to try a vigil on 44/55 during rush hour.

We want to organize more of these counter recruiting
demonstrations outside the recruiting office in Wappingers.

We have been using our Guantanamo jumpsuits to dramatize
human rights abuses. Here we are at the impeachment protest.
The signs say "US Constitution" and the "Bill of Rights."