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Lori Nelson (center), a volunteer for the Peace Education and Action Center of Eastern Iowa, distributes information at the third-annual Iowa City Peacefest in College Green Park on September 9, 2007. Photo by Robin Svec/The Daily Iowan

Peace Education and Action

Center of Eastern Iowa

Old Brick

26 East Market Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52245

(319) 354-1925

Mondays 12:00-2:00
Wednesdays 12:45-5:00
Thursdays 4:00-6:00

Promoting international peace
through education, intercultural communication,
activism, and personal choices

PLEASE NOTE: PEACE Iowa is operated by volunteers. If a volunteer is absent due to illness or bad weather, PEACE Iowa might not be open during regular office hours. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask for your understanding. Thank you!

Events

Events of interest sponsored by other organizations:

On Tuesday, Feb 9th, 7PM - 9PM, at the Iowa City Public Library (meeting room A), the program Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor II will be presented. Mr. Katsufumi Shintaku (atomic bomb survivor) and Mr Steven Lloyd Leeper (Chairman, Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation) will speak.

Sponsored by and in cooperation with the City of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.

Also, a reminder that the ongoing exhibit Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki is taking place in the North Exhibition Hall of the University of Iowa Main Library until the end of February.

Peace by Piece—a program broadcast Thursdays at 7pm in Iowa City on PATV, Cable Channel 18—features interviews dealing with current events and peace issues. For a broadcast schedule please visit www.peace-by-piece.org.

Weekly peace vigils still take place in Iowa City Fridays at a new time, 4:15pm to 4:45pm, at the corner of Washington & Clinton.

Poetry by Guantanamo Detainees published by the University of Iowa Press

1/1/2007 candle light vigil

Thanks to Rose & Peter Persaud for this photo of the January 1, 2007 Iowa City vigil mourning the Iraq War dead — 3000 U.S. soldiers and many more Iraqi civilians.

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