OMAHA COMMUNITY MEETING- BALLOT INFORMATION 101
We Need You! Want to see a change in Nebraska? Be the change. Come join us in building a stronger, more vibrant community. Local change moves the needle to state change and state change brings national growth.
Ballot Information 101!
Monday, October 28, 2024, 6:00PM join Nebraskan for Peace in person or via Zoom for our monthly Omaha community meeting, followed by the Palestine Task Force meeting at 7 PM. We will discuss community events, efforts, and education plus labor to the future.
Where: UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center room 128
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha NE 68182
P: 402.554.6000 / F: 402.554.5904
Time: 6:00 PM
Zoom Meeting ID:
Meeting ID: 149-543-846
Passcode: 128128
We Need You! Want to see a change in Nebraska? Be the change. Come join us in building a stronger, more vibrant community. Local change moves the needle to state change and state change brings national growth.
Ballot Information 101!
Monday, October 28, 2024, 6:00PM join Nebraskan for Peace in person or via Zoom for our monthly Omaha community meeting, followed by the Palestine Task Force meeting at 7 PM. We will discuss community events, efforts, and education plus labor to the future.
Where: UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center room 128
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha NE 68182
P: 402.554.6000 / F: 402.554.5904
Time: 6:00 PM
Zoom Meeting ID:
Meeting ID: 149-543-846
Passcode: 128128
NFP Social Justice Book Study Group
My name is Luisa Palomo Hare. I am a board member of Nebraskans for Peace and Chair the Social Justice Priority Committee. After last year’s successful book study, we’ve decided to organize a second Social Justice Book Study! This group is open to all who are interested, so please feel free to invite your friends and relatives to join us! Register here by October 10th.
We will be reading the book "The Sum of US" by Heather Mcghee. Heather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy. She chairs the board of Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. McGhee holds a BA in American studies from Yale University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
“If everyone in America read this book, we’d be, not only a more just country, but a more powerful, successful, and loving one. A vital, urgent, stirring, beautifully written book that offers a compassionate roadmap out of our present troubled moment.”--George Saunders, New York Times Bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo
“One of the most fascinating things about The Sum of Us is how it challenges the assumptions of both white antiracism activists and progressives who just want to talk about class.”--The New York Times, “The Book That Should Change How Progressives Talk About Race”
“Required reading to move the country forward . . . Every so often a book comes along that seems perfectly timed to the moment and has the potential to radically shift our cultural conversation.” --Chicago Tribune
Our book study will meet every 2 weeks via Zoom beginning October 30th, November 13th, and December 4th (as we will skip November 27th for Thanksgiving). Our meetings will be Wednesday evenings from 7:30-8:30.
If you are interested in joining this book study, please fill out the registration form below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1D_jQFR4zCPNhKmNbuUr2Tvu7KUTQ9
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The books are available both in hard copy and online audio versions.
Nebraskans for Peace will purchase a limited number of books that can be mailed to those in need. The books will be first come first serve so please register soon!
After you register we will send more information about the book study and the Zoom links via email.
Thank you,
Luisa Palomo Hare
We will be reading the book "The Sum of US" by Heather Mcghee. Heather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy. She chairs the board of Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. McGhee holds a BA in American studies from Yale University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
“If everyone in America read this book, we’d be, not only a more just country, but a more powerful, successful, and loving one. A vital, urgent, stirring, beautifully written book that offers a compassionate roadmap out of our present troubled moment.”--George Saunders, New York Times Bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo
“One of the most fascinating things about The Sum of Us is how it challenges the assumptions of both white antiracism activists and progressives who just want to talk about class.”--The New York Times, “The Book That Should Change How Progressives Talk About Race”
“Required reading to move the country forward . . . Every so often a book comes along that seems perfectly timed to the moment and has the potential to radically shift our cultural conversation.” --Chicago Tribune
Our book study will meet every 2 weeks via Zoom beginning October 30th, November 13th, and December 4th (as we will skip November 27th for Thanksgiving). Our meetings will be Wednesday evenings from 7:30-8:30.
If you are interested in joining this book study, please fill out the registration form below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1D_jQFR4zCPNhKmNbuUr2Tvu7KUTQ9
2HZkWd-2v-owyo
The books are available both in hard copy and online audio versions.
Nebraskans for Peace will purchase a limited number of books that can be mailed to those in need. The books will be first come first serve so please register soon!
After you register we will send more information about the book study and the Zoom links via email.
Thank you,
Luisa Palomo Hare
OMAHA COMMUNITY MEETING
We Need You! Want to see a change in Nebraska? Be the change. Come join us in building a stronger, more vibrant community. Local change moves the needle to state change and state change brings national growth.
Monday, September 23, 2024, 6:00PM join Nebraskan for Peace in person or via Zoom for our monthly Omaha community meeting, followed by the Palestine Task Force meeting at 7 PM. We will discuss community events, efforts, and education plus labor to the future.
Where: UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center room 128
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha NE 68182
P: 402.554.6000 / F: 402.554.5904
Time: 6:00 PM
Zoom Meeting ID:
Meeting ID: 149-543-846
Passcode: 128128
We Need You! Want to see a change in Nebraska? Be the change. Come join us in building a stronger, more vibrant community. Local change moves the needle to state change and state change brings national growth.
Monday, September 23, 2024, 6:00PM join Nebraskan for Peace in person or via Zoom for our monthly Omaha community meeting, followed by the Palestine Task Force meeting at 7 PM. We will discuss community events, efforts, and education plus labor to the future.
Where: UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center room 128
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha NE 68182
P: 402.554.6000 / F: 402.554.5904
Time: 6:00 PM
Zoom Meeting ID:
Meeting ID: 149-543-846
Passcode: 128128
HANDS OFF OUR VOTE
The following email and upcoming event are from our friends at the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation. Please attend the event on Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 1:30 to 3:30 if you are able!
WHAT: Hands Off Our Vote Town-Hall meeting
WHEN: Saturday, August 24, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
WHERE: Malcolm X Memorial Foundation, 3448 Evans St, Omaha, NE
WHAT: Hands Off Our Vote Town-Hall meeting
WHEN: Saturday, August 24, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
WHERE: Malcolm X Memorial Foundation, 3448 Evans St, Omaha, NE
41st Annual Lantern Float
Operation Redwing and the Effects Then and Now
When: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024, from 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Where: Northeast Side of Holmes Lake Park in Lincoln NE
Please join Nebraskans for Peace and the Unitarian Church for the 2024 in-person Lantern Float. We hold this event every year to commemorate the lives lost 79 years ago in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan on August 6th and 9th in 1945.
We hope you will join us for the full in-person event this year. We invite guests to join us at 5:00pm for in-person lantern making, during which Michael Murphy will bless the crowd with songs of peace. Nebraskans for Peace will provide all the supplies for creating lanterns. Our main speakers will begin at 6:00pm, after which guests will float their lanterns on Holmes Lake.
We will feature two speakers this year, Robert Ruyle and Karima Al-Absy.
Robert Ruyle first served in the Navy during the atomic testing in the 1950’s. He was appointed to Operation Redwing which was the second to test the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Since his time the Navy Robert has worked with the National Association of Atomic Verterans that has been fighting for exposed veterans after the atomic and hydrogen bomb testing.
Karima Al-Absy, representing Students for Justice in Palestine, will fill in guests on the current situation and humanitarian crisis happening in Gaza, as well as their current work in Lincoln and Nebraska to raise awareness.
41st Annual Lantern Float
Operation Redwing and the Effects Then and Now
When: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024, from 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Where: Northeast Side of Holmes Lake Park in Lincoln NE
Please join Nebraskans for Peace and the Unitarian Church for the 2024 in-person Lantern Float. We hold this event every year to commemorate the lives lost 79 years ago in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan on August 6th and 9th in 1945.
We hope you will join us for the full in-person event this year. We invite guests to join us at 5:00pm for in-person lantern making, during which Michael Murphy will bless the crowd with songs of peace. Nebraskans for Peace will provide all the supplies for creating lanterns. Our main speakers will begin at 6:00pm, after which guests will float their lanterns on Holmes Lake.
We will feature two speakers this year, Robert Ruyle and Karima Al-Absy.
Robert Ruyle first served in the Navy during the atomic testing in the 1950’s. He was appointed to Operation Redwing which was the second to test the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Since his time the Navy Robert has worked with the National Association of Atomic Verterans that has been fighting for exposed veterans after the atomic and hydrogen bomb testing.
Karima Al-Absy, representing Students for Justice in Palestine, will fill in guests on the current situation and humanitarian crisis happening in Gaza, as well as their current work in Lincoln and Nebraska to raise awareness.
Nebraskans for Peace and Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Presents:
How a “Pro-Life” State Should Treat the Death Penalty
WHEN: Wednesday March 20th at 7:00pm via Zoom
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwuf-mprzooGdRuTNMaIRcaHKncJ1uGqc07#/registration
Join us for an event to discuss what happens to a “pro-life” state when the state kills. Panelists will discuss the history and constitutionality around the death penalty and two related bills currently in the Nebraska Legislature. NFP Board President Maggie Ballard will moderate this event.
Featuring:
Spike Eickholt is a lobbyist and attorney. His lobbying clients include the ACLU of Nebraska, Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, and others. Spike’s law practice focuses mostly in criminal defense. Spike has been involved in number of lawsuits related to the death penalty, including a challenge to the repeal of the repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska in 2016, a challenge to the administrative protocol of the lethal injection process in 2019, and a public records case relating to the source of the drugs used in lethal injections in Nebraska in 2020.
Jill Francke served as the Executive Director at Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty from 2008 to 2011 and later worked for Equal Justice USA. Jill received an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy in 2013. Jill currently lives just outside of Lincoln and works as an TIT consultant.
Alex M. Houchin has built a career working within the criminal justice system to advance prosocial alternatives to incarceration. He holds a bachelor's degree (and high school teaching certificate) in English, and often lends his time and talent toward efforts to preserve and advance solidarity and human dignity through public policy—including his work since 2020 as the sole staff member of Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. In his spare time, he enjoys making music, birdwatching, and tending to way too many houseplants.
How a “Pro-Life” State Should Treat the Death Penalty
WHEN: Wednesday March 20th at 7:00pm via Zoom
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwuf-mprzooGdRuTNMaIRcaHKncJ1uGqc07#/registration
Join us for an event to discuss what happens to a “pro-life” state when the state kills. Panelists will discuss the history and constitutionality around the death penalty and two related bills currently in the Nebraska Legislature. NFP Board President Maggie Ballard will moderate this event.
Featuring:
Spike Eickholt is a lobbyist and attorney. His lobbying clients include the ACLU of Nebraska, Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, and others. Spike’s law practice focuses mostly in criminal defense. Spike has been involved in number of lawsuits related to the death penalty, including a challenge to the repeal of the repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska in 2016, a challenge to the administrative protocol of the lethal injection process in 2019, and a public records case relating to the source of the drugs used in lethal injections in Nebraska in 2020.
Jill Francke served as the Executive Director at Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty from 2008 to 2011 and later worked for Equal Justice USA. Jill received an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy in 2013. Jill currently lives just outside of Lincoln and works as an TIT consultant.
Alex M. Houchin has built a career working within the criminal justice system to advance prosocial alternatives to incarceration. He holds a bachelor's degree (and high school teaching certificate) in English, and often lends his time and talent toward efforts to preserve and advance solidarity and human dignity through public policy—including his work since 2020 as the sole staff member of Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. In his spare time, he enjoys making music, birdwatching, and tending to way too many houseplants.
