NEW - audio from this event: Friday November 14 - Speak for Peace special event: 
    http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=30601
  Friday January 9 - next Just Views
  Sunday January 11 - next DPTJC planning meeting
  Sunday January 18 - next Honk for Peace
  New DPTJC Maillist

 

  DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition  

A Citizens' Group based in DuPage County in the Western Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois

The purpose of the DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition is multifaceted: to promote nonviolent solutions to terrorism, to call on members of Congress to protect civil liberties, and to provide a public forum to present alternatives to war and education on cross cultural issues. The Coalition is made up of people from diverse ethnic, racial, religious and cultural backgrounds united in their belief that war is not the answer to terrorism. For more information about the past or planned activities of the Coalition, please contact the DPTJC coordinating committee at:
This above email address is not the DPTJC mail list.  To make general announcements related to peace and justice issues and events, see DPTJC mail list below:

DPTJC Mail List (New list using Yahoo Groups)

You are invited to subscribe to the DPTJC (DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition) Mail List

Become a DPTJC Member or Donate:   An Invitation to Join DPTJC

Visit our allies at The Confederation of Northern Illinois Peace Groups and Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice

Coalition Activities

Regularly Scheduled Activities:

  1. Second Friday of each month; JUST VIEWS Video Viewing and Sharing; (7pm to 9pm just for July showing at IIT) usually 7:20 PM
    2. JUST VIEWS is open to the public and free: Films about vital peace-and-justice issues are shown on second Fridays monthly. Join us to view and then share views from various vantages with citizens and invited resource persons. Each night is an informal, stand-alone experience. Feel free to bring friends. College and high school students are welcome to join the adults from many walks of life who participate. Give suggestions to JV Director Stephanie Hughes 630/420-4233. Mark your calendars ahead now!
    DuPage Unitarian Church, 4S535 Old Naperville Road, Naperville IL 60563.

    JUST VIEWS -- Upcoming Free Films & Archives: Next Just Views Program
    PRINTABLE FLYER for current JV event: Click here to open pdf
    NEW! GENERIC PRINTABLE FLYER: Click here to open pdf

     

  2. Second Sunday of each month; Planning meeting; 7:00-9:00 PM
    3. WHAT: Help with the vital work of making the coalition effective.
    WHERE:The York Center Church of the Brethren, 1S071 Luther Avenue, Lombard, Illinois

     

  3. Third Sunday of each month; Honk for Peace Rally in Glen Ellyn Members of the DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition (DPTJC) and others hold a "honk for peace" rally from 2:00-3:30 p.m. It takes place along Roosevelt Road in front of Trader Joe’s (Map for Pickwick Plaza Shopping Center, 680 Roosevelt Rd). Please join us with signs and banners calling on motorists to "honk for peace" in support of ending the U.S. occupation of Iraq and bringing the U.S. troops home now.
    PRINTABLE FLYER: Click here to open pdf

News and Upcoming Special Events:

 

Other Activities:

Other Past Activities:

 

  • Speak for Peace Tour: U.S. Veterans & Iraqis Creating the Way
    Forward

    WHERE: First United Methodist Church, 1032 Maple Ave., Downers Grove, IL 60515
    Click here for map

    WHEN: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 7:30 PM

    SPONSORED BY: American Friends Service Committee, West Suburban
    Faith-based Peace Coalition, Pax Christi DuPage, DuPage Peace Through
    Justice Coalition, and DuPage Against War Now.

    Iraqi Civilian & Iraq War Veteran Give Eyewitness Accounts of War
    Creating the Way For Peace Through Dialogue

    DOWNERS GROVE, IL-- Local peace groups, working with the American
    Friends Service Committee    , will bring the national Speak for Peace Tour
    to Downers Grove on Friday. The tour gives voice to two groups not
    often heard together: Iraqi civilians and U.S. veterans. The last stop
    on a nine-stop tour of Indiana and Illinois, this event in Downers Grove
    brings together Iraqi consultant Raed Jarrar and Iraq War veteran Eugene
    Cherry.

    Raed Jarrar was living in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003 when the country was
    invaded. He became the country director for CIVIC Worldwide, helping to
    establish the only door-to-door casualty survey in war-torn Iraq. After
    coming to the U.S. in 2005, Jarrar became the Iraq consultant for the
    American Friends Service Committee.

    Eugene Cherry is a former Army Medic who served in Iraq from 2004 to
    2005. Cherry went AWOL for 16 months after returning from Iraq with
    symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The US Army tried to
    prosecute him through a Courts Martial. Cherry fought the Courts
    Martial and was eventually released with an honorable discharge

    The Speak for Peace Tour aims to give voice to those who so often go
    unheard in America. It represents the ultimate goal of true
    reconciliation between Americans and Iraqis.

    Click here for a printable flyer.

     

  • Tuesday February 12 Forum  "Perspectives on Peace" featuring peacemakers from 12 peace organizations

     
    " Perspectives on Peace"  featuring area peacemakers 
    Glen Ellyn Public Library
    400 Duane St. Glen Ellyn
    Tuesday, Feruary 12th, 7:30 pm -9 pm   
     
    DAWN ( DuPage Against War Now) will host representatives from some of the most active and influential peace groups in the Chicagoland area. Each panelist will briefly discuss how their group has contributed to the peace movement and will take questions as to what actions are planned going forward.  
    The 2008 election and its impact on the peace movement will be discussed. 
    Organizations featured that night will include:
    American Friends Service Committee
    Code Pink
    DAWN and DAWN Voter Advocates
    Department of Peace Campaign- Peace Alliance
    DuPage Peace Through Justice
    Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice
    Just Views, Diversity Dinners
    Northwest Suburban Peace and Education Project
    Northwest Indiana Coalition Against the Iraq War
    No War on Iran Coalition   
    National Organization for Women
    Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    Women in Black
    West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition  
     
  • Forum on US - Iranian Relations, November 11
  • News Coverage of the October 27 Peace Rally and March. On Oct. 27th there'll be a huge regional Peace Rally & March against the War in Iraq - in Chicago.   See Attached Flyer for Bus details. 

 

Bands Not Bombs DuPage Concert 4 Peace, September 15, 2007


    Sponsored by: DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition
    Description: Bands Not Bombs: DuPage Concert for Peace
    A Hopeful Celebration to End the War
    with a special collection taken for the Midwest Homeless Vets Shelter in Aurora.

    Saturday, September 15
    1:00 - 3:30 pm
    Old Town Park in Bloomingdale
    (1 block west & south of Lake St. & Bloomingdale Rd.)

    Bands Playing Include: (List subject to change.)
    Agents of Change (rock with DJ accompany)
    Expendable Youth (Punk Rock)
    La Armada (Indie Rock Band)
    Phillip Morris (Hip hop artist)

    Peace Walk & Street Vigil: 3:30—4:30 pm: At the end of the concert everyone is invited to march from the park to the street corner of Congressman Peter Roskam’s Bloomingdale office (southwest corner of Bloomingdale Rd. & Schick Rd.—4 blocks). Bring your own signs expressing your desire to bring our troops home from Iraq.

    This event is being co-sponsored by: DuPage Against War Now (DAWN), the DuPage
    Peace Through Justice Coalition, Pax Christi Illinois, the West Suburban Faith-based
    Peace Coalition and others.


    Flyer

 

Saturday March 17 - WEST SUBURBAN REGIONAL PEACE RALLY, MARCH and VIGIL

Recent news coverage

Photos of this event are included in the photo gallery at: http://chicagofreespeechzone.com/

March 30-31, Urbana, 2007 ICPJ Statewide Conference - "Stopping War - Seeking Justice"

Information and Registration

March on Washington January 27, 2007 and local bus to DC

News articles

Photos (link to DAWN site)

Labor Day Weekend 2006 Immigrant Workers Justice Walk

Over Labor Day weekend, thousands of immigrants and their allies will take part in a historic, multi-day, multi-city event:  the Immigrant Worker Justice Walk.  The "March 10 Movement," which helped bring together the massive mobilizations in Chicago this spring, has called for this Walk from Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood to US House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office in Batavia.

For DuPage County information about the walk, click here.
Further information see: http://www.icirr.org/ or here.

Daily Herald News Article Aug 17: Batavia preparing for Labor Day immigration march
Daily Hearald News Article Sept 5: Immigration march ends

 

November 7 2006 Referendum on Iraq (joint activity with DAWN and others)

Although the 8200+ signatures were not sufficient to get the referendum on the
ballot, this was a success in keeping the dialog on peace alive.

Download Petition

Instructions, Caveats and Circulating Script

Petition Instructions

Daily Herald News Article May 24: Peace activists want war item on fall ballot

August 6 2006 Hiroshima Day Commemoration

Karla Vescovi will discuss the justification and effects of the bombing and how Japan has moved forward since.   She will discuss the damage caused by the atomic bomb, including "atomic bomb disease" and environmental destruction, as well as sharing how the Japanese people have continued on their road to recovery, which includes the construction of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Hiroshima's other projects to promote peace.  The event will be at The First United Methodist Church of Downers Grove, 1032 Maple Ave., Downers Grove.  Please join us for refreshments at 6:30 and for the commemoration at 7:00 PM.

Related Links:

Sadako  - learn about the legend of 1000 paper cranes
Printable Flyer
Hiroshima Peace Website
Satellite Image of Hiroshima Peace Park - the A-bomb epicenter
Google Map link for the A-bomb Dome - the A-bomb epicenter (broadband internet needed)

Other Past Activities

NWRC Chicago Area Events Calendar: (Hint: Search for "630" (the area code) to locate Coalition events).

Coalition Education

Peace and Justice News and Information

  •  The DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition is not responsible for the content of any linked site.