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Peace@ThePub: Veganism as a Social Justice Movement

Tuesday, February 12th, 7:00 pm

Market Garden Brewery, 1947 West 25th Street, Cleveland 

Tolstoy wrote: “As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” Join us for a lively discussion of the connections between animal exploitation, human injustice, and war.
What is veganism? Why does veganism deserve a place at the table with other social justice movements?
We’ll discuss how animal agriculture and agribusiness drives climate change, environmental and ecosystem degradation, species extinction, ocean death, world hunger, resource wars, conflict and climate refugees, poverty and food injustice in less-developed nations, and food deserts in our inner cities. Of course human health concerns are directly attributable to animal-based diets. Violence toward our animal kin comes full circle to literally set the table for violence and injustice toward fellow humans.
Presenters: Jack McMillan, MSSA, founding and board member of the Cleveland Vegan Society, and Nelli Johnson, full-time vegan activist

Free and open to the public. Peace@ThePub is a monthly meeting featuring interesting conversation, camaraderie, food and drink.

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Lou greets Mike DeWine along with Browns fans

With the weather being agreeable–chilly but no rain–I took the RTA rapid downtown with the idea of greeting folks streaming toward FirstEnergy Stadium for the Cleveland Browns-Kansas City Chiefs game last Sunday, November 4th. Complementing my peace flag was my 52-year-old U.S. Army field jacket decorated with the six medals pinned to the left breast pocket that the army had awarded me upon my honorable discharge in July, 1968, after serving for a year in Vietnam as a reporter, then editor for the First Infantry Division (“Big Red One” ) newspaper.

      As I arrived at my post about 100 yards from the southwest gate of the stadium, I was pleasantly surprised to see gubernatorial candidate Mike Dewine and his wife, Fran, greeting people going to the game, two days before the election. I walked up to Mike to shake his hand and mentioned I’m also a Miami University alumnus. (Mike graduated in 1969 while I am a member of the class of  ’64.)

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Muslim Day at Ohio State Capitol

Report by Don Bryant, co-chair of CPA’s Middle East Peace Committee:

I joined CAIR Cleveland coordinators with 30 Al Ihsan Islamic School students and two teachers for the 2nd Annual Muslim Day at the State Capitol on Tuesday, 9/25/18. We met up with students, educators and CAIR coordinators from Columbus and Cincinnati. 

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“Interesting times” with the peace flag

The Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” certainly applied to one aspect of my gig Tuesday evening (August 28th) in downtown Cleveland, in uniform, of course, and carrying my peace flag, of course.
     While walking on Euclid Avenue toward Tower City to catch the Blue Line Rapid at the end of my tour of peace duty, one man sitting at a sidewalk table stood as I approached. I thought it was out of respect for my presence, but au contraire mon ami.
       He said, “Where are the stars?”
       I said, “The stars? The stars are in hiding. They are ashamed, embarrassed and disgusted with all the death, destruction, instability and chaos we have caused in the Middle East. Millions upon millions of refugees, and it all started with us.”
       The man was a bit taken aback, as if he just had the wind knocked out of him, but he quickly moved into “defense mode” talking about the evils of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. He mentioned 9/11 and I said we killed a million men, women and children in Iraq. He said, “That is what war is all about.”

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What Lou Should Have Said

There was a bit of a dust-up today involving yours truly in uniform and carrying my trusty peace flag.  The “battlefield” was behind Cleveland’s iconic West Side Market.
My female adversary strongly contended our military is “protecting our freedom,” while I countered that “the Viet Cong had no interest in taking away our freedom”. She would have nothing of that valid point, again repeating her mantra.
Her position reminded me of that old saying, “I’ve got my mind made up. Don’t bother me with the facts.”
Yep, she got my half-Irish up.
What I should have said is this: “I’m afraid we agree to disagree. If we had not invaded Vietnam, we would still have our freedoms, which are ensconced in the U.S. Constitution and in various statutes. If we had not invaded Afghanistan and Iraq we would still have our freedoms. They are embedded in our laws.
“Rather than the military, those protecting our freedoms are civil rights lawyers throughout the country, particularly those in the employ of the American Civil Liberties Union.”
If such a confrontation arises again, I’ll try to keep the above observations in mind and mention them to folks not of like mind. No guarantee, though. After all, I am half-Irish.

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