August Pot Luck

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

6:30 p.m.

2510 Hidden Valley Drive, LR

Breaking the cycle and giving hope to women. It’s what Hope Rises is all about. This small transition house provides holistic services to previously incarcerated women to improve their health, and provide opportunities for personal growth.

Co-founder and Executive Director of Hope Rises, Kim Roxburgh, featured in the May issue of Soiree, will be our speaker at the August pot-luck. Kim’s work began in 2010 when she and co-founder, Christine Mills, partnered with Come Back Mission to create a holistic women’s empowerment center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The experience inspired them to create a program for women back in the Arkansas.

Hear more from Kim about this exciting program which has broad community support and has won several awards for outstanding service to the women and to the community.

Bread and Drinks provided

All are welcome!

To read the article in Soiree, click here?
https://www.littlerocksoiree.com/post/121833/hope-rises-party-with-a-heart-join-forces-for-recovering-women

https://www.littlerocksoiree.com/post/121837/when-hope-steps-in-women-share-stories-of-recovery

“Peace is not what you find, it is what you make.” – Center for Non-violence

Never Again!

A single nuclear bomb, whether fired by a country or by a single terrorist, would wipe out a whole city, state or even a country and all its people.

We remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki August, 1945

Join us on August 6, 2018, 7 p.m, at the Promenade on Kavanaugh

Speakers Include:

• Steve Copley, Director, Faith Voices Arkansas
• Tristan Norman, Delegate to Hendrix Tomoda Kakehashi, Japan
• Denise Donnell, Just Communities of Arkansas
• Michael Vaughn, Veteran, Iraq and Afghanistan
• Frank LeBlanc, Pastor, Westover Hills Presbyterian Church
• Kai Coggin, author and poet, Hot Springs

Sponsored by:

• Arkansas  Coalition for Peace and Justice
• Faith Voices Arkansas
• Arkansas Women’s Action for New Directions
• Just Communities of Arkansas
• 2018 Hendrix Tomoda Kakehashi delegation to Japan

“It is time to abolish nuclear weapons, for the very survival of humanity is at stake.” – Ved Nanda, Director, Ved Nanda Center for International Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Come for an evening of Heart, Peace, and Passion as we hear from poet and author, Kai Coggin, of Hot Springs read from her poetry. “Her work is delivered with a rhythm, passion, perhaps some anger and plenty of confidence.” Kai found WAND on Facebook, and after praising our work for peace, added, “I write very much on the political climate (as well as women’s issues, love, and metaphysics) and try to offer hope despite all that is going on. If my words can help your cause in any way, please let me know! Thank you!”

Kai was born in Bankok, Thailand and raised in Houston. Her mother, a poet from the Phillipines, and her father, a journalist with Time magazine, met in Hong Kong. After earning a degree in creative writing, Kai has taught school in Texas and been twice named Teacher of the Year. She is very active with the Arkansas Arts Council, enjoys working with young poets, and conducts a Wine and Poetry session each Wednesday evening. Read more about Kai on her website.

Dr. Anika Whitfield will lead our discussion on the newly formed Arkansas Poor People’s Campaign based on the campaign led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Anika is one of the co-founders of the group and has invited Arkansas WAND to be a part of the campaign which has the following goals:

• Abolishing systemic racism
• Ending manufactured poverty
• Ending the war economy
• Ending ecological devastation
• Exposing False “Moral” narratives that divide us

Many of you know Anika. She is a physician and community volunteer who is giving much of her time to making Little Rock a better place to live! She has been a leader in the Give Back our Schools campaign and in the Women’s March.

Date: Tuesday, April 17th

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: 2510 Hidden Valley Drive, Little Rock 

Bring a Dish to Share
Bread and Drinks Provided
All are Welcome

Because we believe world peace will not happen until women have as much power as men, we are honoring the courageous women running for public office this year. Please join us in celebrating this “Year of the Women!”

Arkansas WAND is a sponsor of Pilgrimage for Peace, 2018, organized by a coalition of ecumenical faith and community organizations, will be held on Sunday, April 8th at 2:00 P.M. Walkers will gather in the circle outside Heifer International Village, 1 World Avenue, Little Rock and pass the Clinton Presidential Library and the River Market, cross the Junction Bridge to the Beacon of Peace and Hope at 120 Riverfront Drive, N.L.R. There, walkers and others will gather for:

A Remembrance Service at 3:00 P.M. to “mourn the violence committed in our community, nation and world, and to walk together as active peacemakers.” The ecumenical service will be led by young people offering prayers, reflections from literature and scriptures, songs and the reading of names of homicide victims in Pulaski County in the past year. All ages are welcome.