Pacem In Terris Update: Wednesday 7PM Presentation: Learn How Delaware Will Adapt to SEA LEVEL RISE AND FLOODING ~ It Support Sussex

Medard Gabel writes ~

This Week

Good News Department
Child mortality halved since 1990. Globally, childhood deaths have been cut in half since 1990, says a report from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and World Bank. Eastern and southern Africa are reducing child mortality faster than any other regions in the world. Globally, child survival rates have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. Under-five deaths have fallen by 47 per cent from 12.6 million to 6.6 million between 1990 and 2012.
Annual Dinner and Peacemakers Among Us Award
Pacem in Terris's Annual Dinner is coming on fast. I just found out the menu:
Fall Fruit Salad, Roasted Pumpkin Soup, Vegan Vegetable and Wild Rice Soup, Harvest Garden Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette, Quinoa Salad with Edamame, Roasted Sweet Potato and Avocado salad, Baked Ziti, Crab Cakes, Fresh Green Beans and Mushrooms, Black Bean Brownies (Vegan)
Rolls & Butter, Dessert Tray, and Tea & Coffee. I hope this sounds as delicious and intriguing to you as it does to me. And, that I will see you there! For more information and to make reservations, go here. (By the way the meal is being catered by The Culinary School of the Food Bank of Delaware.)

Gun Violence
Inner city gun violence. In D.C., bullets leave another child fatherless. David Robinson tried to escape the violence all around him. Instead he was killed four months before the birth of his son. Powerful story. Read more . . .
Schools Update
School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools.
"Our public schools aren't in decline. And "reformers" with wild promises don't care about education — just profits." Read more of Diane Ravitch's provocative book excerpt.
How you know you’re in an upscale neighborhood:

Video of the week
The Business of Gun Violence-- in one minute!

And here's one on the Draw the Line on Keystone Pipeline from Bill McKibben. Look carefully. I am in this one, along with my children. (Crowd scene in Washington DC. You will most likely need a powerful microscope . . . but we are there.) See what is happening locally under Upcoming Events, Sept. 21.

Upcoming Events

• Sept. 18, Wednesday 7:00 pm. Presentation: Learn How Delaware Will Adapt to SEA LEVEL RISE AND FLOODING. Limestone Presbyterian Church, 3201 Limestone Road, Wilmington. Co-sponsored by Pacem in Terris.

• Sept. 19, Thursday, 5:00pm - 9:00pm. Exhibition: Witnesses to Hunger Exhibit Reception
Gallery Eleven One, 339 N. Front Street, Suite B, Camden, NJ. Ten mothers and grandmothers spark dialogue, engage and inform policymakers, and inspire change. An exhibit featuring the photographs of Camden women who are working to create better lives for their children.

• Sept. 21, Saturday. PeaceDay!

• Sept. 21, Saturday, 4:30 pm Demonstration: Draw the Line Delaware. Corner in front of the Newark Amtrak Station Parking Lot (on 896 across from the Girl Scouts and Bob Carpenter Center). There are over 175 actions planned across the United States to Draw the Line on the tar sands and Keystone XL -- from a high water mark being chalked in Manhattan, to a line drawn in the sand outside President Obama's Hawaii vacation home. RSVP here.
See the 2 minute move here.

• Sept. 22, Sunday, 6:00 pm. interfaith vegetarian supper, Hanover Church in Wilmington. The evening program is about Christian-Muslim relations. Speakers will be a husband and wife from Jakarta, Indonesia (home to the world’s largest religious Muslim population), and where there is friction between Muslims and Christians.

• Sept. 27, Friday, 6:00 pm, Film: Five Broken Cameras,
Newark United Methodist Church, 69 East Main Street in Newark, DE.

• Oct. 1, Tuesday, 6:00 pm, Film:
Dead Man Walking, Theater N, 1007 N. Orange St. Wilmington. See the film before Sister Helen’s visit on Oct. 9th!
6:00 - Refreshments
6:30 - Film
8:30 - Discussion with Death Penalty Repeal Activists Sponsored by Pacem in Terris and DE Center for Justice.

• Oct. 6, Sunday, 7:00 pm. Talk: OneVoice an Israeli and Palestinian peace organization present their vision of a peaceful future for their homeland, and a process for getting there. Tal Harris, Executive Director, OneVoice Israel and Samer Makhlouf, Executive Director, OneVoice Palestine will present, followed by questions and answers. At Westminster Church, 1502 W. 13th Street, Wilmington, DE. Co-sponsored by Westminster Church. Read more.

Planetary Update
Floods in Colorado. See them from space. Where you are safe?

Quote of the week
“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined non-conformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense."
-- West Wing television program