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Occupy Boston Globe: How Did We Get A Statue of Gandhi?

by Dan Schneider Anyone walking through the main entryway of our occupation has to cross Dewey Square’s wide concrete tiles, skate around a few small discussion groups, pass the Logistics tent and walk right in front of a landmark of sorts. Standing against one of the poles used to support the main â€˜Occupy Boston’ banner is a brown, 9 foot tall plastic replica of Mohandas Gandhi. Gandhi believed in the fundamental right of people to determine their own destiny and advocated non-violent protest on a mass scale. His ideological relationship to our movement is clear. What isn’t clear is how […]

Peace activist Brian Willson speaks at The Peace Abbey Tuesday, Oct . 18, 7:00pm

His message: “We are not worth more, they are not worth less.” S. Brian Willson, a prominent Viet Nam veteran turned peace activist and former resident of Massachusetts, appears at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts to talk about and read from his psychohistorical memoir, Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson (PM Press, 2011). The event begins at 7:00pm. Willson, who lost both legs below the knee in 1987 when he was intentionally run over by a US Navy munitions train at the Concord, California Naval Weapons Station, kicked off his book tour by […]

WickedLocal Sherborn: Salem State University Peace Institute to honor Peace Abbey’s Lewis Randa

By Hope Benne and Van Pham Dover-Sherborn — Another UN International Day of Peace is upon us — Wednesday, Sept. 21 — affording an opportunity to celebrate a vision dating far back in history. Many anthropologists now believe that the earliest humans who roved from place to place as hunters and gatherers were peaceful. Aside from an occasional act of aggression or murder, they found enough food and had no reason to compete or go to war. Cooperation and sharing were necessary for survival. Moreover, primatologists’ research now indicates that kindness and compassion even exist among our primate relatives, and […]

MetroWest Daily News: Natick camp founder has rare ‘Courage’

By Julia Spitz/Daily News staff When a young man followed his college crush from Kentucky to Maine in the summer of 1948, the romance fizzled, but a new love blossomed into something that would change thousands of lives. He fell in love with the kids at the Pine Tree Camp for Crippled Children, said Frank “Rob” Robinson, who founded Camp Arrowhead in Natick in 1958, and, in 1970, Ashland’s Camp Warren, which became Camp Echo in Goshen and was later incorporated into the 4H Camp Howe. The Framingham resident’s visionary approach to pairing student volunteers with disabled campers recently put […]

WickedLocal Dover-Sherborn: Memorial Stone rededicated at Sept. 11th Peace Abbey ceremony in Sherborn

By Sara Feijo Sherborn — Barbara Packard, 77, put a photo of Deora Bodley, who was killed in the terrorist attacks of 2001, next to a replica of the Memorial Stone for Unknown Civilians killed in war at the Peace Abbey’s Sept. 11th Day of Remembrance on Sunday. Packard never met Bodley. She met her father, Dairell Bodley, who was wearing a picture of Deora around his neck, during a visit to the Peace Abbey. “I saw how sorrowful he was,” Packard said. “I gave him a kiss on the cheek and said â€˜I hope your life will become better.’” […]

VW Camping Registration Form

Peace Abbey VW Camping Registration

September 11 Day of Remembrance

As we approach the tenth anniversary The Peace Abbey is planning a “Day of Remembrance” on Sunday, September 11th. The Peace Abbey will host a day long vigil from 8:45 AM to 5 PM, with the blessing ceremony beginning at Noon. Remember to Remember September 11, a recording of the names of those who were killed on that day, will be broadcast from an outside speaker. The event will include a rededication of the Memorial Stone for Unknown Civilians in its new setting in front of the Pacifist Memorial. The stone was first dedicated by Muhammad Ali on May 4th […]

Remember to Remember September 11

Remember to Remember September 11 is a recorded reading of the names of the victims of the terrorist attack against the United States on September 11, 2001, by actress Betsy Palmer, actor Jerry Orbach, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at The Pentagon, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANY&NJ) Public Affairs Officer Alan Hicks, and volunteers at the New York Unit of the Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (NY-RFB&D) organization. The reading of the 2,976 names takes approximately 3 hours. Ms. Palmer read the names of the victims of Flight 11, Flight […]