03/19/2008 Noon
Center Church, 665 Main Street, Hartford, CT US

Sponsored by Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice

Interfaith Prayer Service, Center Church, Corner of Gold Street and Main Street (diagonally across from the Wadsworth Atheneum),followed by a silent procession, ending with a Public Witness to the Destruction of War at the Federal Building,450 Main Street.

A brief interfaith prayer service on the steps of Center Church (featuring AFSC’s “Cost of War” banners and boots representing CT’s soldiers who have died) will be followed by a procession to the Federal Building, stopping in front of United Technologies headquarters along the way.

Participants are encouraged to wear black and to bring one or more stones to add to a pile, making visible the destruction and human cost of the war. On each stone, please inscribe the name of an Iraqi civilian who has died in the war (one list is available at IraqBodyCount.org . Stones should be large enough to write on with a permanent marker but small enough to carry five blocks. Clergy are asked to wear visible signs of their office.

PermaLink: http://iraqmoratorium.org/events/listings/7/744.html

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