News Flash!!!

While we will continue to remain affiliated with SNOW, and will continue to support its work financially, philosophically, and physically, Lake Forest Park for Peace is striking out in a new, more independent direction! Part of this effort includes the establishment of our own independent web presence.

Please visit our new site at http://LakeForestParkForPeace.org, or just www.lakeforestparkforpeace.org - this also works in most browsers - and check out where we are heading. We will continue to maintain the current site even as we develop the new one.

Lake Forest Park for Peace E-mail Lists

We have two of them:

• Announcements-only List that is intended for LFPFP-specific announcements, such as weekly meeting minutes and agendas, as well special events. This list is moderated so only items explicitly LFPFP-related will be distributed. It averages about 2-3 e-mails per week.
• General Discussion List for sharing information, discussion, interesting articles, etc. This list is unmoderated, so any subscriber can post to it without restrictions. Traffic here can vary from only a couple messages a week to 20 or more.

LFPFP Statement of Purpose

We, the members of Lake Forest Park for Peace, an affiliate of Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW), stand united in our opposition to war, especially the policy of premeditative, preemptive, and preventative war as conducted by our government. We commit ourselves to nonviolent support of multilateral resolutions to conflict. Since we deem any war to be a grievous crime against humanity, we demand that this policy of aggressive war be rescinded.

Our collective conscience compels us continually to demonstrate our opposition to our government's policy against Iraq in particular for the following reasons:

• that Iraq posed a grave danger to our country through its possession and dispersal of "weapons of mass destruction" has proven to be at least misinformed if not downright deceptive to America and the world.
• the disruption of international relations, through the United Nations and other alliances, can damage global avenues of peaceful resolution.
• that the policy of "first-strike" war does not make our nation more secure, but puts the whole world at peril if followed by countries across the globe.

We, as members of Lake Forest Park for Peace, call for specific actions leading towards a peaceful present and future, including and not limited to the following:

• promote a peaceful stabilization in Iraq for all Iraqis
• no continuing US military presence in Iraq
• the refusal of using preemptive, aggressive war as US policy
• a US world policy based on mutual agreements, support of human rights and grassroots development, and reductions of US military presence.

And, as members of Lake Forest Park for Peace, we commit ourselves: