For Immediate Release
Contact: Tom Rico, PEC Co-chair 517-282-2565
or Peace Education Center Office, 517-515-5634

Peace Education Center Co-Chairs are Featured Speakers at International Day of Peace;PEC Hosts Radical Theater Group

As we commemorate September 11 and remember those who died in the tragic plane crashes across the eastern United States eight years ago, we also recognize again the need to generate dialogue and action that works toward world peace. The Peace Education is doing just that throughout the month of September and through the year.

The Peace Education Center’s board Co-chairs, Tom Rico and Melissa Osborn, will be the featured speakers at the Greater Lansing United Nations Association’s (GLUNA’s) International Day of Peace event. Rico and Osborn will look back on the celebrated 40-year history of the Peace Education Center, and will consider the organization’s role in the future of peacemaking. GLUNA president Joseph Hess will also speak at the event.  The GLUNA International Day of Peace celebration will be at the Hannah Community Center on Sunday September 20, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

On Tuesday of the same week the Peace Education Center will host the radical drama group Insurgent Theatre, as they perform Ulysses’ Crewmen. The show is for all ages, and will be interactive. Insurgent Theatre will perform at Gone Wired Cafe on September 22, 2009 at 8 p.m.

Ulysses' Crewmen will be performed at Gone Wired Cafe on September 22, 2009

The group describes itself in the following manner:
Insurgent Theatre is a Milwaukee based theatre company founded by Tracy Doyle and Ben Turk, producing locally written plays and other performance art. We have been producing bad-ass DIY theatre in Milwaukee since 2003. Always independent local writers, directors and actors. Never compromising to the establishment. Insurgent’s goal is nothing less than to take the future of theatrical production (from words, to actors, to audiences) out of the clumsy hands of obsolete bourgeois institutions, one production at a time. Step aside, our revolution is inevitable.

According to Tom Rico, PEC Co-chair. “Insurgent Theatre does for drama what the Peace Education Center hopes to do for justice: bring people from all backgrounds together to have real discussions about the state of the world now and in the future.”

At the Peace Education Center in Greater Lansing we are a community with the belief that all life has value. We work to promote compassion and awareness of the world’s potential for interdependence and lasting peace.Our mission to support justice and peace is supported by:

• Serving as a resource center.
• Organizing outreach campaigns.
• Mobilizing community resources.
• Establishing educational programs and workshops.
• Fostering collaborative relationships with other groups.