<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The monthly meeting of Peninsula Peace & Justice has been changed to Monday, May 3rd, at Blue Hill Library (6:30 p.m.).<div>(It had been scheduled for Wednesday May 5). </div><div>The change was so that people who want to attend the meeting could also attend the May 5 talk at Deer Isle -- info follows.</div><div><br></div><div>The PPj meeting will be for the purpose of organizing the Field of Flags on Memorial Day weekend, and deciding on the next films to show.</div><div>If anyone has suggestions or ideas to share, but cannot attend, please forward to <a href="mailto:judy@robbinsandrobbins.com">judy@robbinsandrobbins.com</a> .</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b>DR. DAVID RAY GRIFFIN: “IS THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN JUSTIFIED BY 9/11?"</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b>Public Lecture, 7 pm, Reach Center, Deer Isle Wednesday, May 5, 2010</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b> Dr. David Ray Griffin, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2008 and 2009), and ranked in September 2009 by Britain’s venerated New Statesman as #41 of “the 50 people who matter today,” will speak in at the Reach Center on Deer Isle at 7 pm, Wednesday, May 5th on the legal and moral aspects of the war in Afghanistan.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b>Dr. Griffin’s appearance is sponsored by Island Peace and Justice and Americans Who Tell the Truth</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">Dr. Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, and a co-director of the Center for Process Studies.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">He is the author of 36 books, nine of which are on 9/11. His most complete statement about 9/11, <i>The New Pearl Harbor Revisited</i>, was a Publishers Weekly "Pick of the Week" in November 2008. His most recent book is <i>The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 Is Unscientific and False.</i></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">Recently featured in major documentaries on Britain’s BBC and Canada’s CBC, Griffin is on a 15-city lecture tour of the mid-western and the northeastern United States (including southeastern Canada). In his own words:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">"Whereas it is widely recognized that the US-led war in Afghanistan is illegal under international law, because it was never authorized by the UN Security Council, most Americans have believed that it was morally justified as a response to the 9/11 attacks, and many believe it is still justified as a necessary means to prevent another attack originating from that region.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">“My lecture will present evidence showing that both of these beliefs are untrue, so that the 9/11 Truth Movement and more traditional Peace and Anti-War groups should be able to combine forces to oppose this illegal and immoral war." </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">Griffin, a philosopher of religion and theologian (with a heavy focus on the philosophy of science), has meticulously researched the various dimensions of the official account of 9/11 – most recently the collapse of WTC 7 – finding them all devoid of credibility.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">Due to the carefulness and sweep of his writings, Griffin is widely considered the world’s leading critic of the official story about 9/11.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">Dr. Griffin will be speaking at:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> 7 pm, Wednesday, May 5</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"><b>Reach Center</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier">Off Rt. 15 behind the Deer Isle High School</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Courier"> T<b><i>ickets:</i> donation</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Dr. Griffin’s books and CDs will be for sale</font></div></div></body></html>