Are you uncertain as to whether or not you are looking at the latest version of this website? Are there changes that you are not seeing?
Have you refreshed your browser?  CLICK HERE.





SAVE THE DATE FOR GOOD FRIDAY:
 
April  18: Gather at 7:45 am

Good Friday 2025
April 18th, 2025
Gather at 7:45am

Hybrid event:
Join us ON-SITE or by ZOOM 
 
Where do we go from here: Complacency or Action?
 
An Interfaith Service of Worship and Witness
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab
 
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab
Southwest Gate, East Avenue at S. Vasco Road

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86902610120?pwd=aV8BQpN9QxXunz6GqhvY8ufeEPsKl3.1
 
Meeting ID: 869 0261 0120
Passcode: 152597
One tap mobile 1-669-444-9171

Homily by: Rev. Sally Juarez
Nuclear Update: Scott Yundt, Tri-Valley CARES 
Music: Francisco Herrera 
Movement/Dance: Carla De Sola, 
 
Dear friends who share a vision of justice and peace:

Thank you for your solidarity and support over the years. We invite you now to support the upcoming Good Friday Interfaith Service of Worship and Witness, focused at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab.

The Good Friday Interfaith Witness at the Livermore Lab has been held every year since 1983. Livermore Lab was founded to develop the hydrogen bomb. New weapons of mass destruction are still designed there. For more than 35 years, people of faith and others concerned about the ongoing proliferation of nuclear weapons have gathered on Good Friday outside the Laboratory in Livermore. We strive for the healing of all nations. We envision and work for repair, reconciliation, restoration, transformation.

This year’s witness will again be a hybrid event, held on site at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab; also by Zoom. For those attending in person, let us know if you either can offer a ride or if you need a ride and if we can match you up, we will try to do so.

We invite your participation in this event, your financial support, and, when possible, your organization’s co-sponsorship. Donations can be made by check or by PayPal online, using the Donate button in the EPI website. Please indicate if your contribution represents organizational co-sponsorship. If not, please just let us know your affiliations, for future networking.

Please reference “Good Friday” (GF) or “Livermore” on your check or in Paypal.

Please fill out and return by mail or with your online co-sponsorship payment or email us the information below along with your online contribution.

Proceeds will be split evenly between EPI and Tri-Valley CARES.
 
Peace,

Mark Coplan & Daniel Zwickel, Co-Presidents of the Board of The Ecumenical Peace Institute                                               

Carl Anderson
Livermore Conversion Project

=================================================================

 ___Yes, I/we would like to support the Good Friday Worship & Witness. (Donations are tax deductible.)

Name (please print neatly)  ______________________  

Congregation or Organization ___________________________    
____Indicate here if this is an organizational or congregational co-sponsorship.

We request co-sponsors to send at least $35, if possible, and to help publicize this event. 

For further information call (510) 990-0374

Ecumenical Peace Institute • PO Box 9334 • Berkeley, CA 94709 • epicalc@gmail.com




DOWNLOAD FLIER









Ecumenical Peace Institute / Clergy And Laity Concerned (EPI/CALC) is a prophetic voice and witness, embracing all faith and earth-based traditions bringing to life universal values as we seek truth, work for justice, nurture compassion and courage, reach out to each other and to our larger communities of faith and tradition, bridge the divisions that wound the human family, transform ourselves and our world through dedication to nonviolence in education, advocacy, witness and action.

Let us not tire of preaching love: it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love.
Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.

—Archbishop Oscar Romero, July 23, 1978




EPI’s Facebook page —
for latest happenings


Join EPI’s Facebook Group to share what you are doing
and thinking--to comment
and discuss
 [The "Donate" button is temporarily down. For the moment, you may uae PayPal on your own and email us your donation: 

epicalc@gmail.com


 
Or, you may send your check to: EPI/CALC, P. O. Box 9334, Berkeley, California 94709


 



   State Assembly Passes Historic Declaration of California
as the first “Compassionate¯ State” in the Nation!
All content has been archived:






   
Become a part of the EPI Community! Annual membership is $35.00, $10.00 for low-income subscription. If you use the secure PayPal Donation button above,  when you get to the PayPal page, click on Send & Request, and Send Money and enter this e-mail address: <epicalc@gmail.com>. Please make a note of it, as this EPI webpage will “refresh” to the PayPal website. Then just enter the amount you wish to donate,and follow instructions, adding a note to us if you wish. Thank you! And, yes, EPI-Calc is a 501(c)3 nonprofit religious organization.

         If you wish, you may send us your donation the old-fashioned way, and send us a check (Quelle idée!) to
EPI/CALC, P. O. Box 9334, Berkeley, California. 94709




EPI's Living Graveyard will be virtual for the foreseeable future.
You are urged to be risk-adverse. It could save your life!


We urge you to call on congress to end all sanctions

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has introduced HR 5879, legislation which would increase Congressional oversight over declarations of national emergencies and Presidential sanctions powers includes congressional oversight of  US sanctions. Additionally, the bill would require the President, when seeking to take action under IEEPA and levy sanctions, to report to Congress on a number of items. Sanctions are an act of war, which is prohibited by the United Nations charter.
Click HERE to read the full text.

Here is Rep. Omar's website.

To read about effects of sanctions, click HERE

Then call: US Congressional switchboard: 1-866-338-1015 



Links to connect with other prophetic voices:
If Americans Knew ^ Western States Legal Foundation ^ 350.org 
Christian Peacemaker Teams ^ Syria Solidarity Movement ^ East Bay Sanctuary Covenant  Friends of Sabeel  ^  Haiti Action Committee  ^  Haiti Relief  ^  Jewish Voice for Peace ^ Union of Concerned Scientists ^ Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center  ^  Tikkun  ^  Tri-Valley CAREs

Prophetic Voices Past:  Abe Zwickel  ^  Jean Zwickel  ^  Father Bill  ^  Joan McIntyre  ^  Pastor Lee Williason
Esther Ho  ^  Diane Thomas


Come join our Working Group and help EPI become even more vital and exciting!
 



Home page postings are archived: April, 2020 ^ 2017–2019 ^ 20152016 ^ 2012–2014 ^ 2010


 

You may order our book of poetry, On the Edge of Peace here:



  

Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC
P. O. Box 9334, Berkeley, CA 94709
E-mail:
epicalc@gmail.com
(510) 990-0374 (0EPI).




Hosted by PeaceHost.net Webmaster, Daniel ben Avram