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Members of the St. Joseph the Worker Social Action Committee will join the Ecumenical Peace Institute, Seminarians to End War, Tri-Valley Cares and others at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory for the annual Good Friday protest April 6. 

This year is particularly significant, given the role the labs are slated to play in the Rehabilitate Replacement Program, the replacement of the older nuclear weapons with new ones, Bill Joyce of the St. Joseph Committee told the Planet. 

Peace activist Rev. Michael Yoshi, of the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda, active in the support for war resister Lt. Ehren Watada, will address the gathering.  

“Ehren Watada has been very clear on his own decision not to go to Iraq,” Yoshi told the Daily Planet on Monday. “He was a clear prophetic voice not just for himself, but for others [saying that] we should not have been there in the first place.” 

“It is a time for peace,” Yoshi added. 

People will gather at 6:45 a.m. at the Corner of Vasco and Patterson Pass Road in Livermore. They will hold a worship service at 7 a.m. and then walk to the gates of the lab where organizers say, “there will be an opportunity for civil disobedience.”  

At 10 a.m., people will regroup at the Community Center at 5720 East Ave., Livermore, for discussion and refreshments. 

Code Pink celebrates Easter at Camp Pelosi 

On Sunday, Code Pink and supporters will walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, then return to the home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, 2640 Broadway in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, which the organization has dubbed Camp Pelosi.  

The group is meeting both on the San Rafael and San Francisco sides of the bridge at noon, coming together at the center, then walking back to Pelosi’s house in San Francisco. 

Organizers ask participants to bring eggs decorated or filled with peace and impeachment messages for an Easter egg hunt.  

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