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<h1 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">St. Patrick's Peace Parade</h1>
<h2 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">People's Parade for Peace, Equality, Jobs, Environmental Stewardship, Social & Economic Justice</h2>
<h2 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><em>Unite, Participate, Celebrate</em></h2>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><img src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u415/2013St_Pats_FlyerJan23_page1_image3.jpg" width="500" height="306" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" alt=""><strong>Sunday, March 17, 2013, 2:00 pm<br>
D Street & West Broadway, South Boston • Look for white "Vets for Peace" Flags</strong></p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Assemble: 2pm. Parade start: 3pm <strong><font color="red"><em><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/161/c/3952/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=79449">Sign Up to Attend - We Need to Know You will Be There!</a> </em></font></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">There are several DIVISIONS marching in the parade, as well as two marching bands, Duck Boats, bagpipers, and the Bread and Puppet Theater.. The DIVISIONS are: Veterans groups; Peace groups; LGBT groups; Faith groups; environmental groups; social and economic justice groups; labor groups; political groups. Please invite your group(s) to come! Contact: Veterans for Peace, Pat Scanlon, <a href="mailto:info@massvfp.org">info@massvfp.org</a>, 978-475-1776; Massachusetts Peace Action, Cole Harrison, <a href="mailto:info@masspeaceaction.org">info@masspeaceaction.org</a>, 617-354-2169; faith groups contact Lara Hoke, <a href="mailto:minister@uuandover.org">minister@uuandover.org</a>.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>Web</strong>: <a href="http://www.smedleyvfp.org">smedleyfvp.org</a> <strong>Twitter</strong>: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/smedleyvfp">@SmedleyVFP</a> <strong>Facebook</strong>: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/smedleyvfp">www.facebook.com/smedleyvfp</a></p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Please join us for our Third Annual Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade, the Alternative People’s Parade for Peace, Equality, Jobs, Environmental Stewardship, Social and Economic Justice.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>Sunday, March 17, 2013</strong></p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Assemble: 2pm. Parade start: 3pm <strong><font color="red"><em><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/161/c/3952/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=79449">Sign Up to Attend - We Need to Know You will Be There!</a> </em></font></strong>The parade route is 4.5 miles and ends at Andrew Station.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><img src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u415/2013St_Pats_FlyerJan23_page1_image6.jpg" width="125" height="150" hspace="10" align="right" alt=""><strong>Rides </strong>along the parade route are available for those who need them, but please let us know ahead of time that you may need a ride.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>Come by T </strong>if at all possible as the area will be very congested. <strong>Broadway</strong> is the closest MBTA subway station.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>Parking </strong>is available for participants in the St. Patrick’s Peace Parade. Vehicles <em><strong>must </strong></em>enter from the north from Summer Street onto D Street; the parking lot is at 383 D Street. Look for the lot with 40 foot white truck trailers. Allow extra time for traffic.</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><em>Directions</em></h3>
<b>From North</b>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Route I-93 to South Station exit (20 A). Merge onto Purchase Street to light (100 feet). Make a left onto Summer Street (will pass South Station on right). Go approx. 1 mile to Convention Center. Turn right onto D Street, parking lot .2 mile up on left, (look for VFP Flag)</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><b>From South</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Route I-93 – Take exit 20 toward South Station. Follow signs for Chinatown, continue straight onto Lincoln Street, turn right onto Kneeland Street, turn left onto Atlantic, south Station will be up on your right. Take a right onto Summer Street. Go approx. 1 mile to Convention Center. Turn right onto D Street, parking lot .2 mile up on left, (look for VFP Flag)</p>
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<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><strong>Why are there two parades on Saint Patrick’s Day?</strong></p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">For the past three years Veterans For Peace have been denied to walk in the historic Saint Patrick’s Parade in South Boston. This is the largest parade of its kind in the country with over 700,000 people viewing the parade. The parade has a dual purpose; the celebration of Saint Patrick and the Irish traditions and heritage and a celebration of Evacuation Day, the day the British were run out of Boston. Both days fall on March 17th, so the City of Boston thought it a good idea to have the Allied War Veterans Council (AWVC) organize the parade. The problem is that one side of the equation, St. Patrick, a man of peace, is second fiddle to a military parade. AWVC has the exclusive say in who gets to walk in this historical parade. The City of Boston, South Boston Community Groups, the Boston Police have absolutely no say in who walks the streets of South Boston in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. </p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><img src="cid:4b62f094e69b68d8e9267a3652d1de44@justicewithpeace.org" width="125" height="150" hspace="10" align="left" alt="">In 2011 Veterans For Peace’s application was denied, when asked why and were told, “They did not want to have the word Peace associated with the word Veteran”. Well they did not know the Smedleys very well. We pulled our own permit and with only three weeks to go before the parade pulled together 500 people and the Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade, the Alternative People’s Parade for Peace, Equality, Jobs, Environmental Stewardship, Economic and Social Justice was born. </p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Twenty years ago the LGBT community wanted to walk in the parade and were denied which resulted in a lawsuit that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court resulting in the Hurley Decision. The Smedleys immediately reached out to the LGBT community, inviting them to “walk in our parade”</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">In 2012 we had close to 2,000 people, seven divisions (Veterans, Peace, LGBT, Labor, Political, Religious, Occupy Everywhere) two bands, bag pipers, drummers, a Duck Boat, two trollies etc. It was a grand success. We have an Environmental Stewardship Division this year. Our goal is to end this last vestige of institutionalized exclusion, prejudice, bigotry, and homophobia and make this parade inclusive and welcoming to all and bring the message of peace to South Boston on Saint Patrick’s Day.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Please join us in South Boston on March 17. Be sure to bring your Chapter’s or Organization’s banners, signs and costumes and join us in our fabulous Third Annual Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade. </p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><img src="http://justicewithpeace.org/files/u415/2013St_Pats_FlyerJan23_page1_image2.jpg" width="128" height="81" hspace="10" align="right" alt="">On behalf of the Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade Organizing Committee.</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Thank you,</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Pat Scanlon (VN '69)</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">Coordinator, VFP Chapter 9, Smedley Butler Brigade</p>
<p style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><a href="mailto:Vets4PeaceChapter9@gmail.com">Vets4PeaceChapter9@gmail.com</a> Phone: 978-475-1776</p>
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