Day: 106

I am going to write 3 letters every day for the next year to public figures, community leaders, and media about the Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN), the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria.

The EYN is suffering from the violence in Nigeria.

The #BringBackOurGirls brought widespread attention to this violence, particularly the 270+ schoolgirls from Chibok who were kidnapped by Boko Haram.  Many of those girls belong to EYN. Despite the attention that this campaign continues to give to the situation, the violence in Nigeria has gotten worse, and the girls still are not home. Through it all, the EYN continues to suffer.

The EYN has remained steadfast in its commitment to living peacefully and loving its enemies. They have become active in working to build peace, restore community, and provide essential services to many who are suffering in Nigeria, despite their own hardships.

The EYN inspires me. They fill me with hope. So I’m not going to stop speaking for them until people start to listen. And then I’ll speak even louder.

I am going to personally write 1000+ letters to public figures over the next year.

Letters to:

• Elected Officials
• Other Government Officials
• Celebrities
• Media
• Religious Leaders
• Philanthropists
• Anyone who will listen

365 Days. Three letters per day. About the inspiration of the EYN, and about honoring the EYN’s sacrifices by committing to a peaceful, nonmilitary solution to the violence in Nigeria.

Here’s how you can help:

Contribute!

Send non-monetary donations (Envelopes and Stamps) to:
Emmett Eldred
Carnegie Mellon University
SMC# 2046
Pittsburgh, PA 15289

Pledge to send letters of your own!

Donate directly to the Nigeria Crisis Fund!

Learn more about the EYN.

These are the letters that I’ve sent so far:

Day 105: Center for International Conflict Resolution

Day 105: Daryl Barler

Day 105: Guy and Heidi Burgess

Day 104: Jonathan Bartsch

Day 104: Center for Civilians In Conflict

Day 103: The Bridgeway Group

Day 103: Ina Breuer

Day 103: Peter Woodrow

Day 102: Jewish Peace Fellowship

Day 102: Chett Pritchett

Day 102: Netork of Spiritual Progressives

Day 101: Allison Liles

Day 101: The Rev. Dr. James Forbes

Day 101: Terry Taylor

Day 100: Carolyn Woo

Day 100: S. Hope Altkin

Day 100: Catholic Peace Fellowship

Day 99: Center for the Reduction of Religious-Based Conflict

Day 99: Global PeaceWorks

Day 98: Witness for Peace

Day 98: Maria Reis Habito

Day 98: Julie Arostegui

Day 97: Envision Peace Museum

Day 97: Peace House

Day 96: Angie Wang

Day 96: Peace Action West

Day 96: Peace Jam

Day 95: Peace and Justice Studies Association

Day 95: Brooklyn For Peace

Day 95: Rick Ufford-Chase

Day 94: Peaceful Uprising

Day 94: Center for Global Peace

Day 94: Hands of Peace

Day 93: Norman Miller Center

Day 93: Center for Global Peace Journalism

Day 93: Peaceful Tomorrows

Day 92: Universal Peace Fellowship

Day 92: Forest Whitaker

Day 92: Katie Loncke

Day 91: Physicians for Peace

Day 91: Pennies for Peace

Day 91: Danielle Gram

Day 90: Peace First

Day 90: Service for Peace

Day 90: Friends of Peace Pilgrim

Day 89: Idaho Peace Coalition

Day 89: Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Day 89: San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice

Day 88: Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition

Day 88: Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition

Day 88: Orange County Peace Coaltion

Day 87: Peace Coalition of Monterey County

Day 87: Robert Moore

Day 87: West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition

Day 86: Julia Pettengill

Day 86: Path to Path Foundation

Day86_Amala Foundation

Day 85: Universal Peace Foundation

Day 85: Winds of Peace

Day 85: Taia Peace Foundation

Day 84: Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation

Day 84: Tomoko Torii

Day 84: Teach Peace Foundation

Day 83: Global Peace Foundation

Day 83: Thomas Etzel

Day 83: David Krieger

Day 82: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Day 82: Guy Djoken

Day 82: PEACE Iowa

Day 81: Common Peace

Day 81: Midcoast Peace and Outreach Center

Day 81: Lisa Schultz

Day 80: The Peace Development Fund

Day 80: The Fund for Peace

Day 80: Peace Action Maine

Day 79: Fransican Peace Center

Day 79: Center for Living Peace

Day 79: Amesbury Peace Center

Day 78: Tim Nation

Day 78: Global Peace Foundation

Day 78: Leslie Adelson Lewin

Dayy 77: Betsy Mulligan-Gague

Day 77: Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery

Day 77: Jizo Peace Center

Day 76: Living Compassion

Day 76: Reedley Peace Center

Day 76: Tucson Peace Center

Western New York Peace Center

Lehigh Pocono Committee of Concer

Day 75: Anabaptist Peace Center

Day 74: Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County

Day 74: Kalamazoo Peace Center

Day 74: Alaska Peace Center

Day 73: The Peace Center

The Peace Center of Delaware County

Day 73: Springfield Peace Center

Day 72: Barbara Simmons

Day 72: peaceCENTER

Day 72: Richard Blackburn

Day 71: Linda Haydock

Day 71: Nashville Peace and Justice Center

Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine

Day 70: Plowshare Peace and Justice Center

Day 70: International Crisis Group

Day 70: Chico Peace and Justice Center

Day 69: Youth Ministries for Peace and Jusitce

Day 69: Arizona Alliance for Peace and Justice

Day 69: Michael Shelley

Day 68: Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice

Day 68: Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas

Day 68: Hope Out Loud

Day 67: Vincent L. Hawkinson Foundation

Day 67: Maryland United for Peace and Justice

Day 67: The Peace and Justice Center

Day 66: Peace and Justice Works

Day 66: The Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County

Day 66: DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice

Day 65: Cape Codders for Peace and Justice

Day 65: Fox Valley Peace and Justice

Day 65: Jude Huntz

Day 64: Margli Auclari

Day 64: Muhammad Ali Institute

Day 64: Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin Valley

Day 63: Scott Olson

Day 63: Hawai’i Peace and Jusitce

Day 63: Rebecca Hernandez

Day 62: The Voice of the Martyrs

Day 62: Open Doors USA

Day 62: International Christian Concern

Day 61: Mohammed Abu-Nimer

Day 61: Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice

Day 61: Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice

Day 60: Northeastern Iowa Center for Peace and Justice

Day 60: Grand Valley Peace and Justice

Day 60: Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice

Day 59: Peace and Justice Foundation

Day 59: Interfaith Communities United for Peace and Justice

Day 59: Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center

Day 58: Kathy McGinnis

Day 58: Interfaith Resource Center for Peace and Justice

Day 58: Kathryn Getek Soltis

Day 57: Interfaith Peace Builders

Day 57: Ross Holzman

Day 57: World Beyond War

Day 56: Minnesota Alliance of Peacebuilders

Day 56: Melanie Greenburg

Day 56: National Peace Foundation

Day 55: Peace Direct

Day 55: Center for Peace Through Culture

Day 55: Muslims for Peace

Day 54

Day 54: Global Poverty Project

Day 54: Steven Hawkins

Day 53: Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

Day 53: Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center

Day 53: Mara Giglio

Day 52: Jason Boone

Day 52: Kelli Seals-Obazee

Day 52: Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice

Day 51: From War to Peace

Day 51: Paul George

Day 51: Brad Watkins

Day 50: Rachel Siegel

Day 50: San Jose Peace and Justice Center

Day 50: Coalition for Peace and Justice

Day 49: Traprock Center for Peace and Justice

Day 49: Bernie Glassman

Day 49: United for Peace With Justice

Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice

Day 48: Houston Peace and Justice Center

Day 48: Catholics for Peace and Justice

Day 47: Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine

Day 47: US Conference of Catholic Bishops

Day 47: Ruth Conniff

Day 46: Organization for International Cooperation

Day 46: Universal Peace Organization

Day 46: Peace Worldwide

Day 45: Oregon Peace Institute

Day 45: Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute

Day 45: Gail Walker

Day 44: Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Day 44: Peace Islands Institute

Day 44: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Day 43: Toda Institute

Day 43: Aubrey Fox

Day 43: Gary Spanovich

Day 42: Dee Aker

Day 42: Aldo Civico

Day 42: Georgia Kelly

Day 41: Center for Media and Peace Initiatives

Day 41: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Day 41: Visual Peace Media

Day 40: World Peace Prayer Society

Day 40: Bob Nechal

Day 40: Hope for Peace and Justice

Day 39: Craig Brown

Day 39: Katrina vanden Heuvel

Day 39: Dave Horn

Day 38: Antiwar.com

Day 38: Robert Greenwald

Brandywine Peace Community

Day 37: Gene Sharp

Day 37: Spiritual Endeavors

Day 37: Michael McPhearson

Day 36: Peace and Freedom Alliance

Day 36: Margaret Melkonian

Day 36: War Resistors League

Day 35: Religions for Peace

Day 35: Reza Aslan

Day 35: Ploughshares

Day 34: William Anderson

Day 34: CBN

Day 34: Michael Marcavage

Day 33: Care USA

Day 33: Richard Stearns

Day 33: Heifer International

Day 32: Ken Butigan

Day 32: Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America

Day 32: Kristin Stoneking

Day 31: Joan Chitister

Day 31: Rick Warren

Day 31: Kristyn Komarnicki

Day 30: Diane Winston

Day 30: Kathleen Carroll

Day 30: Marie Griffith

Day 29: Disciples Peace Fellowship

Day 29: Ronald Osborn

Day 29: Orthodox Peace Fellowship

Day 28: Jim Winkler

Day 28: Interpeace

Day 28: Colin Saxton

Day 27: Mark Weisbrot

Day 27: Janet Mock

Day 27: Bill Goodfellow

Day 26: John Lyon

Day 26: Shan Cretin

Day 26: Stephan Bauman

Day 25: Carleen Pickard

Day 25: UFPJ

Day 25: Kevin Martin

Day 24: Ria Kulenovic

Day 24: Pat Toomey (Again)

Day 24: Leslie Lewin

Day 23: Maria Santelli

Day 23: Valarie Kaur

Day 23: Simone Campbell

Day 22: Alexandra I. Toma

Day 22: Win Without War

Day 22: Sister Patricia Chappell

Day 21: Bishop William Swing

Day 21: Avon Mattison

Day 21: Jeremy GIlley

Day 20: Linda Gracey

Day 20: Janine Gibson

Day 20: NPR

Day 19: Ndubueze Alaka

Day 19: Bola Sujiwade

Day 19: Samuel Mbonu

Day 18: Queen Latifah

Day 18: Michelle Obama

Day 18: Ellen DeGeneres

Day 17: Alicia Keys

Day 17: Paul Schrag

Day 17: Marianne Marstrand

Day 16: Jim Renacci

Day 16: Rob Portman

Day 16: Sherrod Brown

Day 15: Another Mother for Peace

Day 15: James Denton

Day 15: Bill Bryon

Day 14: Neal Keny-Guyer

Day 14: Sarah Thompson

Day 14: Dr. Darius Mans

Day 13: Noel Lateef

Day 13: Samantha Power

Day 13: John Buchanan

Day 12: David Miliband

Day 12: Medea Benjamin

Day 12: Rob Bell

Day 11: David Giovannelli

Day 11: Chong-Ae

Day 11: Dr. Steven Sokol

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Rachel Held Evans

Frederick Buechner

Day 9: Sally Kaplan

Day 9: Madeline Albright

Day 9: Kristin Lord

Day 8: Senator Richard Blumenthal

Day 8: Representative Rosa DeLauro

Day 8: Senator Chris Murphy

Day7: Daniel Burke

Day 7: Jody Williams

Day7: Antonio de Aguiar Patriota

Day 6: Cameron Strang

Day 6: Jim Wallis

Day 6: Red Letter Christians

Day 5: President Jimmy Carter

Day 5: Oprah Winfrey

Day 5: Representative Charlie Dent

Day 4: Representative Karen Bass

Day 4: Senator Barbara Boxer

Day 4: Diane McMahon, PhD

Day 3: James Entwistle – American Ambassador to Nigeria

Day 3: John Green -Author, Vlogger

Day 3: Chad Weinberg – United States Agency for International Development

Day 2: Senator Chris Coons – Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on African Afairs

Day 2: Assistant Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfiled, Bureau of African Affairs

Day 2: Representative Chris Smith – Chairman, House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights

Day 1: Representative Bill Shuster

Day 1: Senator Pat Toomey

Day 1: Senator Bob Casey