Peace House Ashland Oregon

PEACE HOUSE

Uncle Food’s Diner
Feeding hungry people since 1994
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Rogue Liberation Library
Sending more than 600 books to people in prison each month
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March 2024
Mar 19
19 March 2024

Explore the elements of mindful communication as a nonviolence practice. Learn to bring more awareness to your conversations with attentive listening and thoughtful speaking. Take your nonviolence practice to the […]

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Mar 20
20 March 2024

You are invited to attend Selene Aitken's Preventing Interpersonal Conflicts workshop, a four session, two-hour series using NVC -the nonviolent communication techniques rooted in the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenburg. […]

Mar 22
22 March 2024
Ashland Hills Inn, 1515 Ashland Street
Ashland, OR 97520 United States

Did you know human trafficking happens in Southern Oregon? Also, how it happens might surprise you. Less than 5% of trafficking cases in the United States result from kidnapping or […]

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Our Work

Uncle Food's Diner

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Uncle Food’s Diner delivered more than 100,000 free meals to people in need in the past two years. For the past 28 years, we have hosted a Free  Community Dinner in Ashland by reconciling donated food items and coordinating volunteers to produce delicious, nutritious meals. Our program responds to the changing  needs of our community.

Rogue Liberation Library

books in library

Rogue Liberation Library sends more than 600  books to people in prisons in 14 states, each month.  Our mission is to provide quality books and reading material free of charge to incarcerated people to foster knowledge, communication, personal development, and well-being. We believe in the right to read, and see books as  tools of liberation.

Human Rights

Since 1982, Peace House has lent its support for communities impacted by militarism and extractive industries in Central America. This includes those seeking asylum and human rights workers in Honduras. We now provide advocacy sponsorship  for human rights accompaniment in Honduras with Committee for Families of the Detained, Disappeared in Honduras (CODEFAH).

Peace House Land Acknowledgment Statement

Peace House acknowledges that it is located on the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa Nations, collectively known as the Rogue Tribes, who, along with other peoples who used the region seasonally, lived here since time immemorial. These and other Tribal Nations were forcibly removed from their homelands when European invaders inflicted genocide upon Indigenous communities and took control of land, water and natural resources abundant here in the mid 1800s. Euro-American colonization led to war, starvation, resource extraction, and epidemics that imperiled whole communities and irreversibly harmed sacred sites, rivers, and land across the region.

The US and Oregon State governments signed treaties with Tribal Nations, but broke nearly all of them in the decades to come, resulting in a full occupation of Tribal lands for the benefit of European migrants alone. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz represent many of the living descendents of the Takelma, Shasta, and Latgawa peoples.

Peace House recognizes the legacy of knowledge and resiliency of these and other Indigenous peoples. We support the affirming opportunities available from the Land Back movement, among other Indigenous-led initiatives for reconciliation. We recognize also that land acknowledgment statements are performative unless met with meaningful and sustained relationships with local Native communities.

Special thanks to Brook Colley and Dan Wahpepah for their contributions to this statement.

Peace House room rentals include a small room, lined with chairs and a couch.

Rent A Room

Peace House and South Mountain Friends Meeting (Quakers) invite you to rent our home for your special class, presentation, discussion group, meeting or event. The South Mountain Home is equipped with a variety of room sizes, and full kitchen. We are conveniently located across the street  from Southern Oregon University in Ashland.

We See the Connections

Peace House realizes that no peace is possible without justice. We address core issues with a heart-felt dedication to social justice and a culture of nonviolence. We provide an intersectional platform with partners around the world  to address: