Today in Clear Actions, we want to rewind through 2024 with a roundup of featured articles we published. Every week, our small editorial team curates and writes about timely news, events, and actions to help unravel some of the complex issues of our time. Visit our Clear Actions archive page to find issues from the past six months. Our goal in producing our weekly dispatch has always been to go beyond the surface and shed light on useful analysis and insight – to help people dig into topics that get lost in the noise of the mass media. 

Below we have made an abbreviated list of topics we covered with original reporting that relate to social and racial justice, and war. In addition to these contributions, we regularly include updates from organizations dedicated to nonviolence and interfaith activism offering hope in dark times. In addition, we include analysis from advocacy groups upending racism, like Southern Poverty Law Center, and foreign policy experts like those from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. And finally, we always include updates on local issues including the housing crisis, environmental justice, and food insecurity in our region. 

We hope that as readers, you can take something meaningful from Clear Actions each week, whether it be an insight, an action opportunity, or reliable information to help you stay informed. Thanks for reading and Happy New Year!

• Insights for Peace and Internal Growth
  • The Harmony of Resilience
  • Seeking a Healthy Social Fabric
  • To the Ego Who Wants to Rule the World
  • How and Why the Lotus Institute and Peace House are Connected
• Housing Crisis
  • SOHFA: Providing Advocacy for Unhoused People
  • Homelessness Masterplan Takes Aim at Action Opportunities
  • You Can Support People Living in the Cold this Winter
• Israel Palestine War
  • The Whole World is Watching but We Can Stop this Madness
  • One Year of War Leaves Shattered Communities in Gaza
  • Amid Ongoing War in Gaza Solidarity Activists Face Brutality
  • International Civilian Aid Flotilla Seeks to Break the Siege
  • People Around the World Call for Ceasefire
  • Peace Organizations Call for Investigation into Human Rights Abuses
• Nuclear Issues 
  • How the Story of Hiroshima Bombing Shaped US Views of Nukes
  • The Time is Now for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
  • Survivors of Atomic Bombings Receive Nobel Peace Prize
  • Relocations: Why Didn’t the US Lead the World to Nuclear Abolition after 1991
• Military Spending 
  • 2024 Budget Includes One Trillion for Military and Law Enforcement
  • Senate Passes Military Aid Bill Amid Continued Bombardment
• Visionary Nonviolent Movements
  • Valarie Kaur: Revolutionary Love Tour Reaches Thousands
  • Citizen Trainings and the Mother of the Movement
• Ukraine: Ben Stott reports 
  • Ashlander Ben Stott Provides Fresh Dispatches from Ukraine
  • Essential Equipment Reaches Ukraine
• International Human Rights
  • Juan Lopez, Defender of Life, Murdered in Honduras
  • South Sudan: Court Case Could Mean Accountability for Atrocities
  • Biden Closes Border to New Asylum Requests
• Hate Groups in So. Oregon
  • Salt and Pepper Shakedown 
  • Reflections on Salt and Pepper
• Civil Rights Historic Profiles
  • Who Was Beatrice Morrow Cannady?
  • Remembering James Lawson and His Dedication to the Power of Nonviolent Action
    Oregon History Webinar: Black Exclusion for a White Utopia
• Indigenous Rights & History
  • Learn About the Tolowa Dee Nee Rebirth of Language
  • Indigenous People’s Day: A brief history