Every ticket holder will have the opportunity to choose a unique, handcrafted ceramic bowl and have it filled with delicious soup provided by local restaurants. The simple meal of hot soup, fresh, locally made bread and simple desserts served by local “celebrities” brings together our community to support the work of Uncle Food’s Diner.

Tickets are $25, or $10 for youth and students. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options available.

In addition to buying a ticket, there are many other ways to support the event. Become a sponsor, donate a bowl, or volunteer—we need you! Let us know how you can help by filling out this quick form or email Meg at meg@peacehouse.net.

Get your tickets here: https://donorbox.org/events/963803/steps/choose_tickets

Thank you to our 2026 sponsors:

Add your name to the list with an in-kind or financial contribution!

Special thanks to One Sunny Day Initiatives, who co-hosted all the events and played a special role (not to mention a starring role) in The Seeds of Peace film screening. If you missed it, check out the film’s site for updates on future screenings.

Appreciation also to Ashland.News for covering several of these events. See their full coverage from Aug. 3 and Aug. 6.

HIROSHIMA DAY OBSERVANCE AND RESOURCES

Here are the details on our full program from Hiroshima Day, as well as copies of the remarks from our featured speakers.

NAGASAKI DAY OBSERVANCE AND RESOURCES

On August 9th we gathered to watch An Ordinary Insanity, which highlights the ongoing risk of nuclear war, and the full scale of destruction it might cause.

We then talked about ways that we can help resist the renewed move to build up nuclear weapons, by pushing back on mining efforts that set up supply chains not just for nuclear energy, but nuclear weaponry as well.

Emily Bowes from the Oregon chapter of the Sierra Club laid out the connections in a clear slideshow:

Looking for a way to keep track of this issue and take action? See this petition from the Stop Nuclear Work group: https://www.change.org/p/no-aurora-uranium-project-stop-harmful-uranium-mining-in-oregon

And email Meg if you’d like to be part of the team at Peace House working on this critical issue.

Needed: Board Members for Local Grassroots Peace and Justice Organization

Location: Ashland, OR

To apply: Email board@peacehouse.net with a short note about your interest and a resume. 

Applications will be reviewed at our regular monthly meeting (currently scheduled for the third Tuesday of the month), after which we will reach out to applicants about next steps and a chance to meet the current board in-person.

Deadline: Rolling. Looking for new members to begin Fall 2026. 

About Peace House:

Born out of the Nuclear Freeze movement of the 1980s, Peace House has become a home for many kinds of action to make a more peaceful world. Our mission is to model the power of compassion for creating peace, to educate about the consequences of militarism, and to equip our community to organize, advocate, and take action together for peace and justice. We do this both through our own programs and through providing fiscal sponsorship to new or smaller community efforts in need of support.

Some of our current projects:

Uncle Food’s Diner – A weekly, free hot meal program open to all, regularly serving over 100 meals each week.

Rogue Liberation Library – A volunteer-driven project providing free books to prisoners in prisons around the country

Movement Building Program – Regular workshop series using a popular education frame teaching organizing and campaigning skills and analysis. Recent workshops have focused on noncooperation strategies against authoritarianism, nonviolent direct action, and corporate pressure campaigns against collaborators with ICE.

We are based in Ashland, OR and the majority of our work is done in-person in SW Oregon.

About the Role:

The board provides strategic leadership, governance, and works to build the organization’s resources.

We are looking for board members who are looking to take an active part in our work. Expectations include:

• Attending monthly board meetings
• Attending and helping plan and promote special events
• Fundraising and making a personal contribution to the organization
• Participating in board development
• Attending 1-2 special board meetings or retreats per year
• Participating in ad-hoc committees as needed

Terms are for two years and may be extended.

We are especially interested in individuals with the following skills:

• Nonprofit financial management
• Fundraising
• Compliance and risk assessments
• Team building
• Facilitation, especially in groups with a consensus or more collective decision-making process

For individuals excited about our mission, there may be the opportunity for training and professional development to help build out skills useful for the board.

Tuesday kitchen help at Uncle Food’s Diner

Peace House coordinates a weekly hot meal on Tuesdays, and we need more hands in the kitchen! Flexible shifts from 10am-3pm. We cook at First Methodist near Laurel and N. Main. Come work with our fabulous chef, David Jimenez, and the rest of our fun crew. Reach out to Meg (meg@peacehouse.net) or call the office at 541.482.9625 for more info.

Volunteer with Ashland Food Angels

Food Angels has been collecting and donating produce and other perishable food items to Uncle Food’s since 1996, as well as helping to provide an abundance of food items to the Ashland Food Bank and food banks in Talent and Phoenix. 

The project operates daily, picking up food each morning and evening. Shifts are usually 2-3 hours. Although it helps to be able to lift 20 to 40 pounds, there are also jobs which require no lifting. Consistent weekly help is greatly appreciated, but even an hour or so once in a while would be helpful. It’s a wonderful and loving group that gives their time and energies to this project,To learn more, email Pamala Joy at ashlandfoodangels@gmail.com or call 458.246.7489.

On May 1st, workers, businesses, and schools are saying: No Work. No shopping. No school.

Will you join us?

Here’s what you can do:

1. Attend the May Day Rally in Medford

PCUN, Unite Oregon, Unete, Indivisible, local unions, and many many others are hosting a May Day rally in Medford:

May 1 from 4-7pm at Veterans Memorial Park next to the Medford Armory 

Live music

Food by Jobs with Justice

Local Union speakers in Spanish and English

2. Pledge to Strike.

Whether you’re a student, a worker, or an everyday person who does your shopping on Fridays, you can demonstrate the economic and social power we hold collectively by withdrawing your participation on that day. Stay home—or go out and volunteer instead. Plan your shopping for another day. Let our collective presence be felt.

This call for a national strike on May Day coincides with our statewide Day Without an Immigrant. In addition to encouraging a strike, Oregon for All, PCUN, and many others are hosting a lobby day in Salem for those able to attend.

Will you be striking on May 1st? Sign the pledge form from Unete to show your commitment.

3. Participate in outreach to local businesses.

On January 23rd, many businesses around the country shut their doors, closed early, or took part in solidarity actions in support of the community in Minnesota after the killing of Renee Good by federal agents.

May 1st, the business community has another chance to show that they stand in support of their customers, workers, and neighbors, and against the billionaires and authoritarians using our taxes to fuel war and terrorize everyday people via violent tactics from ICE and CBP.

Ask your favorite businesses to show their support using the BUSINESS OUTREACH TOOLKIT.

Are you a business or independent contractor that’s participating in the May Day strike? Let us know here and we’ll add your name to the list below so that community members can see you care.

Think your business is too small to meaningfully participate? The folks at The Drift Collective are engaged in conversations to help other small business owners think through what it means to show up in this moment. Check out their Instagram and reach out for more info:

And here’s how businesses in Southern Oregon are showing solidarity:

-The Drift Collective – Cash Only & Music by Los Mapaches + Chinga La Migra Live Screen Printing

-Luna Love Plant Show – Cash Only & Donating 20% of sales to the “Protect Oregon” organization @protectoregon 

-Loam+Black – Cash Only & Talking w/ All Customers About May Day Strike

-Fiit & Flow Fitness Studio – Rewarding members participating in May Day solidarity actions with points towards Spring Challenge competition. 

-Websters – Participating, Exact Details To Be Confirmed

-Treehouse Books – Participating, Exact Details To Be Confirmed

More to come!

See all the businesses taking action around the state: https://www.daywithoutanimmigrantor.com/businesses

Know of a small business taking action? Tell us about it.

We’re happy to announce our next set of trainings for April and May, following on our Justice is Love in Public weekend in February.

Please RSVP to tell us which trainings you’d like to attend and we’ll send more details to you.

Workshops are free and open to all but please consider making a donation to support this programming. Peace House relies on community support to do this work.

Send questions to meg@peacehouse.net.

Thursday, April 16th, 3-5pm – Strike Readiness Training
We’ll gather in person to participate in a national training on preparing for strikes, then debrief together and talk about plans for upcoming May 1st strikes.


Wednesday, May 13th, 6:30-8:30pm – HOPE-PV: Elections Focus
Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence is a framework being used around the country to push back against authoritarian violence. We’ll learn the basics of this framework and then put it into practice with a focus on elections, working through scenarios in which violence or threats of violence attempt to disrupt our right to vote and govern ourselves.


Wednesday, May 27th, 6-8pm – Noncooperation 101
Words like authoritarianism, fascism, and autocracy are all being thrown around a lot these days. How does this moment in the U.S. compare to authoritarian take-overs in other places? We’ll share about the current authoritarian threat, then share stories of noncooperation and how nonviolent noncooperation has been used to push back against anti-democratic forces.


Saturday, May 30th, 10am-3pm – Economic Noncooperation Against ICE and Militarism
Rescheduled from February. Boycotts, strikes, tax resistance — these are just a few of the nonviolent noncooperation tactics movements have used around the world to disrupt authoritarian forces. We’ll break down the mechanics of these tactics and look at how they might be deployed against the violent excesses of ICE and the U.S. military in our current moment. We’ll share stories from global movements, review concepts like the pillars of support and basics of campaign strategy, then dig into creative campaign design ourselves to see what actions we might take together here in Oregon.

Pope Leo called for peace in his remarks on Easter Sunday and reiterated them again in response to President Trump’s threat that a ‘whole civilization might die tonight,’ made the morning of Tuesday, April 7th.

How do we respond on a day like this, when mass destruction of human life is tossed around so flagrantly?

We say: show your love for life in whatever manner feels compelling and urgent.

We’ve already heard that individuals are gathering on the Ashland Plaza this afternoon to speak out.

We also know that some of us are flooding the lines of the White House – (202) 456-1111 – before 5pm ET.

Some of us are showing up to continue feeding our neighbors, like we will be today at Uncle Food’s Diner, and advocating for their right to exist in public, later today at Ashland City Council.

Some of us will figure out how to provide aid to those already harmed and displaced.

Some of us will finally take the step to stop funding war, this week before Tax Day, joining the War Tax Resisters League and others in refusing to hand over our money to systems of endless bloodshed.

Some of us will gather and process and plan with those closest to us to figure out what kind of action we’ve been too scared to take before and finally step to take it.

Some of us will sit in quiet and allow the anxiety and fear of what’s happening to move through our bodies until we better discern the right course of action—engaging in an active preparing, in this moment when the next right move can be so hard to see.

Whatever form of action calls to you, we say: do it. Act for peace.

Whatever you do, don’t let this be the day you turned away from the harm this nation is willing to cause in the world. Don’t let it be the day you chose to ignore the truth of suffering.

Today is a scary and horrific day, and how it will unfold is uncertain and may lead to terrible loss. But we cannot begin to prevent this and future atrocities if we will not sit with the reality of suffering and let that move us to act, in whatever way is available to us.

So we say again, whatever form of action calls to you: do it.

Today, when so-called leaders act only for war, let the people act for peace.

We strongly urge the U.S. government and other involved parties to cease this path of murder and destruction and to return to open and honest negotiations in good will. It is the only reasonable and practical course. 

We urge all members of Congress to assert their constitutional prerogative and to quickly approve legislation currently in both the House and the Senate regarding the War Powers Act. The decision to go to war is the most consequential and disastrous decision that humans can male. This decision must never be left to a single person, including the President. We urge everyone to contact their Members of Congress with this message.

Finally, we must clearly state that “regime change” in other countries is not the prerogative of the United States. It is the sole prerogative of the people of those countries. This is true no matter the quality of the government in question.

Let us choose the project of life, not the project of death.

Peace House invites you to come rethink what love and leadership look like in these times of struggle and uncertainty.

Join us for the long weekend spanning Valentine’s Day and President’s Day to learn together, sing together, and find new ways to protect our neighbors and show love for our community.

We’re hosting events in two locations: Peace House in Ashland, and the library in Medford.

MEDFORD LIBRARY EVENTS

Friday, February 13th, 6-8pm: Noncooperation 101

Words like authoritarianism, fascism, and autocracy are all being thrown around a lot these days. How does this moment in the U.S. compare to authoritarian take-overs in other places? We’ll talk about the current authoritarian threat, then share stories of noncooperation and how nonviolent noncooperation has been used to push back against anti-democratic forces.

Open to all, no registration required. See more event details.

Saturday, February 14th, 11am-2:30pm: Intro to Security Culture

What’s encryption? Why use Signal? How do you gauge when to share information with others and when to withhold it? Learn some of the basics of security culture, and how keeping your own information secure and safe can help protect others in your community.

Open to all, no registration required.

Saturday, February 14th, 3-5pm: Free Families : Songs and Community Building for Migrant Justice Now

Come sing together and learn how to weave song, healing cultural practice, and community-building. Bring your voice (yes, even those of you who don’t think you can sing—we want you here!) and your heart for migrant justice. Hosted by Lu Aya of Songs in the Key of Resistance and The Peace Poets.

Open to all, no registration required.

(These events are not sponsored or endorsed by the library.)

PEACE HOUSE IN ASHLAND EVENTS

Saturday, February 14th, 12-2pm: 4th Amendment Workplace Ashland Team Launch

Join Coalición Fortaleza’s 4th Amendment Workplace campaign for a potluck lunch and volunteer orientation! Space is limited, please sign up in advance.

POSTPONED – Monday, February 16th, 10-2pm: Economic Noncooperation and ICE: A Workshop and Strategy Session

Note: We are postponing this session to be in solidarity with the Day Without an Immigrant Action taking place in Medford! We will be rescheduling soon. If you’d like to get registration info for the next time, send an email to meg@peacehouse.net.

Boycotts, strikes, tax resistance — these are just a few of the nonviolent noncooperation tactics movements have used around the world to disrupt authoritarian forces. We’ll break down the mechanics of these tactics and look at how they might be deployed against the violent excesses of ICE in our current moment.

In this workshop we’ll share stories from global movements, review concepts like the pillars of support and basics of campaign strategy, then dig into creative campaign design ourselves to see what actions we might take together here in Oregon.

Workshop space is limited. To try and build a group bringing diverse viewpoints and experience levels, we are asking folks to fill out an application to participate. We’ll begin sending out acceptances on a rolling basis starting February 5th. 

If you have difficulty accessing the form please email with your interest to meg@peacehouse.net.

Monday, February 16th, 5-7pm: From President’s Day to July 4th: A Talk and Community Brainstorm

This July 4th will be the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and we’re expecting an escalation in fascist rhetoric and pressure to narrowly define citizenship and patriotism. How can we find ways to push back on this culture of authoritarianism in the lead-up to July 4th? How do we honor our democratic ideals while recognizing the long history of harm in the U.S? What are alternative ways we can observe our interdependence and love of the land on July 4th? 

One-part presentation, one-part community brainstorming of ways to collectively observe July 4th this year.

MORE MEDFORD EVENTS

Many of our community partners and friends are also hosting events this weekend! Here are a few of the other happenings on our radar:

Join Unite Oregon and others in showing your support for all the immigrants in our community.

MORE ASHLAND EVENTS

Saturday, February 14th, 3-5pm: Jobs With Justice Valentine’s Day Party

Can’t make it to Medford our community song event? Consider joining the Jobs with Justice crew at Pioneer Hall and learn how to help out with their community meals and more!

Sunday February 15th, 6pm: The Power of Song with RV Peace Choir

Listen to the Rogue Valley Peace Choir perform with three other regional peace choirs in a mega-concert! Donations suggested but not required. Performance is at SOU Recital Hall, 450 S. Mountain Ave.

Also check out the Saturday evening performance and talent show at Wesley Hall: https://roguevalleypeacechoir.org/event/multi-choir-dinner/