Champions of Peace, Honoring them: Senator Jeff Merkley, Dagoberto Morales and Kathy Keesee of Unete Oregon, Dan Davis accepting for Veterans for Peace Rogue Valley Chapter 156, Allen Hallmark, and Ruth Coulthard – Annual Peace House Awards Dinner 2015
Dirty Energy Dirty Money – Video of June 2016 forum presentation soon to come.
Education for nonviolent living and action
- Alternatives to Military Recruitment
- Annual observance of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- End murder by remote control
- End War with Afghanistan
- Preventing Another War in the Middle East
- Peace House on record supporting Peace and Justice Works letter to OR governor candidates (6/21/16)
- Stop cluster bombs transfer to Saudi Arabia (sign petition)
- Sign the petition to stop the military’s sexual assault epidemic
Feeding the Hungry
Homelessness
Gun Violence Prevention
- Update from Ceasefire Oregon on Gun Violence Prevention Legislation – June 27, 2016
- Vision Quilt
- ‘Vision Quilt’ project aimed at gun violence – article published by Mail Tribune
- Reasonable gun regulation
Human Rights
Honduras
- Looking for Justice in Honduras – by Lucy Edwards
- CALLS NEEDED: Berta Cáceres Human Rights Act Introduced!
Photo: Berta Caceres, right, assassinated for justice activism
Israeli – Palestinian Conflict
Legislative Work Peace House Supports
Militarization of border increases
Military Spending
- The Pentagon’s Real $trategy, Keeping the Money Flowing
- Where your tax dollars go
- Demilitarizing the Federal Budget
- A Budget that Works for All of Us
- Federal Education Program
- Making Sense of The Federal Budget March 12, 2016 – Slideshow presentation
Nonviolence and Conflict Resolution Training
Nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder – Video
- Greg Boertje interview. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemorative 2016 Photo Slideshow and information.
- Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act (H.R. 1976 in the U.S. House of Representatives)
The Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act (H.R. 1976 in the U.S. House of Representatives) would “provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion … while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion.” - Hiroshima
Outsourcing: “The Department of Labor reports that more than one in three workers who are displaced remains unemployed, and many of those who are lucky enough to find jobs take major pay cuts. Many former manufacturing workers who were displaced a decade ago because of manufacturing that went offshore took training courses and found jobs in the information technology sector. They are now facing the unenviable situation of having their second career disappear overseas.”
Peace House Collaborations
Resources
- Meals and Resources in Ashland keyed to map
Single payer universal health care in Oregon
Surveillance
- Ending indiscriminate and warrantless surveillance of the domestic population (Honoring Whistleblowers)
- Video – U.S. Senator Wyden of Oregon is asked why he hasn’t responded to Jan. 7, 2016, letter to him from 1500+ major national/state organizations citing critical reasons to not support the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sen. Wyden Townhall held in Eagle Point, OR and video published on Aug 1, 2016.
- WTO Orders Sanctions Unless U.S. Cuts Consumer Labels, Disproving Obama TPP Claims – Lori Walach
- “Mystery Meat: After WTO Ruling, U.S. Tosses Meat Origin Labeling Law, Leaving Consumers in the Dark” – Interview of Lori Wallach by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. “As TransCanada files a NAFTA claim for $15 billion against the U.S. government over the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, we turn to another case in which massive trade agreements have infringed on the U.S.”
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose – Elizabeth Warren, Washington Post
- Video – NAFTA, TPPA the Internationalization of the state – Speaker, Michael Niemann
- Over 1500 Organizations Urge Opposition to the TPP – Letter delivered to Sen. Wyden’s office 2/4/2016
- Promises be damned: TPP ‘benefits’ are strictly for the corporations – The Ecologist, “The TPP, even more so than previous deals, has very little to do with trade and much to do with solidifying corporate control over life, arguably the most significant erosion of what is left of formal democracy yet.”
Voting
Whistleblowers