Photo: Berta Caceres, right, assassinated for justice activism

Israeli – Palestinian Conflict

• 
• West Bank & take action – eye witness reporting by Deb Vanpoolen

Legislative Work Peace House Supports

Local transportation needs

Programs & Services

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

Nuclear Weapons

• 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.”

Partner Organizations

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)

Trans-Pacific Partnership

• 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

• Register to Vote online

Whistleblowers

• Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Antal, Former Army Chaplain Who Resigned Over Military Policy