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30 years in Ashland
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Peace House begins
Holds monthly silent candlelight vigils for nuclear disarmament•Ashland women are arrested at the Mother’s Day Livermore Lab Blockade •Begins Annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Vigil•Holds Ashlanders Blockade at Vandenberg Air Force Base•Holds first of several Trident Peace Blockage campaigns -
Refuse the Cruise, Walk for Peace, other protests
Dr. Benjamin Spock speaks at the first Unite for Peace Conference•Joins the National Freeze Campaign Citizens’ Lobby, sending delegates to Washington, DC to deliver letters to Congress•Holds weekly vigils at Litton Industries, an arms manufacturer in Grants Pass•Ashlanders attend Refuse the Cruise non-violent action in Portland•Publishes Nuclear Reactions monthly newsletter•Holds the first War Tax Resistance Conference•Organizes a 3-day, 55-mile Walk for Peace -
Peace Vigil and more
Ashlanders participate in protest action at Boeing Corporation in Seattle•Participates in a state-wide campaign to declare Oregon a nuclear-free zone•Holds the Fall Peace Festival•National Strike Day event in Ashland closes down 40 businesses•Conducts tax resistance leafleting at Medford IRS office•Organizes August Peace Vigil Peace Ribbon Campaign• Nicaragua Witness For Peace -
Host peace team and more
Begins work with the Interfaith Sanctuary Network for Central American refugees•Supports the Nicaragua Ambulance Fund Drive•Hosts peace team from Japan•Lobbies for the Oregon Economic Conversion Act•Participates in Easter Week Vigil at the Nevada Test Site•Joins the National Pledge of Resistance Campaign -
Unite for Peace Conference and more
Marchers Unite for Peace again•Dr. Benjamin Spock headlines •Participates in the Worldwide Hour-for-Peace•Sponsors Everything You Wanted to Know About Nuclear Waste in Oregon presentation -
Women of the World for Peace and more
Conducts Tax Day leafleting action to educate the public about U.S. budget priorities•Holds Weaving the Hope of a New Tomorrow, a Unite for Peace Conference with Daniel Berrigan, Pete Seeger and Jim and Shelley Douglass•Presents Women of the World for Peace to celebrate Women’s History Month•Delegates representing Peace House attend the convention to create a statewide peace organization (Oregon PeaceWorks) -
Dollars with Conscience Project and more
Shifts focus from nuclear issues to a wider range of peace and justice issues •Begins holding monthly programs on issues of peace and social justice• Organizes non-violence training workshop•Sponsors Women’s History Month Concert and program•Gathers supplies in support of North West Convoy to Nicaragua•Presents program on Moscow summit between Reagan and Gorbachev• Holds Dollars with Conscience Project -
Non-Violent Parenting programs and more
Relocates to the Historic Ashland Armory•Newsletter name changes to Clear Actions•Holds Unite for Peace Conference with guest speaker Dr. Benjamin Spock•Organizes and presents Non-Violent Parenting programs•Sponsors Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers, to speak on Human Rights the Path to Peace -
Central American Task Force and more
Hosts the Central American Task Force meeting to discuss the outcome of the elections in Nicaragua•Holds Unite for Peace conference From Dream to Reality featuring The Giraffe Project•Offers tax resistance information and support with emphasis on passage of the World Peace Tax Fund Bill• Organizes support for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty -
Dollars with Conscience boycott and more
Participates in Dollars with Conscience boycott on Georgia Pacific products•Organizes Gulf War protests and teach-ins•Supports FOR program to send a youth delegation to Israel and occupied territories•Begins half-hour program on Access Cable TV•Joins boycott campaign against General Electric•Sends eight protestors to the Nevada Test Site action -
Pastors for Peace Caravan and more
Begins Gay & Lesbian Rights Listening Project•Organizes Nicaraguan Solidarity Program•Letter campaign to support Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar•Indigenous Peoples and Peace House Commemoration Walk•YouthWorks program•Pastors for Peace Caravan Cuba•Organizes Where There is Hatred program and community-sing along -
Uncle Foods Diner and more
Establishes Uncle Foods Diner to address local poverty and homelessness•Creates the Listening Project•Co-sponsors visits from activists Evangelina Rodriquez-Lopez, Peg Morton and Helena Norberg-Hodge•Supports the CROP Walk for the Hungry -
Military draft counseling project and more
Uncle Foods Diner moves to Trinity Church•Richard Deats of the National Fellowship of Reconciliation discusses Dealing With Hate•Works with the Multi-Cultural Center to bring Teaching Tolerance into schools and churches•Begins military draft counseling project•Initiates the Today and Tomorrow Homeless Support Network with other community groups -
A Delicate Life play and more
Moves to current location at 543 S. Mountain Ave.•Presents Now that the War is Over about excess plutonium disposition•Organizes the Nuclear Waste Education and Enlightenment Project (WEEP) to stop nuclear waste transportation•Sponsors A Delicate Life play about the homeless -
Public meetings to address hate groups and more
History of Intolerance project grant awarded to Peace House•Begins “Intolerance in the State of Jefferson” book •Begins Not in Our Town education project•Helps start Community Action Network•Begins youth bread-baking project to feed the hungry and build youth involvement•Organizes public meetings to address hate groups -
Community Action Network and more
Initiates youth service project to Guatemala•Holds Progressive Issues Forum with coalition of regional interest groups•Community Action Network begins Listening Project on forestry issues•Documentary film producer Byron Hurt speaks on Afro-American male issues -
Young Women’s Conference and more
Chomsky Labor and Immigration Forum•Holds a tax day meeting focusing on the Hanford Nuclear Site cleanup•Organizes a Young Women’s Conference•Co-sponsors Bosnian-Herzegovinian Refuges program at SOU•Participates in Progressive Coalition Voter Action ‘98•Compassionate Listening classes•Co-sponsors a concert by activist singer-songwriter John Trudell•Networks with Mediation Works and Medford Police for Firearms Injuries -
What Would You Do if We Went to War? forum and more
Organizes the initial meeting and facilitates a community group to work with the Forest Service to protect the watershed •Protests against Kosovo bombing•Starts the University Peace Club•Co-sponsors the Refugee Care Project with the Multi-Cultural Association•What Would You Do if We Went to War? forum•Partners with Alliance for Democracy to protest the World Trade Organization through street theater -
Ashland Watershed Alliance meetings and more
Holds Ashland Watershed Alliance meetings•Offers mentoring for Single Parent Support Group meetings•Provides skills training and opportunities for student interns and volunteers•Presents educational forum on ending sweatshops•Leads community presentations to promote discussions about firearms•Conscientious Objection and draft registration counseling -
9/11 gathering on the Plaza and more
Emissary travels to Columbia with Witness for Peace and shares experience through community lectures on return•Participates in Walk for Farmworker Justice and follows up with community forums•Dr. Stephen Zunes, professor and activist, shares his perspective on the role U.S. policy plays in Middle East conflict•Organizes 9/11 gathering on the Plaza -
Children for Peace Concert and more
Sends caravan to Action for Nuclear Abolition at the Nevada Test Site•Sponsors David Barsamian, co-founder of Democracy Now, for the America At War lecture series•Participates in the Multicultura Association Fair•Sponsors the Children for Peace Concert• Sonali Kolhatkar speaks out on Iraqi war as a “weapon of mass distraction” -
March against Iraq War and more
March to rally against an Iraq war•Sponsors Who are the Terrorists? community forum• Strategies with other peace groups at the Regional Peace Planning Summit•Just Alternatives to War (JAW) conference•Hosts speaker Daniel Sheehan, First Amendment defender and civil rights attorney and political columnist Molly Ivins•Presents Medea Benjamin and Gypsy Soul -
Hosts Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg and more
Walker Peace Gardens • Endorses peace•International Day of Action Against War and Occupation•Conscientious Objector Counseling Center•Military Families Speak Out, Daniel Ellsberg, Norman Solomon Medea Benjamin•Raises funds for a humanitarian mission in Iraq -
Global Day of Protest and more
Takes on recruitment • New members • Pushes ahead with new director, plan•Amy Goodman• Global Day of Protest -
Listening to All Voices in the Plaza and more
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Peace Fence organizers and more
Peace Now banner • 25th anniversary • Director resigns•Operation Iraqi Freedom•Civic Engagement Day •Peace Fence concert•Department of Peace resolution -
Civil Discourse Dialogue and more
Hosts Unite for Peace with Jean Houston • New Ashland book offers peace•End the Iraq War rally•Iraq Body Count Exhibit•Pace e Bene non-violence workshop•Peace Book Club•Civil Discourse Dialogue -
Peace Wall and more
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Alternatives to Military Recruitment and more
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan•Alternatives to Military Recruitment -
Empowering the Homeless program and more
Feeds familes in need•Training in civil disobedience for Occupy Ashland activists•Creating a Culture of Peace workshop •Occupy Rep. Greg Walden’s Medford office •Federal Budget Education Project•Empowering the Homeless program•Rogue Valley New Day Network•Letter campaign calling for an earlier troop withdrawal in Afghanistan -
Uncle Foods Diner, Move to Amend and more
Empty Bowls serve the hungry • Peace House turns 30•Rally to Stop the Impending War with Iran•Happy Hour Peace Talks •Move to Amend •Ashland’s International Day of Peace celebration -
Celebrate Peace 30th anniversary gala with Medea Benjamin
International peace activist Medea Benjamin will be honored along with Rogue Valley peace advocates Gina DuQuenne of SO Pride; Lucy Edwards and Jim Phillips of Witness for Peace providing human rights advocacy in Honduras and Nicaragua; and Nancie Koerber and Mark Thomas of Project REconomy. www.peacehouse.net/tickets
