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Organizations Honored Roxanne Cooper efforts to heal the wounds of war. US Editor and Publisher Peace Prize nominee, 2014. P.O. Box 21040 Washington, DC 20009 Contact information: 8 Telephone: 202-538-0274 Mark Graham Website: www.alternet.org Director of Communications 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 Organizations Honored The American Friends Service Telephone: 215-241-7000 Committee Email: [email protected] AFSC, a Quaker organization Website: www.afsc.org founded in 1917, focuses on Facebook: www.facebook.com The US Peace Registry recognizes the work of eighty organizations that are building lasting peace with justice. Twitter: @afsc_org role models for a broad range of peace and antiwar actions and activities. The organization draws people from many backgrounds and countries ALL PEOPLES – a Unitarian Louisville, KY 40222 into work to prevent and end Arkansas Coalition Universalist Congregation Telephone: 502-425-6943 conflict, establish fair and equitable for Peace and Justice Founded in 1960, ALL PEOPLES Email: [email protected] economies, accountable governments ACPJ, founded in 2002, is an asso- (previously Thomas Jefferson Website: //www.allpeoplesuu.com and systems, and develop healthy, ciation of individuals and organiza- Unitarian Church) is a member Facebook: //www.facebook.com/ inclusive societies. AFSC works tions whose mission is to promote of the Unitarian Universalist AllPeoplesUU to end and prevent wars, heal peaceful and just relationships Association of Congregations Twitter: @allpeoplesUU individuals and communities after between individuals, communities, and has adopted its Statement of conflict, and create just conditions organizations, governing bodies, and Conscience, “Creating Peace,” that make violence obsolete. the environment, by focusing on which concludes: “In reverence for AlterNet Examples of this organization’s three areas: peace and nonviolence, all life, we covenant to practice peace Founded in 1998, this independent activities include work on the social justice, and ecology. Activi- at all levels of human interaction.” online news magazine provides free truth and reconciliation process in ties include bringing the Eyes Wide The church helped found Interfaith online content to millions of readers Burundi, youth film festival, art Open exhibit to Little Rock, AR, Paths to Peace in Louisville, KY. and is a progressive alternative to exhibits such as Eyes Wide Open demonstrating against the Iraq On a Veterans Day, the church commercial media. The mission is to and Windows and Mirrors that War, supporting the Arkansas Peace saluted veterans and a conscientious stimulate, inform, and inspire action expose the human costs of war, Week celebration, sponsoring the objector, and held a special and advocacy on topics including a framework for foreign policy, Unembedded photo exhibit about collection to benefit the US Peace the environment, human rights and advocacy work to reduce the military the Iraq War, and an annual com- Memorial Foundation. Founding civil liberties, social justice, war, and budget and increase funding for real memoration to remember victims Member, US Peace Memorial peace. Articles offer critiques of community needs, online activism, of the bombing of Hiroshima and Foundation. policies, investigative reports, and and various other educational Nagasaki. analysis. programs and sponsored events. Contact Information: AFSC received the Nobel Peace Contact Information: Van Hurst, Church Administrator Contact Information: Prize in 1947, along with British Bob Estes, Chair 4936 Brownsboro Rd Quakers, on behalf of all Quakers’ P.O. Box 250398 254 255 ENDING U.S. WARS ORGANIZATIONS HONORED Little Rock, AR 72225 Website: www.atriumsociety.org channels/1221133 National Organizer and Email: [email protected] Spokesperson Website: arpeaceandjustice.org Email: info@blackallianceforpeace. Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Black Alliance for Peace com groups/24341104958 Founded in 2017, BAP’s mission Website: blackallianceforpeace.com is to recapture and redevelop the Facebook: www.facebook.com/ historic antiwar, anti-imperialist, and BlackAllianceforPeace Atrium Society: The Center for pro-peace positions of the radical Twitter: @Blacks4Peace the Education of Children in black movement. The organization YouTube: www.youtube.com/ Conflict Beyond Nuclear works to oppose war through channel/UCs2jKnOIfnP6- Founded in 1984, the purpose of Founded in 2007, Beyond Nuclear’s educational activities, organizing L6k0nDGygw Youth Peace Literacy is twofold: mission is to educate the public and supporting campaigns, and Instagram: www.instagram.com/ to provide free online access to its about the connections between other sponsored events. Campaigns blackallianceforpeace award-winning peace-educating nuclear power and nuclear weapons have included Divest From the books which help young people and the need to abolish both. The Military; No Compromise, No to understand and alleviate the organization advocates for an end Retreat, to stop war against African/ Center for Citizen Initiatives fundamental source of human to the development and use of Black people in the U.S. and abroad; Founded in 1983, CCI’s mission conflict—psychological conditioned nuclear power and nuclear weapons Demilitarize the United States and is to prevent a war between the thinking created by the primitive and promotes safer, sustainable the World; U.S. Out of Africa!; and U.S. and Russia by planning and biological brain—and to also offer alternatives. Actions include media the BAP 2020 Candidate Campaign, implementing citizen-to-citizen supplemental regional and online interviews and articles, and which calls on all elected officials to initiatives between the two countries, training certification courses publishing reports, fact sheets, address issues of war and militarism and fostering understanding that provide teachers with its pamphlets, and a newsletter. by signing a 2020 Candidate and reducing tensions that exist peace educating curriculum. The Founding Member, US Peace Pledge, asking individuals to sign between them. Activities include the organization developed an online Memorial Foundation. a 2020 Candidate Petition, and Russians Meet Mainstream America! peace museum and the exhibit asking organizations to sign a 2020 exchange program, which brings Creating Battlefield Warriors for Contact Information: Election Campaign Endorsement Russian citizens to the U.S. to share Combat. Linda Pentz Gunter, Founder Form. Other actions include a blog, ideas and discuss issues related to 7304 Carroll Avenue #182 media interviews, and public U.S.-Russia diplomacy; a video Contact Information: Takoma Park, MD 20912 speaking engagements. BAP is a library of their trips to Russia; Jean Webster-Doyle Telephone: 301-270-2209 founding member of the Coalition and the President’s Column, which Founder and President Email: [email protected] Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases. has articles including “Waiting Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle Website: beyondnuclear.org Received the 2020 International Out the Potential Strike On Syria,” Director Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Hero for Peace Award, given by “Developing World Crisis? What to 2037 Harvard Avenue BeyondNuclear Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Do?,” and “Citizen Diplomacy: A Dunedin, FL 34698 Twitter: @BeyondNuclear Center, CA. Critical Need in 2019.” Telephone: 800-848-6021 or 727- YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ 238-8311 BeyondNuclear1 Contact Information: Contact Information: Email: [email protected] Vimeo: vimeo.com/ Ajamu Baraka Sharon Tennison, President 256 257 ENDING U.S. WARS ORGANIZATIONS HONORED San Francisco, CA A Prosecution by Book, Articles of Facebook: www.facebook.com/ establishing peace through lectures, Website: www.ccisf.org Impeachment against George W. nonkilling/ courses, and information about Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Bush, and Amend the War Powers Twitter: @nonkilling peacemaking, nonviolence, and CCISF.ORG Resolution. CCR has received YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ conflict resolution. Wikipedia: Center for Citizen awards and grants including the globalnonkilling Initiatives National Peacemaker Award, the Contact Information: Lennon Ono Grant for Peace and Colman McCarthy the War Resisters League Peace Center for Religious Tolerance 4501 Van Ness Street, NW The Center Award. Founded in 2006, this organization Washington, DC 20016-5629 for Constitutional Rights initiates and supports local, Telephone: 202-537-1372 CCR, founded in 1966, is a Contact information: national, and international interfaith Email: [email protected] non-profit legal and educational Website: www.ccrjustice.org activities, conflict management, Website: http:// organization committed to the Facebook: www.facebook.com/ trauma awareness, and social change washingtonpeacecenter.net/node/4815 creative use of law as a positive force CenterforConstitutionalRights strategies, particularly in areas of for social change. The organization Twitter: @theCCR religious conflict. CRT focuses on understands that U.S. militarism creating conditions for sustainable Christian Peacemaker Teams does not advance human rights. The peace, especially by engaging local Founded in 1988, CPT arose from a organization litigates, advocates, Center for Global Nonkilling women of faith in the process. call in 1984 for Christians to devote and supports cases that deal with The mission of the Center (founded Activities include news and events, the same discipline and self-sacrifice an array of issues connected to in
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