Sara Rich, Press Conference Sept 11, 2006 Portland, Oregon.
Sara Rich, mother of Specialist Suzanne Swift, who has refused to return to Iraq because of sexual harassment and abuse by commanding officers....
Highlights of Global Portland 2005 on PCM
Global Portland 05 was held on September 11, 2005, as a multicultural celebration bringing music and dance from around the world to Portland. There was...
TroopsHomeFast – Cindi Fisher
Cindi Fisher spoke to the Oregon Peace Institute at the Portland Community Media Studios in August, 2006 about her fast for TroopsHomeFast, a group working with...
Energy Independence: Securing a Healthy and Peaceful World
A presentation by Catherine Thomasson, MD. President of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Uses slides to explain why we need energy independence, the harm caused by...
Public Relations for Social Action Workshop
Marie Clarke Brill of AfricaAction.org presented a workshop on PR for Social Activists to the Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition in May, 2006. This is an...
Global Portland 2005
Global Portland 2005 was a grassroots festival of multicultural understanding spearheaded by CLCB – now known as the Center for Intercultural Organizing (clcbank.org). There were...
School Dread – Reality Drama and Conflict Resolution
School Dread – Reality Drama and Conflict Resolution. Script written collaboratively and performed by students of Mollala Middle School (Oregon). Sponsored by the Regional Arts...
Q & A with Students – Reality Drama & Conflict Resolution
Q & A with Students – Students form Molalla Middle School and Estacada Junior High School (Oregon) talk about their experience with the Reality Drama...
Cliques and Preps – Reality Drama & Conflict Resolution
Cliques and Preps- Reality Drama and Conflict Resolution. Script written collaboratively and performed by students of Estacada Junior High School (Oregon). Sponsored by the Regional...
Refusing to Serve – Jospeh Hatcher
Refusing to Serve: Acts of conscience and stories of resistance in Israel & Palesine. Joseph Hatcher, of Veterans Speak Out Against War and Military Occupation....
Sudan Update by Marie Clarke Brill of AfricaAction
Marie Clarke Brill of Africa Action (www.africaaction.org) gave a presentation for the Genocide Awareness Coalition (www.genocideawareness.net) about what is going on in Sudan....
Pacific Northwest Peace Summit: An Iraq Peace Process – Macgregor
From a public forum held in June, 2006 at Portland State University. Experts, including Colonel Douglas Macgregor (U.S. Military, ret.) spoke and answered questions about how...
Vets Speak Out Against War & Military Occupation
Dan Tsahor is a member of Combatants for Peace, a joint movement by Palestinians and Israelis, working for Peace - an increasingly more difficult task these...
PBS Program on CO in World War II
The PBS series History Detectives had a good segment on Alternative Service Certificates from 1943. They “discover” that Peace Churches funded alternative service camps for...
Refusing to Serve on OPI Presents!
Refusing to Serve: Acts of Conscience and Stories of Resistance in Israel/Palestine and Iraq July 9, 2006 on OPI presents!: Refusing to Serve I –...
War Resisters League Burma Shave Sign Campaign on Burnside Bridge
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Fr. Roy Bourgeois and the SOA Watch
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The First (and last!) Annual Peace Fest
OPI Celebrated the end of the Cold War with a huge festival at Portland’s Waterfront Park in 1989. Hopefully it won’t remain the last!...
Peace Check Off Fund
Peace Check Off Fund “Rumble” In the early 1990’s OPI managed to get a Peace Fund checkoff on the Oregon income tax forms. This was...
Conflict Resolution Master’s Degree Program at Portland State University
This is the Oregon Peace Institute’s most successful project. Through the tireless efforts of many people, a Conflict Resolution program was started at Portland State University...