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...
Peace on Parade
In 2003 the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation funded Peace On Parade. Teams from OPI went to seven K-12 schools located throughout the Portland metro area, where...
OPI Peace Store
With the help of a Myer Memorial Grant, OPI operated a Peace Goods store at The Galleria in downtown Portland from about 1988 to 1996....
Save Our Youth
OPI was the fiscal agent for this program in the mid-1990’s, before it became independent. It started off as a summer program. Here’s the blurb...
What Happened to the OPI Library?
OPI operated a resource library for many years. Unfortunately, the costs of maintaining the collection and a physical location for the library were prohibitive. We...
“Burma Shave Sign” Tax Protest 2005
Members of the War Resisters League protest tax dollars going to the war in Iraq on April 15, 2005, on the Burnside Bridge in Portland,...
Colonial War Crimes in Kenya…
When I heard the title of the PSU’s Friends of History lecture I was slightly amused. After Dr. Elavie Ndrua’s talk on A Nonviolent Response...