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Posted on February 15th, 2013 by Peace House OKC 
Lawrence Wilkerson with Hal Spake and Nathaniel Batchelder
On Feb. 5 and 6, Col Wilkerson visited Central Oklahoma, speaking at several events.
On Feb. 5, he was the guest of the University of Central Oklahoma, and his speech at the Nigh University Center, attended by over 100 students and local residents, was entitled “We Need Not be Enemies: Iran the the U.S. in the 21st Century.”
The talk was [...] Continue reading Col. Lawrence Wilkerson visit to Oklahoma focuses on peaceful solutions to international issues
Posted on February 13th, 2013 by Peace House OKC
Posted on December 31st, 2012 by Peace House OKC Please watch and share this 15-minute video of a TED presentation by an Israeli graphic artist who began posting “Israel Loves Iran” photos of himself on Facebook. He reports a whole movement of people-to-people Facebook diplomacy by Israeli and Iranian people guaranteed to move the hardest hearts.
Posted on November 3rd, 2012 by Peace House OKC
Batch waves to drivers passing by during the “No War on Iran” demonstration on Friday, Nov. 11.
Peace House Director Nathaniel Batchelder joined other Oklahomans to say “No War on Iran” at a demonstration near Penn Square Mall on Friday, Nov. 2. For more info about the local effort to prevent another costly and unnecessary war in the Middle East, see the web site AmericansAgainstTheNextWar.org
[...] Continue reading Word on the street: No War on Iran
Posted on September 20th, 2012 by Nathaniel Batchelder LETTER TO: The New York Times 9/18/12
Dear Editors,
All diplomatic and personal efforts must be exercised to forestall military actions against Iran which could explode into regional war dragging in the U.S.
Iran has had nuclear power plants for decades and does enrich their own uranium for energy production and medical purposes, both activities being legal under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Intelligence officials from Israel, the U.S., and the [...] Continue reading Avoiding war with Iran
Posted on August 2nd, 2012 by Peace House OKC Join us this Friday, August 3 for “Tell Congress: No War on Iran” Demonstration on the corner of NW Expressway & Penn Ave (intersection SW of Penn Square Mall). The event, organized by the Americans Against the Next War coalition* that recently placed billboards in the Metro area, will begin at 4pm and last until 6, but participants are encouraged to come for any amount of time in that [...] Continue reading Demonstration for “No War on Iran” Friday, August 3rd
Posted on July 10th, 2012 by Peace House OKC The Americans Against the Next War coalition group, in which the Peace House is a member, has purchased three large billboards on major highways in Oklahoma City. The billboards have a simple message: Tell Congress: No War on Iran.
You can still support the billboard project. If you would like to make a donation to defray their cost, you can still do so. Mail your check to us [...] Continue reading Billboards promote peace across OKC metro
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