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The View from Standing Rock : Essay & photos from N.Dakota Emily’s essay includes: “What You Can Do to Support the Standing Rock Sioux Pipeline Resistance” 1. IF YOU CAN GO: Go to Standing Rock to show your support and see what’s happening. Arrive prepared to take care of yourself and to act as an ally. Here’s a … Read more…
The International Day of Peace, marked annually on Sept. 21, will be celebrated in OKC on Saturday Sept. 24 at Myriad Gardens, in affiliation with the Turkish Festival. Join us at 2 (festival starts at 10 am). More info below, click PDF to download/print. For more info, visit the Facebook page.
This issue includes: Time for Transgender Visibility US-Saudi relations OK legislature punishes the poor Veterans for Peace seeks end to Nuclear Weapons OK State Questions on Nov. ballot Moral Policies Debate Global Climate Agreement Dan Berrigan, RIP Chelsea Manning update and more! Click here or image to read/print (PDF) Print copies of the paper are … Read more…
JOBS & SOLAR POWER = A BRIGHT FUTURE Promoted by Oklahoma Interfaith Power and Light The Oklahoma United Methodist Environmental Coalition, Peace House, Environmental Committee, Oklahoma Conference of Churches Sierra Club, Oklahoma Catching The Sun docu-movie 6/9 at Penn Square Mall 7:00 pm – Introduction to film by Sierra Club 7:30 pm – Movie at … Read more…
Vote No On SQ 776 By Rev. Don Heath, with the Vote No on SQ 776 campaign The criminal justice system in Oklahoma is broken. A bipartisan effort to get tough on crime and impose harsh sentences has increased our prison population from 7,000 in 1983 to 28,000 today. Forty-seven percent of state prisoners are … Read more…
This article first appeared in the June-July 2016 issue of The Oklahoma Peace Strategy News. Article compiled from information provided by the Think Twice Oklahoma campaign. The death penalty is on the ballot in at least three states in November: California, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Here, a state question asks to add the death penalty to … Read more…
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS TO DECLASSIFY 28 PAGES OF THE CONGRESSIONAL 9/11 JOINT INQUIRY June 2, 2015 · Washington, D.C. S.1471 – – – On June 2, 2015, at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), flanked by former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), … Read more…
Peace House Director Nathaniel Batchelder has an op-ed in the current issue of the Oklahoma Gazette entitled “Of climate marches and extinctions.” Global Climate Marches took place in Oklahoma City and around the world on the weekend before the Paris Climate Summit began Nov. 30. According to the Global Climate March website, 780,000 people participated … Read more…