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The February-March edition of Active for Justice featured a cover story on fracking and local control, plus a centerspread |
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on elements for Middle East Peace. The April-May edition carried an overview of county commissioner elections and a |
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centerspread on local economy. In the June-July edition, we covered a campaign to reform mortgage procedures in |
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Colorado (Initiative 84) and state water issues. The August-September edition published Mary Jones' piece on her |
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ICAHD experience and an "After the Fire" centerspread on food, water and energy security. The October-November |
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edition featured a cover story on the Downtown Public Market effort and a centerspread on war-tax resistance in |
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conjunction with the national gathering of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. The December |
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2012-January 2013 edition came out in early January in order to lead with a story about the No-Solicitation Zone battle. |
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All People's Breakfast |
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About 250 people attended the All People's Breakfast at Colorado College on Jan. 16. Rosemary Harris Lytle (Colorado |
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Springs Branch NAACP) did a great job addressing the theme of "Ending Mass Incarceration in America." Little has |
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changed for communities of color in terms of the justice system since Dr. King challenged Jim Crow some 50 years ago. |
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All three men on Colorado's Death Row are African Americans. Freedom songs were delivered by the Gospel Music |
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Workshop of America. We collected 60 surveys about action steps people in attendance are willing to take and proceeds |
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of more than $700 will benefit the Peace Scholarship Fund. |
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Middle East Peace Project |
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The Middle East Peace Project has been a stellar example of a self-directed group of J&P members with a specific vision |
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for change. They held several boycott actions of Sabra and Tribe hummus at Safeway stores. They raised about $4,200 to |
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send our Y-Core peace envoy Mary Jones to Palestine in July to work on the The Israeli Committee Against House |
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Demolitions (ICAHD) project. They also co-sponsored a forum on Middle East peace with the Green Party featuring Dr. |
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Rob Prince (Jewish) and Dr. Ibrahim Kazarooni (Muslim) and showed the film "Miral" at Colorado College in April. |
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Nonviolence Classes |
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Steve Handen taught "Foundations of Nonviolence" at Colorado College and brought Kathy Kelly to town as a guest |
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instructor. She spoke on Feb. 11 to about 50 people at the Penrose Library. Kathy discussed how Americans need to be |
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educated about what's really happening overseas. |
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RENTAL INCOME 2050. |
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PEACE SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM SIENA PALOS NONE 1000. PEACE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM KATE DRAEGER NONE 1000. |
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INSURANCE 972. PROGRAM CONFERENCES & EVENTS 9817. MEALS/ENTERTAINMENT 1288. DUES/FEES 615. PROMOTION 376. VOLUNTEER EXPENSE 0. MISC EXPENSES 315. |
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INVENTORY |
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SUSTAINABLE LIVING. SMALL STUDY GROUPS THAT EMPHASIZE PEACE CAMP. SUMMER DAY CAMP FOR CHILDREN 6-12 THAT PEACE SCHOLARSHIP. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COMPLETE A VOLUNTEERS/DONATIONS. VOLUNTTERS AND APPRECIATED AND |
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Peace Camp |
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Peace Camp was held in July at Beth-El Mennonite Church. Melissa Allen, Heidi Cooper and Lori Sly delivered one of |
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the best camps ever! We had 42 kids sign up and one of the highlights was joining the MEPP for a boycott action at a |
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Safeway near the camp site. Financially, Peace Camp was in the black for the first time in recent memory. |
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Peace Vigils & Bannering |
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Gun violence seemed to explode in 2012, beginning with the tragic Aurora theater shooting on July 20. Dennis organized |
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a candlelight vigil, which attracted about 60 people as well as two TV stations and the Gazette. The weekend after the |
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shooting, we created a "Peace Space" at PrideFest inside the canopy and invited people to sit inside and chat about the |
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shooting, peace, whatever. |
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Homeless Advocacy |
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This is the project we brought to the foreground when the city finally passed its No-Solicitation Zone ordinance. I |
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opposed the ordinance before city council prior to the 8-1 vote to pass it. Loring (representing the local ACLU) made it |
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clear that passing the ordinance would trigger a legal challenge. Mayor Steve Bach's attitude was "bring it on" and |
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Councilman Tim Leigh went so far as to call all downtown panhandlers "criminals." With the J&P as a lead plantiff, the |
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ACLU filed suit in Denver to challenge the ordinance and request a court injunction against enforcing it until the case is |
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heard. I took the stand in December in a Denver court to explain how the blanket ban on all solicitation would violate the |
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rights of nonprofits to raise money on street corners. Besides this practical concern, I tried to make it clear to council and |
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those in court that many panhandlers downtown are in need of mental health treatment and deserve our respect, not scorn. |
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I handed out our article about the Rich Farm in hopes of getting the project on people's radar. |
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In addition to the Rich Farm project, we have been hammering out the details with Connie Allen of a sliding-scale |
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counseling practice to be housed at our office. Called Hope Clinic, the service will provide court-ordered classes and |
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therapy sessions to low-income and hard-to-serve people. One of our goals is to make sure people on parole or probation |
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don't go to jail for failure to pay or attend classes. |
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Finally, the Bijou Community organized another "Longest Night of the Year" vigil for our homeless friends who have |
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died in the past year. Esther Kisamore did most of the work and expressed interest in getting more of a team together next |
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year. I think this should be on our radar as an event we look after in the future. |
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Rich Farm |
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A master's student in psychology named Nova Munselle did her practicum research early this year, trying to find gaps in |
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mental health services to the indigent and possible solutions. After consulting area experts, we ended up visiting Harvest |
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Farm, a program of the Denver Rescue Mission where men in drug and alcohol recovery live and work on a farm in |
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Wellington (between Fort Collins and Cheyenne, Wyo.) We are advocating the establishment of a similar "Rich Farm" |
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near Colorado Springs, where mentally ill homeless people might be referred for shelter and treatment. |
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Immigrant Network |
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Corey Almond of Catholic Charities and Tarrie Burnett of Lutheran World Services met with us about the fledgling |
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Immigrant Network. Corey wants to eventually host a conference on immigration. Our first step was joining with the |
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Colorado Springs Diversity Forum and Pikes Peak Library District in organizing an Immigration Symposium in August. |
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The J&P has also signed on to the Colorado Compact on Immigration, a set of guiding principles that could bring various |
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groups around the state to the reform table. |
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Urban Experience |
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We conducted Urban Experiences for Holmes Middle School, Trailblazer Elementary and UCCS students. I also |
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organized classes for D11 teachers, volunteers with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and a group seeking a |
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Lenten reflection experience. All told, 170 people went on nine UEs, an improvement over last year. |
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Fracking |
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We continued to fight fracking by running articles in Active for Justice, co-sponsoring public forums and urging members |
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to attend protests and speak out at local governmental meetings. |