Check this page to read old notices and highlights that you might have missed (note out website was down for most of 2009-- so we list only a few notices from 2007-2008).

• OCPJ 2010 Peace and Justice Award -Sara Smith, Laura Harlan, Lindsay Crist, Andrea Christman, Nuria Alishio-Caballero, Scotty Hart, Paul Joseph, Khalid Osman, Julia Stone, Lila Wengler, Shane Joseph, and Jack Gillespie were honored as recipients of the 2010 Peace & Justice Awards, presented at the 26th annual Bread Not Bombs Dinner on November 13. For their commitment and outstanding efforts for peace and justice, the community activists were recognized by the Board of Directors of the Oxford Citizens for Peace & Justice. OCPJ has been recognizing the outstanding contributions of active peacemakers each year since 1985.
• GREEN SCREEN- From the Oxford Interfaith Climate Change Work Group-Green Screen presents films about the science, art, politics and spirituality of the natural environment.The films are presented on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM at the Oxford Community Arts Center. All films are free.
  

Feb. 9-RENEWAL The first feature-length documentary film to capture the vitality and diversity of today's religious-environmental activists. Their stories of combating global warming and the devastation of mountaintop removal, of promoting food security, environmental justice, recycling, land preservation, and of teaching love and respect for life on Earth are the heart of RENEWAL.

March 9-KILOWATT OURS: A Plan to Re-energize America A timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America's most pressing environmental challenges: energy. Filmmaker Jeff Barrie explores the source of our electricity and the problems caused by energy production, including mountain top removal, childhood asthma, and global warming. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, "You can easily make a difference and here's how!"

April 13-LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE An outing with Maria Gunnoe in Bob White, West Virginia, provides a snapshot of the Mountaintop Removal Mining that has moved into her back yard to survey the aftermath of a strip-mining operation. Maria's Native American ancestry is revealed through her memories of family and their respect for the land. AND - KEEPER OF THE MOUNTAINS Larry Gibson, last permanent resident on Kayford Mountain, just 35 miles from Charleston, West Virginia, has held onto his fifty acres for 19 years. It's all that remains of his ancestral home. What was once a living community is now an island of life surrounded by death.

May 11-GARBAGE WARRIOR This award-winning film looks at the life and work of visionary Michael Reynolds, the radical architect-engineer who has been designing and building self-sustaining, eco-friendly homes out of disposable materials for 30 years. Reynolds strives to show the entire world that "Earthship Biotecture" is the key to preserving mankind's future on earth, tools of choice for producing energy-independent housing. When Mother Nature strikes, leaving communities devastated by tsunamis and hurricanes, Reynolds and his green-disciples crew seize the opportunity to lend their pioneering skills to those who need it most. "Garbage Warrior" is a timely portrait of a determined visionary, a hero of the 21st century.

I.C.C.W.G. is a coalition of area churches and concerned individuals
working on the issue of climate change and earth stewardship.

• VAN JONES , Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, will speak on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 7:30 PM in Hall Auditorium on the Miami University campus. Part of the Robert E. Strippel Memorial Fund for Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights, the program is open to the public and is free, but tickets are required, one per person, and will be available starting on January 3, 2011, at the M.U. Box Office in the Shriver Center. Contact Jacqueline Rioja Velarde (riojavjd@muohio.edu) or Dorothy Falke (529-8309 or falkeda@muohio.edu) at the Center for American and World Cultures for more information.

  Sponsors of the program: Robert E. Strippel Memorial Fund for Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights with support from the Center for American and World Cultures, the American Studies Program, the Black World Studies Program, the Bloom Peace Education Fund, the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Paper Science, the Department of Communication, the Department of Educational Leadership, the Department of Geography, the Honors Program, the Institute for Environmental Studies and Sustainability, the Journalism Program, the Oxford Citizens for Peace and Justice, the Social Action Center, the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute, and the Western Program.

• OCPJ welcomes the DALAI LAMA in the Oxford Press on October 15, 2010- "Work for peace; In your heart and in the world; And I say again; Never give up"--Tenzin Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama. The Oxford Citizens for Peace & Justice welcomes the Dalai Lama and his message of peace. Share your vision of peace at the OCPJ Peace Center; 191/2 East Walnut Street; Oxford, OH 45056; 513-523-6555.
• We hope you like the new web site design-- Thanks Zack Sheppard for helping us out!
• We just uploaded (May 2010) new guidelines and a new application form for the Bloom Peace Education Fund.
• Eleven representatives of the Oxford Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Oxford Citizens for Peace & Justice, and Talawanda High School's S.P.E.A.K. (Students Promoting Equality and Kindness)-- ranging in age from 6 to 70-- were present at the City Council 2008 meeting to accept the Proclamation by Mayor Prudence Z. Dana of December 15 as BILL OF RIGHTS DAY in Oxford. The Proclamation is now available. Cheers to all! Let's keep up the fight to restore our civil rights and liberties!
  
• Our Protest Gatherings are Back by Popular Demand--HEALTH CARE NOT WARFARE- 11:30-12:30 Saturdays through November 17 2007 at MLK Park (High & Main Street)-Join the surge of citizen demonstrators calling for an end to this devastating war and occupation of Iraq.
  
• CINEMA VERITAS- a free monthly film screening. Campus Ministry Center, 7:30 pm, Fall 2007--November 13: The Ground Truth; Discussion Monitor: Dr. Jeffrey Kimball; October 23: Vagina Monologues and Killing Us Softly- Dr. Ann Fuehrer, discussant;UNCONSTITUTIONAL: The War On Our Civil Liberties; and FBI UNBOUND: How National Security Letters Invade Our Privacy on Tuesday, September 25, 7:30 p.m.; moderator Dr.Clyde Brown; Co-sponsor: M.U. Students for Peace & Justice.
• OCPJ Members joined the Interfaith/Community Workshop on CLIMATE CHANGE AND YOU, Impacts and Solutions, Local and Global, led by Sr. Paula Gonzales, S.C., Ph. D. on Sunday, May 20, 2007 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
• CINEMA VERITAS- OCPJ's Free Monthly Screening for spring 2007: May 15 -Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance after the Holocaust, co-sponsored with Hillel at Miami University; Shut up and Sing was on Tuesday, April 17-- co-sponsored with the Oxford Community Arts Center. Kate Rousmaniere facillitated the discussion; 27 March , OCPJ, with our co-sponsors the Oxford Friends Meeting, had a successful turnout of over 40 for our free monthly film screening of An Inconvenient Truth, with Professor Kevin Armitage moderating the discussion.
• Thanks to all who joined our PEOPLE FOR PEACE RALLYs from noon to 1:00 PM on Saturday March 3 and March 24, 2007. We had a great turnout for these gatherings and were even joined by the OGADE drummers on the first sunny Saturday. During the gatherings OCPJ collected and mailed out over 50 signed postcards, asking our senators and congressional representatives to support an end to this devastating war and occupation.
• We are sad to report the recent loss of an active OCPJ member and great community activist in February 2007, Camilla Flinterman.