Tag: protest

Oppression is Not Peace

Within the last few days there has been a great deal of information coming out of Iran about the state-sanctioned beating and murder of a woman named Jîna Amini. It…

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Black American Women Pioneers for Suffrage

LPF Forgotten Heroine Series Alice McCain, August 7, 2020   <Sojourner Truth     Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (c1893)>       Sojourner Truth. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Mary Ann…

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Drones

A group of people with bright red hands holding protest signs. The biggest reading, "Drones = Blood on our hands"

LPF members live out their faith in ways that challenge societal practices about violence and defense. Earlier this year, outgoing LPF Board member Bruce Radtke traveled to Creech Air Force…

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MORAL MONDAY AND THE FORWARD TOGETHER MOVEMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA

The Wake County Chapter of LPF has actively participated in the Moral Monday and Forward Together Movement which began in North Carolina on April 29, 2013. They have attended the weekly…

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Giving up War for Peace, Worship and Nonviolent Action at Beale Air Force Base, CA

Are you “giving anything up” for Lent this year?  A group of Christian peacemakers in California took action in an Ash Wednesday civil disobedience to urge the U.S. to give…

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