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The Whatcom Peace & Justice Center increases the number of people who are committed and active on behalf of peace through justice, sharpens and broadens the critique of those involved, and continuously increases the community’s ability to make its collective voice heard. Support WPJC today with a year-end gift!
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Wrapping up 2018
Thank you for supporting the Whatcom Peace & Justice Center in 2018 with your money and your time! Because of your support, WPJC has had an impactful year of bringing attention to the injustices of war and structural violence.
In 2018, WPJC:
- Hosted workshops on civic engagement, letter-writing, and implicit bias
- Organized visits to Bellingham by Honduran independent journalist Jennifer Ávila and nuclear weapons expert Lilly Adams; co-hosted Israeli-American trauma expert and IDF veteran Yoav Litvin; and featured Afro-folk singer Naomi Wachira and Lummi poet Rena Priest on International Day of Peace
- Facilitated a study group on active nonviolence
- Mentored students interested in working for peace and justice -- (check out this summer's blog posts for their reflections)
- Brought new community members into the peace movement through tabling at the NW Washington Fair, the farmers market, a baseball game, Birchwood market, and other events
- Expanded Alternatives to Military Service with more frequent tabling at high schools and regional presentations
- Supported two groups of self-organized high schools students organizing around gun violence and the March for Our Lives
- Celebrated wins, including Washington state abolishing the death penalty and the U.S. Senate voting to stop U.S. support for the Saudi war in Yemen
- And much more
We have a lot to build on and carry forward in 2019! Below is a look at some of what's coming up.
WPJC gets most of its funding from people right here in Whatcom County. If you value this organization's work, please contribute to make sure we keep going! Donate online here (it's secure and tax-deductible): https://www.whatcompjc.org/year-end-giving.html
Thank you!
WPJC
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Alternatives to Military Service training
Interested in tabling with AMS in 2019? We are holding a volunteer training on Monday, January 7, from 4:30-6 p.m. at WPJC (1220 Bay Street).
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Emergent Strategy reading group
Over four meetings in January and February, we will discuss chapters of "Emergent Strategy," the 2017 book by adrienne maree brown. Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, "Emergent Strategy" is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us. Interested? Email office@whatcompjc.org for more information.
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11:30-1 p.m., December 31
Dignity Vigil
City Hall
6:30-8:30 p.m., January 1
Racial Justice Coalition monthly meeting
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (1207 Ellsworth)
4-5 p.m., January 4
Peace Vigil
Corner of Cornwall & Magnolia
4:30 p.m., January 7
Alternatives to Military Service volunteer training
WPJC (1220 Bay Street)
3-5 p.m., January 12
Families of Color Bellingham gathering
Brandywine Kitchen (1317 Commercial Street)
4-5:20 p.m., January 16
"Changing Contours of Treachery: Pro-Japanese Collaborators in Recent South Korean Films"
Fairhaven College Auditorium at WWU
6:30-8:30 p.m., January 17
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ Whatcom) Kick Off Event
First Congregational Church (2401 Cornwall)
9 a.m.-4 p.m., January 19
21st Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Saturday Conference
Syre Center at Whatcom Community College
January 19-20
Treaty Day Film Festival
Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay Street)
7 p.m.-midnight, January 19
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. First Annual Unity Ball
The Majestic (1027 N. Forest Street)
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World Issues Forum
The Fairhaven College World Issues Forum will begin at 4 p.m. this winter quarter, is open to the public, and as always is free of charge. Check the poster below for the lineup or go to https://fairhaven.wwu.edu/world-issues-forum.
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21st annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Saturday Conference
Saturday, January 19, 2019, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Whatcom Community College, Syre Student Center, 235 W. Kellogg Road, Bellingham
“Remaining Awake Together: Nurturing a Revolution of Values” is the theme for the all-day annual Saturday conference, drawing on principles expressed in Dr. King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” at Harlem’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- the values for which he gave his life.
The Peoples’ Keynote, “Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice,” will take the form of a conversation that centers on the voices and experiences of impacted communities. Skill-building workshops will follow, facilitated by community educators and activists.
The conference is open to all ages, including children. Six CEUs will be available for teachers and mental health counselors.
Information booths and complimentary refreshments will be provided. Food vendors will be on site with lunch options for purchase.
Doors open at 9 a.m. NO COST.
For more information, see http://mlkconference.org
Poster link: https://mlkconference.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019-Poster.pdf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2139615869632872
Questions? Email whatcomhrtf@gmail.com or call 360-389-3898.
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