Daniel Sandate speech at 6 Year Anniversary of Iraq War
On Sunday, March 22, Oklahoma City peace activists, veterans and military families marked the 6 year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War and occupation. Several moving speeches were …
Teaching by example in unintended ways
Later today, I plan to head down to Grandfield Oklahoma, just this side of the Texas border, to join some students in a counter demo against the Phelps/Westboro Baptist/Gods Hates …
Hark! Good News: Religion less popular
Religiosity is waning in the U.S. Non-belief has almost doubled since 1990. A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o …
Peace Education Institute announce 2009 summer camps schedule
The summer peace camps program offered by The Peace Education Institute is now in its third year of providing young people an opportunity to explore ideas and issues, to expand …
Check out Central Oklahoma Progressive Events page
Gah! I have so much to post, and time just flies by and I get so little done, especially here. I have managed to keep fairly up to date with …
Emailing 101 for activists
This morning I got a phone call from an activist friend because her Internet service provider was not letting her send out emails to 200 addresses at a time from …
Winter Soldier hearings set for Austin, TX on Feb. 28
OCC is thrilled to be working with IVAW and the Oklahoma Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild to help organize and promote Winter Soldier Austin, hearings using testimony from soldiers to tell the realities of the war in Iraq. Several of our members will be participating, either by providing testimony, providing support services, or live-blogging […]
Local Twitterers for community service
This sounds like an interesting project: During the January ice storm, Twitter served as a powerful reporting tool – crowdsourced news. What if we had used it to find people …
Giving Pete Seeger his just reward: a Nobel Peace Prize
Seriously, who deserves that baby more than Pete Seeger, who has literally taught the world to sing, and created much harmony, tonal and otherwise. The goal is to get the …