{"id":4207,"date":"2010-03-22T02:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:58:57","slug":"traprock-center-for-peace-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=4207","title":{"rendered":"Traprock Center for Peace and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, formerly called the Traprock Peace Center, has a long history of working for peace, nonviolence, and economic and social justice in the Hampshire\/Franklin County area &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/aboutus.shtml\">about 1\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/index.shtml\">Homepage<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/GCC.shtml\">Peace and Social Justice Studies Program at GCC<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernmassafsc.org\/calendar\/calendar.html\">Calendar<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/notices.shtml\">News<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/volunteeropportunities.shtml\">Volunteers<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/about%20us\/board.html\">Board of Directors<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/resources.shtml\">Resources<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/focusareas.shtml\">Focus Areas<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/resources.shtml#allies\">Allied Organizations<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddress: Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, 24 Miles Street, Greenfield, MA 01301, USA;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/contactus.shtml\">Contacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traprock.info\/aboutus.shtml\">About 2\/2<\/a>: Our mission is to work in community to end violence against Earth, her people, and all living beings and to support all endeavors to bring about a just world.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide leadership to end war and address environmental and justice issues locally and nationally<\/li>\n<li>Foster community<\/li>\n<li>Teach nonviolence as a social change method and as a moral principle<\/li>\n<li>Be a resource center for peace and justice education<\/li>\n<li>Provide leadership to illuminate, critique, and change the militarism of our culture and the military policies of the United States government and other nation states<\/li>\n<li>Be a center for the understanding, practice, teaching, and promotion of nonviolence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We provide a welcoming accessible place where our community can feel comfortable and at home.\u00a0 Our resource center includes books, periodicals and a vast documentary video library.<\/p>\n<p>We initiate and support actions of resistance to policies of militarism and injustice internationally and at home.<\/p>\n<p>And we address and support local struggles such as the campaign to close Vermont Yankee, support for sustainable ecology, labor issues, challenges to our civil liberties, counter recruitment and more.<\/p>\n<p>We sponsor informative programs that spark thoughtful discussion from different perspectives and include speakers and poets, book discussions, documentary films, reports from peace makers traveling and working internationally.<\/p>\n<p>We collaborate with the Interfaith Council of Franklin County honoring young people with annual Peace Maker Awards.<\/p>\n<p>We coordinate a website calendar in collaboration with American Friends Service Committee offering information about a wide range of programs and activities happening in Franklin and Hampshire Counties.<\/p>\n<p>We have an ongoing and growing collaboration with Greenfield Community College.<\/p>\n<p>Our Center is available to community groups for meetings and to share working space.<\/p>\n<p>We are steadfast that in all we do, we promote peace &#8211; within ourselves, in our community and in the world.<\/p>\n<p>ALL ARE WELCOME!<\/p>\n<p>WE ARE OPEN TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAYS AFTERNOONS\u00a0\u00a0 1 PM \u2013 5 PM<br \/>\nWE NEED AND WELCOME VOLUNTEERS!<br \/>\nFor Information call Liz Kelner, Director at 413-773-7427<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, formerly called the Traprock Peace Center, has a long history of working for peace, nonviolence, and economic and social justice in the Hampshire\/Franklin County area &#8230; (about 1\/2). Homepage; Peace and Social Justice Studies Program at GCC; Calendar; News; Volunteers; Board of Directors; Resources; Focus Areas; Allied Organizations; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=4207\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Traprock Center for Peace and Justice&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16468,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions\/16468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}