Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission

“Justice mediaactive for justiceactive for justice was published quarterly, using a smaller newsletter format (active for justice express) for the last two quarters. The january-february-march featured a cover story by arshad yousufi explaining how islam opposes terrorism, with a double-truck on colorado's water plan. The april-may-june cover story framed the controversial sit-lie ordinance in the context of the upcoming housing solutions summit, with a double-truck on ballot issues. The july-august-september edition cover detailed the water pollution crisis threatening venetucci farm. The october-november-december edition cover reviewed the housing solutions summit with an eye towards another summit in early 2017. Eweeklythe eweekly is sent to about 2,000 people every monday. We have emails for about 300 members - 37 percent of them open the eweekly on average and about 3 percent click on a link for further reading or to reply to us by email. About 14 percent of the 1,300 non-members on our list open the newsletter and 2 percent click on a link. We have about 300 students on our list - 9.5 percent open the eweekly and, again, about 2 percent click on a link.justice and peace hourscott olson continued the "justice and peace hour" live radio show every tuesday from 12-1 p.m. On kcmj radio. In february, the station added radio broadcast to its internet-only operation. In july, scott ended the show after kcmj founder dave gardner was terminated.social mediawe continue to maintain a website, nine facebook pages, a twitter feed and eweekly. Five hundred forty-eight people have "joined" our facebook group page and 740 people "xlike" our facebook fan page. Most of the social media conversation takes place on the group page.membershipat the end of 2016, the ppjpc had over 480 members. Peace & nonviolenceall people's breakfastagain, 400 people attended the all people's breakfast on jan. 18. Guest speaker gwen brown of something new talked about radical love. The breakfast raised $1,600, which was split evenly with naacp colorado montana wyoming state conference. The money will be used for peace camp scholarships and the peace camp director's salary.mother's day brunch mother's day was originally meant to be a day celebrating peace. The ppjpc hosted our second annual mother's day for peace brunch with seeds community cafe to take mother's day back. Middle east peace project the middle east peace project lost key members to the peace corps and other out-of-town moves and decided to disband. The $921 they have raised to advance peace in the middle east will be spent in appropriate ways by the board. One idea was to help sponsor a syrian refugee family to resettle in colorado springs, but no such family applied to come here.peace camp peace camp was held july 26-29 at broadmoor community church. Seventy-nine children grades 1-8 attended. Directors walli carranza and ruthie markwardt helped teach children about peace with self, community, world and nonviolent resolution skills to ending conflict.peace breakfast once again, the ppjpc celebrated the international day of peace on sept. 21 at st. Paul catholic church. The colorado springs children's chorale performed before 250 people. Lyn harwell of seeds community caf gave the keynote speech. First strike theatrelast year - after a decade of hiatus - our troupe of politically irreverent performers developed a show satirizing the army's ongoing attempts to expand the pinon canyon maneuver site in southern colorado. They performed at our 2016 annual meeting and sparked interest in having the ppjpc support a full first strike revival by hiring mary sprunger-froese as a part-time staff member. While negotiations over funding another staff position eventually stalled, we remain supporters of the arts in the cause of social change.legislative advocacythe ppjpc sponsored a workshop with friends committee on national legislation field organizer maiya zwerling to explore legislative advocacy.social & e”

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