Peace Action Group

The Peace Action Group has operated for over 30 years and is devoted to doing all we can to foster peace within our region, nationally and internationally.

For more information reach out to Tess.  

Oregon Measure 114 to end Oregon Gun Violence.. Measure by Lift Every Voice Oregon.
Update on 6-1-23 on pending court case

Our mission statement sets forth our commitment:

We gather to create peace in the world:

  • by nurturing and empowering each other and ourselves as peace activists.
  • by creating a diverse community that sustains hope in the unending work of making peace.
  • by inspiring, educating and mobilizing our community to work for peace

Current areas of focus:

  • Advocacy for Measure 114 to promote sensible gun control laws in Oregon and other bills in the OR legislature or in Congress promoting sensible gun controls
    Update – 3-23-23 OPB article: Oregon legislators to consider 3 new laws aimed at curbing gun deaths https://www.opb.org/article/2023/03/21/oregon-law-ghost-guns-firearms-new-laws-restrictions-gun-violence/
  • Palestinian human rights and an end to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen
  • advocacy for the United Nations, particularly via the work of the UUA at the UN
  • Ukraine Refugee Support Service Learning Project created in response to the war in Ukraine.
  • Advocacy for cutting the US federal “defense” budget which increases year over year, far exceeding federal spending on non-defense priorities, by moving money from the “defense” budget to the various budgets meeting real human needs.

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Action for April/May 2023