2008: Celebrating a Year for Nonviolence
January 07 2008
The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance will begin the celebration of its twentieth anniversary with the declaration of a Year for Nonviolence on January 7, 2008 at a press event at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on Kingston Pike.
The announcement will coincide with a reception for the opening of Witness to History, an exhibit of documentary evidence of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki imported from the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.
In 1998, the United Nations declared the years 2000-2010 a Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence. The tenth anniversary of this declaration is also the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.
There are countless acts of nonviolent action across East Tennessee every day as individuals and organizations work to create strong, secure, healthy communities. These people and groups are often “unsung heroes” in a culture that is saturated by violence. During 2008, OREPA will work to raise the profile of groups, organizations and people working nonviolently for social change in our communities.
For more information, including the time of the January 7 declaration, call 865 776 5050.
The announcement will coincide with a reception for the opening of Witness to History, an exhibit of documentary evidence of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki imported from the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.
In 1998, the United Nations declared the years 2000-2010 a Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence. The tenth anniversary of this declaration is also the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.
There are countless acts of nonviolent action across East Tennessee every day as individuals and organizations work to create strong, secure, healthy communities. These people and groups are often “unsung heroes” in a culture that is saturated by violence. During 2008, OREPA will work to raise the profile of groups, organizations and people working nonviolently for social change in our communities.
For more information, including the time of the January 7 declaration, call 865 776 5050.
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