The Washington Peace Center has three main program areas: Education, Community Resources and Action.

I.  EDUCATION:

• We send out a weekly Activist Alert Bulletin with events, trainings, job postings and general announcements to 1,500 people in the DC area.  We also update the alert on our website here.  To receive the Activist Alert Bulletin in your inbox, send an email to wpc@igc.org with subject: SUBSCRIBE.
• We produce the Peace Letter, a newspaper for DC area activists.  Click here for info about the paper and to download the current issue.
•Trainings and educational events are ongoing.  Click here for the calendar to see any upcoming events.  Please contact us if you’d like trainers or speakers at your event: wpc@igc.org.

II. COMMUNITY RESOURCES:

• We provide strategic resources for activist organizations and individuals (that means YOU!) including:
-    sound system for activist events (donation requested)
-    stages: two 2x4x8 platforms available for activist events
-    bullhorns
-    fax machine with mass fax capabilities
-    color copier:  $.25/color copy, $.05/black and white copy.
-    information about the DC permit process
-    information on other DC activist organizations.  Click here for our online Activist Guide.
-    Weekly updates on progressive events, actions, job postings and general announcements.  Click here for our online Activist Alert or to receive a weekly email, write to wpc@igc.org with subject “Subscribe”.
To use these resources, contact us at 202-234-2000 or wpc@igc.org.

• We provide fiscal sponsorships to many local projects and organizations, including:

-    Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, an immigrant rights group.  They held a highly publicized demonstration and week-long boycott in Prince William County, VA, for immigrant rights in September 2007.
-    Mothertongue, a young women’s spoken word organization trying to make poetry and performance accessible to young women who would not normally have access to it
-    Girls Rock! DC, the first rock n’ roll camp for girls in Washington, DC
-    Office Space for the DC Chapter of the Grey Panthers, an organization of senior activists working for social justice for all.
-    C.H.O.I.C.E.S., the Committee for High School Options & Information on Careers, Education and Self-Improvement, which is a local counter-recruitment organization that actively works in high schools in the DC area.

If you have a project or organization in need of fiscal sponsorship, please send a letter describing the project to wpc@igc.org and we’ll set up a meeting with our Board as soon as possible.

• Coalition work:  We are part of a capacity-building coalition of DC anti-war and social justice organizers. Currently, we are engaged in building working groups for the coalition so that all upcoming actions will have more cohesive support, including legal, medical, media, arts/graphics and trainings. We are also starting the conversation among local groups working on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Counter-Inaugural protests in January 2009, hoping to avoid some of the pitfalls of large, nationally-initiated DC-based mobilizations.

• Annual Peace and Justice Activist Awards.  This December will mark our fourth annual award ceremony honoring local activists who have made an impact this year.  To help organize this event or nominate your favorite activist, contact wpc@igc.org. 

III. ACTION

The Washington Peace Center is actively engaged in many social justice campaigns.  Our main topics of interest include:
-    end the occupation of Iraq
-    end US-sanctioned torture
-    Hiroshima/Nagasaki working group – planning the commemerations of the days in August that the atomic bombs were dropped in Japan.
-    People’s Property Campaign – working with Empower DC and others to prevent the conversion of libraries and selling of schools in DC to private developers. 
-    Dream Bridge Concert:  working with the Dream Bridge Project from Vietnam to plan a benefit concert in November 2008 for Vietnamese child victims of Agent Orange.