Programs: WPC Members Working Group

Peace Letter is a group that helps in the production of the Peace Center's quarterly newsletter. The Washington Peace Letter is the Center's oldest and most important mouthpiece. Requirements for working with this group may include: familiarity with pagemaker, writing skills, photojournalism, among others. We are also looking for creative minds to help redesign the newsletter.

DC Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee is dedicated to the commemoration of the atomic bombings of Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945, and to honoring the spirit of the Japanese Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) in their commitment to world peace and resolve that no nuclear weapons shall be used on Earth again.  It also selects the annual Josephine Butler Nuclear-Free Future Award honorees, and adminsters the American contributions to the Dream Bridge Project: an international joint-effort project to help Vietnamese youth suffering from birth defects due to Agent Orange exposure from generations before.

Public Relations is a media working group of the Peace Center. Members in this group are responsible for connecting the Center's programs with media channels that will publish and/or broadcast them, creating and distributing flyers and other promotional material for the Center's events. The group can also develop documentaries in line with WPC's mission of achieving peace and justice through non-violence.

Peace Talks Series (PTS) is group responsible for the search, invitation, and hosting of monthly key speakers who tackle the topic of struggles and triumphs of peace and justice in any part of the globe. The talks can be held at the Peace Center or any other appropriate venue. Volunteers can also participate as featured speakers. The series is also aimed at establishing an active think-tank of peacemakers who can continue to provide the peace movement with useful activism material.

At Ease (Art that enlightens, agitates, speaks and empowers). Giving voice to artists-activists is one of the Peace Center's missions. At Ease calls upon registered WPC members to form and/or support a working group responsible for planning performance-oriented series that will tackle a wide range of issues such as local and international economics, workers' rights, homelessness, Third World debt and more. The sessions will constitute interactive evenings that include hosting films, live theatrical performances, poetry, music, and any other form of art employed by activists who are dedicated to the quest for peace and social justice anywhere in the world.

The EYE (Educational Youth Empowerment) program aims to offer engaging and empowering peace education sessions to local DC students in both public and charter schools. This program will couple experienced instructors with an engaging curriculum that will use innovative teaching methods to impart artistic skills, build community and global issue awareness, and provide moral support and guidance with the hope of empowering students to build a more just and peaceful future for themselves, their communities and the world.

The Anti-War Organizing League (AWOL) is charged with developing and representing the Peace Center's perspective on U.S. military aggression and intervention, as well as addressing the encroachment of militarism in civic life. A key part of the group's activities is counter-recruitment. The Center is looking for volunteers who want to further the capacity of a standing, regional, anti-war action body of local peace organizations and individuals. Volunteers are responsible for the maintenance of fax, phone and e-alert networking functions, forums, speakouts and long-term coalition building efforts around militarization.

The Community Organizing and Support Network (COSNET) encompasses all direct services to community action groups in the D.C. metropolitan area. The group is charged with linking the Peace Center's membership with available resources that would help them advance their social justice activities. Volunteers coordinate equipment loans, share information on housing and meeting spaces, and develop information guides for community organizing.

Fun-raisers is a group charged with fundraising through creative campaigns and grant-writing. Its work is to bring in financial and material resources for the Center's programs. The Center provides office space, tel-fax resources and references to its Fun-raisers interning or volunteering with us.

To get involved in any of these working groups, call the Peace Center at (202) 234-2000 or email wpc@igc.org