San Jose, CA – On August 29, the San Jose Freedom Road Socialist Organization and other groups held a commemoration for the 53rd anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, with veteran activist Carlos Montes as a guest speaker. The commemoration was held at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center, a…
The Peace and Justice Center calls for open dialogue on the conflict, with differences of opinion informed by uncensored reporting available from all media platforms. We support an immediate cease-fire, negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and a peace agreement that respects Ukrainian neutrality and respects Ukrainian and Russian national sovereignty and…
Veteran Chicano leader Carlos Montes spoke at the Peace and Justice Center on August 29, 2023 to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. The Chicano Moratorium was a mass movement of Chicanos who organized against the Vietnam War. Chicano soldiers accounted for around 20% of casualties in the…
At Lawrence Livermore Lab In connection with the release of the film Oppenheimer, “the bomb” is getting a lot of attention in the mass media this summer. It’s an opportunity for the public to learn something about the immense and horrifying impact that nuclear weapons have had and continue to…
After an absence of a few years, the San Francisco Mime Troupe will be returning to San Jose with a performance of their new musical, BREAKDOWN, in St James Park on Saturday July 8 at 3pm (music begins at 2:30). The subject of the show: “In an insane society how…
San Jose Strong is sponsoring two events: SATURDAY JUNE 10: come out and show some love for our high school freshmen's events! They have been working all year through Cristo Rey's work study program to create these final projects: Ash's Event - Culture Tunes: An Arts Festival to Celebrate the Cultures of South…
“Arise, then… women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons…
Israeli forces have killed at least 123 Palestinians this year as the 75-year occupation by the apartheid state of Israel has become even more brutal and deadly. And our tax dollars are helping purchase Israel’s weapons. Of the nearly $4 billion in military aid that the US gives Israel every…
On Sunday April 23, San Jose's quarterly Viva Calle event will close some city streets to cars and allow bikers, skaters, strollers, skateboarders, etc. to move freely on car-free streets between Willow Glen and the Rose Garden. The route passes in front of the Collins House / Peace and Justice…
We are reprinting a Letter to the Editor published in The Mercury News on March 26, 2023. Thank you, Nancy! On the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqi writer Mortada Gzar wrote: “The magnitude of what Iraqis lost — and continue to lose ... as we must…
