The office of the San Jose Peace & Justice Center will be closed from December 24, 2019 to January 3, 2020 for the holidays. Volunteers are covering the community calendar and voicemail and will get back to you when they can. The space is still available to community groups per…
Pete's Last Day with Tara and Michele in the Barby and Vic Ulmer Room at the Center (2019) Monday, December 7th was the last day of Pete's internship here at the San José Peace and Justice Center. Pete is a Justice Studies major at San José State University, and he…
We're extending the deadline for button design submissions! You now have until the end of January 2020 to submit your button design. We will announce voting then. Help us design a new button for the San Jose Peace & Justice Center. Button designs should be 2 1/4" circles. We are…
Kissinger's Legacy (National Security Adviser 1969-1975, U.S. Secretary of State 1973-1975) When I read in depth about Henry Kissinger, it became clear that the United States isn’t as democratic as we claim that it is. The world’s watchdog, United States’s Henry Kissinger led a collusion to overthrow Chile’s government, funded…
Bluefields, the previously prospering and booming colonial port in Nicaragua formerly ruled by Britain is now filled with slums and drug-trafficking. Bluefields is the capital of the South Caribbean Autonomous Region (RACS) in Nicaragua. Composed of the largest population of people of African descent, Bluefields has a strong and direct…
By Abiola A, a student volunteer from San Jose State University This was a talk about Alesa Lightbourne’s experience in Kurdish Iraq where she went there to teach abroad but ended up learning about herself and the new country she was living in. Her book and her presentation were about…