Over the past few months, the Peace and Justice Steering Committee has been exploring what it would mean for the Haydenville Congregational Church to become a Just Peace Church.  The Just Peace Church movement is a program of the United Church of Christ in which congregations “[commit] to corporately naming and boldly proclaiming a public identity as a justice-doing, peace-seeking church.”  The…

This spring, every corner of our movement is working together to pave the way for a huge wave of direct action—the 99% Spring. That’s why right now we’re organizing a massive effort to train 100,000 people—in the course of just one week—on how to take nonviolent direct action in spirit of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. We’ll be preparing ourselves to…