Peace organizations, 1999/2011

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0.75 Cubic Feet

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This series contains the papers from the Charlottesville Peace curriculum and the Charlottesville Non-Violence Education Council to teach students life skills, character, and citizenship. (2000-2011) Also included are correspondence and newspaper clippings about a local teen suicide and psychological support for students at the school.

There are also files of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice from 1989 to 2011 containing advertisements, notes, articles, and ideas for discussion on many social, political, and economic issues on a national and local level, including the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, Kosovo, gun reduction, marriage laws, crime, selective service, protests on the war against Iraq, war profiteers, oil, impeachment of presidents, prayer, the Middle East, National media and elections, terrorism, immigration and the Fourteenth Amendment, taxes, Wall Street, nuclear energy, climate change, local economic development issues, and the University of Virginia living wage campaign.

Language:

English

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