When executive director Hilary Crosby evaluates the work Safe Space, an organization providing resources and shelter to the unhoused community, has provided over the past decade, one of the things she notes is the way the work has shown common ground among Chico residents. Nobody, Crosby said, wants to see homelessness or people suffering on.
I’ve been attending the Chico Peace Vigil. I bring a replica of a billboard I did in August 2014, “US supports Israel killing children.” According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, in 50 days in July and August 2014, Israel killed 2,251, including 551 children and 299 women. Now Israel’s US supported carnage […]
Not a single word was mentioned about specific current international conflicts nor local community affairs. No calls to action. Instead, meditations on peace carried the evening an intention by the group to recognize a common theme of peace shared by all forms of advocacy.
Not a single word was mentioned about specific current international conflicts nor local community affairs. No calls to action. Instead, meditations on peace carried the evening an intention by the group to recognize a common theme of peace shared by all forms of advocacy.
The Israeli woman held the entire Chico congregation breathless as she tearfully implored that even though her family in Israel were now consumed with hatred and members of the IDF, she was not giving up on a possible just peace. She was certain that Palestinians and Jews could live together in a just peace in […]