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Annual Art & Writing Challenge – 2023 & Youth Activist Award
For information on our 2023 contest, please visit our dedicated website here! Deadline: May 5th, 2023 Our Art & Writing Challenge, named in honor of its founder Dennis T. Thomas, is organized to encourage local youth to address issues of […]
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Video Recordings: 13th Annual Peace Awards Ceremony & Honoring the life of activist, Fred Norman (1/15/22)
On Saturday, January 15th 2022 – we held our 13th annual peace awards ceremony virtually, on Zoom. This was a hugely successful event for us and we were ecstatic to be joined by over 70 attendees – including old friends […]
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Urgent Action: AB1400
Please take action now! AB 1400, or CalCare, would guarantee comprehensive health care for everyone in the state. We need you to urge your Assemblymember to support CalCare and make sure it passes the Assembly. It is up for vote MONDAY, JANUARY 31st. […]
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Our Local Peace Hero Awardee – Ady Olvera!
Our Local Peace Hero for this year is Ady Olvera – a community organizer working in Concord around issues of poverty and homelessness. Andy is a fierce activist who consistently organizes spaces for marginalized Concord residents to raise awareness about the issues […]
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Our International Peace Hero Awardee – Toby Blome!
We are honored to recognize longtime peace activist, Toby Blome, with our 13th Annual International Peace Hero Award! Toby has been organizing for decades against militarization and U.S intervention. Toby works with Ban Killer Drones and as a lead organizer […]
About the Center
We exist to offer Contra Costa County residents a choice – a choice in how to view the world through peaceful eyes, to view Contra Costa County as part of the global family. Showing support for community programs allows the Center to work towards engendering new ways of thinking in every citizen. That choice includes how we spend our time and money, and the picture of what peace looks like gets clearer as we take actions that reflect our resolve to be the change we want to see.