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Welcome to 2022 International Day of Peace 
"Honoring 20 Years of Peace and Justice"


For the 19th year in a row, Whatcom Peace & Justice Center is hosting Bellingham’s International Day of Peace celebration.

International Day of Peace is WPJC's main fundraising and educational event of the year, raising critical funds to support the ever more critical work of the Center in advocating for peace and against wars & militarized systemic violence at home and abroad. This year, our goal is to raise $5,000. 

Funds make it possible for us to keep our doors open for new and old peace activists while supporting our volunteers and staff in their service. 
Please give as generously as you are able. Donations are tax-deductible.

Donate here to  support the Center and secure a spot to see Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz live at the Pickford:

This year features a series of hybrid events including the presentation of our annual Lifetime Peacemaker Award, a new Youth Peacemaker Award, and a historical conversation with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz honoring 20 years of resistance to endless wars, systemic violence, and the need for an international, intergenerational and intersectional peace movement.​​

Watch All Speeches on our Youtube Page, Newsletter or on Facebook Live on September 21st:

1) Sunday, September 11th, 12-1:30pm at the Pickford:
live virtual Q&A and pre-recorded screening of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz keynote speech
 
2) Sunday, September 11th, 4pm at Market Depot Square:
 Lifetime and (NEW!) Youth Peacemaker Award Celebration afterparty 

You can subscribe to our channel and sign up to be notified by Youtube when our next video is live here:

WPJC Youtube Page


​Thanks to our sponsors for making International Day of Peace possible:

​​Group Health Foundation
Chuckanut Health Foundation
The Pickford Film Center
City of Bellingham
​​The Jazz Center of Bellingham
​Veterans For Peace Chapter 111
​​Bellingham-Whatcom Peace Vigil
Whatcom Human Rights Task Force
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
​Bellingham Friends Meeting
​Village Books
Community Food Co-op
​Amnesty International Group 270
Amnesty International Pudget Sound
​Baby Greens
​Banter
​Flying Birds Botanicals
​Steele Financial Services
A-1 Builders
Phoebe Wahl LCC
Chuckanut Health Foundation
First Congregational Church
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​Also for International Day of Peace:

20 years of Peace and Justice Activism Timeline


​We’ve been compiling events and blurbs related to peace and justice over the last 20 years. This form allows you to submit your own additions for us to include in the timeline.
​This project will also have a physical presentation at the Depot Market Square segment of this year’s International Day of Peace events. There will be a board with yarn attached for individuals to connect strings that weave together events they found significant or were involved in. 

Brazilian Forró (folk) music and dance with Foleada, September 11th at Market Depot Square

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 Seattle-based Forró band with a focus on Pé de Serra style. Forró is the heartbeat of Northeast Brazil and it draws on many musical styles, from Afro-Brazilian music like samba and baião to European polkas. On the other hand, Forró dance borrows from Cuban salsa and Samba de Gafieira, a Brazilian ballroom dance. Come dance your heart out with us at the Market Depot!


​Take Out for Peace September 11th & September 21st

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As part of the International Day of Peace weekend of events, these local businesses will be donating a portion of their proceeds to WPJC. Mark your calendars! 

Sunday, 9/11:
Camber Coffee (221 W Holly St) 8am-2pm
 It's the Sweet Things (1206 Cornwall Ave) 12-5pm

Wednesday, 9/21:
Guud Bowls - delivery only 9am-5pm
Ambo Ethiopian Cuisine (902 N State) 11am-3pm, 5-8pm


​Keynote and Live Q&A with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz at the Pickford Film Center, Sept. 11, 2022

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Writer, historian, activist, and author of "An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States", Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz is back to Whatcom County for a virtual visit, keynote speech, and live Q&A
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, a child of tenant farmers.  As a veteran of the 1960s revolution, she has been involved in anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist movements, union organizing, and was one of the founders of the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. Since 1973, she has focused on Native American and Ethnic Studies and worked with Indigenous communities for sovereignty and land rights, and helped build the international Indigenous movement.  A historian, writer, and professor emeritus in Native American Studies at California State University, she is the author of numerous Indigenous-related books and articles, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. Her most recent book Not A Nation of Immigrants - Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States 
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Rosemary and Howard Harris Lifetime Peacemaker Award and (NEW!) Dotty Dale Youth Peacemaker Award


​Every year since 2005, we honor a local peacemaker elder whose life's work is in the spirit of Rosemary and Howard Harris, the co-founders of Bellingham's peace vigil.


In line with our intergenerational work, this year we are also offering the very first Dotty Dale Youth Award with funds offered by the Dale family and community.

Sadie Olsen and Tina McKim are our Peacemaker Awardees for 2022

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Tina McKim is a founding steering committee member of Birchwood Food Desert Fighters as well as the Bellingham Deaf and Disability Justice Coalition. Her work centers the most impacted and insists that solutions come from the ground up. She is an artist, writer and organizer whose family makes their home in the unceded territory of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples, striving to be good guests. A passionate advocate for disability justice, she works for a transformative and equitable future where our actions as a community are rooted in our interdependence with one another, collective access and collective liberation. She is inspired deeply by Community to Community Development’s idea of the beautiful meal, where everything on the plate was grown with care, in conditions that respect both the workers and the planet, the food is being eaten by people who have easy, dignified access to culturally appropriate foods, and all people are able to eat in peace without fear of violence or deportation.
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Kwastlmut is an advocate for Indigenous rights and an active participant in community healing. She’s the co-founder of the Whiteswan Environmental (WE) a Native-led non-profit organization, and has been instrumental in the start up of Whatcom Intergenerational High School (WIHS), an innovative new charter school that will open its doors in fall 2021. As an Indigenous student, Kwastlmut advocates for Indigenous cultural ways to be included in curriculum, policies, and practices. She is a member of the Northwest Portland Area Youth Indian Health Board, and she also co-facilitates diverse groups of students and adults for Western Washington University's Community Engagement Fellows. Kwastlmut brings the Community Fellows process for understanding and solving community problems into organizational settings both locally and globally. Kwastlmut has traveled to conferences as a youth advocate and voice for Indigenous peoples. She currently attends Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, WA.

Emcee, Shu-Ling Zhao

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Shu-Ling Zhao (she/her) is biracial Chinese-American, mother, daughter, sister, wife, auntie, performer, director, fabricator, community organizer, arts educator, lover of local wildlife, cooking enthusiast, fundraiser, facilitator, fair-weather runner, black coffee drinker, data devotee, seltzer connoisseur, amateur plant parent, millennial, and artist residing on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Lummi, Nooksack, and Coast Salish people. In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, Shu began working with community organizers to support the Black Lives Matter movement locally. In August of 2020, she helped organize the protest to declare racism a public health crisis and later worked with both Whatcom County and City of Bellingham on their Resolutions Affirming Racism as a Public Health Crisis. Following the murder of six Asian and Islander women in Atlanta last April and with the rise of hate incidences against the AAPI community, Shu organized a solidarity vigil at Maritime Heritage. She is currently working with Chuckanut Health Foundation and local partners in government to develop a Whatcom County Racial Equity Commission through a community-owned process. (Photo credit: Sattva Photo)


​Silent Auction (virtual & in person pop up on Sept. 11!)


​On Sunday, September 11th, we're hosting an in-person portion of IDP at Market Depot at 3pm! We ask you to please wear a mask while social distancing! We'll have exclusive deals from local businesses for all kinds of pockets (starting bids at just $10 for items that are more than double the price!).
You can start early and bid online here.
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​Help us make it happen! 

Download and share the poster with a blurb about International Day of Peace in your next newsletter. Even better share a video on why you think the WPJC and this year's theme are relevant to YOU and share in your social media! You can also Invite friends to the event on Facebook.
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​Share the above event details and this webpage with your congregation, coworkers, neighbors, and friends.

Want to become a Sponsor for Peace?

Contact WPJC at 360-734-0217 or office@whatcompjc.org if your business or organization wants to sponsor International Day of Peace.
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The Whatcom Peace & Justice Center calls on our government and society to disavow policies of violence and seek a culture of peace.
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