The Institute for Peace and Justice

WHAT WE DO:

• We advocate for public policies and community practices that will be steps toward dismantling racism.
• We endorse and participate in workshops on racial justice and white privilege, and create educational materials to be used in conversations on race and racism.
• New "Peace Pieces" electronic newsletter coming this FALL will address racial justice.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders

LINKS:

• Color of Change
• Organization for Black Struggle
• Helping Families Respond to Dr. King’s Call to Challenge Racism, Materialism & Militarism.  Especially "What Families Can Do About Racism"

WHAT WE DO: 

• We advocate ending all the ways that nations, local communities, and individuals rely on military force and violence to control and oppress others 

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders

LINKS:

• Food Not Bombs
• Voices for Creative Nonviolence
• Peace Economy Project
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War
• War Resisters League
• Code Pink:  Women for Peace
• S.O.A. Watch

WHAT WE DO: 

• We support comprehensive immigration reform with a path to full and equal citizenship
• We are planning an edition of our PEACE PIECESEnewsletter for the spring of 2017 on immigration reform

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Recognize immigration is a human rights issue
• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders

LINKS:

• United Farm Workers
• Coalition on Human Needs
• National Immigrant Solidarity Network
• Justice for Immigrants
• Latinos in Action

WHAT WE DO: 
We are developing a resource that will involve 2 areas that relate to the issue of guns

• A continually updated listing of legislation involving guns on the federal level, as well as some legislation in local areas-look for this beginning in October.
• A listing of positive toys and video games, as well as a critique of other entertainment possibilities for children related specifically to violence-out by November 1st.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Challenge the proliferation of weapons and the culture that teaches children it is acceptable to harm others 
• Support legislation against the proliferation of guns in America
• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders

LINKS:

• Everytown
• Brady Campaign
• Children's Defense Fund

WHAT WE DO:

We advocate for changes in public policy that will move this country and the world toward true economic justice.  A primary example currently is our support for the Fight for 15 movement.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders 

 LINKS:

• Bread for the World
• The One Campaign
• Network (Nuns on the Bus)
• Doctors Without Borders

WHAT WE DO: 

• We advocate

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders

LINKS:

• Economic Policy Institute
• Sierra Club
• Rivers Without Borders

WHAT WE DO: 

• We advocate

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders

LINKS:

• Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
• Economic Policy Institute

WHAT WE DO: 

• We conduct several programs in the Saint Louis area...SOS/WHSTG/
• We advocate

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Call/Write/Email your elected leaders

LINKS:

• Missourians Organizing for Reform & Empowerment
• Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty