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2013 - 2014OREGON FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION
OFOR Annual ReportAugust 17. 2014
Joanie McClellan, Chair 2013-2014Part 2 of 2
2013 Annual Meeting
2013-2014 OFOR Board IREIi CHAIR Joanie McClellan
VICE CHAIR Rose Hope SECRETARY Bruce Stock TREASURER Sam Hall
(Active) DIRECTORS Mark Babson
Nancy Baker-Krofft Michael Colvin Rose Lewis
Susan ShepardTerri Shofner, John Roy Wilson
NATIONAL FOR-USA COUNCIL Laurie Childers
Fall Retreat
“TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH
THE POWER OF NON-VIOLENCE” October 12, 2013 8:30am –
4:00pm St. Mark Lutheran Church Salem,
OR
TREE OF LIFE CONFERENCE #2November 3, 2013, Portland
“To Exist is to Resist” featured keynote speaker Mark Braverman, Program Director of Kairos USA and author of Fatal Embrace and A Wall in Jerusalem.
Joanie, here with Cindy and Mark Corrie, parents Of Rachel Corrie
MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD
January 18, 2014 PCC Sylvania Performing Arts Theatre
Cecil Prescod KBOO Host and Former
OFOR Chairman
Keynote Speaker
MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD
Paulann PetersonOregon Poet Laureate
Singer Avery Hill
MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD
Host: Michael Sonnleitner
Poets: Tim Barnes & Leah Stenson
Dr. Brown President PCC
MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD
Theatrical Excerpt Performance: “Words That Burn: A Dramatization of World War II Experiences of William Stafford, Lawson Inada, Guy Gabaldón in Their Own Word”
poet, director and executive producer Cindy Williams Gutierrez. Actors: Damon Kupper Paul Susi Enrique Andrade
Stafford Around the World On January 28, 2014, Joanie, represented OFOR,
joined poets Paulann Peterson and Tim Barnes
in international readings of
Stafford poems at Portland’s
Central Library, Podcasted
World-wide
AN EVENING WITH PROJECT CENSORED March 28,
2014
World Trade Center Portland
OFOR presented an evening forum with Project Censored director Mickey Huff,
associate director Andy Lee Roth, and chairman Dr. Peter Phillips—who discussed themes from Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times and screened the new, award-winning documentary, Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News.
Peter Phillips, PhD Since 1976,
Project Censored has educated the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. We expose and oppose news censorship and we promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy and critical thinking.
Speakers: Mickey Huff & Andy Lee Roth
+ Daniel Ellsberg calls Censored 2014 “a clarion call for truth telling.” + Publisher’s Weekly lauds “Project Censored’s profoundly important work in educating readers on current events and the skills needed to be a critical thinker.” + Ralph Nader describes Censored 2014 as an “open window to censorship of the big and routine kind… What a shocking commentary on the so-called free press!”
Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored and is on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation
Andy Lee Roth is associate director
of Project Censored
David Rovics started the evening with a short set of
his inimitable songs of
social conscience.
Affiliations and PartnersTHE OFOR BOARD VOTED TO AFFILIATE WITH THE PORTLAND PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY COALITION (PPSC) IN 2014. (MAPS OF OREGON AND PALESINE/ISRAEL to scale)
OFOR Endorsements Oregon FOR supports repeal of the Oregon
Death Penalty...
OFOR supports marriage for gay and lesbian couples. Marriage is a basic human freedom that should not be denied to anyone.
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou
Email Blasts & Newsletters
Newsletter Editions
– Winter 2014 and Spring 2014
OFOR Database
OFOR Informational Brochure
Membership Brochure
OFOR Banners
SEABECK 2014 As host to the 2014 Annual Conference, OFOR’s
Conference Committee worked for over a year preparing for this event.
TAKING BACK THE FOURTH: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER Celebrating FOR's 100th year of bringing
peace and justice to a broken world.
July 3-6, 2014, Seabeck Conference Center, Seabeck Washington.
Keynote Addresses
Taking Back the Fourth: Speaking Truth to Power. “The speakers were powerful and the workshops were most informative. ”
You can link to our Keynoters’ speeches here: Dr. Peter Phillips speaks on the Trans-national Corporate Class, US
NATO Empire, and corporate media propaganda - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfmCa8hcGg0 ;
Dr. Michael Nagler's "Metta Roadmap to Nonviolence" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfLLiRmBrSI ;
And, FOR-USA's Dr. Kristin Stoneking’s at • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QYq09dP- c&list
=UUgKTal6ra1lmPP7MQZ3Pamw
Seabeck’s Poets Celebrating William Stafford,
Oregon’s Poet Laureate from 1975 through 1989, were three poet scholars:
Tim Barnes Ilka Kuznik Scott Starbuck
Seabeck 2014 “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi , There is a Field
There is a field at Seabeck….
OFOR ‘s Salem Group participates in Peace Walk
Peace Walk We wondered what our walk should mean, taking that un-march quietly; the sun stared at our signs - “Thou shall not kill.” Men by a tavern said, “Those foreigners…” to a woman with a fur, who turned away – like an elevator going down, their look at us. Along a curb, their signs lined across, a picket line stopped and stared the whole width of the street, at ours: “Unfair.” Above our heads the sound truck blared – by the park, under the autumn trees – it said that love could fill the atmosphere: Occur, slow the other fallout, unseen, on islands everywhere – fallout falling unheard. We held our poster up to shade our eyes. At the end we just walked away; no one was there to tell us where to leave the signs. -William Stafford
PEACE TO YOU FROM OFOR
“What you seek is seeking you.” ― Rumi
“Peace to you, too, Portland Police Officer”
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