IJPC is offering the Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living Study Program starting January of 2018 to anyone interested in learning, practicing, and experimenting with the power of creative nonviolence to transform our lives and our world. Read More
This newsletter is all about the youth! From featuring a high school senior who coordinated an education event with IJPC on human trafficking for her capstone to learning more about how our Youth Educating Society members are advocating for the DREAM Act, we're inspired by the youth we work with. Read More
Our Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 was finalized before our Pursuing Peace in Cincinnati event. Read it to learn more about our impact educating, challenging, and transforming systems this past year. Read More
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Mayerson High School Service Learning Workshop at University of Cincinnati with Samantha and José. The workshop, put on by the Center for Community Engagement at UC, was a day-long service learning event meant to connect students and community partners from across the region.Read More
After the Trump administration ended DACA on September 5th, the DREAM Act, a bi-partisan legislation that would protect Dreamers, is needed more than ever before. YES is devoted to pressuring our members of Congress to support and co-sign the DREAM Act. One of the ways to pressure our congressman is through social media. Join YES in this social media campaign! Read More
Late August, The Fair Punishment Project released a report concerning Ohio’s death penalty titled “Prisoners on Ohio’s Execution List Defined by Intellectual Impairment, Mental Illness, Trauma, and Young Age”. As an initiative run through Harvard Law School, The Fair Punishment Project works for a fair and accountable justice system. They address excessive punishments, and issues in the broken judicial system. This report is one of their newest reports addressing the unjust use of the death penalty throughout the United States.Read More
The news that the Trump Administration has rescinded DACA is devastating. Several of IJPC’s Youth Educating Society (YES) members are DACA recipients themselves, or have family or friends who have DACA. As U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said today (September 5, 2017), “The program known as DACA…has been rescinded,” the faces of our YES members were fixed in our mind. We know that the faces, the stories, and the dreams of our YES members are representative of the estimated 800,000 other DACA recipients across the country whose lives are forever changed by this news. To take away their legal status so they can be deported in order to illustrate a tough stance on immigration is immoral and wrong.Read More
