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Medgar Evers Fund Collected Records, 1969-1971 (bulk)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:
Collection includes a pamphlet:"We're On Our Way : a progress report on the Fayette Experiment"; newspaper clippings, and the first issue (June 1970) of The Medgar Evers Fund News.

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Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel Records, 1960-2006 (bulk)

Extent:
7.5 linear ft. (7.5 linear feet.)
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Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel was a national non-profit human rights and educational organization, founded in 1972, which sought a just Israeli-Palestinian peace based on the inalienable rights of both peoples. Its founder, Edmund R. Hanauer died in 2006 and the organization closed down with his death.

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Stanley Murphy Collected Papers, 1947 (bulk)

Extent:
1 items (1 item.)
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This collection consists of one item, a magazine article undated but published around 1947, titled "Why Murphy Wouldn't Fight." There is no identification as to the name or publisher of the magazine, or the author.

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C. Douglas Hostetter Papers, 1959- (bulk)

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12.7 linear ft. (12.7 linear feet.)
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C. Douglas Hostetter (1944 - ), has been an peace activist since the 1960s. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war and performed alternative service for the Mennonite Central Committee in rural Vietnam.Following his work in Vietnam Hostetter worked for the United Methodist Church at the United Nations on international affairs. From the mid 1980s through the end of the decade Hostetter served as the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee in their New England regional office. He served as the Executive Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconcilation from 1987-1993. During the 1990s Hostetter was the international/interfaith secretary of the FOR and directed the Bosnian Student Project for the organization. In 2003 he was ordained as Peace Pastor at the Evanston, Illinois Mennonite Church. Since 2006 Hostetter has been the director of the Mennonite Central Committee at the United Nations. Throughout his life Hostetter has been heavily involved in...(see more)

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Lynne Shivers Papers, 1941-2015 (bulk)

Extent:
8 linear ft. (8 linear feet.)
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Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Nonviolent Peaceforce Records, 1994- (bulk)

Extent:
20 linear ft. (48 boxes)
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Co-founded by peace activisits David Hartsough and Mel Duncan in 2002, the Nonviolent Peaceforce is an unarmed civilian peace force that works internationally by protecting civilians in conflicts and helping to resolve conflicts peacefully through dialogue. Records include the early development and planning of the organization, funding and financing, media and publicity attention the organization received, committee minutes, international trip reports, and training of the civilian peacekeepers. There are also papers dealing with activities of the co-founders prior to the Nonviolent Peaceforce from the 1990s, with a focus on Bosnia and Yugoslavia.

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Ribbon [Project] Collected Records, 1985- (bulk)

Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:
The collection includes printed correspondence, brochures, and newsclippings; it includes information about Delaware County, Pennsylvania participation, New York participation, and national and international activities. Also includes one folder on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, June, 1993.

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Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force Collected Records, 1977-1984 (bulk)

Extent:
0.17 linear ft. (2 linear inches.)
Abstract:
Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, memos, booklets. Correspondents include Sam Day, Mike Jendrzejczyk and Pam Solo. This collection includes material about the Rocky Flats/Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project and other Rocky Flats related material.

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