Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County

Upcoming Events

Mar
19
Tue
11:00 am Weekly Climate Demonstration
Weekly Climate Demonstration
Mar 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Weekly climate demonstrations take place in Grass Valley every Tuesday from 11am-12pm. The demonstrations are hosted by volunteers from Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, and Elders Climate Action and collect signatures for a petition for Grass[...]
4:30 pm Full Circle Demonstration Garden...
Full Circle Demonstration Garden...
Mar 19 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
The Full Circle Demonstration Garden next to the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility at the Nevada County Government Center has weekly garden work days on Tuesdays at 4:30pm. New volunteers are also welcome, and there is[...]
Mar
21
Thu
5:30 pm YHRC Kit Packing Parties (weekly)
YHRC Kit Packing Parties (weekly)
Mar 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Every week Yuba Harm Reduction Collective hosts a kit packing party to supply the week’s need of kits of testing strips, narcan, smokables, and all other harm reduction supplies needed. These parties last from 5:30-7:30[...]
Mar
26
Tue
11:00 am Weekly Climate Demonstration
Weekly Climate Demonstration
Mar 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Weekly climate demonstrations take place in Grass Valley every Tuesday from 11am-12pm. The demonstrations are hosted by volunteers from Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, and Elders Climate Action and collect signatures for a petition for Grass[...]
4:30 pm Full Circle Demonstration Garden...
Full Circle Demonstration Garden...
Mar 26 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
The Full Circle Demonstration Garden next to the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility at the Nevada County Government Center has weekly garden work days on Tuesdays at 4:30pm. New volunteers are also welcome, and there is[...]
Mar
28
Thu
5:30 pm YHRC Kit Packing Parties (weekly)
YHRC Kit Packing Parties (weekly)
Mar 28 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Every week Yuba Harm Reduction Collective hosts a kit packing party to supply the week’s need of kits of testing strips, narcan, smokables, and all other harm reduction supplies needed. These parties last from 5:30-7:30[...]
Apr
2
Tue
11:00 am Weekly Climate Demonstration
Weekly Climate Demonstration
Apr 2 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Weekly climate demonstrations take place in Grass Valley every Tuesday from 11am-12pm. The demonstrations are hosted by volunteers from Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, and Elders Climate Action and collect signatures for a petition for Grass[...]
4:30 pm Full Circle Demonstration Garden...
Full Circle Demonstration Garden...
Apr 2 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
The Full Circle Demonstration Garden next to the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility at the Nevada County Government Center has weekly garden work days on Tuesdays at 4:30pm. New volunteers are also welcome, and there is[...]
Apr
4
Thu
5:30 pm YHRC Kit Packing Parties (weekly)
YHRC Kit Packing Parties (weekly)
Apr 4 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Every week Yuba Harm Reduction Collective hosts a kit packing party to supply the week’s need of kits of testing strips, narcan, smokables, and all other harm reduction supplies needed. These parties last from 5:30-7:30[...]
Apr
5
Fri
6:30 pm Nevada County Mutual Aid Monthly...
Nevada County Mutual Aid Monthly...
Apr 5 @ 6:30 pm
Every month on the first Friday of each month at 6:30pm at the Madelyn Helling Library community room Nevada County Mutual Aid hosts its monthly community meeting. These meetings discuss projects for the future, recaps[...]

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Peace Heroes

Peace Heros can be visionaries, theorists, advocates, trainers, teachers, organizers, mediators, nonviolent activists, artists or martyrs.  Every Peace Hero has inner strength.  They are found everywhere from the highest levels of government to the school yard.  Each of us can act for good, for healing, for hope for peace and justice.  Here are some.

Tell us about your own Peace Heroes!

  • John Newton                           1725 – 1807
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson           1803 – 1882
  • Henry David Thoreau             1817 – 1862
  • Mohandas Gandhi                  1869 – 1948
  • Jeannette Rankin                   1880 – 1973
  • Archbishop Oscar Romero  1917 – 1980
  • Gene Sharp                            1928 – 2018
  • Paul David Hewson (Bono)   1960
  • Kim Phuc                                 1963
  • Abdul Ghaffar Khan               1890 – 1988
  • Dolores Huerta                      1930
  • Frederick Douglass               1818 – 1895
  • Julia Ward Howe                   1819 – 1910
  • Susan B. Anthony                 1820 – 1906
  • Samuel Clemens                   1835 – 1910
  • Vaclav Havel                          1936 – 2011
  • Woody Guthrie                       1912 – 1967
  • Nelson Mandela                     1918 – 2013
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.    1929 – 1968
  • Mother Teresa                       1910 – 1997
  • Dorothy Day                          1897 – 1980
  • Marshall B. Rosenberg        1934 – 2015
  • Wangari Maathai                 1940 – 2011
  • Lech Walesa                        1943
  • Rosa Louise Parks               1913 – 2005
  • Desmond Tutu                     1931
  • Daniel Ellsberg                     1931 
  • Cesar Chavez                       1927 – 1993
  • Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama   1935
  • Shirin Ebadi                          1947
  • Teresita Quintos-Deles       1948
  • Diane Judith Nash               1938
  • Peter Seeger                        1919 – 2014
  • Greg Mortenson                  1957
  • Julia Butterfly Hill               1974
  • Antoinette Tuff
  • Edward Snowden                1983
  • Paul Chappell                      1985
  • Chelsea Manning                1987
  • Reality Winner                     1991
  • Ramsey Orta                       1992
  • Malala Yousafzai                 1997
  • Dr. Christine Blasey Ford   1966