By:
Rena Guay
OCC has set up a fund for the appellate defense costs of Travis Bishop, a conscientious objector who received a 12 month prison sentence (later reduced to 9 months) for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. Travis hopes on appeal to have his conviction overturned, as well as to see the courts recognize that all soldiers have the right to be informed that they can apply for C.O. status.
By:
Rena Guay
Our debut issue of the Oklahoma Peace Post was a big hit at the Fall Peace Festival in November. We almost gave out of printed copies that first day! (You can download and read it as a PDF document by clicking ← that link.) Now we’ve published Vol. 1, Issue 2, our Winter 2010 edition. Click ← that link to…
By:
Rena Guay
A new edition of our email newsletter was published today. You can read it here. If you don’t already receive it, subscribe. We also have published a new newspaper, Oklahoma Peace Post. You can download a copy to read on screen or print locally, or you can have a print copy by requesting one.
By:
Rena Guay
OCC is joining the Oklahoma City Peace House to screen Robert Greenwald’s new 90-minute documentary Rethink Afghanistan from BRAVE NEW FILMS FOUNDATION. Sunday, Nov. 22 Church of the Open Arms 3131 N. Pennsylvania Ave, OKC 4:15 pm: Early seating & Refreshments 4:30 pm SHOW STARTS 5:59 pm DISCUSSION “What to do Now” If you attend, you can sign the petition…
By:
Rena Guay
This is the first issue of a newsletter that will be going out occasionally to our email list. If you would like to receive it by email, please visit the subscribe page. Or you will also be able to read each issue on the public archive for the newsletter at http://groups.google.com/group/occ-news, and that page also offers other ways to subscribe,…
By:
Rena Guay
This is an article written by OCC founding member Moses Mast. In various forms it will appear in the Joy Mennonite Church newsletter and in the Oklahoma Peace House newspaper, Peace Strategy News. It has a good overview of our Oklahoma GI Rights Hotline project. Oklahoma Center for Conscience was started with two concerns: First, to assist soldiers who no…