Our mission is to educate and act locally to recruit and organize a citizens’ movement with the sustained political power to construct a world of peace with social, economic, and environmental justice. Our geographic home is Oxford, Ohio (the home of Miami University).

Our office and resource center is located at 16 S. Campus Avenue, Oxford, OH 45056 (upstairs in the front of the Interfaith Center). You can contact our facilitator, Ann Fuehrer, at facilitator@ocpjohio.org, for information.

Memberships and donations are the main source of support for the Peace and Justice Resource Center and for many OCPJ activities. Your financial support and participation are critical to OCPJ’s efforts to further peace and justice through education and action. Please consider joining joining or making a donationmaking a donation to OCPJ and/or the Bloom Peace Education Fund.Bloom Peace Education Fund. Renew or join now, and participate participate–because… well, quite simply, we need you.

RECENT PROJECTS:

*ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Spring 2024 ILR. “Climate crises and environmental justice: Who is left out in the cold?”

The theme for this year’s Altman lecture series at Miami is “Environmental Justice.” The title of the March 19 lecture is provocative: Julie Sze, of the University of California, Davis, “Climate Justice as Freedom.” In this ILR class, Ann Fuehrer, Facilitator, Oxford Citizens for Peace and Justice, invites students and guest speakers to discuss: What is environmental justice? How is environmental justice threatened by climate crises? What are threats to environmental justice in Oxford–how are climate changes related to homelessness? Does Oxford’s Climate Action Plan address justice? Is EarthFest about justice? In Sze’s lecture title, freedom from/to what?

April 3: Course overview, frameworks of Intersectional Environmentalism and Environmental Justice, Under Western Eyes.

Ann Fuehrer & Barbara Ann Caruso

April 10: Environmental justice and sustainable development

Naaborle Sackeyfio

April 17: City of Oxford Climate Action Plan

David Prytherch

April 24: Local, individual and group activism

Peggy Branstrator & Carla Blackmar Rice

May 1: Reflections on the course and EarthFest—where now?

Ann Fuehrer & Barbara Ann Caruso

Resources:

Before April 10: The Intersectional History of Environmentalism, Video, with Leah Thomas

Before April 17: Towards a Sustainable, Resilient Future: A Climate Action Plan for Oxford, Ohio

“Environmental Justice”, the 2023-2024 John W. Altman Program in the Humanitie

April 18 lecture: “Black Ecofeminism and Abolitionist Ecology”, Jennifer James, Assoc Prof of English, George Washington University, 5:00 pm in Shriver Center Heritage Room
April 19 lecture: “Everything is going to have to be put back”: Responsibility and repair in the Anthropocene, Michelle Neely, Assoc. Prof of English, Connecticut College, 1:00 pm in Shriver Center Heritage Room

April 20 festival: Earth Fest, Uptown Park, 11 am-2 pm

*FREEDOM TO LEARN AND READ! BOOKS SHOULD BE READ, NOT BANNED!