Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center

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Testimonials

Testimonial from David Wilson, Former Station Manager at KGNU Community Radio

"For the past 30 years, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) has provided a vital source of information and activism focused on peace and social justice issues for the Front Range of Colorado and beyond. RMPJC has informed our community about the dangers that the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant posed to our community and the world. RMPJC has held the government officials and the private contractors that ran the plant accountable to the public. RMPJC was also instrumental in providing The Citizen's Guide to Rocky Flats along with many other important resources for our community to learn about Rocky Flats.

RMPJC's continued work on Rocky Flats following its shut down has helped us not forget the toxic and radioactive legacy the plant has left, despite the efforts to clean up the site. This has been particularly relevant recently because the historic flooding of September 2013 may have helped further spread the legacy contamination. RMPJC has been a leader in calling attention to this issue, providing critical information and research regarding the ongoing threat that this former nuclear weapons production site poses to our community.

RMPJC has been involved with more than just nuclear weapons issues. They have provided important programs advocating for non-violent solutions to local, national, and international conflicts. All of the ongoing work at RMPJC is essential to community and is worthy of all of our support."

David Wilson
Former Station Manager
KGNU Community Radio

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Testimonial from Kayann Short, Ph.D.; Author, Farmer, Teacher, Activist

"Two years ago, when I taught Approaches to Contemporary Issues through Community Service at the University of Colorado, I wanted to help my students--young activists ready to graduate and enter the world as social change agents--understand that the work of peace and justice in a local and global context doesn't end with one project, one war, or one life but is ongoing and collaborative, giving the gift of non-violence from one generation to the next. To see lifelong activism in action, I invited elder community leaders from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center to work with my students in making first-person videos about a moment that galvanized their life of activism. The stories were remarkable, recounting work in women's rights, non-violent resistance to war, and the global peace movement, becoming a permanent part of our local oral history archive.

But beyond the stories themselves, the process of working with members of the RMPJC left a lasting impression on my students. They understood as they never had before what committing one's life to social and environmental justice could mean for them. This project demonstrates the indelible, multigenerational importance of RMPJC's 28-year presence in our community. RMPJC combines the institutional memory of peace and justice history with the enthusiastic commitment to social change in all its forms. We are lucky to have such an organization in our community, giving young people role models for the ongoing work of peace and justice today."

Kayann Short, Ph.D., taught at the University of Colorado-Boulder for 24 years, where she was awarded for her work combining service with academic learning. She is the co-owner of Stonebridge Farm, the first organic community-supported agricultural farm in Boulder County, where she continues her feminist and environmental activism. Her book, Farmroots: An Ecobiography of Farms Past and Present, is forthcoming by Torrey House Press.

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Testimonial from Cathy Comstock, Ph.D., Senior Instructor, Farrand Residential Academic Program, University of Colorado-Boulder

"I consider the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center to be one of the great not-for-profits of our time. By any meaningful standard--effectiveness, efficiency, theoretical understanding and concrete application, unrelenting commitment to the common good--the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center succeeds beyond any reasonable expectation.

One sign of this is their extraordinary cost effectiveness. Their life-saving achievements have been accomplished on a budget so small that it verges on the nonexistent. They are in some ways very like Gene Sharp, the famed theorist of nonviolent strategy, who has operated for years out of a crowded office in his home with almost no resources, yet is widely seen as providing both inspiration and instructional manual for the emergence of the Arab Spring...