PEC Hosts “The Purity Myth” Documentary May 19 in East Lansing
“The Purity Myth” is a documentary by director Jessica Valenti and it is subtitled, “The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women.” The movie is presented by the Peace Education Center’s new Women’s Rights Task Force and is co-sponsored by the Lansing Area NOW chapter. The event will be held on May 19, 2012, from 2 [...]
Michigan Summit Message for Progressives: “The Battle is in Our Favor”
The Peace Education Center returned to the Michigan Summit with an information table, a crew of volunteers, and recording equipment. The PEC team spent the rainy, dreary Saturday, May 12, in the comfortable confines of the Kellogg Center in East Lansing with a few hundred other progressives from around the state. Everyone converged on [...]
1870 Response to War: A Mother’s Day Proclamation
Mother’s Day was originally created after the U.S. Civil War as a call for peace. Too many women had lost sons in the Civil War and Julia Ward Howe penned “A Mother’s Day Proclamation.” which is a call for women to protest war and to end the use of their sons to kill the [...]
PEC Hosts Award-Winning Nuclear Documentary “Into Eternity” on May 2 in Lansing
“Into Eternity” is an award-winning documentary that explores the complexity and long-term implications of nuclear waste storage. The UK’s Daily Mail called it a “hauntingly cool documentary.” The movie gives an in-depth look at the world’s first permanent nuclear repository, a massive underground storage facility currently under construction in Finland. The movie starts in the [...]
East Lansing Art Exhibit “Words & Afterwards: Moving from Violence to Healing” Opens April 27, 2012
The Peace Education Center announces the opening of the art exhibition, “Words & Afterwards: Moving from Violence to Healing,” on Friday, April 27, 2012, at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles Street in East Lansing. The opening night reception on April 27 is 6:00-9:00 p.m. The exhibition runs through June 24, 2012; admission is free and [...]
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