2013 - 2014OREGON FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION

OFOR Annual ReportAugust 17. 2014

Joanie McClellan, Chair 2013-2014Part 2 of 2

2013 Annual Meeting

2013-2014 OFOR Board IREIi CHAIR Joanie McClellan

VICE CHAIR Rose Hope   SECRETARY Bruce Stock TREASURER Sam Hall

(Active) DIRECTORS Mark Babson

Nancy Baker-Krofft Michael Colvin Rose Lewis

Susan ShepardTerri Shofner, John Roy Wilson

NATIONAL FOR-USA COUNCIL Laurie Childers

Fall Retreat

“TRANSFORMING OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH

THE POWER OF NON-VIOLENCE” October 12, 2013 8:30am –

4:00pm St. Mark Lutheran Church Salem,

OR

TREE OF LIFE CONFERENCE #2November 3, 2013, Portland

“To Exist is to Resist” featured keynote speaker Mark Braverman, Program Director of Kairos USA and author of Fatal Embrace and A Wall in Jerusalem.

Joanie, here with Cindy and Mark Corrie, parents Of Rachel Corrie

MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD

January 18, 2014 PCC Sylvania Performing Arts Theatre

Cecil Prescod KBOO Host and Former

OFOR Chairman

Keynote Speaker

MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD

Paulann PetersonOregon Poet Laureate

Singer Avery Hill

MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD

Host: Michael Sonnleitner

Poets: Tim Barnes & Leah Stenson

Dr. Brown President PCC

MAKING WAR NO MORE: CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF WILLIAM STAFFORD

Theatrical Excerpt Performance: “Words That Burn: A Dramatization of World War II Experiences of William Stafford, Lawson Inada, Guy Gabaldón in Their Own Word” 

poet, director and executive producer Cindy Williams Gutierrez. Actors: Damon Kupper Paul Susi Enrique Andrade

Stafford Around the World On January 28, 2014, Joanie, represented OFOR,

joined poets Paulann Peterson and Tim Barnes

in international readings of

Stafford poems at Portland’s

Central Library, Podcasted

World-wide

AN EVENING WITH PROJECT CENSORED March 28,

2014

World Trade Center Portland

OFOR presented an evening forum with Project Censored director Mickey Huff,

associate director Andy Lee Roth, and chairman Dr. Peter Phillips—who discussed themes from Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times and screened the new, award-winning documentary, Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News.

Peter Phillips, PhD   Since 1976,

Project Censored has educated the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. We expose and oppose news censorship and we promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy and critical thinking.

 

Speakers: Mickey Huff & Andy Lee Roth

+ Daniel Ellsberg calls Censored 2014 “a clarion call for truth telling.” + Publisher’s Weekly lauds “Project Censored’s profoundly important work in educating readers on current events and the skills needed to be a critical thinker.” + Ralph Nader describes Censored 2014 as an “open window to censorship of the big and routine kind… What a shocking commentary on the so-called free press!”

Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored and is on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation

Andy Lee Roth is associate director

of Project Censored

David Rovics started the evening with a short set of

his inimitable songs of

social conscience.

 

Affiliations and PartnersTHE OFOR BOARD VOTED TO AFFILIATE WITH THE PORTLAND PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY COALITION (PPSC) IN 2014. (MAPS OF OREGON AND PALESINE/ISRAEL to scale)

OFOR Endorsements Oregon FOR supports repeal of the Oregon

Death Penalty...

OFOR supports marriage for gay and lesbian couples.  Marriage is a basic human freedom that should not be denied to anyone.

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou

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SEABECK 2014 As host to the 2014 Annual Conference, OFOR’s

Conference Committee worked for over a year preparing for this event.

TAKING BACK THE FOURTH: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER Celebrating FOR's 100th year of bringing

peace and justice to a broken world.

July 3-6, 2014, Seabeck Conference Center, Seabeck Washington.

Keynote Addresses

Taking Back the Fourth: Speaking Truth to Power.  “The speakers were powerful and the workshops were most informative. ”

You can link to our Keynoters’ speeches here:   Dr. Peter Phillips speaks on the Trans-national Corporate Class, US

NATO Empire, and corporate media propaganda -     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfmCa8hcGg0 ;

Dr. Michael Nagler's "Metta Roadmap to Nonviolence" -      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfLLiRmBrSI ;

And, FOR-USA's Dr. Kristin Stoneking’s at • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QYq09dP-  c&list

=UUgKTal6ra1lmPP7MQZ3Pamw

Seabeck’s Poets Celebrating William Stafford,

Oregon’s Poet Laureate from 1975 through 1989, were three poet scholars:

Tim Barnes Ilka Kuznik Scott Starbuck

Seabeck 2014 “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”

― Rumi , There is a Field

There is a field at Seabeck….

OFOR ‘s Salem Group participates in Peace Walk

Peace Walk   We wondered what our walk should mean, taking that un-march quietly; the sun stared at our signs - “Thou shall not kill.”   Men by a tavern said, “Those foreigners…” to a woman with a fur, who turned away – like an elevator going down, their look at us.   Along a curb, their signs lined across, a picket line stopped and stared the whole width of the street, at ours: “Unfair.”   Above our heads the sound truck blared – by the park, under the autumn trees – it said that love could fill the atmosphere:   Occur, slow the other fallout, unseen, on islands everywhere – fallout falling unheard. We held our poster up to shade our eyes.   At the end we just walked away; no one was there to tell us where to leave the signs. -William Stafford

PEACE TO YOU FROM OFOR

“What you seek is seeking you.” ― Rumi

“Peace to you, too, Portland Police Officer”