Kalamazoo Peace Center
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Kalamazoo Peace Center Details
MISSION: The Peace Center works to educate and empower students by providing the tools, knowledge and space necessary for mobilizing around issues of justice and peace and creating effective and positive changes in our community and on our campus. By acting in solidarity on a local level, we hope to contribute to the achievement of social, environmental and economical justice worldwide. We are a hub for progressive activities at Western Michigan University. We are a student group incubator and community center. We organize lectures, film screenings, concerts, open forums and other events that bring together diverse ideas and provide a space for discourse and political development. The Peace Center has its roots with the Swords into Plowshares movement of the 50's. We strive to be as horizontal in its decision making process as possible. While we are not an egalitarian organization in structure we are working towards the creation of an egalitarian society. Every member decides their level of participation and thus qualifies their own amount of say in operation. Historically, the board hires the director(s) and they then oversee day-to-day operations of the organization and make the call on work-study positions. We are always accepting willing and motivated volunteers for the collective; we do not discriminate based on any irrational social construct on identity. We are a place for social organizing, part student group, part non-profit and fully effective.
