Saturday, February 13th at 12-6pm
Fair Trade Store at the Chico Peace and Justice Center

Come to the Fair Trade Store and help us celebrate our 1st Anniversary of Chico becoming a Fair Trade Town!  While you shop for your sweetie(s), sample Fair Trade Certified chocolates, hot chocolate and coffee. 

Thursday, March 11th at 2-4pm
Chico City Council Chambers (411 Main Street)

The Northern California State Budget Alliance  (NCSBA) will provide an overview of the Governor's proposed budget and its potential reprecussions on our community, and the alternative approach called the California Recovery Plan.

NCSBA's "California Recovery Plan" includes:

1) Preserving existing jobs and creating new jobs
2) Restoring and maintaining vital human services
3) Identifying state and federal revenue sources for common-sense solutions

The Northern California State Budget Alliance is a partnership among community service organizations, agencies and businesses to advance fair and economically sound solutions to our ongoing state budget crises. We believe that all who benefit from California’s economy and infrastructure should pay their fair share to maintain public
services.

We are in historic times. The Obama campaign mobilized millions of people, and his election has brought a new sense of hope and possibility to the nation.  The Chico Peace and Justice Center is working in solidarity with United for Peace and Justice to build on this momentum and the rich history that made the election of an African-American possible.

Read more here about the Chico Beyond War Coalition.

A Position Paper on Afghanistan
Chico Peace and Justice Center Board of Directors
Adopted 15 April 2009

 In an effort to serve our work for peace and justice through offering information and recommending courses of action on crucial contemporary issues, the Chico Peace and Justice Center presents the following position paper, with supporting material attached, for the consideration and active response of our Chico community.

Background considerations:

Afghanistan has a three millennium history of invasion by foreign powers, none of these successful in the long run.  The United States now stands in this tradition, a country itself burdened by persistent but failing efforts at military invasion in Vietnam and Iraq in recent decades. 

The escalation of an already failing effort does not promise success, and the reluctance of other parties to increase their own military involvement registers their reading of this wasteful strategy as well.  The recommendations of military leaders, naturally, assumes that military force is the means to be applied, but the problems of Afghanistan —and there are many—are not amenable to a military solution.