Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center

For our 42nd anniversary we are asking You, our beloved supporters, to help us recruit 60 Sustainers!  Recurring monthly donations of $10, $20, $50 or $100 make an extraordinary difference to help budget for the year ahead. 

We need your help to end 2025 on a high note!  If you are inspired by our work for justice and peace, please choose RMPJC for your CO Gives Day donation!

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Thanks to your support this year, we:

Scaled up our nonviolence training program, by hosting multiple De-Escalation, Active Bystander, and Art and Activism Trainings!

Co-led a grassroots campaign of civic engagement with 9 local governments to establish informative warning signage at Rocky Flats and oppose the development of a public trail on radioactive land.

Worked closely with Longmont for Palestine to co-host over 10 events, build the local movement for Palestinian solidarity, and support families in Gaza.

Attended and co-organized the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability DC Days event, with 55 frontline organizers from nuclear sites around the U.S. participating in 85 meetings with Congressional staff and key government departments.

Collaborated with the Nuclear Free Colorado Coalition to organize the 4th annual Nuclear-Free Pueblo Day of Action, where we distributed hundreds of flyers to homes threatened by a proposed nuclear plant, and hosted a rally saying NO to nuclear!

Maintained a consistent presence at Colorado Palestine Coalition meetings, marches, and events throughout the year, including creating and bringing over 100 screen printed signs to Denver events calling for Palestinian liberation.

...and so much more, thanks to the power of you, our community!

Testimonials

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Testimonial from Paula Palmer with Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples

It's vitally important for peace organizations to be sustained over time so the infrastructure is there when we must swing into action, wrote RMPJC elders Paul Wehr and Jim Downton in their 1997 book, "The Persistent Activist." Thank goodness RMPJC has been, is, and will be here! -- Paula Palmer

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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 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. 

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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.