Peace Camp provides an opportunity to share and learn from each other in a safe environment. Youths, ages 6-12 from a variety of Cincinnati Neighborhoods, are encouraged to connect and bridge urban and suburban divisions while learning more about the arts, others and themselves. Local artists and professional trainers teach social and emotional skills using aspects derived from a successful research-based curriculum Student's Creative Response to Conflict, which is used internationally.
Theme areas include Affirmation and Self Esteem, Cooperation and Communication. Appreciation of Differences, Conflict Management and Envisioning Peace.

Northside:
June 29th - July 10th
North Presbyterian Church
4222 Hamilton Ave. 45223

Evanston:
July 13th - July 31st
Calvary United Methodist Church
3215 Woodburn Ave. 45207

Peace Camp runs from 9am - 12pm & is for ages 6-12
For more information, contact 221-4863

Saturday July 11, 10 am-12 pm
Quarterly GET-TOGETHER BRUNCH for LOCAL PEACE AND JUSTICE GROUPS: @ Peaslee Neighborhood Center,
215 E. 14th St., (free parking lot next to center)
Sr Alice Gerdeman from IJPC is the coordinator and facilitator for this session, topic: “Update on the Death Penalty in Ohio”

Monthly meeting - IJPC General Peace Committee, 7 pm
3rd Wednesday of every month. Peaslee Neighborhood Center,
All are welcome! The Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center is a great place to organize a strong, independent peace voice into a movement as large as is realistically possible in our area. Come break bread with us and help build and rebuild the Peace Movement in Cincinnati!

Governor Spares Cincinnati Man on Death Row
Forty-four-year-old Jeffrey Hill was scheduled to be executed March 3. His death sentence was opposed by his entire family, saying they had suffered enough....Local 12 article here

Ongoing monthly event - Ohioans to Stop Execution (OTSE) Chapter meets the second Tuesday of each month at Peaslee Neighborhood Center.

calendar of important events - Ohioans to Stop Excutions

June 17, 12:30pm - 1pm
City Council will vote on the Environmental Justice Ordinance
Steps of City Hall, 801 Plum Street (in case of rain, Committee Room B, 3rd Floor of City Hall)
Cincinnati has ranked as the 8th most polluted city for year round particle pollution by the American Lung Association 2009 State of the Air Report. In spite of all this the Chamber of Commerce is still fighting this reform.
Please come out and show your support for the EJ Ordinance.
 If you have any additional questions, you can call my assistant, Michelle Dillingham at 352-2453.

IJPC recommends:
The Emerging Latino Immigrant Community
Of Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio, and Northern Kentucky by Dan LaBotz, Sept. 2007 - download pdf and share

World Peace Bell Center, 421 Monmouth St., Newport, KY 41071
(859) 581-2971
The World Peace Bell, the largest, free-swinging bell in the world. Weighing in at 66,000 pounds and measuring 12 feet high and 12 feet wide, the bell was designed and cast by Cincy's own Verdin Bell Company, one of the largest bell-making companies in the world.
Installed in 1999, the bell was originally crafted to be rung on the International Day of Peace, in 2000. Since then, the bell has become an icon for the city of Newport and marks the location for many events and civic gatherings.