Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center

Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (IJPC) educates and advocates for peace, challenges unjust local, national, and global systems, and promotes the creation of a nonviolent society. IJPC’s peace program includes non-violence trainings, anti-war organizing, Days of Dialogue and a Truth in Recruiting campaign. The immigration program’s Loving Our Immigrant Neighbor workshop provides information and answers practical questions. Youth Educating Society (YES) educates about the immigration system, provides leadership training for young adult immigrants and connects immigrant advocates within local universities. IJPC works for the abolition of the death penalty in Ohio and beyond. Families that Matter bring together people who have or had loved ones on Ohio’s death row for mutual support and advocacy training. Working with Ohioans to Stop Executions (OTSE), IJPC educates around the death penalty, provides petitions asking for clemency and holds prayer witnesses during each execution.

Office of Peter Block/A Small Group

Small Group (ASG) aims to foster restoration and reconciliation in Cincinnati through dialogue and conversation by bringing groups together that are not in relationship. The theory is that an effective democracy has a high level of civic engagement so conversations amongst diverse groups can foster such participation. With civic engagement, people create a healthy government, economy, media, etc. The group holds monthly gatherings open to anyone to come and dialogue about issues plaguing the city. They also provide intensive learning opportunities for those who want to deepen their understanding of civic engagement and an online forum to post events, concerns or ideas.

 OHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS

Ohioans to Stop Executions (OTSE) is actively working to end the death penalty in Ohio through education and advocacy. OTSE is a non-profit engaging community organizations, faith leaders, students, teachers and regular citizens in a thoughtful dialogue about Ohio’s death penalty. OTSE is a unique organization that fosters the relationships between groups and individuals of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and experiences who all share a common goal in the value of abandoning the practice of capital punishment.

Center for Community Change

The Center for Community Change (CCC), a local office at Peaslee of a national organization, seeks to empower low-income individuals to improve their communities. Founded in 1968 to honor the values and life of Robert F. Kennedy, the mission of CCC is to build power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to have significant impact in improving their communities, and the policies and institutions that affect their lives. The group believes that everyone has a voice and that it’s only together that we can make changes. The group focuses on immigration, housing, retirement security and jobs.

Ohio Alliance for People and Environment
Ohio Alliance for People & Environment is a statewide, grass-roots alliance of diverse allies working to empower the people of Ohio through education and citizen action to create environmental, economic and social justice for their communities.
CRISPAZ
Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ) aims to foster solidarity between the American North and El Salvador in Latin America through delegation trips, volunteer programs, internships and numerous communicating tools. Through their Rural Community Accompaniment program, they connect poorer rural communities to resources and networks by placing volunteers in such communities. CRISPAZ, having a special interest in high-risk youth, partners with organizations who seek to create alternatives to violence and gang involvement. With the Economics for People program, CRISPAZ educates people on the negative impact of free trade agreements and promotes fair trade. The group promotes through all its programs a concept of “reverse mission,” promoting the call by Archbishop Oscar Romero in the late 1970’s to accompany his people.

CICWJ

The Cincinnati Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, founded in 1997 by religious leaders, is affiliated with Interfaith Worker Justice. The group organizes and educates to improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers, and supports collective bargaining rights. CICWJ also provides religious groups with educational resources on work and justice such as studies, workshops and speakers. Each year CICWJ holds the Religion-Labor dinner and the Interfaith Community Breakfast for their on-going educational efforts. The group also works alongside labor groups such as the Justice for Cincinnati Janitors Campaign, the Cincinnati AFC-CIO Labor Council and many others. Through these partnerships, they listen, dialogue and act in response to these workers’ labor needs and concerns.