P.E.A.C.E. News

Action Alert — August 2025

Invite Federal Senators and Representatives to child care centers, which are now at risk due to Head Start cutbacks in July’s bill.

After receiving an urgent request from Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Lviv, we used donated funds to address life-threatening emergencies.

This month’s song is “This Land is Your Land” by famous singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, written in 1940 and published in 1945.

This month we’re featuring 2 poems — Kindness to Animals, but an anonymous poet, and Ice Cream Truck by Terri Kirby Erickson

Mommy’s Hometown by Hope Lim and illustrated by Jaime Kim, is an intergenerational family tale inspired by Lim’s visit to her childhood home.

This month we celebrate sisters, Obon, and Women’s Equity Day, as well as remember the 80th anniversary of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings

No one has much love for politics, but most of us care about people. We cannot ignore the local and national policies that affect neighbors.

In June, P.E.A.C.E. members met in person and via Zoom at the Mercy Center in Auburn, CA, for our annual retreat.