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Preschool-aged girl with a yellow ribbon in her curly hair, looks up so we can see finger paint all over her face and clothes

October 2023 Action Alert

  • Posted 08 October 2023
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Action Alerts/ News

Please get on the phone with your Congressional reps and Senators and urge them to support federal child care funding

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Music with Jacki Breger

  • Posted 08 October 2023
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under PEACE Projects

Jacki Breger overcame various challenges to bring the message of peace and understand though music to a San Francisco early-childhood center

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Song: The Ballad of Juanita Nelson

  • Posted 08 October 2023
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Songs

The ballad of Juanita Nelson by Sara Pirtle is a song for young children telling the story of the activist who wouldn’t give up her train seat

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Illustrated children's book cover for Lights Out by Marsha Diane Arnold and Susan Reagan. A bear, fox, and a bird looko out from a cave into the night.

Book Recommendation — October 2023

  • Posted 08 October 2023
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Books

This book recommendation, Lights Out, draws attention to light pollution as Fox and Beetle set off in search of the dark

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A group of colorfully dressed people dance under an enormous flag as they parade down the street.

October 2023 Days of the Month

  • Posted 08 October 2023
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Days of the Month

In October we celebrate LGBT history, and Days for nonviolence, teachers, Indigenous peoples, the Girl Child and the 1st day of Sukkot

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Lucy Stroock, a senior woman, stands speaking to people seated at a row of folding tables in a small classroom.

Quote of the Month — October 2023

  • Posted 08 October 2023
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Quote of the Month

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away — John Lennon

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