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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND REPARATION: We formally acknowledge that The Peace Memorial Park in Sherborn, MA, is situated on the traditional homelands of the Massachusett people. Recognizing the Indigenous communities whose lands we inhabit is important, but it is even more imperative to commit to meaningful reparations.  We have taken a significant step in this direction through the establishment of the Native Land Reparation Pledge. We invite you to join us in this vital initiative.  Let us remember that actions speak louder than words!
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The caisson is presently on Hart Island NYC holding the Global Pandemics Touchstone.  Once the touchstone is permanently placed at the site where over one million New Yorkers are buried in mass, unmarked graves, it will be dispatched to the Middle East where it will carry a granite stone to be pulled between major locations where armed conflict has wreaked havoc on civilian populations. Hart Island

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The mission of the Peace Abbey Foundation is to create and install public works of art that promote peace and nonviolence; and to administer and care for Abbey Interfaith Peace Chaplaincy, The Pacifist Memorial, The Animal Rights Memorial, Abbey Cremation Cemetery for Conscientious Objectors, and the National Registry for Conscientious Objection.  Throughout the year, the Foundation presents the Int’l Courage of Conscience Award at conferences and peace ceremonies and extends the impact of the Peace Seeds interfaith prayers for peace through their dissemination worldwide.

We conduct and support programs that bring together and promote the cooperation of people of different faith traditions and non-theists as well. We do this in the spirit of the 1986 International Day of Prayer for World Peace, as celebrated that year by religious leaders from around the globe in Assisi, Italy.

The Foundation supports grassroots efforts to link the many dimensions of the peace movement with a committed emphasis on human rights and animal rights. We recognize these two dimensions of intrinsic rights as inextricably interconnected, just as social and economic justice require environmental sustainability and deep respect for the biosphere. Central to our universalist approach is the premise that nonviolence is the most effective and long-term strategy in addressing the multitude of challenges that now threaten our increasingly imperiled planet.

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INAUGURATION DAY PROTEST MARCH

By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Editor

On Monday, January 20, at precisely noon, the Peace Abbey Foundation hosted a peaceful demonstration at Pacifist Memorial Park. This event coincided with Inauguration Day and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service. Participants gathered to stand in solidarity against the global rise of authoritarianism and dictatorship, which organizers argue threaten democracy.

According to the Peace Abbey Foundation, the gathering was a call to action, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy while advocating for justice, equality, and freedom. Organizers highlighted the importance of peaceful protest as a means to safeguard democratic values and resist initiatives like Project 2025 and the MAGA agenda.  READ MORE

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
The Peace Abbey Foundation affirms the moral authority and urgent necessity of nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the ongoing national crisis.
 
As we honor the enduring legacy of Congressman John Lewis and his powerful call to make “good trouble, necessary trouble,” we are reminded that genuine engagement demands more than symbolic gestures. While standing in solidarity and holding signs is both commendable and meaningful, it often remains within the bounds of personal comfort and permission. Such actions, though important, can unintentionally temper the urgency of resistance as we stay in our comfort zone and make sure we stay out of trouble, while at the same time claim we are marching to the same drummer that John Lewis did.
 
In the face of this emerging authoritarian/fascist regime, subtlety, is no longer an option. The time calls not for restraint, but for courageous, deliberate, and nonviolent disruption, “good trouble”, as John Lewis called it. 
 
Donald Trump and his MAGA base count on public demonstrations functioning as pressure release valves—a way for the public to express outrage without posing a real challenge to their agenda. They welcome protest signs and marches that are quickly reduced to sound bites and fleeting images on the evening news, if it even gets reported on at all.
 
We must not allow our protests to become performative, feel good occasions to voice our outrage with little or no rage.  If we limit ourselves to the comfort of sidewalks and sanctioned gatherings, we risk playing into the hands of the very forces we oppose. To be clear, returning time and again to symbolic action, without escalating our commitment to real resistance, places us closer to complicity with the oppressors than solidarity with the oppressed.
 
We owe it to ourselves, and to future generations, to resist with intention, with moral clarity, and with the fearless resolve that John Lewis exemplified. The time for nonviolent “good trouble” is now. And this time, we must mean it.

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