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Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice records, (bulk, 1980-1989).

Title: Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice records, 1961-2005 (bulk, 1980-1989).
Author: Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice.
Supplementary Content: http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss744bc.xml

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Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice includes information and documents generated by and relevant to the organization such as organizational development, structure, bylaws, goals, funding proposals and financial reports, meeting notes and minutes, ACPJ programs and projects, and ACPJ members and allies.
Central America contains documents and publications relating to the US wars in Central America and Central America peace and solidarity movements, including the Sanctuary Movement.
Nuclear is divided into five sub-series: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Miscellaneous Nuclear Issues, and Nuclear Waste, covering information on all aspects of the nuclear fuel and weapons cycles, particularly as it relates to New Mexico, the Southwest, and public participation. Nuclear Disarmament contains information and resources from grassroots movements for nuclear disarmament in NM, the US, and in countries around the world. Topics include civil defense, peaceful economic conversion (including analysis of Cold War military spending), and organized resistance to Nuclear Weapons transportation. Nuclear Weapons includes information on nuclear proliferation/nonproliferation, global nuclear weapons treaties, nuclear weapons research and development, transportation, testing (which also covers radioactive fallout and radiation and health) and security, missile defense, weapons in space, the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and nuclear facilities in NM, such as White Sands, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and Kirtland Air Force Base. Nuclear Power includes information on the production of nuclear energy, the Palo Verde Plant in Arizona, grassroots opposition to nuclear power, and alternatives to nuclear power. Miscellaneous Nuclear Issues includes radiation basics, radiation and health and compensation for nuclear workers injured by their exposure, uranium mining and milling, depleted uranium and its relationship to Gulf War and uranium enrichment, nuclear issues as they relate to civil rights, and nuclear accidents. Nuclear Waste contains information on nuclear waste sites such as Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, NM, and other existing or proposed sites in NM and the Southwest, as well as information on opponents of WIPP including CARD (Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping) and CANT (Citizens Against Nuclear Threats) and proponents such as AREA (Americans for Rational Energy Alternatives).
Peace and Justice Campaigns contains materials and resources on a variety of local, national and global movements for peace and justice, as well as scrapbooks of local actions and how-to manuals for community organizing. Topics covered include the Cerro Grande Fire in Los Alamos (2000), Reies López Tijerina and NM land grants, Petroglyph National Monument and the Paseo del Norte road extension, environmental and economic justice (free v. fair trade), food safety and security (genetic engineering of food), Israel and Palestine, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, US military spending, September 11, 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act, the War on Terrorism, the 2003 US Invasion of Iraq and its resistance, the War Resisters League, and the Vietnam War.
Publications includes newsletters and magazines to which ACPJ has subscribed and collected and/or those produced by ACPJ allies. The publications contain information about many of the issues that are of concern to ACPJ, and are organized in alphabetical order by name of publication. Center News and the P & J Calendar/Newsletter, publications of the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice will be found the the Center for Southwest Research general collection (JX1901 C464).
This collection contains organizational planning and record-keeping documents, studies and reports, publications, news clippings, legislation, correspondence, community outreach materials (i.e. posters, flyers and leaflets), and ephemera (i.e. photos, slides, recordings) from the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice (ACPJ). The collection is arranged into the following five series: Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice, Nuclear (with five sub-series: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Miscellaneous Nuclear Issues, and Nuclear Waste), Central America, Peace and Justice Campaigns, and Publications.

Series Statement

Online Archive of New Mexico.

Subject

Genre/Form

Clippings.
Ephemera.
Legislative proceedings.
Letters.
Protest literature.
Record-keeping works.

Note

Related archival material: Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping (CARD) Records, Demetria Martinez Papers, and the Kathleen Studer and Severino Pérez Guatemalan Human Rights Collection, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico. Turn Toward Peace Records. Bancroft Library. Berkeley, California. http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2h4nc4n7/? & query=peace%20turn & brand=oac.

Access (note)

Collection is open for research.

Cite As (note)

Cite as: Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice Records, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.

Terms of Use (note)

Limited duplication of print and manuscript material allowed for research purposes. User/researcher is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Biography (note)

The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice (ACPJ) was founded in 1983, during the Reagan Era and the Cold War, by local community members to provide space for groups working on peace and justice issues to do their work and to network with one another. ACPJ's mission states: "We provide space for organizations and individuals working on peace and justice issues to network with one another, share information, and learn from each other's work. Through our programs and collaborations, we work locally to support regional and global justice." During its history, ACPJ has initiated and supported projects focused on peaceful economic conversion; nuclear disarmament; militarism and war; environmental justice; colonization; resistance to US wars including Central America, the Sanctuary Movement; September 11 and the War on Terrorism; and resistance to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
During the 1980s and 90s, the Center developed a Peace Education Project providing local educators with resources, curricula, and training on issues such as racism, classism, sexism, rethinking Columbus, and nonviolence. ACPJ published Center News, a newspaper of local actions, campaigns, and commentary on peace and justice issues.
The Center, still active today, is available for community meetings and maintains a community bulletin board, literature shelves, a multi-media lending library, and public hours for visitors to browse and get information about issues of peace and justice. The Center News is no longer published, but has been replaced with the P & J Calendar/Newsletter.

Language (note)

The majority of information is in English, although a limited number of documents include Spanish or Japanese.

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Inventory

OCLC

70911887

Author

Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice.

Title

Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice records, 1961-2005 (bulk, 1980-1989).

Series

Online Archive of New Mexico.

Access

Collection is open for research.

Cite As:

Cite as: Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice Records, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.

Terms Of Use

Limited duplication of print and manuscript material allowed for research purposes. User/researcher is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Biography

The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice (ACPJ) was founded in 1983, during the Reagan Era and the Cold War, by local community members to provide space for groups working on peace and justice issues to do their work and to network with one another. ACPJ's mission states: "We provide space for organizations and individuals working on peace and justice issues to network with one another, share information, and learn from each other's work. Through our programs and collaborations, we work locally to support regional and global justice." During its history, ACPJ has initiated and supported projects focused on peaceful economic conversion; nuclear disarmament; militarism and war; environmental justice; colonization; resistance to US wars including Central America, the Sanctuary Movement; September 11 and the War on Terrorism; and resistance to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

During the 1980s and 90s, the Center developed a Peace Education Project providing local educators with resources, curricula, and training on issues such as racism, classism, sexism, rethinking Columbus, and nonviolence. ACPJ published Center News, a newspaper of local actions, campaigns, and commentary on peace and justice issues.

The Center, still active today, is available for community meetings and maintains a community bulletin board, literature shelves, a multi-media lending library, and public hours for visitors to browse and get information about issues of peace and justice. The Center News is no longer published, but has been replaced with the P & J Calendar/Newsletter.

Language

The majority of information is in English, although a limited number of documents include Spanish or Japanese.

Indexes

Inventory available at the Center for Southwest Research folder level control.

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Added Author

Bunting, Dorie.

Central American Peace Alliance.

Citizens Against Nuclear Threats.

War Resisters League.

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