Peace House encourages our community to support this event designed to celebrate diversity and address violence experienced by members of our community. From the coalition: V-Day Is the global activist movement to end violence against all women (cisgender and transgender), gender diverse people, girls and the planet.  It was begun by Eve Ensler, and has […]

Now is the moment to support Single Payer Health Care in Oregon! On November 8, 2022 “Right to Health Care Measure 111,” supported byover fifty organizations as diverse as Providence Health Services,Planned Parenthood, Oregon AFT, Main Street Alliance, SEIU and OregonAFL-CIO, passed with roughly one million YES votes. The measure proposesan amendment to the Oregon […]

As National Blood Donor Month continues this January, the American Red Cross celebrates those who give blood and platelets to help save lives − especially now, as organizers work to ensure a stable blood supply amid the threat of icy winter weather and severe seasonal illness. Donors of all blood types – particularly type O […]

We used to have these quick “check-in” conversations in the kitchen at Pioneer Hall. In his own words, he’d tell me about how much it meant to have a place to go where he was accepted as he was. We’d always laugh about something or another, and I think both of us walked away from […]