Common Ground (Organization : Baton Rouge, La.)

Common Ground; nonprofit organization; located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a community of faith founded in 1982 by Quakers Lilith Quinlan and Hoyt Oliver, to break cycles of poverty, racism, and sexism and to teach active nonviolence; program work included organizing programs for children, providing services and a safe haven for refugees of violence, and holding conferences about nonviolence; providing sanctuary for Central American refugees; helping children to break the cycle of violence in their lives; organizing international exchanges; protesting the US Justice Department's mass detention of Central American refugees in Oakdale, Louisiana; publishing grassroots women's voices. Common Ground was dissolved in 2006.