Common Ground (Organization : Baton Rouge, La.)
Biographical notes:
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.
From the description of Common Ground records, 1982-2006. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 776913993
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Subjects:
- Civil disobedience
- Feminism
- Latin America
- Nonviolence
- Refugees
- War resistance movements
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- United States (as recorded)
- Central America (as recorded)
- Louisiana--Oakdale (as recorded)
- Pennsylvania--Delaware County (as recorded)
