Annual Peace and Justice Events

(Updated May 9, 2021)

This is a list of events that VFP Mid-Valley, Oregon hopes to commemorate in some way.

If you have other suggested dates or ways you would like to see us commemorate these dates, please email us.

January
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (3rd Monday)- (Part of MLK Memorial week)
Anniversary of Citizens United decision (1/21)
TPNW went into effect (January 22)
February
President’s Day (3rd Monday)
Black History Month
March
International Women’s Day (3/8)
Land Day (3/30)
April
Ed Epley Day (April 7)
Tax Day
Earth Day/ Sustainability Fair (4/22)
May
Nakba Day (5/15)
Memorial Day (Last Monday)
Mother’s Day (2nd Sunday)
June
Juneteenth (6/19)
World Refugee Day (6/20)
July
Independence Day (Interdependence Day?)
Trinity Day/Atomic Veterans Day- OR (7/16)
August
Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries (Aug 6th and 9th)
UN Indigenous People’s Day (Aug 9)
September
International Day of Peace (9/21)
International Day for the Toral elimination of Nuclear Weapon (9/26)
October
Indigenous People’s Day in Albany/ cancel Columbus Day (2ndMonday)
Anniversary of invasion of Afghanistan (10/7)
(Anniversary of start of vigil)
November
Armistice Day: https://worldbeyondwar.org/armisticeday103/
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: (9/29)
December
International Human Rights Day (12/10)

NOTES

– Tax Day- library? Take photos of various people with different signs, handout War Resisters League literature about military spending.
– Indigenous People’s Day: SB 13 2019 provides for school instruction on indigenous tribes, their power, purpose and history; tribes involved in planning curriculum. Relate to Palestinian struggle, current struggles of NA tribes
– Nakba Day: Linking international peace struggles, colonization with our own efforts
– International Women’s Day (women and children victims of war)