URANIUM PROCESSING FACILITY AT Y-12 NOW 3 YEARS BEHIND SCHEDULE AND IS SLATED TO COST AN EXTRA $2 BILLION The Y-12 weapons plant in Oak
January 15, 2023 at Church of the Savior
January 23 marks the second anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. OREPA will be combining our celebration of the Ban Treaty
Join OREPA, CISV, local middle schoolers and youth groups in an event for all ages—celebrating International Peace Day by folding 1,000 cranes at Union Avenue
She was a small woman, quiet and unassuming. Her voice was gentle and lilting, wavering as she talked. She taught music and composed music, providing
On Saturday, August 13, 2022, we gathered at the Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda for an Obon Ceremony, a time to honor ancestors, share memories,
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY – When Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli were arrested deep inside the maxium security area of the Y-12 Nuclear
OREPA’s giant puppets completed the inaugural Knoxville Juneteenth parade and found a shady spot on a hot day for the group picture! Thanks to Kevin
Vladimir Putin’s missile-rattling has put the nuclear threat back on the public agenda. In response, many in the political world are arguing that it is
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has an eerie resonance; it was almost two decades ago that another superpower brazenly invaded the sovereign territory of a
Can irony be delicious and poisonous at the same time? Six months after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US atomic bombs, in January
The Ban Treaty turned one year old. OREPA marked the occasion at the University of Tennessee teaming up with SPEAK to hang a banner on
Ann Myers and Kevin Collins hold a banner at the Y-21 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge on January 22, 2022 while Pam Hindle and
When OREPA began holding peace vigils at the gates of the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in 1999, we expected to be there every Sunday for
January 15—Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthdate—is a significant day every year, and with entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Board of Directors of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance sent a letter on September 28, 2021, to the Board of Trustees of the
THERE ARE LOTS OF RESOURCES HERE — for groups and individuals. please scroll down to see everything that is available! On this page you will
When the MLK commission called, OREPA answered. The pandemic rained on our annual MLK parade, but we countered with Juneteenth, and OREPA’s puppets made the
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