25 Years and Going Strong

2005

Mapping A Culture of Peace in Florida

 Community Dialogues around the State

Leadership Transition

 John X. Linnehan, President

Common Ground XII

 George Lakey, Keynoter

2004

Revisioning Retreat

February; Facilitated by John Frank; jump starts Strategic Planning

Common Ground XI

Creating the Culture of Peace, (April)

Walk for Global Justice (G8 Summit)

140 mile walk from Teaching Farm to Brunswick, GA (5/25-6/5)

2003

Leadership Transition

Bob Tancig, 3^rd State Coordinator

New Caretakers on the Land

Chris and Helen Hooley arrive 5/28/03

2002

Leadership Transition

Dan Kauffman, President

First Annual Peace Pick-in

Music/Arts Festival on the Land in Graham celebrating Hope

International Peace Camp

Expansion of Regular Youth Peace Camp

Friendship II Tour to Cuba

2001

Event honoring Stetson Kennedy

at the Teaching Farm

Common Ground IX

2000

Leadership Transition

Tony Elrich, President

Pinecastle Bombing Range Campaign

Effort to block DoD contract renewal in Ocala National Forest

Common Ground VIII

Jim Hightower, keynoter

Voices in Wilderness/Human Shield

Kathy Kelly speaking tour on US Sanctions in Iraq

Peg McIntyre’s 90^th Birthday celebration

1999

 Construction of Peace Education Center

On Land site in Graham, Florida (Teaching Farm)

Common Ground VII

David Cobb (Green Party), keynoter

1998

Leadership Transition

Carol Mosley, 2nd Coordinator; Mary Clare Van der Horst, Pres;

Common Ground VI

Roy Bourgeois of SOA Watch is guest speaker

1997

Cancel Cassini Campaign

1500 person protest action at Cape Canaveral (October)

Founded GNAWNPS

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

Common Ground V

Daniel Elsburg, keynoter

1996

Common Ground III

Michael Lerner, keynoter

Walk for the Earth

February: 725 miles From Everglades to Tallahassee

Common Ground IV

Winona LaDuke, keynoter

Major Gift to Build PEC on Land

$100,000 anonymous donor

Trip to Mexico

Members work on cooperative projects;

Cultural Exchange Trip to Panama

1995

Production of Nukes In Space

Award-winning documentary

Common Ground II

Ron Daniels, keynoter

1994

FCPJ acquires land in Graham, Fla

Gift of Geiger Family, to provide permanent home for Peace Camp

First of several study tours to CUBA

1993

First Common Ground Conference

Rollins College, Orlando; annual event

Peace Education Retreat

Camp Ithiel

1992

10th Anniversary Celebration (Orlando)

Benjamin Spock, keynoter

Peacemaker of the Year Award

Benjamin Spock, first recipient of this annual award from the FCPJ

1991

Gulf War, Wash DC Demonstration

Coalition organized several busses

Peace Education Retreat

Camp Challenge

1990

First Youth Summer Peace Camp

Annual program, eventually moved to Teaching Farm in 1999

Teaching Peace Conference

Nonviolence in family, school, community & world; Rollins College

1989

Protest First Trident Sub at Kings Bay

1/15 USS Tennessee arrives at Kings Bay

Peace Walk

From South Florida to Cape Canaveral

1988

Make Space for Peace Conference

Cape Canaveral

Peace March in Manhattan

1987

Cape Canaveral Protest

1/18/87; 5000 protest Trident II; 186 arrested for civil disobedience

1986

Central America Task Force Established

Demo at Hurbert Field; protest Nicaragua Contra training at Eglin

Metanoia Peace House Groudbreaking

3/17/1986; St. Mary's, Ga, adjacent to Kings Bay Base

Cancel the Countdown Walk

12/28/86-1/18/87; Kings Bay to Trident test site at Cape Canaveral

1985

Cruise Missile Flight Test Protest

Fort Walton Beach & Eglin Air Force Base;

1984

First Kings Bay demonstration,

12/28/84-1/1/85; First annual actions protesting Trident Subs

Organized Children of War Tour

1983

Office Established in Orlando

Name Change to FCPJ; Bruce Gagnon hired as First Coordinator

First Statewide Demonstration

Pershing Missile protest, Orlando;

1982

First Organizational Mtg in St. Petersburg

Precursor group: Florida Coalition for Nuclear Weapons Freeze