East Lansing Peace Education Center archives.

The East Lansing Peace Education Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peace and human rights, was established to maintain and strengthen local peace efforts in East Lansing and Lansing, Michigan in the post-Vietnam War/ post-military draft era. The Center has supported a variety of task forces, including the Southern Africa Liberation Committee (SALC), Committee for Education on Latin America (CELA), Ingham County Coalition Against Registration and the Draft (I-Card), Middle East Awareness Committee (MEAC) and Mobilization for Survival (MOBE), an anti-nuclear weapons task force. Its members have participated in many local and national demonstrations for peace, and have sponsored numerous public speakers and fundraisers for charity. Its annual activities have included observances for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Peace and Justice Alternative Holiday Gift Sale, and Commemoration of Tax Day on April 15, to call attention to the diversion of tax dollars to military purposes. Still active today, the Center continues to offer educational events for schools and the general public, draft counseling, curriculum and research consultation, and access to their collection of materials on war and peace, food and hunger, and human rights. This collection dates from the early 1960's to 2005, with the bulk of the materials generated from the Center's work during the 1980's.