Friday, July 20, 2007

About APEC

Welcome, and thank you for visiting the website of the Appalachian Peace Education Center. APEC has been working for peace and justice since 1982. It is a non-partisan organization that aims to educate and enable the people of the Appalachian region to work for peace and justice both locally and globally. APEC is active in the mountainous region of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee.

Since its beginning, APEC has published and mailed our newsletter, APEC News to about 600 households in our region and beyond. This continues to be an important tool to educate people. We have strived to maintain a mix of educational/political articles that focus on national/international issues as well as articles that highlight the local projects of APEC. If you wish to subscribe to APEC News, please contact us.

Since before the invasion, APEC has led the effort in our region to oppose the war and occupation in Iraq. We have organized regular demonstrations, as well as speak outs, Congressional letter-writing campaigns, meetings with our Congress representative, articles to local newspapers –in short everything peaceful that we could think of to convince our neighbors that this war is wrong and needs to end.

Please spend some time browsing through our website. Make sure you check our rich history and current activities. Then go a step further, and add your voice to the fight for peace and justice in our region and in our world. Contact us. We’ll be glad to have you aboard.