Common Ground (Organization : Baton Rouge, La.)

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Common Ground; nonprofit organization; located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a community of faith founded in 1982 by Quakers Lilith Quinlan and Hoyt Oliver, to break cycles of poverty, racism, and sexism and to teach active nonviolence; program work included organizing programs for children, providing services and a safe haven for refugees of violence, and holding conferences about nonviolence; providing sanctuary for Central American refugees; helping children to break the cycle of violence in their lives; organizing international exchanges; protesting the US Justice Department's mass detention of Central American refugees in Oakdale, Louisiana; publishing grassroots women's voices. Common Ground was dissolved in 2006.

From the description of Common Ground records, 1982-2006. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 776913993

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creatorOf Common Ground (Organization : Baton Rouge, La.). Common Ground records, 1982-2006. Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC
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associatedWith Oakdale Federal Alien Detention Center (Oakdale, La.) corporateBody
associatedWith Oliver, Hoyt, person
associatedWith Quinlan, Lilith, person
associatedWith Smart, Annie Armstead. person
associatedWith Swarthmore College. Peace Collection. corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
United States
Central America
Louisiana--Oakdale
Pennsylvania--Delaware County
Subject
Civil disobedience
Feminism
Latin America
Nonviolence
Refugees
War resistance movements
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Active 1982

Active 2006

Americans

English,

Spanish; Castilian

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