November 5, 2007: This website is an archive of the former website, traprockpeace.org, which was created 10 years ago by Charles Jenks. It became one of the most populace sites in the US, and an important resource on the antiwar movement, student activism, 'depleted' uranium and other topics. Jenks authored virtually all of its web pages and multimedia content (photographs, audio, video, and pdf files. As the author and registered owner of that site, his purpose here is to preserve an important slice of the history of the grassroots peace movement in the US over the past decade. He is maintaining this historical archive as a service to the greater peace movement, and to the many friends of Traprock Peace Center. Blogs have been consolidated and the calendar has been archived for security reasons; all other links remain the same, and virtually all blog content remains intact.

THIS SITE NO LONGER REFLECTS THE CURRENT AND ONGOING WORK OF TRAPROCK PEACE CENTER, which has reorganized its board and moved to Greenfield, Mass. To contact Traprock Peace Center, call 413-773-7427 or visit its site. Charles Jenks is posting new material to PeaceJournal.org, a multimedia blog and resource center.

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Books of the Month

The War on Truth

From Warriors to Resisters

Army of None

Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal

Under Major Construction - We have many events from 1999 to add. Watch this page unfold in coming weeks!

1999 Photo Page

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Pictured (left to right): 1) Marcedonio Cortave (second from left) with a group of Guatemalan students who are studying in the U.S.; 2) Mr. Cortave kidding with Jen Cannon, COP Director; 3) Mr. Cortave, a Witness for Peace volunteer who is serving as his interpreter during his speaking tour, a conference participant and Ms. Cannon; 3) Sunny Miller, Traprock Peace Center Director sharing information with conference participants.

On October 18, 1999, the Community Outreach Program (COP) of Amherst College, Witness for Peace, Traprock Peace Center and other organizations sponsored Guatemalan actvist Marcedonio Cortave, from the Peten region, one of the world's most ecologically rich rain forests. He described to 60 conference participants how the region is being threatened by slash and burn farming and oil exploration. The Guatemalan government is planning to open up more of the protected forest areas to oil exploration. Union Pacific Resources Group Inc. has caused problems in parts of the forest where it is exploring for oil. Aside from pollution, it has cut roads into the forest that have encouraged the migration of people who have used fires to clear land for farming. This land is not suitable to agriculture - yields decrease after a few years which prompts farmers to clear more land by burning. He also discussed how local communities are using sustainable practices to manage some areas of this rich rain forest ecosystem. Forest fires have not posed such a problem where communities, rather than the government, have managed the forests.

Last Updated on October 27, 1999 by Charlie Jenks