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Peace Organizing Internships:

Summer, 2010:

The Washington Peace Center is a multi-issue, grassroots, anti-racist activist support organization working for peace, justice and nonviolent social change in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. Currently, the Peace Center serves as a central organizing and coalition hub for DC-based anti-war, social justice peace-focused organizations. Our main program areas are:

1) Education: To provide educational programs and materials such as teach-ins, film series and quarterly publication of the Washington Peace Letter;
2) Community Resources: To facilitate and encourage cooperation among anti-war, peace and social justice groups and to provide resources and structural support for groups and individuals to work more effectively on their own campaigns and in collaboration with others;
3) Action: To provide assistance and leadership for public demonstrations and direct actions that contribute to world peace and justice.

Our summer interns will work in our office on several projects. This may include:
- coalition work leading up to the US Social Forum in late June
- designing and giving trainings to High School students throughout the summer
- helping organize and promote our educational events on a variety of issues
- keeping our online calendar up-to-date - the most comprehensive calendar of progressive events in the DC area
- assisting with our weekly Activist Alert email that goes out to over 2000 people.
- working with social networking tools and sites to promote and expand our presence on twitter, facebook and blogs.

We encourage applicants to develop their own project with the guidance of our staff. An ideal candidate will have some student organizing experience, background in activism or interest in politics and/or be excited to learn. Interns will leave with a better understanding of the anti-war movement and local justice issues, be better equipped to work in coalitions and plan events, and will be a better activist. At this time the internship is unpaid, with a possible transportation stipend to cover metro and bus travel around city.

Minimum of 3 days/week (4 preferred) for 2 months. Start ASAP in June. Please describe in your cover letter when you would be available for the summer.

No minimum education requirement. Dates flexible. We will conduct interviews in early to mid-March.

Application instructions: Send resume and cover letter to interns@washingtonpeacecenter.org.
Washington Peace Center - www.washingtonpeacecenter.org - 202-234-2000