The San Jose Center for Peace and Justice will celebrate its anniversary at its downtown headquarters Sept. 25.
You may not know the San Jose Center for Peace and Justice by name. But if you’ve driven past the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Main Library in the past 20 years, you’ve probably seen their volunteers holding signs and asking drivers to “Honk for Peace.”
Charlotte Casey, left, and Joan Simon stand outside Collins House, the headquarters of the San Jose Center for Peace and Justice. To their left is one of two “peace poles” donated by the City of San Jose to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. On Sept. 25, it will host a 65th anniversary celebration in the back lot of the Collins House, a converted 1908 home at 48 S. Seventh St. that has served as its headquarters since 1985. The open house, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Charlotte Casey, another volunteer who has been involved with the Peace Center since 2001, would like to see involvement more in line with the center’s heyday. when its newsletter — the Peace Times — had 5,000 subscribers and was a force in rallying people to march for civil rights. Getting back to that means involving more young people as volunteers or interns.
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