Nebraskans for Peace
| Motto | "There can be no peace without justice" |
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| Formation | 1970 |
| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | 501c4 |
| Purpose | Peace promotion |
| Headquarters | Lincoln, Nebraska |
| Tim Rinne | |
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Main organ
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State board of directors |
| Website | link |
Nebraskans For Peace, or NFP, is a peace advocacy organization based in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. "Nebraskans for Peace is a statewide grassroots advocacy organization working nonviolently for peace with justice through community building, education and political action."
Founded in 1970, NFP is a statewide progressive organization conducting active grassroots campaigns focused on promoting peace and social justice. NFP was preceded by Rural Nebraskans for Peace, formed in 1968, and a short-lived University of Nebraska-Lincoln student group called Nebraskans for Peace in Vietnam, formed in 1966. A chapter has existed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since at least 2002 and a chapter at the University of Nebraska-Omaha was founded in 2003.
NFP has been campaigning the Nebraska State Legislature to make the community of Whiteclay officially "dry" so that local businesses can no longer sell alcohol to Native Americans on the neighboring Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. They allied with reservation members on this issue, marching together in 1999 after two murders of Lakota men in Whiteclay.
In 2005 President Cecilia Fire Thunder of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Nebraska governor's office made an historic agreement to deputize tribal police to enforce laws in Whiteclay, as Nebraska law enforcement was based 22 miles away in the county seat. Fire Thunder was impeached in 2006 based on other issues. According to Mark Vasina, a Nebraska activist interviewed in 2007, internal tribal politics appeared to interfere with the tribe's proceeding to implement the agreement. By mid-2007 the OST had hired no police personnel and made no commitments of funds; it lost the federal earmarked funds of $200,000. Mark Vasina, former president of Nebraskans for Peace, released his documentary The Battle for Whiteclay in 2008, showing the work of tribal activists to end beer sales at Whiteclay. In 2009 it won an award for Political Documentaries at a New York film festival. In December 2010, the Nebraska legislature authorized $10,000 for increased police patrols in Whiteclay.
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