We are a grassroots organization made up of individuals from Rhode Island’s East Bay area that are committed to peaceful solutions to conflict and to social and economic justice through the promotion of open, respectful dialogue. We strive to accomplish these goals through public forums on topics relevant to our mission, publication of position papers and community activism. We also seek to promote changes in U.S. policy by lobbying our representatives in Washington DC on issues of concern. EBCP operates by consensus and does not as a group subscribe to any one political ideology or party.
EBCP holds ongoing peace vigils on the second Saturday of every month from 11 AM to noon outside the Bristol Post Office. Please join us.
On Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM, EBCP presents a matinee showing of the feature film Shock and Awe at Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI. Rated R. The 2017 film, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Milla Jovovich, Rob Reiner, and Jessica Beil, follows a group of Knight-Ridder's Washington Bureau's journalists in their investigation into the Bush Administration's rationale for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Q & A with Jonathan Landay, one of the journalists portrayed in the movie, to follow! Free and open to the public.
EBCP endorses Move To Amend, a national movement to amend our Constitution to establish that money is not free speech and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to consitutional rights.
At the April 19, 2023 Bristol Town Council meeting, both the Proclamation of Welcome to the Golden Rule and the Resolution in Support of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) passed! Now Bristol will be added to the growing number of cities and towns calling for a nuclear free world. It was an historic meeting which will hopefully open the way for more dialogue and understanding on this critical issue.
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EBCP is an affiliate of Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace network.
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Read EBCP position statements on military spending, gun control, the BDS Movement, Veterans Day, Sinclair Broadcasting, the 2016 election, Gitmo, ISIS, Iraq, Syria, terrorism, and Afghanistan and download our presentation entitled War, the Economy and the Health of Our Communities. What’s your take on the issues? Contact your congressmen and local media and let them know.
On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 7 PM, EBCP presented a talk with former U.S. Ambassador and retired Statesman Chas Freeman entitled What We Can Learn from the Ukraine War: Past, Present, and Future at the Barrington Public Library. Watch it here!
On Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 2 PM, EBCP presented a talk with peace activist and educator Jeff Klein entitled Palestine and Israel - Is There a Path to a Just Peace? at Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI. Watch it here!