Roman"">As part of the programs planned locally for International Peace Week, the Immigration Information Response Team of Coastal Progressives is hosting a screening and public discussion of a new PBS documentary, Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, SW 9^th and Hurbert in Newport, on Tuesday, September 20 at 7 p.m.

Lincoln County will welcome Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan to Newport on Monday, August 22, accompanied by Oregon's Squadron 13 Veterans for  Justice with their Peace and Justice  bus. Their Newport visit is part of a “Revolutionary Communities Road Trip,” touring the west coast with stops through Oregon and California to showcase and film community activism at the grassroots level. 

To promote and protect justice and the civil liberties and human rights of everyone in Lincoln County, the Coastal Progressives’ Immigration Information Response Team (IIRT) has scheduled a panel discussion for Tuesday, June 7, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 9th and Hurbert, in Newport.  The goal of this forum is to help make Lincoln County a safer and more welcoming community for all its residents.