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Brendan Wirk named Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s 2025 Peacemaker; urges action on Palestine
Summary
Educator and organizer Brendan Wirk received the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Peacemaker of the Year award in Missoula and used his acceptance to describe his organizing work, call for accountability over the Gaza conflict, and honor victims through a candlelit reading of names and ages.
Nicole Mitchell, executive director of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, presented the center’s 2025 Peacemaker of the Year award to educator and organizer Brendan Wirk at a ceremony at Holy Spirit Parish in Missoula on a recent evening. The event included tributes from former teachers and longtime activists, a quilt unveiling by the Missoula Peace Quilters and a speech by Wirk that linked his local organizing to international human-rights concerns.
The award recognizes a Missoula resident who, in the words of the center, exemplifies nonviolence, social justice and environmental sustainability. Nicole Mitchell opened the program with a land acknowledgement and thanked the Missoula Peace Quilters and volunteers for the ceremony. “As a cornerstone of Missoula’s vibrant community of social change and activism, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center stands for peace that is rooted in justice, equity,…
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