Founding the Allison Center
On five acres of the California Mendocino coast, the Allison Center for Peace is home to the Kent State Truth Tribunal and People’s Memorial Peace Gardens.
Arriving at the Allison Center for the first time, we were drawn to this rural slice of heaven teeming with wildlife and enchanting views to the sea. The remote yet strikingly peaceful landscape captivated our hearts, leading us to secure the land and embark on caregiving this magical ecosystem. The rolling meadows extending miles to the sea, with hawks soaring above the fields help us understand living life in peace. The blustery, coastal, wind-filled sunshine carries voices of our ancestors, along with the distant sound of waves crashing. Close to nature we learn to live in balance and heal.
The Allison Center is a repository of the Kent State Truth Tribunal and home to the People’s Memorial Peace Gardens. In development now, the memorial park explores the intersection of sculptural art, sustainable flower and vegetable-gardens, all feeding the Power Art Farm. Art and gardens of peace, sustainably harnessing and harvesting wind, sun, kinetics, frequencies, testing now-unknown, emerging technologies and biomimicry solutions to power the Allison Center into the beyond.
The property is established in memoriam to Allison Krause, a student killed in the May 4, 1970 Kent State massacre. Allison continues to inspire and guide activities at the Allison Center, especially as we plant our bountiful peace gardens with memorials, creating healing, power and honoring those who stood and stand for peace.
Please join us in this peaceful and sustainable art experiment at the Allison Center for Peace. In association with the Kent State Truth Tribunal, we’re getting on with our peace at the Allison Center.
Allison said, “Flowers are Better than Bullets”
The Allison Center for Peace honors all who are harmed protesting today, and remembers the four student protesters who were killed in the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970. Allison Krause was one of the four student protesters killed by the Ohio National Guard at a noontime demonstration against the Vietnam War at Kent State.
A 19-year-old freshman, honors student at Kent State University, Allison stood for the cause of peace as she protested the Vietnam War on her college campus. Decades later, Allison still stands for truth in her killing in the May 4, 1970 Kent State massacre, and for the safety and protection of protesters today.
Please watch “Dear Allison,” a video about Allison Krause by Walter Wynn
