The Rogue Valley Pepper Shakers was established in March of 2020 by a group of friends in High School. They recognized the unchecked bigotry being spewed outside of local reproductive clinics and LGBTQ+ events by a local religious hate group known as the Rogue Valley Saltshakers. Shortly after establishing the group, Toren (one of the aforementioned High Schoolers) met Sam, who brought in more people and have been countering the local hate group ever since. 

Our organization dedicates our time to putting ourselves between extremist religious organizations/individuals and the general public. We use a specific set of tactics meant to distract and discomfort our opponents - we've learned these tactics through experience and by watching other organizations excel at countering their own local hate groups through very similar engagement tactics. The RV Pepper Shakers wholeheartedly believe that engagement is the best method of handling these types of people. Some of these engagement tactics include: Playing music, using visual barriers (signs, flags, umbrellas, our bodies) talking, dancing and anything else that could be ridiculously distracting to someone yelling at clinic doors or an event entrance.