Talking Peace taping on FB Live: policing/ criminal justice reform
2021-01-27 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Facebook Livestream
On Facebook Live. With host Vicki Ross, WNYPC ED; so graciously recorded by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future! Special episode on local and international policing/criminal justice reform. Featuring community activists Dominique Calhoun, Cortez Foster, and Myles Carter in the first hour; Martin Gugino, Donna Robinson, and Miles Carter in the second hour.

WNY Refugee Film Festival: Memory is our Homeland
2021-01-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom Meeting, NY
On Zoom – register here. The 2021 WNYRFF season is presented FREE OF CHARGE. However, Journey’s End Refugee Services kindly asks for a donation to support the vital programs and services provided to our refugee community in Western New York.
MEMORY IS OUR HOMELAND: THE STORY OF POLISH REFUGEES IN AFRICA DURING WORLD WAR II, AND THE ODYSSEY THAT BROUGHT THEM THERE.
See more details about the film here. All films are shown online on Thursdays, 7pm. Please visit and bookmark www.wnyrff.org to access details of your film and upcoming screenings. Zoom log-in info will be emailed to you prior to your screening.
Questions or concerns? Contact: volunteer@jersbuffalo.org

Work That Reconnects: Despair and Empowerment in the Nuclear Age
2021-01-29 11:00 - 12:30 | NY
On Zoom. Registration at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezf2rlt6iocor95olU7UYe-KCBup30wz9Pt3Ao3QIe8so8bQ/viewform

Where: Zoom link will be emailed to participants day or two before event.
On January 22nd, 2021, the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty goes into effect. But what does that mean when the countries who have nuclear weapons don’t sign it? What can we do in the face of such an existential threat?
Join Diane Swords, long time anti-nuclear activist and chair of the Nuclear Free World Committee of the Syracuse Peace Council and Emily Coralyne, facilitator of the Work That Reconnects for a two-hour spiral workshop that will address & celebrate the historic Nuclear Ban Treaty, and give space for us to feel through the oft-described despair when it comes to thinking about Nuclear war, weapons, and waste.
As we go forth in this mini-spiral, participants will leave knowing some concrete actions they can take to contribute to a nuclear free world.
This is a FREE event and all participants will be invited to make a donation to the Syracuse Peace Council – Nuclear Free World Committee at the end of our time together.

WNYPC First Quarterly Mtg 2021
2021-01-31 14:00 - 16:00 | NY
In this meeting we will be looking back at 2020, as well as an overview at some our success during the year. We also will be announcing some other important matters.
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Riverside Salem: Screening "Radium Girls" (whistleblowers! ;)
2021-01-31 16:00 - 18:00 | NY
On Zoom. Screening and discussion of “Radium Girls.” The film will start at 4:15. It is about the women working in a Radium factory who work together to expose a corporate cover-up. Bring your friends and your snacks!
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Topic: Riverside Salem Weekly Gathering
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Moral Mondays: Poor People's Campaign, Nat'l Call for Moral Revival
2021-02-01 15:30 - 17:00 | NY
Livestream . While many of us feel relief with new leadership in Washington, we also know this is no time to slow down in our organizing of a moral fusion movement. The policy decisions made in the coming weeks will have a life or death impact – especially on poor and low-income people.
Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival as we resume Moral Mondays, starting this Monday, Feb. 1 at 3:30 pm.

Please tune in for an important teach-in on the current political moment, a roll-out of the 100-day action plan and for a massive call-in action targeting Senators Schumer and McConnell, demanding immediate action on COVID relief. Tune in here at 3:30 pm EST on Monday!
While we continue to mobilize and take action at the federal level, we also must keep organizing, educating, and building relationships statewide!

No War on Syria, End the Occupation! Demonstration
2021-02-01 16:30 - 17:30 | NY
At the corner of Niagara & Porter, Buffalo. Bring a friend and a sign! and Please wear a mask and maintain physical distancing.
It has taken only 36 days in office for the Biden administration to show the world, through a bombing attack on Syria, that it is belligerent, aggressive and hell-bent on war. There was only a short respite from Trump’s vile words and actions. Now we have to face Biden’s vile deeds and #resist them.

Nekanehsakt: Mtg, Screening LN3: 7 Teachings for Anishinaabe Resistance”
2021-02-02 18:30 | NY
On zoom. LN3: 7 Teachings for the Anishinaabe Resistance” is a 38-minute documentary on the frontline effort to stop fossil fuel expansion and encourage real energy security. LN3 features indigenous firebrands Winona Laduke, Tara Houska, and poet-hip hop artist ThomasX, as they lead an alliance to take on Big Oil and their enablers at the institutional level, and on the frontlines.

Please join us virtually for a screening – an addition to the regular Nekanehsakt: Friends of Ekwehewe meeting). The award-nominated documentary from stopline3.org raises awareness for the Line 3 Protests. We are grateful to our partners at the IWI (Indigenous Women’s Initiative), Nekanehsakt: Friends of Ekwehewe, PUSH Buffalo, and WNY Peace Center, for making this screening possible.
After the documentary we will break into groups to organize support to stop line 3. Here is the link to join the event on February 2nd — http://bit.ly/2YnybGF, Zoom Passcode: [REDACTED] Here is the Facebook event.
Please donate:
Directly to the Front Lines
Honor The Earth
Nekanehsakt: Friends of Ekwehewe, via Paypal.
As Betty Lyons (Onondaga Nation), American Indian Law Alliance said: “This is water and if water is life, than this is a life and death situation. Give what you can like your life depends on it, because it does.”
Drop off donations of supplies and money in Buffalo, NY to Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, NY. Here is the supply list, please look at the list of priority items at the top.
Biden announced he will call on Congress to halt all new oil and gas leases and eliminate government fossil fuel subsidies. He is being forced to answer to the call of movements led by Indigenous Peoples and communities from around the globe calling for a just transition and to create a world in which our future generations and other than human relatives can survive and thrive. Sign here to tell Biden to use his power to Stop Line 3! We need to keep up the pressure on Biden to halt all new oil and gas leases and also halt Line 3! Minnesota Governor Walz, Biden and other decision makers need to hear that we will not tolerate a pipeline equivalent to 50 new coal fired power plants. Winona quoted Arundhati Roy saying, ‘The pandemic is a portal.’ We will not tolerate more resource colonialism that violates Indigenous Peoples and lands!

For more info on how to get involved and support Stop Line 3, visit www.stopline3.org/ln3film-video, and welcomewaterprotectors.com. See you there!

LASC/ROCLA: Update on Bolivia
2021-02-03 19:00 - 21:00 | On-line
7 PM, Wed.Feb.3, 2021. “Updates from Bolivia”, a collaborative virtual presentation of the Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA) and the Latin American Solidarity Committee (LASC),taskforce of WNY Peace Center. No need to register in advance, publicity & link to join meeting at:https://rocla.org/events/updates-from-bolivia/
Or join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 893 5607 9423 Passcode: [REDACTED]

Guest Presenters: Two Bolivian educator/activists, Alicia Lucasi Callizaya & Ruben Hilari
Quispe, will share their experiences, struggles, and successes against the backdrop of a
pandemic, climate change, and political turmoil in the second poorest nation in the Western
Hemisphere. Learn how the Bolivian Quaker Education Fund (BQEF), founded by LASC friend Newton Garver (1928-2014), helps young people access higher education amid great challenges.
P.S. The planned January zoom event on Chiapas by Bill Jungels and Tom Potts has been rescheduled to Wednesday March 3rd.

Talking Peace w/WNYPC - Schooling during COVID; PeaceJam
2021-02-03 19:15 - 21:30 | NY
On Facebook Live of WNYPC; and Think Twice Radio; plus. Join us for two Talking Peace sessions focused on Our Children!

at ~7:15pm: Schooling during COVID – a conversation with Eve Shippens, Teacher and part of Buffalo Parent-Teacher Org; and Dr. Wendy Mistretta, President of DPCC, w/We The Parents; on the needs of students, the obstacles to getting those needs met, ways to solve those issues, other resources or routes available, etc.
at ~8:30pm: PeaceJam Buffalo – a conversation with Tiffany Lewis, Exec Dir Confident Girls Mentoring Program; and Jan Burns, PeaceJam Advisor and Dir of Motivational Interviewing for ECCPASA; on PeaceJam Buffalo – programming for Inspiration, Education, and Action; including nonviolence, social justice, and service learning (resuming Feb 25, 4-5pm on zoom, for 11 and up).

Mental Health Virtual Advocacy Day
2021-02-04 08:30 - 16:00 | NY
Please join us for a #HALTsolitary Mental Health Virtual Advocacy Day on Feb. 4. We plan to have a day full of virtual meetings with legislators and other actions. Please sign up to participate here: http://bit.ly/HALTJan21.

Marijuana Justice Virtual Advocacy Day
2021-02-04 10:00 - 14:00 | NY
Join advocates from across New York State on Thursday, February 4th as we call on the legislature and Gov. Cuomo to legalize cannabis by passing the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (S.854/A.1248) this session. RSVP here!
On February 4th we will begin the day with a zoom press conference, followed by a lobbying team check-in, and zoom legislative meetings in the afternoon. No travel to Albany will be required, all you need to participate is a zoom account and internet connection. An advocacy day training will be offered the week of Feb 1 to help you prepare and will be recorded and shared with all participants. More details and schedule will be forthcoming

Free the People WNY Meeting
2021-02-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Zoom Meeting, NY
On Zoom. Please join us for the Free the People WNY monthly meeting. At this meeting we will hear updates and priorities for 2021 from our County Working Group, discuss ongoing work and share information and resources with each other.

Gender Justice Task Force Meeting
2021-02-06 15:30 - 16:30 | Zoom Meeting, NY
On Zoom (Meeting ID: 821 4034 6279 and Passcode: [REDACTED] Join the Gender Justice Taskforce for its first meeting of 2021.

Festival of Hope for Clare Grady
2021-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | NY
On zoom. You are invited to join us for a virtual Festival of Hope for Clare Grady before she reports to Alderson Federal Prison in W. Virginia on February 10. Clare is the sixth of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 to begin her sentence for her part in the nonviolent, symbolic disarming of Georgia’s Trident nuclear weapons. We do not have the link yet but will send it out and post it on the website when we do.

Clare has invited speakers who challenge different aspects of Rev. Dr. King’s triplets, racism (white supremacy), materialism (global capitalism), and militarism (global military dominance).

Speakers include a Seneca leader working in western New York, Agnes Williams, and a Diné leader, Leona Morgan, from the Navajo Nation, working in New Mexico and Arizona to stop uranium production and dumping on their lands; Irish Parliamentarian, Clare Daly, a co-defendant in an Irish trial of civil resistance to US warplanes refueling at Shannon Airport; a taped greeting from Setsuko Thurlow, a Hiroshima survivor who has worked tirelessly to end nuclear weapons and been instrumental in the enactment of the Treaty on Prohibition to Nuclear Weapons that went into force last week; Professor Russell Rickford, Cornell University historian of the Black Freedom Struggle and the Black Radical Tradition and an organizer with the Democratic Socialists of America; Rev. Bill Wylie-Kellermann, Detroit theologian, author, nonviolent community activist and civil resister to water shut-offs, will give a closing prayer.

KBP7 – Updates
As of this date, we’ve not heard yet from Patrick O’Neill who reported to prison Jan. 14th, as he was expected to be quarantined for 2-3 weeks due to COVID prison protocol. Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, Martha Hennessy, and Carmen Trotta reported to jail on Dec. 14th. We received first reports from Martha from FCI Danbury, CT and Carmen recounting his time at Otisville, NY and his statement on the new TPNW treaty. They report that they are settling in at their respective prisons and have plenty of reading materials for now. Their letters are posted on the website under About/jail reflections at: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/category/jail-reflections/

There are many reports on the Kings Bay Plowshares Facebook pages about the demonstrations on January 22 marking the effective date of the TPNW treaty. Kings Bay Plowshares Facebook group or the page Kings Bay Plowshares Facebook page

You can get further information about the treaty and reports of worldwide demonstrations in support at https://www.icanw.org/

Eighty-two year-old Liz McAlister, widow of the late Phil Berrigan, served 17 months prior to trial and is home in New London, Connecticut with her family. Mark Colville, of the Amistad Catholic Worker in New Haven, is the only one of the KBP7 not sentenced yet. He has a sentencing date scheduled for Feb. 19 but it is not known if sentencing will be then.

Fr. Steve Kelly was moved on Jan. 27 from the Baker Co., Florida jail where he has waited since mid-December for transport through the federal prison system. He’s being sent back to Tacoma, WA, shackled, to report to court for a probation violation for trespass at the west coast Trident nuclear sub base. He was flown by plane to Oklahoma but there’s no telling how long he will wait now in Oklahoma.
Please keep Steve in your thoughts and prayers during this time of uncertainty and transition and remember the others in their prison sojourns.

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For background in preparation for the Festival of Hope, here’s the link to Clare’s sentencing statement: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/2020/11/clare-gradys-sentencing-statement-nov-12-2020/

The KBP7 action statement:
https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/mission/

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The Senate Impeachment Trial & the Need to Refuse Fascism
2021-02-08 20:00 | NY
Streaming on Youtube, Facebook & Twitter
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8:00 pm EST / 5:00 pm PST
Eric Seitz, defense attorney, lecturer in Constitutional Law, University of Hawai’i
Jared Yates Sexton, professor, writer, political analyst
Paul Street, historian & journalist; author, The Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and Politics of Appeasement.
Samantha Goldman, RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board
Convict Trump in the Senate Impeachment Trial
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America
Trump must be repudiated and punished for an attempted fascist coup that brought thousands of his rabid followers to DC on January 6 and unleashed them to storm the Capitol. For months before and after the election, Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and spread unhinged lies about voter fraud. His regime attempted to throw out millions of votes, mainly from Black voters in swing states. All this, including a violent attempt to overturn the election and hold on to power, was in the service of fascism – open bloody dictatorship.
Trump must be convicted and barred from coming back to elected office. This would be a real setback to the fascist movement he still leads.
The forum will explore:
What is the significance of the trial?
Why is the demand for Trump’s conviction important?
What are the ways this demand should be publicly manifested?
What are the implications of conviction/acquittal?

More on RefuseFascism.org

We Are Our Own Liberators book study w/author Jalil Muntaqim
2021-02-09 19:00 - 20:30, 2021-02-11 19:00 - 20:30 | NY
Beginning of Zoom series of six classes with Jalil Muntaqim. In this educational series, Jalil Muntaqim will cover his book, We Are Our Own Liberators, in six parts. Jalil will lead each class, on either Tuesdays or Thursdays, via zoom. Please sign up for the day of the week you wish to participate in the seminar. Once you have signed up, the zoom link will be emailed to you for the day you chose. The first of six classes begins on February 9th or February 11th 2021 and reoccurs every other week. A detailed schedule is provided thru the link below. There are six classes total (Feb 9-11 to April 13-15; every two weeks except the 6th class is after one week) included in the ticket price. All proceeds will go to Jalil Muntaqim.

A limited number of hard copies of the book can be purchased for $10 + shipping by emailing kellie.jerichoboston@gmail.com.
The e-book can be purchased for $9 online here: We Are Our Own Liberators
Join us!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-our-own-liberators-tickets-133279563763

Book Discussion: Waking Up White (prep for 2/24 mtg w/author)
2021-02-10 17:00 | NY
On zoom. Rev. Bruce and Phoebe McKay are hosting a Zoom discussion about “Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race” by Debby Irving, a book to help white people to intentionally reflect on our white privilege as Americans and to act boldly in dismantling white supremacy. This session is meant to help prepare for meeting with the author on February 24th.*d The discussion will focus on the first two sections of the book. The McKays are longtime friends of Debby Irving. Her book and story has significantly shaped their understanding of what it means for them to benefit from white privilege and how they can invest themselves in dismantling white supremacy. Register here for this preliminary event.
*Trinity Episcopal Church is hosting a Zoom gathering with Debby Irving on February 24, 2021 at 7:00 pm. See listing for that event on our event calendar entry for 2/24.

Interfaith Virtual Advocacy Day
2021-02-11 08:30 - 16:00 | NY
Please join us for a #HALTsolitary Interfaith Virtual Advocacy Day on Feb. 11. We plan to have a day full of virtual meetings with legislators and other actions. Please sign up to participate here: http://bit.ly/HALTJan21.

Housing Solutions Townhall
2021-02-11 18:30 | NY
On zoom. The Housing Solutions Town Hall will provide a virtual space for residents of NY to hear and share stories about the impacts of lead exposure and get involved in a new statewide campaign to end lead poisoning, review Good Cause legislation and what the passage could mean to NYS, and the need for a just and comprehensive solution to the COVID-19 rent crisis.
To get involved in Citizen Action’s Housing Justice campaign and participate in the conversation, join the Housing Solution Town Hall. We’ll discuss the ongoing poison lead crisis and how we can fight back, and the need for eviction protections and real rent reform in our state. And/or sign the petition below.
The Invest In Our New York Act is the People’s plan to tax the wealthiest in our state, making it possible for New York to invest $6 billion in affordable housing and $4 billion to prevent an eviction crisis that would displace millions of New Yorkers, and fund education, health care and other essential services.
To win it, we must take action now. Add your name to the Invest In Our New York petition and tell Governor Cuomo that it’s time for housing solutions in New York!

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World Refugee Day Panel on COVID-19
2021-02-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom Meeting, NY
On Facebook Live. This will be a space for everyone, especially refugee and resettlement communities, to learn more about the COVID-19 pandemic. You can send your questions about COVID-19 by email to wrdwny@gmail.com or message on Facebook.

Featured speakers:

Myron Glick, MD;
Anyango Kamina, PhD;
Alan Lesse, MD;
Timothy F. Murphy, MD;
Sourav Sengupta, MD, MPH

Event sponsored by: APAMSA; Human Rights Initiative at UB; World Refugee Day WNY

Valentine’s Day “Love” at Hancock Field, Syracuse (Drone Ops Ctr)
2021-02-14 12:00 - 15:00 | NY
In person in Syracuse. Please join in the Valentine’s Day “Love” event at Hancock Field, just outside Syracuse, NY, when drone operators of the 174th (drone) Attack Wing will be called on to consider that love is the path to peace and to stop drone killing. (The event may possibly be livestreamed on the WNY Peace Center Facebook page.)
TIMING:
Those attending are asked to gather at 12:15 pm at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society (MMUUS), 3800 East Genesee, Syracuse, 13214. At about 12:40 pm, the group will go to Hancock. This will be a non-arrest action and folks will be required to wear a mask and to socially distance. For information call: Rae Kramer at 315.445.2840 or John Amidon at 518.312.6442.
In a statement that will be presented at the drone base, Upstate Drone Action, the organization hosting the event, implores drone operators:
“We ask you to look deeply within. Is what you are doing to survive destroying your conscience and destroying the things you love?”
John Amidon, an artist who is experimenting with familiar symbols and metaphors, hopes his art will “convey peace messages and the very real possibility that peace is possible; that we can choose peace and end war”. He also created the last UDA event, “Alice’s Nightmare in Drone Land”, which coincided with Halloween, 2020.

Moral Monday Faith Convening - NYS
2021-02-15 09:00 - 17:00 | NY
On Zoom. The Labor-Religion Coalition and the NYS Poor People’s Campaign are co-hosting a New York State Moral Monday Faith Convening – a day-long virtual gathering to to build community and reflect on our role as people of faith in the movement to end systemic racism, poverty, militarism and ecological devastation.
This event is free and open to all faith leaders, broadly defined. This includes clergy or official representatives of congregations/religious organizations, people who are active in faith communities but may not have an official title or role, and people who may be spiritual or pastoral leaders in another setting.
WHY: Faith leaders play a crucial role within today’s social justice movements, beyond just mobilizing our members. Drawing on our spiritual resources, our religious traditions, and our moral commitment, we can help shift the moral narrative of our society and make more possible the healing and justice we seek. But we are stronger and more effective when we work collectively.
RSVP HERE!
The day will include interfaith prayer/worship, a keynote from national Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, an interfaith panel of faith-rooted social justice leaders, discussion of our policy demands in the context of a new state legislature, and time for fellowship and conversation. Other speakers will include Rabbi Michael Pollack from the Pennsylvania Poor People’s Campaign and March on Harrisburg; Rev. Sherry Chayat from Syracuse Zen Center; Arelis Figueroa from the New York State Poor People’s Campaign and Freedom Church of the Poor; and Sister Grace Miller from the House of Mercy and Rochester Union of the Homeless (list in formation).

We hope you’ll join us!
Forward together,
Rev. E. West McNeill

Mariposa & the Saint (performance video screening)
2021-02-15 19:00 | NY
On zoom. Mariposa & the Saint is a superb play, mostly consisting of letters written by a woman (“Mariposa”) in solitary in a California prison to Julia Steele Allen, a performance artist. When our local chapter of CAIC (Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement) presented the play live in Buffalo a few years ago, it had a deep impact on everyone who came. Now Julia has had a video made of one of the performances. The play runs about 50 minutes, and will be followed by about 20 minutes of discussion/reaction/decompression in small groups. If you have not seen the play performed, this screening is not to be missed! Register at https://www.stjohnsgrace.org/registration-for-mariposa

POSTPONED!! (due to snow) Buffalo 5 Court/Rally Support
2021-02-16 14:00 - 15:30 | NY
POSTPONED. Re-Schedule TBD. At Part One Ceremonial Court, 94 Franklin St./25Delaware Ave (same bldg in downtown Buffalo). Only 10 people will be admitted to the gallery; others can be in front of the building with signs. All will need to wear masks and be physically distant, in either case. Come support the Buffalo 5, fight an unjust conviction that has persisted low since these seniors were falsely accused and convicted as teens of a murder they did n’t commit. The fact that one of them was acquitted, as well as new evidence, all affirms that these convictions were unjust and must be overturned.

Community SpeakOut
2021-02-16 18:00 | NY
On Zoom. Please join Open Buffalo for a launch event, ‘Dinner and Conversations’- a community speakout to discuss:

War on Drugs

Legalization

A ‘Clean Slate’ for those who are returning citizens

Fair tax policy

We are encouraging the community to bring their dinner (or a snack) and spend some time talking and listening while we amplify the voices of those who have been silenced. If you/someone you know has a lived experience/thoughts/opinions on any of the above topics, we ENCOURAGE you attend.
Those interested in speaking can email jillian@openbuffalo.org

“Beyond the Knife: Health Equity and Social Justice” w/Dr. Cornel West
2021-02-18 16:00 - 17:00 | NY
On Zoom. Dr. Cornel West will address UB Surgery on this Thursday at 4PM in a virtual lecture entitled “Beyond the Knife: Health Equity and Social Justice.” Access the link below to register for this free conversation. https://www.ub-connect.com/s/1703/alumni/index.aspx?sid=1703&pgid=3256&gid=2&cid=6176&ecid=6176&post_id=0

The Doomsday Machine with Daniel Ellsberg
2021-02-18 19:00 - 20:00 | NY
On zoom. Registration link below.

“The total death toll as calculated by the Joint Chiefs, from a U.S. first [nuclear] strike aimed at the Soviet Union, its Warsaw Pact satellites, and China, would be roughly six hundred million dead. A hundred Holocausts.” – Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine Prologue.

Join us on March 18th at 7pm, for a conversation with Daniel Ellsberg about his book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. “The father of American whistle-blowing”, as Edward Snowden calls him, Daniel Ellsberg has served as consultant to the White House, and has drafted U.S. plans for nuclear war.

Daniel Ellsberg as White House consultant, was an inside player during the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and more. His unique perspective can inform and empower us, as the current nuclear arsenal is larger than ever. Even with a nuclear arsenal that can destroy our global population many times over, hundreds of billions more of our tax dollars are being wasted on new nuclear weapons.
Ellsberg performed a great public service when he released the Pentagon Papers, and risked his freedom to do so. Once again, Daniel Ellsberg performs an invaluable public service by giving us a window inside U.S. nuclear war planning, which is far more destructive, genocidal and suicidal than the public ever knew.
This book talk is sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, Maine Peace Action, and the WNYPC.

Webinar: For Peace in Korea, No More War Drills!
2021-02-18 20:00 | NY
On zoom. Registration link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j9nn-Z2RTUOHPIXPzmH7Rw

Speakers

* Wooksik Cheong, Director of Peace Network (South Korea)

* Catherine Killough, Advocacy Leadership Coordinator of Women
Cross DMZ (US)

* Jovanni Reyes, Member Coordinator of About Face: Veterans Against
War (US)

Moderator:

Ann Wright, Retired U.S. Army Colonel, Former US Diplomat,
Coordinator of the Korea Peace Campaign of Veterans For Peace

Description:

Webinar on the 60-plus year history of the costly and
provocative annual US-ROK combined military exercises, and why it’s
critical to end them to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula

Sponsoring organizations:

Civil Peace Forum; Korea Peace Campaign of Veterans for Peace;
Korea Peace Network; Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network; Korean Women’s
Movement for Peace; Peace Treaty Now; South Korean Committee on June 15th
Joint Declaration; Women Cross DMZ; and Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom
