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Take Action to Support the Nuclear Ban Treaty! Honduras has become the 50th country to ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This means that the treaty has reached the number needed to go into effect. This will start on January 2022 according to the United Nations. 122 countries out of the 193-member UN General Assembly have expressed support and 84 have signed the treaty. Write your representatives and tell them to support this effort! According to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres this development, “represents a meaningful commitment towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons.” But this is only the beginning. Countries with nuclear weapons, including the United States, Russia, and China, have shown opposition to the treaty which aims to destroy all nuclear weapons and ban new ones. The countries that possess nuclear weapons, the US, Russia, the UK, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel have not signed the treaty. Changing perspectives in nuclear countries is incredibly important in the movement for nuclear disarmament. Citizens and residents of nuclear powers need to use their voices to support the elimination of these dangerous weapons. Tell your representatives that you want them to push for the United States to join the treaty!
Events and Meetings:
Monday, February 17, 2025, 12:00 – 8:00 PM. President’s Day Protest. This President’s Day protest is sponsored by the 5050/1 group. Location: Ohio Statehouse. More information here.
Monday, February 17, 2025, 5:00 PM. Grassroots Election Protection Coalition/ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY. Weekly zoom meeting. Register here.
Monday, February 17 – Friday, February 21, 2025, 3:00 PM. Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & outrage into action to stop a genocide. Now into the second year of genocide in Gaza, we are overwhelmed with sorrow and outrage. There are no words to describe the devastating pain of the past year in which the Israeli military has killed over 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 20,000 children. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court have both declared that Israel must stop the genocidal acts being committed on the Palestinian people. And the U.S. government is actively supporting the Israeli military as it wreaks devastation on the over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B'Tselem have declared that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza. We continue to come together as a political community in our daily half-hour to take action, Monday through Friday, for the past year. Join us as we take collective action to demand an arms embargo to Israel, immediate end to the genocide, a lasting ceasefire and an end to Israeli siege, apartheid, occupation, and oppression of Palestinians and Lebanon. All are welcome. All are needed. Register here.
Monday, February 17, 2025, 07:30 PM. Green Party Acton Webinar: Covert Action and Endless War. How the U.S. Exports Violence. The bellicose foreign policy of the U.S. continues to fuel instability and war worldwide in misguided efforts to attain global hegemony. In Europe, the Mideast, and the Pacific, U.S. covert and overt actions are undermining political stability and endangering peace. The webinar will explain how this process works, review the historic record, and address the dangers posed by continuation of covert and overt U.S. actions that harm other nations and threaten our own national security. Panelists: Matthew Hoh has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. He is an associate professor of History, Black Studies, and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Daniel Kovalik, a human rights lawyer and author, is a strong critic of U.S. interventionist foreign policies. Dr. Jill Stein was the Green Party candidate for President in 2024, 2016, and 2012. Madelyn Hoffman is an environmentalist and peace activist. Noura Khouri is a U.S. born Palestinian human rights activist and community organizer. Register here.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 7:30 PM. Responding to Trump's Militarism - Speaker: Rory Fanning. Regional Veterans For Peace hosted Zoom meeting. Rory Fanning, Post 911 Veteran, peace activist, and war resister will join us to discuss pending challenges to the military and veteran community and thus the country and ways to resist including counter-recruitment, resisting orders to the border, and overseas deployments. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83840337260. Meeting ID: 838 4033 7260.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00 PM. Public Comment Training: Hold Los Alamos National Laboratory Accountable for Expansion Risks. On January 10, 2025, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement, which reports on the anticipated impacts from weapons production at the New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). One key driver of this expansion is the increased production of plutonium pit bomb cores, the critical component of thermonuclear weapons. However, the production of plutonium pits for nuclear weapons is unnecessary and unsafe. The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a training webinar on how to write and submit a comment to hold LANL accountable for expansion risks and advocate for proper protection of the public and the environment. More information and link to register here.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 8:00 PM. Book Group: Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh. Human rights lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh has lived in Ramallah on the West Bank since his family fled Jaffa in 1948. A peace activist of independent temper, he has seen at first hand the horrors of occupation. For many years he has found comfort in walking, following an Arab custom of roaming freely, at will, wherever the spirit takes you. In this book, we accompany Raja Shehadeh on six walks taken in the West Bank between 1978 and 2006. When he first began walking in Palestine, he was not aware that he was traveling through a vanishing landscape. Subsequently, his hikes became less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between Palestinians and Israeli settlers. Register here.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30 PM. The Urgency of Peace Negotiations to End the Ukraine War. This webinar on the Ukraine/Russia war takes place only days before the war’s third anniversary. Retired Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis will discuss the urgency of peace negotiations before Ukraine loses even more territory and soldiers to Russia, and to prevent the risk of the war escalating into a far more dangerous one — even nuclear war — between the US/NATO and Russia. Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (retired) is a senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities and host of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive show on YouTube. He served for 21 years, including deployments to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of The Eleventh Hour in 2020 America. Colonel Davis gained some national notoriety in 2012 when he returned from Afghanistan and published a report detailing how senior U.S. military and civilian leaders misled the public and Congress into believing the war was going well while, in reality, it was headed toward defeat. His work on defense and foreign affairs has been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other major media outlets, and he is a frequent guest commentator on NBC News, BBC, Fox News, Fox Business News, CNN, and other television networks. Massachusetts Peace Action. Register here.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 8:00 PM. Third Tuesdays: Protect, Resist, and Build with AFSC. Are you looking for ways to support your community while advocating for lasting social change? Join the American Friends Service Committee monthly webinar series every third Tuesday of the month. You'll hear directly from AFSC staff and partners and learn concrete ways we can all take action for migrant rights, economic justice, and peace. Register here.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 1:00 PM. Trump’s second term: NATO, War, and the Economy. Donald Trump has returned to the presidency demanding that NATO nations increase their military spending to 3%, possibly 5% of GDP, and threating massive tariffs. His commitments to NATO remain uncertain, as does his administration’s approach to the Ukraine War and possible ceasefire-related diplomacy. His “America First” agenda includes a $100 billion increase in the Pentagon’s already gargantuan budget. What are the implications for Euro-American relations with Russia, for NATO or pressures for an independent European military, for the U.S., European, and world economies? How should U.S. and European peace movements respond? Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security. Speakers: Niamh Ni Bhriain, Reiner Braun, and Michael Klare. More information and registration here.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 11:00 AM. Kumi Now. Kumi Now is an online gathering every with a guest activist on the ground exploring issues of critical relevance to the Palestinian people and how you can get involved. Register here.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 1:00 – 1:30 PM. Episcopal Church Immigration Updates. Due to the number of executive orders, immigration raids, and other policy changes, Episcopal Migration Ministries is scheduling weekly immigration calls. EMM will share updates and resources and will be joined by the Office of Government Relations and the Chief Legal Officer. Spanish interpretation will be available. Register here.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30 PM. U.S.-China Nuclear Rivalry and the Taiwan Question. In the last five years, nuclear tensions between the U.S. and China have accelerated dramatically driven by a series of factors, including the severe deterioration of cross-Strait relations. This presentation will summarize thinking on both sides of the Pacific regarding the current state of this nuclear rivalry and its relationship to the Taiwan issue. Prof. Goldstein will also answer questions about his Asia trip during the winter holiday that took him to northeast China, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and also South Korea. Lyle J. Goldstein is the Director of the China Initiative and Visiting Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, he is investigating the costs of great power competition with both China and Russia in association with the Costs of War Project at Watson. Massachusetts Peace Action. Register here.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 6:30 PM. Urgent Action for Migration Rights. The rights of immigrants are under immediate threat in the United States. Since January 20, executive actions and congressional legislation have destroyed any semblance of a just and humane migration system - violating the rights of any immigrant residing in or attempting to find safety in this country. In response to these widespread threats to the dignity and worth of all people, how can Friends live out our call to love our neighbors without exception? Friends Committee on National Legislation. Register here.
Thursday,
February 20, 2025, 10:00 – 10:30 AM. Churches for Middle East Peace
Weekly Briefing. Please join us on Zoom for a
weekly briefing on current news regarding the Hamas and Israel War.
You will hear from CMEP Staff and other experts. Register
here.
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 3:00 PM. Responding to the Foreign Aid Freeze. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns covers the freezing of foreign aid and the dismantling of USAID through the lens of Catholic social teaching. Register here.
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 6:00 PM. Reproductive Freedom for All. Relational Organizing Training. Feeling fired up post-election? Turn your anger into impact. We're building a movement, starting with the people we know! Join us as we share how to relationally organize and empower folks to take action with us in our journey ahead. After being trained on our platform, you'll be able to take action on your own time. More information and registration here.
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 11:00 AM. Rebuilding Gaza: The Experts Weigh In. The Middle East Institute is pleased to invite you to the next session of our Thursday morning Zoom webinar series. Ambassador (ret.) Rick Barton and Larry Garber, both veterans of post-conflict reconstruction, will discuss what a realistic reconstruction of Gaza would require based on the historical experiences elsewhere around the world, as well as the specific conditions of Gaza. Register here.
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 12:00 PM. Community Conversation: Advancing a Holistic Narrative Around Immigration. Immigrants are valued members of the Ohio family. While some state and federal leaders misrepresent and attack them, millions of Ohioans are embracing immigrants because Ohio is home for all of us. You will leave this webinar with a better understanding about public opinion on immigration, the current narrative frame around immigration, and how it should change — from the perspective of immigrant leaders. Ohio Immigrant Alliance and others. Register here.
Friday, February 21, 2025, 3:00 PM. What Scientists Are Telling Us About Radiation that Nuclear Boosters Won’t. A webinar sponsored by the NGO Gender + Radiation Impact Project, with leading experts on the impacts of radiation, to answer your questions about new research concerning harmful impacts of the nuclear energy and weapons industries. Join us! Presenters are Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear, author of the book 'The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation,' and Dr. Amanda Nichols, lead author of ‘Gender and Radiation: Towards a New Research Agenda, Addressing Disproportionate Harm,’ a new report by the UN Institute on Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). The event will be moderated by Mary Olson, Founder of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project. A growing body of evidence reveals ionizing radiation disproportionately impacts women and young children. Those arguing for expanding nuclear power and weapons production pointedly ignore and contradict evidence of their harms -- part of a pattern of suppression that goes back to the dawn of the nuclear age a century ago. Scientists who first revealed radiation’s harmful impacts were pilloried and had their funding and data seized. The pattern of suppression still holds today, but with the rush toward nuclear-powered AI centers and a new nuclear arms race looming, it has kicked into high gear. False claims and preposterous talk points from the nuclear industry are increasingly and uncritically repeated without challenge. More information and registration here.
Friday, February 21, 2025, 12:00 PM. Action Hours Cease Fire Now. Join AFSC staff every Friday to hear updates from Gaza. Then, take action with us as we contact Congress and call for a permanent cease-fire, arms embargo on Israel, and humanitarian access for Gaza. Our elected officials need to keep hearing from us! For over a year, AFSC’s team in Gaza has provided food, water, and other life-saving aid to hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians. Register here.
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM. Weekly Rally for Peace. Location: East North Broadway and High St., Columbus.
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 12:00 – 2:00 PM. Ramp Up for Repro In person meeting. Our monthly Ramp Up for Repro trainings will further acquaint you with political advocacy tactics, repro lingo, and help you find the best way to get involved. Every month, we'll dive into movement ecology, abortion messaging, the current landscape of abortion access, and provide next steps for you to take action!
The majority of the content of this training does not change between sessions, with the exception of current events and policy updates. Location: Columbus TBA. Register here.
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 4:30 PM. Protest at Tesla Dealership. Every Saturday. Location: Easton, 4099 Easton Loop W., Columbus 43219.
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Demonstration at Rickenbacker. Veterans For Peace and immigrant groups are organizing a demonstration at Rickenbacker at Rickenbacker to protest Anduril Industries building a factory there supported by our taxes. Veterans For Peace Chapter 183, Columbus. Mike Ferner from Toledo will be speaking, who is with the National VFP and also other speakers. This was part of the day to close bases, started by World Without War. Location: 7370 Minuteman Way #875, Lockbourne, OH 43137 (outside the gate!).
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 5:00 PM (check in from 4:00 PM). Rooted in Hope. Fundraiser Event. Palestine Children’s Relief Fund Columbus Chapter. Event includes relief update, Columbus Youth Dabke, Fundraising dinner, guest speakers, and silent auction. Ticket price is $100. Location: Hilton at Easton, 3900 Chagrin Dr., Columbus, Ohio. Tickets and more information here.
Sunday, February 23,
2025, 11:00 AM. “W. E. B. Du Bois and
the Question of Palestine”
with Michael B. Burawoy. One of the remarkable features of the life
and work of W. E. B. Du Bois was its global reach, but he approached
international relations as a critic of US imperialism. This left him with
several blind spots not least in relation to the question of Palestine. What
can we learn from his limitations? How can we use Du Bois' pioneering
scholarship on the US to give a fuller picture of globalization, the history of
Israel/Palestine, and today's war in the Middle East? Michael
Burawoy is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley
where he is a sociologist who has conducted studies of class and race in
Africa, Soviet and post-Soviet countries as well as in the United States. Community Church of Boston. Join us on YouTube or on Zoom. Meeting ID: 813 5181 3462.
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 12:00 PM. Simply Living Presents: Join or Die. Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America depends on it. Follow the story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of Robert Putnam, whose legendary "Bowling Alone" research into American community decline may hold the answers to our democracy's present crisis. As always, we appreciate your support, which allows us to bring you educational events like our film series, Sustainable U. classes, garden tours, and more. Our host once again is. Doors are at 11:30 if you want to have lunch before the show, and the screening will start between 12:15 and 12:30 when the lobby/bar area clears out. Location: Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse, 3055 Indianola Ave., Columbus 43202. Tickets. Facebook.
Monday, February 24, 2025, 6;00 PM. Eradication Gaza: How to Remember and Forget Genocide. A discussion with Prof. Omer Bartov. As we've been witnessing a genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months, it's timely to reflect on the politics of the use of the word "genocide", and the use and misuse of the memory of the Holocaust in WW2. Prof. Bartov will also expand our thinking about the development of Zionism over time: as a settler colonization effort, as a mechanism for helping Jewish refugees and as an ideological national movement. Massachusetts Peace Action. Register here.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM. Lessons from Anti-Apartheid Struggles: Past and Present. From the United States to South Africa to Palestine, anti-apartheid movements have mobilized communities to rise up against legal systems of racial injustice and oppression. Join the AFSC for a conversation with anti-apartheid activists and liberation theologians Rev. Wendell Griffin, Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak, and Palestinian activist Shadia Qubti about the contours of apartheid across countries, how anti-apartheid movements can learn from one another, and how we can continue to build international solidarity to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes against the Palestinian people like we do other apartheid regimes. Register here.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 3:30 – 5:00 PM. The War Come Home: Race and Remobilization in the United States, 1919-1922. This event is with Cameron Givens featuring Kathleen Belew and is part of the International History Seminar Series. Location: Derby Hall, 1039, 154 N. Oval Mall, OSU Campus, Columbus. More information and link to register here.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 8:00 – 9:30 PM. War and the Economic System with Malaika Jabali. What is our economic system? What are its defining features? What does it have to do with war? Christian Sorensen will interview author and attorney Malaika Jabali. Malaika Jabali is the Senior News and Politics Editor at Essence Magazine. She is the 2024 New Arizona Fellow at New America. Her writings have appeared in such outlets as the Guardian, Jacobin, Teen Vogue, The Intercept, and Current Affairs Magazine. Malaika is a graduate of Columbia Law School and a licensed attorney. Her debut book -- It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On -- centers revolutionaries of color and guides the reader through how to dump the economic system that we live under. A War Industry Resisters webinar. Register here.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, Seek Peace and Pursue It: Advocating for Nuclear Abolition in 2025. As the United Methodist Church has long affirmed, nuclear weapons make war more likely and far more deadly. The Council of Bishops has made it clear: “We say a clear and unconditional NO to nuclear wear and to any use of nuclear weapons.” It is up to us to work toward the abolition of nuclear weapons. Join us at this webinar to learn more about the United Methodist Church’s position on nuclear weapons, hear from civil society and faith partners, and discover how you can get involved in the movement for nuclear abolition. Whether you’re already involved or looking to learn more, this webinar will provide you with the knowledge and tools to make a difference. Register here.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM. Virtual Delegation: Jericho. Join Eyewitness Palestine for a discussion with Tariq Samarat about the beauty, culture, and struggles of the oldest city in the world. Register here.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00 – 1:15 PM. Africa 140 Years After the Berlin Conference: A Faith-Based Perspective on the Colonization of People, Resources, and Land. Did you know that on February 26, 1885, European powers reached an agreement to divide Africa in an event known as the “Scramble for Africa”? By 1900, these powers had claimed nearly 90 percent of the continent’s territory. This webinar will explore the conference itself, the impacts of colonialism and its mindset, and the ongoing consequences that persist today. Specifically, it will address: The theft of land and resources, and the “new scramble for Africa,” resulting in the displacement of people, disruption of traditional land use, and ecological degradation. Predatory capitalism, the disparate impact of World Bank interest rates on the unresolvable debt of African countries, and how these continue to shape global inequalities. Global Ministries’ responses to ensuring human rights, dignity, economic prosperity, and justice for all. Our call to action in response to 140 years of systemic pillaging and destruction of African people, societies, and their wealth. Register Now!
Thursday, February 27, March 27, April 24, 2025, 7:30 PM. Veterans For Peace's Democracy & Peace Working Group for this important 4-part webinar series cosponsored by Move to Amend. Each session will start with Why we need the "We the People" Amendment, a 4-minute video narrated by Peter Coyote. February 27: Discuss U.S. Constitution: Pull the Curtain. March 27: Discuss A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing; Help! I'm Colonized and I Can't Get Up! April 24: Discuss Our Corporate Elite and the Constitution, AIPAC's War on Democracy, Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty, and where to go from here? Join us to see how different, joyful and more successful our work would be in a democracy...and how a little fire prevention will reduce the number of fires we have to fight! For more information, contact Mike Ferner at mike@veteransforpeace.org. Register here.
Sunday, March 2, 2025, 11:00 AM. Examining the Movement Beyond Native Land Acknowledgement. Make a Reparation Pledge when selling your home which is on stolen land with Lewis Randa. Join Lewis Randa of The Peace Abbey Foundation to hear about a way to address historical injustices to Native Peoples. By integrating reparations into home sales, we foster needed support for indigenous, marginalized communities as we prosper and financially benefit from the sale of stolen land. If you've found Land Acknowledgement Statements empty and hollow, consider making your actions speak louder than words. https://nativelandreparation.org/. Lewis Randa is a Quaker, pacifist, vegan, educator, and social change activist. He is the founder and director of The Life Experience School for children with disabilities; The Peace Abbey, an Interfaith Center for the study and practice of Nonviolence and Pacifism; The Pacifist Memorial, a national monument honoring pacifists throughout history; The Veganpeace Animal Sanctuary, a safe haven for animals that have escaped from slaughterhouses following the rescue of Emily the Cow; Stonewalk, a global peace walk that involves physically pulling a two-ton memorial stone for Unknown Civilians Killed in War (Documentary shown on PBS), and many others. Community Church of Boston. Join on YouTube or on Zoom. Meeting ID: 813 5181 3462.
Monday, March 3, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM. We Must Not Look Away: Confronting the Atrocities Against Palestinian Lives. (Ms. Francesca Albanese and Dr. Gabor Maté). In this webinar, Ms. Albanese and Dr. Maté will illuminate the devastation of Gaza and the Palestinian people over the past 16 months. They will direct particular attention to the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare and education systems, the assault on health professionals and educators, and the traumatic effects of collective dehumanization and loss. The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence. Register for the webinar here.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 7:00 PM. If Not Now, When? An International Forum for Preventing Nuclear War & Secure Our Future. The 3rd Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will be taking place at a time when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has advanced the hands of its Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight, we face nuclear threats over Ukraine and Taiwan, and the nuclear weapons states are all upgrading the nuclear arsenals. This also comes amidst tectonic geopolitical transformations and shortly after the Nobel Committee sent an urgent message to the world by awarding its Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- & H- Bomb Sufferers Organizations. To build our movements and to advance their coordination, the International Peace Bureau, the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, and Peace Action New York State have organized an international forum with an extraordinary array of speakers. More information and registration here.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 7:00 PM meeting (6:30 PM social). Clintonville Are Progressives Meeting. Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Whetstone Branch, 3909 N. High St., Columbus 43214.
Tuesday, March 4, 11, 18, 2025, 8:00 – 9:30 PM. Zionism, Anti-Zionism, And Antisemitism with Professor Joel Beinin. In this series, we will explore a range of Jewish and non-Jewish understandings of Zionism, Anti-Zionism, and antisemitism. Long before Oct. 7, 2023, their definitions have been debated, politicized and weaponized for divergent purposes. Jews have never had a unified understanding of these terms or agreement about the political projects connected to them. This series will explore these differences and their implications for our current circumstances. Please register below. The course is $36.00, with an option to donate an additional $36.00 to help support our Israel/Palestine programs. Register here.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30 PM. War is Not Justified by Party Politics. Why have our movements for peace, justice and the environment let party politics lead us into a pro-war position? Why does party politics lead us to support wars, or at least not oppose them, purely on the basis of which party is conducting them? This growing polarization is leading us to support or oppose other critical policies as well, purely on the basis of what party those policies are identifies with — rather than a rational and moral assessment of the issue at hand. This webinar looks at the contrast between the bi-partisan militarism of the United States, on the one hand, and the starkly different governing philosophies of the two parties, on the other. A critique of the Labor Movement’s relationship to this problem offers a long-term case-study, but one also increasingly relevant to the environmental movement, and even the peace movement. The current setback for the Democrats offers us a chance to reflect on what our core values are and how we navigate our relations with party politics going forward. Massachusetts Peace Action. Register here.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30 PM. Seeking Women’s Health Justice: Activating Our Resources in Challenging Times. Panelists will discuss a broad perspective of ways to address the anti-woman, anti-minority, anti-immigrant, and anti-LGBTQ policy regulations. This will include a national appraisal of efforts to combat restrictive laws and executive orders; analyses and viewpoints to counter economic challenges; and the public health response to inhumane dictates. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) is an activist, a legislator, a survivor, and the first woman of color to be elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., MPH is currently a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, after serving as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Chris Chanyasulkit, PhD, MPH is a public health practitioner, advocate, keynote speaker, and master connector who speaks both nationally and internationally about public health; literacy; civic engagement; and racial, gender, and health equity. Massachusetts Peace Action. Register here.
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Statehouse Symposium - Migration of Oilfield Brine. Buckeye Environmental Network has put together a big statewide meeting at the State Capital to hear from workers affected by oilfield brine and what grassroots activists are doing to protect their community. Show up to tell our State Legislature this issue needs to be addressed! This is a family friendly event, but RSVP is required to be accounted for in serving lunch! Questions – call or text Anton at 216-716-0647. Register here.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6:00 PM. Fair Districts All Volunteer Huddle. Join Fair Districts leaders and volunteers for a monthly meeting. Second Wednesday of the month. Register here.
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 7:00 PM. Veterans For Peace Nuclear Abolition Working Group Webinar: Arming for Armageddon - How US Militarism could lead to Nuclear War", with K.J. Noh, Norman Solomon and Ann Wright. Register here.
Saturday, March 15, 2025, 4:00 – 6:30 PM. Veterans for Peace Screening and discussion of What I Want You To Know. What I Want You To Know takes viewers on a right-seat ride alongside Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as they revisit their deployments by telling deeply personal stories that are usually only talked about privately with other veterans. By sharing their experiences during and after their deployments, these veterans paint a picture of the moral complexities and impacts of their wars, and of war itself. It lays bare the extent of the post-9/11 wars’ effects on those who did the actual fighting, especially regarding moral injury, the profound psychological and emotional wound that is a particular consequence of unjustified and pointless wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, and like Vietnam. Watch it here.
Monday, March 24, 2025, 7:00 – 8:00 PM. A New Generation of Nuclear Lies: Small Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Plant Reopenings. Join Professor M.V. Ramana, author of Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change (2024) and Paul Gunter, spokesman on nuclear reactor hazards and security concerns for Beyond Nuclear, as they explain why the arguments that are representing nuclear power as renewable “green” energy are tired old lies in shiny new clothing. They will explain why the Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) being aggressively touted as a safe alternative for the future are unsustainably expensive, untested, and a long way from development. They will expose how and why both political parties are heavily subsidizing both SMRs and the industry's proposed reopening of decommissioned nuclear facilities domestically and internationally, all at the taxpayers' expense. And they will reveal that, far from being any kind of solution to the climate crisis, nuclear power's comeback would be an unmitigated environmental disaster that would come at the expense of truly renewable sources of energy that are available to us today. Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear will moderate. Bring your questions! Massachusetts Peace Action. Register here.
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 PM. Elixir of Voice. A National Poetry Month Special Event Partnership between The Jewish Community Center and Gramercy Books Featuring Poetry Troupe, ELIXIR OF VOICE: Four Jewish Poets Speak Their Truth!! Location: Jewish Community Center, 1125 College Avenue, Columbus, OH 43209. More information and TICKETS.
Friday, April 11, 2024, 6:00 PM. Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why The US Invaded Iraq. Dennis Fritz in-person to discuss his book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why The US Invaded Iraq. Dennis Fritz is a retired Command Chief Master Sergeant in the US Air Force. Joining him in Boston will be retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. Among other positions, Col. Wilkerson was the Chief of Staff to General Colin Powell. Following the discussion of Deadly Betrayal, Chief Fritz and Colonel Wilkerson will participate in a Q&A discussion, which will include questions about current events. More information and zoom registration here.