Massachusetts Peace Action Calendar - March-April 2012

Massachusetts Peace Action Calendar - March-April 2012

Remember Fukushima

Tuesday, March 6, 6pm
Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park
Tim Bullock, New England Peace Pagoda
Gary Goldstein, Professor of Physics at Tufts University
Hattie Nestel, long time anti-nuclear power activist
Meet participants in a nineteen-day walk from Seabrook Nuclear Power
Plant in NH to Plymouth Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, MA on the
anniversary of the catastrophe at Fukushima, Japan and ending in Vernon, VT at Vermont Yankee
Nuclear Power Plant.

Fund Our Communities, Not War

Sunday, March 11, 2:30 pm
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1135 Walnut St., Newton Highlands
This free public forum on cutting military spending and better funding our communities will feature presentations by Congressman Barney Frank (D, Newton), State Representative Ruth Balser(D, Newton), and others.

Challenging the Pivot
The U.S., China, & Alternatives to Asia-Pacific Militarization

Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 pm
Episcopal Divinity School, Washburn Auditorium, 99 Brattle St., Cambridge
Jason Tower, AFSC's representative for Northeast Asia based in Beijing who has an extraordinary range of contacts in China and Southeast Asia, and Joseph Gerson, who has worked closely with Asian and Pacific peace movements for many years, will provide background to build our movements'
capacities to challenge the new arms race and growing military threats in Asia and the Pacific and to reinforce our Move the Money campaigns.

Bridging the Divide: The Pakistan/American Alliance
55 Years of Fables and Fallacies

Saturday, March 17, 6:30 pm
St John's United Methodist Church, 80 Mt. Auburn St.,Watertown Beena Sarwar, journalist, human rights and peace activist, filmmaker Ethan Casey, international journalist, visitor and frequent resident of Pakistan
Punjabi dinner (catered by Punjab Grill of Framingham) and Pakistani entertainment. Admission $20 - to reserve, mail check to Mass. Peace Action, 11 Garden St., Cambridge 02138


St. Patrick's Peace Parade
People's Parade for Peace, Equality, Jobs, Social & Economic Justice

Sunday, March 18, 2012,1:30 pm
West Broadway & D Street, South Boston - look for VFP flags
Please join Veterans For Peace and other Peace and social / economic
Justice organizations for this historic 2nd Annual "People's Peace
Parade" in South Boston. Bring the message of peace and protest exclusion of Veterans for Peace and Gay & Lesbian groups from the official, city of Boston supported, St. Patrick's Day Parade - the largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the country.

We will have divisions for veterans, peace, GLBT, faith, and political action groups; two marching bands, puppets, Raging Grannies, a Duck Boat, and an Old Time Trolley. Don't miss it!

Liberia, Women and Peace

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:30pm
Cambridge Public Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway
Women's nonviolent struggle to end the Liberian civil war is depicted in the documentary film, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Followed by a talk with Janet Johnson, a Liberian journalist who is featured in the film.
Sponsored by the Cambridge Peace Commission, Massachusetts Peace Action, and Congo Action Now

The 1%: What's NATO Got to Do with It?

Afghanistan, Libya, Russia, China, the Global Economy &
Economic Justice

Thursday, April 4, 2012, 7:00pm
Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Place, off Brattle St. near
Harvard Square
Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies, Trinity University;
author of Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
Ellen Frank, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Boston; author of The Raw Deal:How Myths and Misinformation about Deficits, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America.
Joseph Gerson, Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program, American Friends Service
Committee.

Peace and justice organizations, community based groups and Occupy are preparing to challenge militarism and austerity when the leaders of the NATO and G-8 nations meet in Chicago this May. Join us to learn what NATO and the G-8 have to do with the world's wars, economic crises, and making the world safe for the 1%. For information about the Counter-Summit in Chicago May 18-19, see www.natofreefuture.org.

MASSACHUSETTS-Peace Action
11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 • 617-354-2169 •
St. Patrick's Peace Parade
People's Parade for Peace, Equality, Jobs, Social & Economic Justice
Sunday, March 18, 2012,1:30 pm
West Broadway & D Street, South Boston - look for VFP flags
Please join Veterans For Peace and other Peace and social / economic
Justice organizations for this historic 2nd Annual "People's Peace
Parade" in South Boston. Bring the message of peace and protest exclusion of Veterans for Peace and
Gay & Lesbian groups from the official, city of Boston supported, St. Patrick's Day Parade - the largest
St. Patrick's Day parade in the country.
We will have divisions for veterans, peace, GLBT, faith, and political action groups; two marching bands, puppets, Raging Grannies, a Duck Boat, and an Old Time Trolley. Don't miss it!

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Liberia, Women and Peace
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:30pm
Cambridge Public Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway
Women's nonviolent struggle to end the Liberian civil war is depicted in the documentary film, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Followed by a talk with Janet Johnson, a Liberian journalist who is featured in the film.
Sponsored by the Cambridge Peace Commission, Massachusetts Peace Action, and Congo Action Now
The 1%: What's NATO Got to Do with It?

Afghanistan, Libya, Russia, China, the Global Economy &
Economic Justice
Thursday, April 4, 2012, 7:00pm
Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Place, off Brattle St. near
Harvard Square
Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies, Trinity University;
author of Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
Ellen Frank, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Boston; author of The Raw Deal:
How Myths and Misinformation about Deficits, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America.
Joseph Gerson, Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program, American Friends Service
Committee.

Peace and justice organizations, community based groups and Occupy are preparing to challenge militarism and austerity when the leaders of the NATO and G-8 nations meet in Chicago this May. Join us to learn what NATO and the G-8 have to do with the world's wars, economic crises, and making the world safe for the 1%. For information about the Counter-Summit in Chicago May 18-19, see www.natofreefuture.org.

Massachusetts-Peace Action
11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 • 617-354-2169 • www.masspeaceaction.org