Stop the Wars, Stop the Warming! Michael Klare: Climate Change, Conflict, and Sustainability   How Climate Change will Provoke World Conflict ... and Why Sustainability Is the Only Sure Road to Peace   Thursday, Sept. 11, 7:00 pm Room 35 - 225 (Sloan lab) Vassar St. at Mass Ave, Cambridge Michael Klare is Five College professor of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies. He has written widely on U.S. military policy, international peace and security affairs, the global arms trade, and global resource politics.  His books include Resource Wars (2001), Blood and Oil (2004), andThe Race for What's Left (2012). Sponsored by United for Justice with Peace and the MIT Western Hemisphere Project. Info: 617 383 4857, info@justicewithpeace.org We are at a crossroads, faced with a climate crisis that threatens to end our world as we know it.  We can’t afford the greenhouse gas emissions from the way we live and from war and preparations for war.  We must end the fossil fuel energy economy which war protects.   Join us for the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday, September 21!  Get on the bus and sign up with the Peace & Justice Hub. The specter of nuclear war still hangs over the world. US policy is the main obstacle to effective global action on climate change, world peace, and nuclear disarmament.  Peace, antiwar and environmental activists must join together for immediate action! The Peace, Justice and Climate contingent will assemble at 10:00 am for a pre-rally on Central Park West north of Columbus Circle.   Confirmed speakers include Bill McKibben, Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, Father John Dear, Margaret Stevens, and Erica Violet-Lee of Idle No More, with music by Emma’s Revolution, Dar Williams, and Holly Near.   The march steps off at 11:30am. We go to New York to demand that the US government: Stop wars for oil Redirect military spending to fund green jobs and sustainable infrastructure Stop the Keystone pipeline project, fracking and offshore drilling Move to abolish all nuclear weapons as required by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Stop blocking proposals for effective international action on climate put forward by developing countries Be sure to check out the Climate Convergence conference on Friday, September 19 and Saturday, September 20 in New York, with keynote speakers including Naomi Klein and many more. Yes, I’ll be there September 21 in New York City!   Reserve Bus Tickets Now:  Sign Up to Help Organize with the Peace & Justice Hub For peace, justice and sustainability, Cole Harrison Executive Director

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