A View From The Left- NEW WARS / OLD WARS – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

NEW WARS / OLD WARS – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

 

Drone Off

CODEPINK activists from 20 states shut down the gates at Creech Air Force Base, home of the Reaper and Predator drone program, on March 31 and April 1. Join CODEPINK in calling on the Presidential candidates to end drone warfare and adopt a ten-point peace platform. We want a #President4Peace!

 

WTF! John McCain Saluting an American Communist?

In the piece titled “The Good Soldier,” McCain saluted Delmer Berg whose obituary had run March 2nd in the Times. Berg, who died at age 100, was presumably the last living American veteran of the famous Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Read on...  

 

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OTHER EVENTS

 

Saturday, April 9: Music for Peace: The Three Brahms Violin Sonatas,  @ 7:30 pm, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge. + Google Map  In the final concert of Mass Peace Action’s 2015-16 Music for Peace Concert Series, two of America's leading chamber musicians perform the three Brahms Violin Sonatas: Sonata in G major, Opus 78; Sonata in A major, Opus 100; Sonata in D minor, Opus 108. Benefits Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund. Reserve seats for $25 in advance for Mass. Peace Action members, $35 for non-members, $10 for students, $35 at the door.

 

Wednesday, April 13: Michael Dukakis: Subways or Submarines? Changing our Nation’s Priorities from Endless War to Prosperity. Kicking off Massachusetts Peace Action's Distinguished Peacebuilders Series is the honorable Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991, Democratic nominee for President in 1988, and a well-known advocate for effective public transportation and high-speed rail. 7 pm at Christ Church, Zero Garden Street, Harvard T, Cambridge. Benefits Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; part 1 of the spring Distinguished Peacebuilders Series. Register for $10 for Massachusetts Peace Action Members, for students, and low income. Non-members, register for $20. To attend all 3 talks this spring, $25 for members and $50 for non-members.  

To attend, register online for Michael Dukakis' talk or the entire series, call 617-354-2169 with credit card number, or write a check to “Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund” and mail to 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Cosponsored by Democratic Socialists of America, Budget for All Massachusetts, and American Friends Service Committee - Peace & Economic Services. Following Gov. Dukakis' talk will be Series lectures by Noam Chomsky in May and Helen Caldicott in June.

 

Tuesday, May 3: My Name Is Rachel Corrie. This one-play show, edited from Rachel's emails and journal entries by the late Alan Rickman and editor in chief of The Guardian Katherine Viner, chronicles the life of the 23-year-old American peace activist who traveled to Gaza in January of 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement to defend Palestinian homes from being demolished. It was there, on March 16th, 2003 that she was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while protecting her host's home from being destroyed by the Israeli army. Tuesday, May 3, 7:30 pm. Hibernian Hall, 182-186 Dudley St., Roxbury. Facebook invitation: https://www.facebook.com/events/1724110167826809/. Advance ticket purchase: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2531586

 

Saturday, May 7: Courage and Commitment. Join Andrea James of Families for Justice as Healing, Tim DeChristopher of Climate Disobedience Center, Joia Mukherjee of Partners in Health, and Robert Meeropol of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, for a forum at the Arlington Street Church. Live music by the Leftist Marching Band and Foundation Movement. 7 pm, 351 Boylston St, Arlington St T stop, suggested donation $20. This is a benefit for the 75th anniversary of the World Fellowship Center.