Thursday, April 06, 2017

In Boston-Saturday 4/8 Rally to close Guantanamo and Wednesday 4/12 CILD “Defense Efforts in the McCarthy Era"

Eric Brooks
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*Below information on Saturday 4/8 Rally to close Guantanamo and Wednesday
4/12 CILD “Defense Efforts in the McCarthy Era"*

Rally to Close Guantanamo

When/where:

*Saturday, April 8 from 1 to 2 at Park Street Station on the Boston
Common. *

Forty one prisoners are left at Guantanamo, including 5 who have been
cleared for release.

Trump has been talking about adding more prisoners. This is the opposite
of what needs to happen.

Join us to raise the call to get rid of this center of indefinite detention
and torture, which is a stain on our reputation.

This demo is organized by the Committee for Peace and Human Rights and the
Committee for International Labor Defense.

For more info, contact Susan McLucas, (617) 776-6524, SusanBMcL@gmail.com.

Committee for International Labor Defense: Defense Efforts in the McCarthy
Era
When/where:
*Wednesday, April 12, 2017*
*The Center for Marxist Education*
550 Mass Ave. 2nd Floor
Cambridge, MA (Near the Central Square T-stop)

*Business Meeting:* 6:30 PM (All are welcome.)

*Educational*: 7:00 – 8:00 PM

Defense Efforts in the McCarthy Era
John Vago, decades-long activist for peace, democracy, labor, social
justice, against racism and imperialism, for socialism; in New York,
Philadelphia, and now in the Boston area.

A brief, cursory overview of the McCarthy era and the Cold War, including
some background on the domestic and international political situation up to
and in that era. I will include what I can recall regarding defense and
opposition efforts. It will all be brief; I am not an expert on the
subject. I will try to relate it to today's conditions by suggesting some
lessons learned. Hopefully others will add to the discussion.
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In Boston- Stop THAAD Missile Deployment in Korea: Seongju City People’s Protest


Stop THAAD Missile Deployment in Korea: Seongju City People’s Protest

April 10 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Boston College, Devlin 101

Sunghye Kim, Won Buddhist monk from Seongju, South Korea
With:
  • Sounghey Kim, Co-Chair of the Seongju County Struggle Committee to Stop THAAD
  • Theodore Postol, PhD, Professor, Science, Technology, and International Security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Juyeon Rhee, Korea Policy Institute; Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea, New York

Moderators: M. Brinton Lykes, Co-Director of the CHRIJ, and Ramsay Liem, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Boston College 
In the midst of political upheaval and transition in South Korea, advances in North Korea’s nuclear program, and uncertainty about the Trump administration’s policy in Northeast Asia, citizens in Seongju, South Korea, have stepped up their eight-month opposition to the installation of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system in their city.  The U.S. and South Korea claim THAAD is necessary to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles but locals fear its environmental effects, claim that the real target is China, and believe it makes them ground zero for counterattacks.  Learn about this struggle from the front line activism of Ms. Sounghey Kim, a leader of the peoples’ movement to oppose the deployment of THAAD, comprised of citizens from numerous sectors of Seongju County.  Also hear the views of Ted Postol, professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at MIT, about THAAD and US missile defense systems.  Professor Postol has written widely about these systems and participated in high-level consultations with government officials in South Korea. 
The program is part of a U.S. national tour, Stop THAAD in Korea, sponsored by the Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea and Militarism in Asia and the Pacific with support from the Korea Policy Institute, Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation, and Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.  Juyeon Rhee, an organizer for the Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea, is accompanying Rev. Kim and will comment on the broader U.S./Korea alliance that forms the context for this latest conflict.
About the speakers:
Sounghey Kim
Ms Kim is a staunch advocate of peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula.  Since July 13, 2016, her days have revolved around the candlelight vigils against THAAD Deployment, standing with the residents of Seongju County. Currently she is a co-chair of the Seongju Struggle Committee to Stop THAAD Deployment.  She dreams of reunification through peaceful dialogue, and is working for it. Most recently, she has been participating in an overnight sit-in at the bridge to the Lotte Golf Course, the site of the proposed THAAD deployment currently underway. In light of the recent impeachment and dismissal of South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, the U.S. and ROK military command are rushing to complete the installation of THAAD before the election of a new president this coming May.  
Theodore Postol
Dr. Postol received his undergraduate degree in physics and his PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. Postol worked at Argonne National Laboratory, where he studied the microscopic dynamics and structure of liquids and disordered solids using neutron, X-ray and light scattering techniques, along with molecular dynamics simulations . He also worked at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he studied methods of basing the MX missile, and later worked as a scientific adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations.
After leaving the Pentagon, Postol helped build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study weapons technology in relation to defense and arms control policy. In 1990, Postol received the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society. In 1995, he received the Hilliard Roderick Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2001, he received the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for “uncovering numerous and important false claims about missile defenses.” On September 28, 2016 the Federation of American Scientists awarded Professor Theodore Postol from MIT their annual Richard L. Garwin Award for his work in assessing and critiquing the government’s claims about missile defense.
Juyeon Rhee
Juyeon is a first generation immigrant, living in metropolitan New York area.  She is a volunteer organizer of the Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea.  Juyeon is a member of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development and a board member at Korea Policy Institute.  Her work is focused on de-militarization of the U.S. and peace and unification of Korea.

Event sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and the Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation.
Co-Sponsored by the BC Asian American Studies Program, International Korean Students Organization, Korean Students Association, and BC Peace Action.
Other supporting organizations: American Friends Service Committee Peace & Economic Security Program; Massachusetts Peace Action; United for Justice with Peace.
For additional infomation on Stop THAAD or the event, contact:  M. Brinton Lykes at lykes@bc.edu, or Ramsay Liem at liem@bc.edu.
RSVP for this event at http://www.bc.edu/centers/humanrights/events.html (scroll down to “Stop THAAD Missile Deployment in Korea: Seongju County People’s Protest”)
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Date:
April 10
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Event Tags:
Featured Post, Korea, THAAD
Website:
http://www.bc.edu/centers/humanrights/events.html#0410

Organizer

Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Phone:
617-552-1968
Email:
humanrights@bc.edu
Website:
http://www.bc.edu/centers/humanrights.html

Venue

Boston College, Devlin 101
Linden Lane 
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 United States + Google Map
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Massachusetts Peace Action
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All Out For The General Strike On May Day-Join And Build The Resistance Now!-May Day General Strike - Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers In "Day Without The People" Resistance


Fellow Workers, Friends,
 
 
Representing more than 100 local unions in our region, the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council  http://www.unionyes.org/  has endorsed the calls for a General Strike on May 1st, 2017. This is truly an historic moment! The same migrant and immigrant constituency that struck eleven years ago on May 1, 2006 will mobilize this year, joined by the Black Lives Matter movement, native sovereignty rights groups, and organizations Voces de La Frontera and Movimiento Cosecha.
 
Some links to articles giving background on the strike call are below. Attached is the Labor Council’s leaflet (please distribute) and a recruitment sheet (please use it).
 
Shut It Down! No work, no school, don’t buy anything!
Monty Kroopkin
IWW San Diego branch
 
 
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In Cambridge- REMINDER: Saturday, April 8: Nuclear Free, Carbon Free: Envisioning a Future that will Work

Cole HarrisonviaAct-MA
To  Boston Downwinders,   MAPA peace and climate group  and 8 others
Nuclear Free, Carbon Free: Envisioning a Future that will Work
April 8 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St
[image: Nuclear Free Carbon Free US Electricity Generation to 2028]
*Do we need nuclear power to counteract climate change or is it yet another
disaster in the making?*

Join Gordon Thompson and Paula Gutlove for an invigorating dialogue,
including a report from a recent trip to Fukushima.

*
<http://masspeaceaction.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Nuclear-Free-Carbon-Free-Final_page1_image2.jpg>Gordon
R. Thompson, D.Phil.,* is the executive director of the Institute for
Resource and Security Studies (IRSS). He was educated in mathematics,
physics, and nuclear engineering, obtaining his doctorate from Oxford
University in 1973. He has wide experience with natural resource,
international security, and sustainability issues, including nuclear
technologies. Dr. Thompson has organized international conferences, and
provided expert testimony in a variety of contexts.

<http://masspeaceaction.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Nuclear-Free-Carbon-Free-Final_page1_image3.jpg>*Paula
Gutlove, D.M.D.,* is the director of IRSS’s International Conflict
Management Program, and a professor of practice at the School of
Management, Simmons College. She was trained in social science and
medicine. and was founding executive director of the Greater Boston
Physicians for Social Responsibility (1981-1983), the Center for Psychology
and Social Change (1985-1989), and the Balkans Peace Project (1991-1997).
She has been a program consultant to many inter- governmental
organizations, and has facilitated dialogue and conflict
resolution training sessions in the USA, USSR, Russia, Japan, Australia,
and Europe.

Sponsored by the Boston Downwinders, a working group of Massachusetts Peace
Action
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DetailsDate:April 8Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Event Tags:Climate Change
<http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/climate-change/>, nuclear
power <http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/nuclear-power/>, renewable energy
<http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/renewable-energy/>
OrganizerMassachusetts Peace Action
<http://masspeaceaction.org/organizer/massachusetts-peace-action/>
VenueFirst Church in Cambridge, Congregational, UCC
<http://masspeaceaction.org/venue/first-church-in-cambridge-congregational-ucc/>11
Garden St
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States+ Google Map
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Phone:617-547-2724 <(617)%20547-2724>Website:
http://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/

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Massachusetts Peace Action
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In Boston - THURSDAY: DROP the MIC! Confronting Militarism In Our Communities

Cole HarrisonviaAct-MA
To  Mass Peace Action update,   act-ma  and 2 others
DROP the MIC! Confronting Militarism In Our Communities
April 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmFirst Baptist Church, 633 Centre St, Jamaica
Plain
Connect our Movements, Reclaim our Resources

Doors open at 6:30pm for refreshments and viewing IVAW’s People’s History
Art Portfolio

Purchase Tickets Here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drop-the-mic-confronting-militarism-tickets-32892515399>

Facebook Event Page

<https://www.facebook.com/events/646171448916158/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D>Iraq
Veterans Against the War <https://www.ivaw.org/>, has initiated
conversations across the country through our Drop the MIC campaign that
have focused on the root cause that underlines both the occupations by U.S.
military abroad and the violence perpetrated in our communities by police
right here at home: militarism. Drop the MIC aims to make visible the many
ways, both obvious and hidden, that the military industrial complex
intersects our lives and our ability to care for ourselves and our
communities.*

The Movement for Black Lives policy platform
<https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/>outlines the need and the strategy to
divest in the structures that are robbing black people of their lives and
invest in what communities need to thrive. “While this platform is focused
on domestic policies, we know that patriarchy, exploitative capitalism,
militarism, and white supremacy know no borders.”

Let’s talk together about the real effects of militarism on our local
communities, our society and abroad.

Speakers:

Maggie Martin and Matt Howard, Iraq Veterans Against the War
<https://www.facebook.com/IraqVeteransAgainstTheWar/>

Karlene Griffiths Sekou, Black Lives Matter Boston
<https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterBOS/>

Mike Prokosch, Dorchester People for Peace
<https://www.facebook.com/Dorchester-People-for-Peace-296450461530/>

You can DONATE if you cannot attend the event.

<https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5966/donate_page/ivaw-donate>Donations will
be divided between Iraq Veterans Against the War and Black Lives Matter
Boston

IMPORTANT: Please note BOSTON in the “Designate this gift for a specific
purpose / Designation Code” field

Co-sponsors: Iraq Veterans Against the War, American Friends Service
Committee, Black Lives Matter Boston, Veterans for Peace, Dorchester People
for Peace, Massachusetts Peace Action Boston – see the facebook event for
most up to date sponsor list.

*Rescheduled from February 9 *

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DetailsDate:April 6Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Event Tags:Black Lives Matter
<http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/black-lives-matter/>, Featured Post
<http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/featuredpost/>, Iraq Veterans Against the
War <http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/iraq-veterans-against-the-war/>,
military-industrial
complex <http://masspeaceaction.org/tag/military-industrial-complex/>
OrganizerIraq Veterans Against the War
<http://masspeaceaction.org/organizer/iraq-veterans-against-the-war/>
VenueFirst Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain
<http://masspeaceaction.org/venue/first-baptist-church-of-jamaica-plain/>633
Centre st
Jamaica Plain, + Google Map
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t: @masspeaceaction
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