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Sunday, October 29, 2017
From Socialist Alternative On The Minneapolis Election Campaign
In Boston- HEAR: Trita Parsi: Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal
HEAR:
Trita Parsi: Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal
Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston
Sargent Commons, 5th Floor
Wednesday, November 1 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Through the Iran Deal, the international community achieved a landmark victory for non-proliferation by establishing an agreement from Iran to allow intrusive inspection of its nuclear facilities to allay fears by the US and others that Iran was developing nuclear weapons in return for relief from damaging sanctions. This agreement has been praised across the globe.
Trita Parsi will speak about his new book Losing an Enemy – Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy regarding the success of the Iran Deal and how it is now at risk under the Trump Administration. He will sign copies after the talk.
Dr. Parsi is the President of the largest Iranian-American grassroots organization in the US, the National Iranian American Council, and has taught at Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. He currently teaches at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
For the Suffolk event, a donation of $10 is requested to help cover costs, from those not part of the Suffolk community; no one will be turned away. Dr. Parsi will also speak at Tufts University at 2:30 pm the same day; check our website for room number.
The Iran nuclear deal – formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – has been under attack by President Trump and his supporters. Trump has threatened to decertify it, even though on fully eight occasions the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) has confirmed Iran’s compliance with the terms of the JCPOA.
Following two years of negotiations, the JCPOA was signed in July 2015 by diplomats from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran, and endorsed by a Security Council resolution. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini declared that according to the agreement, "Under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire nuclear weapons."
More recently, Mogherini declared at a meeting at the United Nations secretariat in September and on a PBS New Hour segment on October 11 that decertifying the JCPOA would backfire on the U.S., as it would be isolated internationally and regarded as an unreliable partner that could not be trusted with agreements. She added that the European Union, Russia, China, and other international partners would abide by the JCPOA no matter what the Trump Administration decided, but that reneging on a Security Council resolution would seriously damage America’s reputation.
While this decertification does land a significant blow to the deal, it does not automatically bring it to an end. Congress will have 60 days to vote on legislation to re-impose sanctions waived under the nuclear agreement. If this passes, then the deal is very likely dead. Indications are that this vote could be very close.
For peace and diplomacy,
Prof. Valentine M. Moghadam
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'Someone Else is Controlling Our Fate, We're Tired of It'
'Someone Else is Controlling Our Fate, We're Tired of It'
Panelists include:
Joyakgol – South Korean peace activist from Jeju Island who has been working for the past 20 years to stop US base expansion in his country. He also works to protect the endangered Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins who daily circle Jeju Island and are now threatened by the new Navy base.
Destroyers built at BIW have begun to port at the new base.
Leslie Manning – Quaker activist will speak about budgets as moral documents and the need to build political support for cutting the bloated Pentagon budget.
Ed Friedman – Local environmental activist will discuss BIW’s impact on the life in the Kennebec River.
Mary Beth Sullivan – Social worker from Bath will speak about how conversion of BIW is possible and could create more jobs by building rail, solar, wind and tidal power systems to help deal with climate change.
Video production by Peter Woodruff and Martha Spiess
Hingham (Ma) Public Library to host “The Vietnam War” film screening and lecture
Hingham Public Library to host “The Vietnam War” film screening and lecture
The Hingham Public Library has been selected by the American Library Association (ALA) and WETA Washington, DC, to receive a programming kit for “The Vietnam War,” a 10-part documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that originally aired on PBS stations in September.
As part of the award, the Hingham Public Library will host Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War and consultant on the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick film “The Vietnam War,” for a lecture entitled Making Sense of the Vietnam War, on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. Why did the Vietnam War happen and turn out as it did, and what does it mean for us today? Logevall considers anew one of the most consequential and trying chapters in American history.
The Library will also screen part three of “The Vietnam War” (“The River Styx”) followed by a discussion with Hingham Vietnam Veterans, one of whom can be seen in the film, on Tuesday, Nov. 21 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
In “The Vietnam War,” filmmakers Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the conflict as it has never before been told on film.The film features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides. Learn more about the film.
The Hingham Public Library was one of 50 U.S. public libraries selected to receive the kit through a peer-reviewed competitive application process. More than 350 libraries applied, according to ALA. View the list of selected libraries.
The Hingham Public Library will receive a copy of the 18-hour documentary series on DVD, with public performance rights; the companion book, “The Vietnam War: An Intimate History” by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, 2017); a programming guide, promotional resources, partnership opportunities and more.
The kit is designed to help libraries participate in a national conversation about one of the most consequential, divisive and controversial events in American history.
The project is offered by the ALA Public Programs Office in partnership with WETA Washington, DC.
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From Socialist Alternative-Did you see Ginger in The Intercept today?
Did you see Ginger in The Intercept today?
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At U/Mass-Boston-Diplomacy, Domestic Politics and the Fate of South Vietnam-Nov 8
Sean's talk will explore the unheralded showdown between Saigon's military junta, and civil society groups including journalists, students and religious and ethnic minority groups.
Join us as Sean Fear challenges conventional views of the Cold War as a bipolar clash between great powers and their proxies.
William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences
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Join VFP At SOA Watch Border Encuentro
Join VFP At SOA Watch Border Encuentro
VFP enthusiastically supports this year's theme "Tear Down The Walls, Build Up The People." Please join us, November 10-12, and many other peace and justice groups on the border.
SOAW strives to expose, denounce, and end US militarization, oppressive US policies and other forms of state violence in the Americas. Often these Latin American political and economic policies are directly linked to forced displacement, increased violence, and militarized borders. And as we call attention to the militarization of the border and Latin America, we also call for an end to state-sponsored terrorism and violence against our communities inside the United States.
We stand with organizations and movements working for justice and peace throughout the Americas. There is no wall or border that can deter the solidarity of the people!
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