Nat'l Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases - Jan. 12-14 in Baltimore
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Sunday, November 05, 2017
Nat'l Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases - Jan. 12-14 in Baltimore
Sign the People's Peace Treaty with North Korea
Sign the People's Peace Treaty with North Korea
U.S. People's Peace Treaty with Korea
Alarmed by the threat of a nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, Veterans For Peace and other concerned U.S. peace groups have come together to send an open message to Washington and Pyongyang that we are strongly opposed to any resumption of the horrific Korean War. What we want is a peace treaty to finally end the lingering Korean War!
Inspired by the Vietnam-era People’s Peace Treaty, we have initiated a People’s Peace Treaty with North Korea, to raise awareness about the past U.S. policy toward North Korea, and to send a clear message that we, the people of the U.S., do not want another war with North Korea.
And don't forget to take action on Armistice Day!
The People's Treaty was drafted in collaboration with representatives from Veterans For Peace,Women Cross DMZ, United for Peace & Justice, Code Pink, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Western States Legal Foundation, World Beyond War, and Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
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The Veterans Administration and the Human Cost of War
Va and the Human Cost of War
Explore the history of the Department of Veterans Affairs, from the troubled beginnings of the Veterans Bureau of 1920s to the modern VA system. Learn details of this vast, crucial American institution: its successes, failures and need for reforms.
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Fw: Peace Pagoda Walk Begins November 17-23 Listening to the Call of the Great Spirit"
Fw: Peace Pagoda Walk Begins November 17-23 Listening to the Call of the Great Spirit"
To Peaceworks
From: edkenseth@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 3:00 PM
To: edk@aol.com
Subject: Peace Pagoda Walk Begins November 17-23 Listening to the Call of the Great Spirit"
Dear Walkers and Friends of the New England Peace Pagoda.
The New England Peace Pagoda is initiating a 6-day walk, open to all, starting in Provincetown, Massachusetts on Friday, November 17, 2017 and ending in Plymouth, Ma on November 23, Thanksgiving Day.
This is the 2nd year the New England Peace Pagoda has walked, “Listening to the call of the Great Spirit”, Facing 400 years of Colonization.
For the next three years the walk will visit communities in New England, participating in conversations and discussions leading up to the 400th year anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.
This years walk will begin in Provincetown with a film showing, "We still Stand, After the Mayflower,” and continue down the Cape and culminating with a walk into Plymouth, MA on Thanksgiving Day.
Please join us for an hour or a day or the whole walk.
As we are still in process of making arrangements for stayplaces, if you want to join the WALK at any time, the best thing to do is to call Tim Bullock, walk coordinator/organizer, who will have the most updated information. Tim is also happy to answer any other questions you might have pertaining to the Walk,
CALL: 413-485-8469.
In Boston-Up Coming Korean events
[smedleyvfp] Up Coming Korean events
No War on North Korea! Save the Iran peace deal! End the Endless WarsTrump’s belligerent rhetoric continues to inflame the tense situation in the Korean peninsula as he even belittled the negotiating efforts of his own secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. The US military buildup continues with joint maritime exercises with South Korea and plans to evacuate US personnel in case of a North Korean attack. Meanwhile, China, Russia and most other countries call for lessening of tensions.
Tim Shorrock: The US and North Korea:
How We Got Here and How We Can Make the Peace
The war hawks are wrong when they say that past negotiations, like the 1994 Agreed Framework, didn’t make a difference, says investigative journalist Tim Shorrock. Recent artcle: “Diplomacy with North Korea has Worked Before, and Can Work Again” (The Nation, Sept. 5, 2017)
Wednesday, Nov 8, 7pm • Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston (across from Park Street Station)
Thursday, Nov 9, 6pm • Emmanuel College, 400 the Fenway, Boston
The war hawks are wrong when they say that past negotiations, like the 1994 Agreed Framework, didn’t make a difference, says investigative journalist Tim Shorrock. Recent artcle: “Diplomacy with North Korea has Worked Before, and Can Work Again” (The Nation, Sept. 5, 2017)
Wednesday, Nov 8, 7pm • Encuentro 5, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston (across from Park Street Station)
Thursday, Nov 9, 6pm • Emmanuel College, 400 the Fenway, Boston
The Sources of North Korean Conduct
Bruce Cumings
Wednesday, Nov 15, 5:30 pm • Boston College, Devlin 108, Chestnut Hill
Sponsored by the Boston College Dept. of History
Prof. Bruce Cumings of the University of Chicago is the preeminent U.S. scholar on modern Korean history and author of The Origins of the Korean War.
Recent article: "Americans once carpet-bombed North Korea. It's time to remember that past" (The Guardian, Aug. 13, 2017) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/america-carpet-bombed-north-korea-remember-that-past
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Wednesday, Nov 15, 5:30 pm • Boston College, Devlin 108, Chestnut Hill
Sponsored by the Boston College Dept. of History
Prof. Bruce Cumings of the University of Chicago is the preeminent U.S. scholar on modern Korean history and author of The Origins of the Korean War.
Recent article: "Americans once carpet-bombed North Korea. It's time to remember that past" (The Guardian, Aug. 13, 2017) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/america-carpet-bombed-north-korea-remember-that-past
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A View From The Left-The Marxist Theory of the State
The Marxist Theory of the State
(Quote of the Week)
As the proletarian revolution in Russia was unfolding, V.I. Lenin wrote The State and Revolution to reclaim the Marxist theory of the state from the distortions of the opportunists. Lenin underlined the need for the working class to overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie and replace it with the dictatorship of the proletariat, which, extended internationally, would lay the basis for the withering away of the state in a communist society.
The completion of The State and Revolution was “‘interrupted’ by...the eve of the October revolution,” as Lenin noted in the postscript, concluding, “It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.” He continued his critique the following year in The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky.
Marx continued:
“Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.”...
Democracy for the vast majority of the people, and suppression by force, i.e., exclusion from democracy, of the exploiters and oppressors of the people—this is the change democracy undergoes during the transition from capitalism to communism.
Only in communist society, when the resistance of the capitalists has been completely crushed, when the capitalists have disappeared, when there are no classes (i.e., when there is no distinction between the members of society as regards their relation to the social means of production), only then “the state...ceases to exist,” and “it becomes possible to speak of freedom.” Only then will a truly complete democracy become possible and be realised, a democracy without any exceptions whatever. And only then will democracy begin to wither away, owing to the simple fact that, freed from capitalist slavery, from the untold horrors, savagery, absurdities and infamies of capitalist exploitation, people will gradually become accustomed to observing the elementary rules of social intercourse that have been known for centuries and repeated for thousands of years in all copybook maxims. They will become accustomed to observing them without force, without coercion, without subordination, without the special apparatus for coercion called the state.
—V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (August-September 1917)
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