Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Nobel peace prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire writes in Common Dreams

Nobel peace prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire writes in Common Dreams (thanks Joe Eusterman):

"The demonization of Russia is, I believe, one of the most dangerous things that is happening in our world today. The scapegoating of Russia is an inexcusable game that the West is indulging in. It is time for political leaders and each individual to move us back from the brink of catastrophe to begin to build relationships with our Russian brothers and sisters. Too long has the elite financially gained from war while millions are moved into poverty and desperation. The people of the world have been subjected to war propaganda based on lies and misinformation and we have seen the results of invasions and occupations by NATO disguised as “humanitarian intervention” and “right to protect”. NATO has destroyed the lives of millions of people and purposely devastated their lands, causing the exodus of millions of refugees. The people around the world must not be misled yet again. I personally believe that the US, the UK and France are the most military minded countries, whose inability to use their imagination and creativity to solve conflict through dialogue and negotiation is astonishing to myself and many people. In a highly militarized, dangerous world it is important we start to humanize each other and find ways of cooperation, and build fraternity amongst the nations. The policies of demonization of political leaders as a means of preparing the way for invasions and wars must be stopped immediately and serious effort put in to the building of relationships across the world. The isolation and marginalization of countries will only lead to extremism, fundamentalism and violence. "
 
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Bisbee movie starts Thurs Sep 20-Theatrical Premiere Engagement! See the film September 20 – 26 at the Brattle. Filmmaker Robert Greene attending in person for Q&A on Opening Night, presented by The DocYard.



Theatrical Premiere Engagement! See the film September 20 – 26 at the Brattle. Filmmaker Robert Greene attending in person for Q&A on Opening Night, presented by The DocYard. 

About the film: 

BISBEE ’17 is a nonfiction feature film by Sundance award winning director Robert Greene (Actress, Kate Plays Christine) set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border.

Radically combining documentary and genre elements, the film follows several members of the close-knit community as they collaborate with the filmmakers to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation, where 1200 immigrant miners were violently taken from their homes by a deputized force, shipped to the desert on cattle cars and left to die.

When the last copper mines closed in 1975, the once-booming Bisbee nearly became another Arizona ghost town, but was saved by the arrival of a generation of hippies, artists and eccentrics that give the place its strange vibe today. Bisbee is considered a tiny “blue” dot in the “red” sea of Republican Arizona, but divisions between the lefties in town and the old mining families remain. Bisbee was once known as a White Man’s Camp, and that racist past lingers in the air.

As we meet the townspeople, they begin to confront the violent past of the Deportation, a long-buried secret in the old company town. As the 100th anniversary of Bisbee’s darkest day approaches, locals dress as characters on both sides of the still-polarizing event, staging dramatic recreations of scenes from the escalating miner’s strike that lead to the Deportation. Spaces in town double as past and present; reenactors become ghosts in the haunted streets of the old copper camp. Enacted fantasies mingle with very real reckonings and it all builds towards a massive restaging of the Deportation itself on the exact day of its centennial anniversary."

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Medea Benjamin: Taking on the Military Industrial Complex: The “Launch” of the Massachusetts Raytheon Anti-War Campaign Thursday, September 27 @ 7pm Cambridge Friends Center, 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle Street coming out of Harvard Square, Cambridge)


Medea Benjamin: Taking on the Military Industrial Complex:
The “Launch” of the Massachusetts Raytheon Anti-War Campaign
Thursday, September 27 @ 7pm
Cambridge Friends Center, 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle Street coming out of Harvard Square, Cambridge)

Come hear one of the U.S.’ most prominent war analysts, anti-war speakers, and activists give us insight into ongoing U.S. wars and what we can do about them. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Her latest book is Inside Iran; The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran; it aims to re-educate the American public to prevent a war with Iran. 
Medea will analyze our ongoing wars and outline a new strategy for stopping these wars focused on divestment from war contractors and the financial institutions that back them.

Hear about our new Raytheon Anti-War Campaign to oppose the Saudi-U.S. war in Yemen and U.S./Saudi/Israeli sanctions and threats of war against Iran. Raytheon is the largest war contractor in Massachusetts which provides various forms of critical support to the Saudi military – including the weapons and bombs inflicting a catastrophe on Yemen and its people.


Sponsored by Veterans for Peace/ Smedley Butler chapter; Massachusetts Peace Action, Friends Meeting at Cambridge/Peace and Social Concerns Committee; American Friends Service Committee
For Information: MAPA, 617-354-2169, info@masspeaceaction.org; Paul Shannon 617-623-5288
Supporters of the Raytheon Anti-war Campaign protest Raytheon’s support for the U.S.-Saudi war in Yemen at the Raytheon facility in Cambridge on August 20

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In Cambridge-*Sunday, September 16 | 6:00 PM* The Take May Day Coalition

Center for Marxist Education<centermarxisteducation@gmail.com>
To  act-ma@act-ma.org  
*Sunday, September 16 | 6:00 PM*
The Take
May Day Coalition

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into
their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they
want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - The Take -
has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. In the wake of
Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most
prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories
and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former
employees take action. They're part of a daring new movement of workers who
are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating jobs in the ruins of the
failed system. But Freddy, the president of the new worker's co-operative,
and Lalo, the political powerhouse from the Movement of Recovered
Companies, know that their success is far from secure. Like every workplace
occupation, they have to run the gauntlet of courts, cops and politicians
who can either give their project legal protection or violently evict them
from the factory……. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in
shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and
a whole system…………. *Watch the trailer.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKP6fqo0Ec>*

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https://www.centerformarxisteducation.org/eventschedule.html
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From Veterans For Peace-Leave No One Behind: Keeping Our Promise to Deported Veterans

Leave No One Behind: Keeping Our Promise to Deported Veterans

Veterans For Peace member Alfredo Figueroa is heading up a project titled "Leave No Man Behind: Keeping our Promise to Deported Veterans".  Alfredo is a OIF and OEF combat veteran that recently graduated from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He recently was granted the Judith Lee Stronach price, which allows him to work with veterans that have been deported.  He is also on the board of Veterans For Peace's Deported Veteran Advocacy Project.
He is currently doing workshops around the Bay area but is available to come to local communities to talk about his project.
Alfredo is based in California and can be contacted via email to set up a potential workshop.  His email is: alfredo.figueroa01@berkeley.edu

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Oct 6 Vigil at Bath Iron Works (Maine)-11:30 am

Global Network<globalnet@mindspring.com>
To  Peaceworks  
On Saturday, October 6 we will hold a vigil from 11:30 am til 12:30 at Bath Iron Works in solidarity with the International week of protest to Stop the Militarization of Space.
 
We will meet across from the Administration building on Washington Street and walk up to the Navy Research Center at Noon.
 
General Dynamics continues to build Aegis guided missile destroyers as well as the new Zumwalt which is on track to becoming the most expensive warship ever built.  It is imperative that we speak clearly and say No! to the building of warships here in Maine!
 
No! to the militarization of outer space.  (The interceptor missiles onboard the Navy Aegis destroyers are key elements in Pentagon first-strike attack planning and have proven to function as Anti-Satellite weapons.)
 
It is time for us to set aside technologies that only enslave us to wars that never end.  The insanity of building these warships must come to an end so we can instead us the Earth’s resources to heal the many ills of our society and those we continue to inflict upon our mother earth.
 
Let’s stand together with love and with all of creation calling for DISARMAMENT NOW.
 
Please bring signs and banners.
 
FMI @: Smilin’ Trees Disarmament Far,
763-4062

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