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Peace Calendar October 2016

[MAPA nuclear disarmament] Peace Calendar October 2016

 

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9/29/2016 2:58 PM

Cole Harrison

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Command and Control September 30 @ 11:30 am - October 6 @ 11:30 pm Kendall Square CInema,  355 Binney St Cambridge, MA, MA 02139 United States  + Google Map From the director of Food Inc., COMMAND AND CONTROL tells the story of a deadly accident in 1980 at a nuclear missile complex in rural Arkansas in the form of a documentary  which is based on a the best-selling book by Eric Schlosser. Fashioned as a thriller, the film exposes the terrifying truth about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal, and the danger that it poses - not only to potential enemies but also to our local communities. Showtimes: Dates: Friday 9/30 - Thursday… Find out more »

Muslim Voices in an Election Year: Compassionate Listening October 1 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Agape Community,  2062 Greenwich Rd Ware, MA 01082  + Google Map Annual Francis Day Celebration!  Francis Day celebrates the life of Francis of Assisi who met with Sultan Malik al-Kamil of Egypt in 1219: a model for nonviolent witness.  Program begins promptly at 10:00am: Nadia Alawa, founder and president, Nu Day Syria, 2016, (after 2015 Ted Talk), project for re-making the lives of Syrian mothers and children; recipient of inaugural Humanitarian Award, James Foley Legacy Foundation.  Dr. Hisham Moharram, second generation Muslim, founder of Good Tree Farm, PhD in agriculture and plant… Find out more »

Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) by Abbas Fahdel October 1 @ 7:00 pm - October 2 @ 9:00 pm Harvard Capenter Center for the Arts,  24 Quincy St Cambridge, MA 02138  + Google Map The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present HOMELAND (IRAQ YEAR ZERO) BY ABBAS FAHDEL from October 1 – October 2, 2016 with filmmaker Abbas Fahdel in person. $12 Special Event Tickets.  Abbas Fahdel in personSaturday October 1 at 7pm, Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) – Part 1. Before the FallSunday October 2 at 7pm, Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) – Part 2. After the Battle Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) is a riveting home-movie chronicle of life in Iraq before and after… Find out more »

Greening the Global (and Massachusetts) Economy October 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Cambridge Friends Meeting,  5 Longfellow Park Cambridge,  + Google Map We can stop climate catastrophe  If we are up to the challenge!  Here’s How:  An Open Forum with Dr. Robert Pollin: Co-director, Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics @ UMASS-Amherst;  Author: Greening the Global Economy (M.I.T. Press);   Come hear Robert Pollin lay out his economic plan for how we can meet the carbon reduction targets that will actually avert climate catastrophe, generate vast numbers of new jobs and protect those employed by fossil fuel energy companies. Great… Find out more »

America’s War for the Greater Middle East October 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Westminster Unitarian Church,  24 Kenyon Street East Greenwich, RI  + Google Map On October 6 at 7:00 p.m. Andrew Bacevich, a noted scholar, author, and critic of U.S. imperialism, will be speaking on U.S. policy, or lack thereof, in the Middle East. The venue will be Westminster Unitarian Church at 24 Kenyon Street in East Greenwich, RI. This public presentation will be based largely on his most recent book: America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. Among his eight other books is the important Washington Rules: America’s Path to… Find out more »

Rock Against the TPP October 7 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Spontaneous Celebrations,  45 Danforth St Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 United States  + Google Map Rock Against the TPP is a nationwide uprising to stop the biggest corporate power grab in history: the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The tour comes to Boston on Friday, October 7th with an all-star lineup of musicians helping sound the alarm about this toxic deal. Featuring: Mirah, Debo Band, Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde, Foundation Movement, bell's roar, + more TBA! FREE! All ages. RSVP for your free tickets here: https://www.rockagainstthetpp.org/boston-ma Find out more »

Ending the Many Wars in Syria October 11 @ 7:00 pm - October 13 @ 7:00 pm across Massachusetts Talks by Phyllis Bennis:  Is the war in Syria a civil war? Is it a proxy war between the US and Russia ? Is it also a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey? Can ISIS be reined in? Should Assad go? Or stay?  Should the US "do more"?  Or is it already doing too much by arming and training rebel groups? What will be the likely outcome of the current cease fire negotiations?  How can such a complex set… Find out more »

Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Dialog among Resistance Movements October 14 @ 5:00 pm - October 16 @ 3:00 pm Agape Community,  2062 Greenwich Rd Ware, MA 01082  + Google Map You are invited to the 31st Annual New England Regional Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Their Supporters Friday–Sunday October 14–16, 2016 Agape Community 2062 Greenwich Road  ·  Ware, MA 01082 SATURDAY PROGRAM: Dialog Among  Resistance Movements with Mandy Carter First Congregational Church (UCC) 165 Main Street  ·  Amherst, MA New England War Tax Resisters and supporters traditionally gather each fall for a weekend of sharing stories and strategies, and supporting one another in our nonviolent resistance to militarism. At… Find out more »

Climate Change and the Growing Risk of Nuclear War: A Health Care Perspective October 15 Tufts University School of Medicine, Sackler Auditorium,  145 Harrison Ave Boston, MA 02111 United States  + Google Map Climate Change and the Growing Risk of Nuclear War: A Health Care Perspective-- Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility invites all to attend a one-day Symposium to examine the catastrophic public health consequences of climate change and the ways that climate change will increase the risk of conflict, including nuclear war.  Program: 9:00 Welcome;  9:15 Panel I—Climate Change and the impact on public health:      A)    Expected climate change globally and in S stephenAsia and Middle East—Speaker to be announced B)   … Find out more »

$10 - $35 Music for Peace: An Evening of French Music October 15 @ 7:30 pm Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church,  1555 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA United States  + Google Map An Evening of French Music: October 15, 2016. Ayano Ninomiya, violin;  Carol Ou, cello;  Mana Tokuno, piano;  Poulenc, sonata for violin and piano;  Pierné, sonata for cello and piano;  Chausson, piano trio. Benefits Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; part of the Music for Peace Series. Single concert: seats $25 in advance for Mass. Peace Action members, $35 for non-members, $10 for students, $35 at the door. Series of 3 concerts: member $65, non-member $80, student $25. To reserve, write a… Find out more »

The genocidal mentality of nuclear weapons – a Christian and feminist response October 16 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, UCC,  11 Garden St Cambridge, MA 02138 United States  + Google Map A talk by Rev. Dr. Renate Rose Most statesmen of the past who were involved in US foreign policy (as George Schultz, Henry Kissinger, William Perry) consider the threat of a nuclear war today to be greater than ever before. Why is this topic not on the front page of every newspaper and TV channel every day? Following the book by Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Markusen, The Genocidal Mentality, Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat (Basic Books, NY, 1990), Renate will… Find out more »

Noam Chomsky: Extinction or Internationalism October 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Old South Church,  645 Boylston Street  Boston,  + Google Map A Chomsky Legacy Event presented by the Wallace Action Fund "the world's top public intellectual" - the guardian Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), at  MIT, Noam Chomsky is a revolutionary thinker whose principal linguistic works include Syntactic Structures (1957), Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964), Language and Mind (1972),  and Knowledge of Language (1986). Noam was an early and outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and he has written extensively on political issues. Among these writings are American… Find out more »

Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection October 19 @ 7:00 pm - October 22 @ 9:00 pm Medea Benjamin’s national book tour comes to Boston Oct. 19-21 Author and activist Medea Benjamin will give four talks in the Boston area on her new book, Kingdom of the Unjust: Beyond the U.S.-Saudi Connection.   Benjamin is cofounder of CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. Wednesday, October 19: First Parish in Framingham, 24 Vernon St., 7pm.  Admission Free.  Sponsored by Metrowest Peace Action and Progressive Democrats of America. 508-376-8495 Thursday, October 20: Boston College, Gasson Hall, Room 305. Free;… Find out more »

$15 - $40 Pax Christi 2016 State Assembly October 22 @ 8:30 am - 3:00 pm St Susanna Parish,  262 Needham St Dedham, MA United States  + Google Map Ending the Nuclear Nightmare: Faithful Witnesses and Non Violent Strategies.  A presentation by Marie Dennis and Jonathan Alan King, Saturday, October 22nd, at St. Susanna Parish, 262 Needham Street, Dedham MA. For directions: www.saintsusanna.org Registration begins at 8:30 am – Program 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; Parish Mass at 4:00 pm for those who wish to remain.  Marie Dennis is a leader in the movement, “Catholics for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.” She is the co-president of Pax Christi International since… Find out more »

National Priorities Project: Annual Fall Party October 27 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Smith College Conference Center,  49 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063  + Google Map Find out more » BDS and anti-BDS

October 29 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Central Sq Branch,  45 Pearl St. Cambridge, MA 02139 United States  + Google Map A Forum - Save the Date!  What is Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)? Why is it important?   What is happening nationally and in Massachusetts to suppress BDS?   Why is it important to oppose these efforts? What have we done to date?  What more can we do?  Sponsored by the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston, and Massachusetts Peace Action.  More details forthcoming.   Find out more » The Next Four Years: Building Our Movements in Dangerous Times

December 3 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Simmons College, Paresky Conference Center,  300 the Fenway Boston, MA 02115 United States  + Google Map Featured Speakers Bob Wing Social and racial justice organizer; Founder of Color Lines and War Times; Co-author of "Organizing on Shifting Terrain" Mariama White-Hammond Pastor, Bethel A.M.E. Bethel Church, Jamaica Plain; convener,  Massachusetts Moral Revival Paul Robeson Ford Pastor, Union Baptist Church, Cambridge Mike Connolly Attorney; State Representative-Elect; endorsed by Our Revolution Joseph Gerson Peace and Disarmament Coordinator, American Friends Service Committee Bernie Sanders’ campaign ignited a widespread hope that our corrupted democracy, where money and power rule, could be taken back and transformed into… Find out more »

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*Books To While Away The Class Struggle By-Professor Robert Service's "Trotsky: A Biography "

Click on the headline to link to a YouTube film clip of Leon Trotsky, leader of the Red Army.



Recently I have begun to post entries under the headline- Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By and Films To While Away The Class Struggle By-that will include progressive and labor-oriented songs and films that might be of general interest to the radical public. I have decided to do the same for some books that may perk that same interest under the title in this entry’s headline. Markin



Book Review



Trotsky: A Biography, Robert Service, Belknap Press Of The Harvard University Press, 2009



I have, on more than one previous occasion, noted that the spirit of the great Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, animates the political material reviewed in this space, and is some ways the materials presented makes no sense without acknowledging that hard truth. I have also noted, as well, that of all the biographies, sketches, memoirs, etc. concerning the life and times of this extraordinary revolutionary that Isaac Deutscher’s three volume Prophet series done in the 1950s and 1960s still, to my mind, is the definitive such study of the man. After reading this Trotsky biography and another more specialized volume that centers on the last period of his life and his subsequent assassination by a Stalinist agent down in Mexico in 1940, both which have the benefit of the latest in archival, particularly Soviet archival, material I still hold to that opinion. However, the present book under review, gives a fairly decent exposition in one volume of Trotsky’s life, warts and all, from a liberal anti-communist academic perspective.

I admit to being somewhat surprised by Professor Service’s book. Not, as mentioned above for its expected liberal disdain for the Soviet experiment, that kind of expectation comes with wading into liberal academic territory. That disdain has been, moreover, telegraphed by Professor previously in his biographies of Stalin and Lenin. What is surprising is that Professor Service felt the need to write a biography of the fallen revolutionary Leon Trotsky in the year 2009 long after his ghost, and that of the Soviet Union, that he was instrumental in creating, especially its military structure, have left the scene and apparently no longer, according to his remarks at the end of the book animate world politics. Furthermore, while I believe this book has a certain merit as a contemporary Trotsky primer it certainly has not revealed much new in the way of biographical material despite the opening up of the archives. That is the sense, or one of the senses, that I mean when I say I continue to stand in awe of Isaac Deutscher’s exhaustive study.

For those not familiar with Trotsky’s life Service details his Ukrainian Jewish childhood, his early pre-revolutionary activities, his immersion into the Russian revolutionary milieu in Russian and in exile, his leadership of the Russian revolution of 1905 and after its defeat its defense , the pre-World War I free agent period, the struggle against World War I, the 1917 February and October revolutions where he links his fate with the Bolsheviks , the civil war to defend that October revolution, and Trotsky’s key role in creating the Red Army and the Communist International. He also details the post-Lenin inner-Bolshevik Party struggle where Trotsky’s star started to fate, his internal and then eternal exiles after his defeats at the hand so f Stalin, his fight to create the stillborn Fourth International to replace the Communist International in the fight for world socialist revolution and his assassination at the hands of a Stalinist agent in 1940. Along the way he also gives scope to Trotsky’s wide ranging literary and intellectual interest that permitted him to continue to make his mark on the political world after his exile, to make a living and to fund his various political projects.

In one sense it is hard for a biographer, any biographer, to say something new about such an open book political man as Leon Trotsky. Both because he wrote much, including his memoirs, My Life, self-serving as Professor Service believes or not, about his political life and positions from early on well before the Russian Revolution of 1905 and because the events that he was associated with left little room for not previously making it onto the pages of history. So what is left for a biographer, Robert Service or Isaac Deutscher included. Well, since no one has scoured the archives and found that Trotsky really did take German gold during World War I. Or that he really, as charged in the Moscow trials, was an agent of the Mikado, British imperialism or Hitlerite Germany then what is left is speculation, now apparently endless speculation, about his personal character flaws.

This is actually the ground that makes Service’s book interesting as he, like others before him detail Trotsky’s prickly personality, his failure to suffer fools gladly (or at all), his aloofness and haughtiness that made him less than the perfect choice for leadership of political factions in the struggle for power. Service’s Trotsky comes out loud and clear as being primarily one of the last of the free agent revolutionaries that while, perhaps, belonging to revolutionary organizations set their own agenda. That, in the end, was a key to Trotsky’s political undoing. Service also details more extensively than I have seen elsewhere some of Trotsky private traits like his late life affair with the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, his health issues and his strained relationships with most of his kin folk.

For those who have not read a previous Trotsky biography and who understand that Professor Service is one of those liberal academics who see Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin as basically all part of the same anti-Western democratic political original sin, Bolshevism, then there is much that can be gleaned from his work. But, I always come back to this hard fact when dealing with the life of the much maligned, besmirched, and denigrated revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky, warts and all, comes as close as any historic figure that has come out of bourgeois society to being the proto-type for the new communist man that humankind has products thus far. In that sense Leon Trotsky is in need of no certificate of revolutionary good conduct from Robert Service, Mikhail Gorbachev, this writer or the reader. Enough said.