Sunday, April 13, 2014


Pivoting for Peace in Asia/Pacific


CHALLENGING US MILITARISM AND CORPORATE DOMINANCE


KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Hideki YoshikawaHideki Yoshikawa, environmental campaigner; leader of the Okinawa movement against U.S. military bases; professor at Univ. of the Ryukyus and at Meio Univ.
SPEAKERS 
The Pivot: Motivations, Dimensions, Impacts, Possible Consequences
Joseph Gerson, AFSC: Overview
Duncan McFarland, UJP: Chinese foreign & military policies
Alex Brown, Pres., IUE-CWA Local 201: Trans Pacific Partnership
 
Introductions: The Most Dangerous Hot Spots
Hyun LeeHyun Lee, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development: Northeast Asia
Yuichi Moroi, Temple University: Senkaku/Diaoyu; Japan-China-US
Impacts of the Pivot at Home: Building a Movement
Bruce GagnonBruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space: Solidarity
Mike Prokosch, New Priorities Network, Dorchester People for Peace: Move the Money, Costs of the Pivot
Speaker from Asian American Resource Workshop: The View from Asian American Communities

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Saturday, April 19, 2014, 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Cambridge Friends Meeting • 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge • Harvard T 

This April President Obama will return to Asia and the Pacific to press military, economic and diplomatic “Pivot” from Iraq and Afghanistan to Asia and the Pacific. The goal: to “manage China’s rise” in ways that ensure continued U.S. dominance. 60% of the Air Force and 60% of the Navy are being deployed to the region. Military alliances are being deepened, new military bases built, and hundreds of billions dollars diverted to deploy dangerous advanced weaponry. And the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is being negotiated in secret.

Little known to most Americans, though most don’t realize it, we’ve come to the brink of war – potentially nuclear war – twice in the last two years, first during tensions with North Korea and then over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Our hundreds of military bases have devastating impacts on people in “host” communities. And TPP will cost us jobs, worsen working conditions and assault the environment, all to increase U.S. economic leverage over China and further maximize corporate profits and power.

RegisterButton300The all day conference will bring us up to date on what is happening in Asia/Pacific, how it will affect us here at home, and what we can do.  Join us as we build our ability to pivot for peace, instead of for war.

Sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, Massachusetts Peace Action, United for Justice with Peace, Asian American Resource Workshop, and MoveOn.org Boston Council

Registration $10; with lunch $20.  Donations to the event beyond the cost of registration and lunch are tax-deductible. They are needed to meet the travel costs for our speakers.

Register: http://pivoting-for-peace.bpt.me or call 800-838-3006

Info: JSherysr@afsc.org   phone: (617) 661-6130




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