Dear All,
We are at a crossroads, faced with a climate
crisis that threatens to end our world as we know it. We can’t afford the
greenhouse gas emissions arising from the way we live and from war and
preparation for war.
Massachusetts Peace Action calls on
all who want to preserve our planet to join the People’s Climate
March in New York City on
September 21st and to form a Stop the Wars, Stop the
Warming Contingent.
 The People's Climate March will be the largest
climate protest ever. World leaders are coming to New York City for a UN summit
on the climate crisis. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging governments
to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming
pollution.
With our future on the line and the whole
world watching, we’ll take a stand to bend the course of history. We’ll take to
the streets to demand the world we know is within our reach: a world with an
economy that works for people and the planet; a world safe from the ravages of
climate change; a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy
communities.
We go to New York with the following
demands:
- Re-direct military spending to the
creation of millions of green jobs and to research for a rapid transition from
fossil fuels to non-polluting energy sources.
- Stop building new fossil fuel
infrastructure, including the Keystone pipeline project. Rapidly end fracking
projects and the awarding of any new offshore drilling contracts
- Move quickly toward mutual abolition
of all nuclear weapons as required by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty.
- Stop blocking the proposals for
effective international action on climate change being put forward by the Group
of 77 and other developing countries.
We can’t effectively address climate
change without ending war and militarism and the massive carbon pollution which
they directly and indirectly generate.
And we can’t end war without ending the
fossil fuel energy system which war protects.
Read Stop the Wars, Stop the Warming: An Appeal to the Peace and
Climate Movements.
Date: September 21st,
Sunday
Time: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Location: New York
City
 Reserve Bus Tickets
Now: bit.ly/pcm-bus. 1-day or 2-day trips.
Departures from Cambridge, Jamaica Plain, Worcester, Amherst, and Rhode
Island.
People’s Climate March: Peace &
Justice Hub • peoplesclimate.org/peace
Dig deep into the issues at
the NYC Climate
Convergence, Friday, Sept. 19 evening and
Saturday, Sept. 20. Empire State College, New York City
Stop the Wars, Stop the Warming
Professor Charles Derber, Boston College
Professor Derber is a public sociologist
whose research and teaching focus on political economy, political sociology,
environmental sociology, and social change. Recent topics of his books and
ocurse include the economic crisis, globalization, corporations and society,
climate change, the sociology of war and peace, and social
movements.
His current work focuses on globalization,
corporate power, American militarism, the culture of hegemony, and the new peace
and global justice movements. The world is becoming as dominated by business
values and power today as America was by the Robber Barons a century ago. Derber
is persuaded that the overwhelming economic and cultural power of global
corporations, increasingly melded with the political and military hegemonic
power of the American government and the crisis of climate change, are together
an integrated crisis that is now the pre-eminent social issue of the 21st
century, and that we need a new vision and political movement that can offer an
alternative.
Date: August 28th,
Thursday
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Encuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston, MA
(Across from Park Street
Station)
Hot War: Climate Change, Conflict and
Sustainability
How climate change will provoke world
conflict...and why sustainability is the only sure road to peace.
Michael Klare, Five
College professor of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five
College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), holds a B.A. and
M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union
Institute. He has written widely on U.S. military policy, international peace
and security affairs, the global arms trade, and global resource politics.
"Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine, the
East and South China Seas: wherever you look, the world is aflame with new or
intensifying conflicts. At first glance, these upheavals appear to be
independent events, driven by their own unique and idiosyncratic circumstances.
But look more closely and they share several key characteristics— notably, a
witch’s brew of ethnic, religious, and national antagonisms that have
been stirred to the boiling point by a fixation on
energy.... It would be easy to attribute all this to age-old hatreds, as
suggested by many analysts; but while such hostilities do help drive these
conflicts, they are fueled by a most modern impulse as well: the desire to
control valuable oil and natural gas assets. Make no mistake about it, these
are twenty-first-century energy wars."
Date: September
11th, Thursday
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: TBA (Boston/Cambridge)
Sponsor: United for Justice with
Peace
People's Climate Tour
The
People’s Climate Tour will bring a diverse and inspiring array of social
movement leaders on the intersection of climate change and social justice, and
how you can get involved in this movement of movements.
-Bill
McKibben - author, educator, environmentalist, co-founder of 350.org
-Vanessa
Rule - Co-Director of Mothers Out Front, co-founder of Better Future
Project
-Koreti
Mavaega Tiumalu - Pacific Islands Climate Warrior Campaigner
-Sandra
Steingraber - Biologist, author, and science advisor for Americans Against
Fracking
-Varshini
Prakash - UMass Amherst student, Board Member at Responsible Endowments
Coalition and Divestment Student Network
-And
more!
Date: Friday, August 22
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Boston Opera House, 538
Tremont St. (Chinatown or Boylston T)
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For peace and sustainability,
Rosalie Anders
Peace-Climate Working
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