SAVE THE DATES and GET READY TO UNMUTE YOURSELF! Unmute Yourself is back and we’ll be bringing you the latest from smart, innovative and committed colleagues and partners—speakers to be announced soon! Unmute Yourself: UKRAINE PART II Thursday, February 23, 2023 10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET Because of Russia’s devastating war in… Read More »online – Unmute Yourself: UKRAINE PART II
Bill Fletcher Jr. Principal at Common Forces, LLC, former president of TransAfrica Forum, longtime trade unionist and writer The James Baldwin Lecture is co-presented by the UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, the Department of History, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts From joining with First Nations peoples to contest… Read More »online – None of Us Is Free Unless All Are Free: Anti-Imperialism and the Black Radical Tradition
Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.
Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. @ 4 pm – 5 pm. FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.
Webinar Registration https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aw1N_pRlTOaZxzaa0ZGHAA Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Microsoft (Outlook) Topic Colonial Canada and the Caribbean: Past and present Description To mark Black History month we are hosting a webinar discussion on Canada's colonial role in the Caribbean, past and present, from Canadian trade relations with the slave plantation economy to gunboat diplomacy and Canadian banking… Read More »online – Colonial Canada and the Caribbean: Past and present
One year after the beginning of the Ukraine war – the International Peace Bureau in cooperation with the Peace in Ukraine Coalition (USA), Movement de la Paix (France), CND (UK) and Transform! Europe will hold an international webinar to bring together different voices from different countries to discuss a lasting peace in Ukraine and our way towards it. Introductory words… Read More »online – 365 Days of War in Ukraine: Prospects Towards Peace in 2023
Join CODEPINK and the VFP Nuclear Abolition Working Group for a special presentation and discussion with the new Coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA), Tanvi Kardile. OREPA has been the watchdog and tip of the sword in the resistance to our nuclear weapons program in Oak Ridge Tennessee. For a quarter of… Read More »Nuclear Abolition Webinar with Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA)
Join CODEPINK, Humanity Rising and Ubiquity University for a Peace in Ukraine Educational series. Monday: Big Picture with Vladimir Posner and Katrina Vanden Huevel Tuesday: Nuclear Threat with Daniel Ellsberg Wednesday: Costs of War with Kambale (friends of the Congo), Wei Yu (China Is Not Our Enemy Campaign Coordinator), Teddy Ogborn (War is Not Green Campaign… Read More »online – Peace in Ukraine: Pathway to Peace Series
Join the Peace Collective for our coffee hour! This is for organizing, bonding, and discussing current events for our CODEPINK youth. Register for this event to receive the zoom link: https://www.codepink.org/ch_feb23
Join the CODEPINK team and local CODEPINK chapters for the third monthly community meeting on Monday, February 27th at 3pm PT/6pm ET! We'll discuss current campaigns, upcoming actions, and possibilities for local collaboration. The national CODEPINK team will also share some tools and resources for local chapters to use. RSVP for the Zoom link, and email… Read More »online – February CODEPINK Community Call
Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation of… Read More »online – Impact of the Antiwar Movement on Vietnam War Policy
Military recruiting of high school students has been a tactic of the United States military services and a concern for many parents, grandparents, and families for decades. Recently, meeting recruitment goals has become more difficult for military recruiters, so much so that there are alarming reports of students in high schools across the country being… Read More »online – Opposing the Militarization of Youth
Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. @ 4 pm – 5 pm. FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.
Our speaker, Michael Klare, will discuss the sources of US-China tensions, the dangers of the current approach the US government is taking, and how grassroots peace groups can address this issue. Michael Klare is professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Arms Control Association in… Read More »online – The Coming War with China
Ongoing Wellstone Meetings First Thursday - March 2nd at 7:00 pm General Membership Meeting Please check your email for the Zoom link after signing up at: https://wellstonedems.club/ Zach Freels will be speaking on the importance of union representation in… Read More »Wellstone Monthly General Meeting
The Roadmap To Unification of The Korean Peninsula: One Nation, Two States, Three Governments The Korean Peninsula remains the only divided nation in the world, the only region still separated by the cold war. Despite living in different systems for seven decades, Koreans are still one nation, sharing the same language and cultural heritage. Reunification… Read More »online – The Roadmap To Unification of The Korean Peninsula
Liz Oliva Fernández Producer and Journalist, Belly of the Beast Alejandra Laprea Documentary Filmmaker and Co-founder of the Feminist Spider Network of Collectives in Venezuela Diana Sierra Becerra – Moderator – Popular Educator and Historian, UMass Amherst This panel of Latin American feminists will discuss the relationship between patriarchy and U.S. imperialism, specifically the fatal… Read More »online – Feminists Against Empire: Resistance to U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes
On Tuesday, March 7, join CODEPINK Congress and Massachusetts Peace Action for the next Capitol Calling Party to discuss Europe’s momentous anti-war movement. From reading the corporate media, you’d never know that thousands of Germans, Italians, Britons, French and other European anti-war activists are marching in the street to tell their government to stop sending weapons… Read More »online – Europe’s Anti-War Movement
Allyship & the Fight for Palestinian Liberation Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 | 11:30am ET/6:30pm Palestine This is the final episode in a four-part series, "Learning and Unlearning Palestine," produced by Al-Shabaka in partnership with the Foundation for Middle East Peace. In this webinar, Saleh Hijazi and Nadya Tannous join moderator Tariq Kenney-Shawa to explore what allyship and solidarity with the Palestinian liberation… Read More »online – Allyship & the Fight for Palestinian Liberation
register at: https://www.codepink.org/iwd23webinars Join CODEPINK on International Women’s Day 2023 as we come together to discuss the core values and missions of a feminist foreign policy, what we as feminists need to do in the ongoing rise of violence, hatred and environmental crisis and how we can engage locally and globally to stand in solidarity… Read More »IWD 2023: Feminist Voices for Peace Webinars
On International Women's Day, join a panel of leading thinkers and activists on the need for a real feminist foreign policy and what that could look like. SPEAKERS: Claudia de la Cruz, CODEPINK Ray Acheson, Women's International League of Peace & Freedom (WILPF) Tamara Lorincz, CFPI, Vow & poetry from El Jones BIOS Ray Acheson… Read More »online – Toward a Real Feminist Foreign Policy
CA PPC: International Women’s Day. End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing! Join CA Poor People's Campaign nationwide event for International Women’s Day. End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing! March 8, 2023 12:30-2:30 Pacific time. RSVP here- https://bit.ly/CAPPCM8 Confirmed speakers: Rev. Liz Theoharis, Shailly Gupta Barnes, and Rep.Gwen Moore (D-WI). The program will… Read More »online – CA PPC: International Women’s Day. End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing!
This International Women’s Day, Ploughshares Fund’s Equity Rises turns our full attention towards women who are challenging the prevailing view that threats, force, and war are necessary to resolve global conflicts. We’ll feature women who are broadening our understanding of what is possible by placing people—not weapons—at the center of our security and foreign policy.… Read More »online – Unmute Yourself: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
The Covid pandemic highlighted just how dysfunctional and inequitable the United States health care system is. Health care spending, both per person and as a share of the national budget, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries, and yet we have higher maternity and infant death rates than… Read More »online – Seeking Women’s Health Justice
Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. @ 4 pm – 5 pm. FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.
The JFK Peace Speech Committee will host its monthly showing and discussion of President Kennedy’s critically important address on world peace. This month the discussion will focus on how we might apply the principles of world peace that President Kennedy articulated. Those who are familiar with the speech and only want to participate in the… Read More »online – Applying President Kennedy’s American University Speech
Vincent Intondi’s new book examines how the June 12, 1982, rally for nuclear disarmament paved the way for a new generation of activists. On June 12, 1982, one million people filled the streets of New York City and rallied in Central Park to show support for the United Nations’ Second Special Session on Disarmament. They… Read More »online – Saving the World from Nuclear War
Special Wellstone Meeting! Barbara Lee comes to Sacramento! Please RSVP so that we can know how many people are coming. When you RSVP at the link below, you will get information and location of event. https://forms.gle/oeuGndZmH5FmepUJ8 Agenda
White House Call In Campaign: Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List Wed March 15 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm EDT Wednesday, March 15th 11:00am to 3:00pm We invite you to join us in National Call In Days to the White House to remove Cuba from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism… Read More »White House Call In Campaign: Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List
To view this email in your browser and get a url to share it: CLICK HERE APARTHEID-FREE COMMUNITIES: Exposing and Resisting Israeli Apartheid, Occupation, and Settler Colonialism Wednesday, 15 March 2023 9am PT, 10am MT, 11am CT, 12pm ET (US, Canada) / 4pm UTC / 6pm Palestine Register here: palestine.events/15March2023 The international human rights community agrees: Israel’s… Read More »online – APARTHEID-FREE COMMUNITIES: Exposing and Resisting Israeli Apartheid, Occupation, and Settler Colonialism
Join us for an upcoming NLG screening of Boycott Dear , We are delighted to invite you to a special screening of Just Vision’s new documentary, Boycott, on March 15th at 4-6pm PST/ 7-9PM EST. Following the screening, we look forward to hosting a Q&A with the film’s Director Julia Bacha and movement attorneys Meera Shah… Read More »online – Defending Dissent: Virtual Screening and Discussion of Boycott
This event is co-sponsored by US-China Peoples Friendship Association – New England Chapter; CODEPINK; and Institute for Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts – Boston. As US foreign policy and media coverage has turned more and more negative towards China, racist incidents against Asians and Chinese Americans are more frequent. This is not new, mainstream US… Read More »online – US Foreign Policy Towards China and Its Impact on Racism Against Asians Nationally and in Boston
Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. @ 4 pm – 5 pm. FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.
Thursday, March 16th 6:00 pm Magali Kincaid, Wellstone President, has learned many lessons after her run for local office in 2018 and she wants to share those lessons so that we can all have the resources and tools to change our community!! Join her!! RSVP today! RSVP to Adelantegente@gmail.com
PACC 2023 Virtual Conference Registration Join us for our 2023 virtual Conference titled Centering Palestinian Narratives, People, and Visions from March 17 to March 19. Dates of the Conference: Friday, March 17 from 6:30 pm EST to 8:30 pm EST Saturday, March 18 from 11 am EST to 2 pm EST Sunday, March 19 from… Read More »2023 virtual Conference – Centering Palestinian Narratives, People, and Visions from March 17 to March 19.
Stitching Palestine Film Screening and Panel Discussion Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScL7YsHcaonEM_d7Zm_RO8RoXeIcQanTbf0W4en5OT7iv0Byg/viewform The DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity Working Group is excited to announce the national screening and panel discussion of the film, Stitching Palestine on Saturday March 18th at 1PM ET/ 10AM PT. This feature length documentary is centered around twelve Palestinian women who sit before… Read More »online – Stitching Palestine Film Screening and Panel Discussion
All Out Saturday, March 18, 12 Noon 24th and Mission, SF Stop Endless US Wars! No War in Ukraine! No to NATO! No Weapons, No Money for the Ukraine War Coinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S.-invasion of Iraq a major set of actions including a demonstration at the White House… Read More »San Francisco March (Part of National Action) – 20th Anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq
A Conversation with Jamal Al-Tahir, an Iraqi Living in Moscow On the 20th anniversary of the start of the US war against Iraq on March 19, 2003, MAPA is privileged to present a talk with Jamal Al-Tahir, a retired Iraqi engineer who is now lives in Moscow with his Russian wife. MAPA Board Member Jeff… Read More »online – Iraq 20 Years Later
Please join the No Way to Treat a Child campaign for a webinar next week on March 21 at 12 p.m. Eastern / 9 a.m. Pacific. In anticipation of new U.S. legislation advocating for Palestinian children's rights, we will analyze bills from previous congressional sessions to build a collective understanding of U.S. complicity in violating Palestinian… Read More »webinar – No Way to Treat a Child campaign
Very impactful bank protest event (coordinated with bank protest events all across the country) highlighting the link between our money going in the front door of Wells Fargo (via bank accounts and credit cards) and out the back door via loans from Wells Fargo to fossil fuel companies that make climate chaos worse. Please join… Read More »Stop Dirty Banking- National Day of Action
On Tuesday, March 21, join CODEPINK Congress for the next Capitol Calling Party featuring special guests David Swanson, Danaka Katovich, and Lindsay Koshgarian. President Biden has proposed a record $886 billion military budget for 2024. This budget includes $170 billion for new bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles and ballistic missile submarines; $30 billion for missile defense, $11… Read More »online – Tuesday, March 21 Capitol Calling Party
Nuclear Weapons Today—peril and promise Wed March 22 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT Wednesday March 22nd @ 8pm ET The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight, but some have said that’s not even close enough. Indeed, with the US abandoning nuclear proliferation treaties, spending… Read More »online – Nuclear Weapons Today—peril and promise
Put People Over the Pentagon! Wed March 22 @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT Join a livestream hosted by Public Citizen on Wednesday, March 22nd at 8:30 pm ET to hear from Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rev. Dr. William Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign, and other special guests about the… Read More »online – Put People Over the Pentagon! Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rev. Dr. William Barber II
Dave Inder Comar Attorney and Executive Director of Just Atonement Inc. Kali Rubaii Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University Nazli Tarzi Political Analyst Ross Caputi – Moderator – Co-author of The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History The Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 was catastrophic for Iraqi society, causing hundreds of thousands of… Read More »online – Resisting Imperial Memory: Confronting the History of U.S. Aggression in Iraq
Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. @ 4 pm – 5 pm. FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.
When: Mar 25, 2023, 12:00 PM EST March 25th marks the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the Saudi-led coalition’s bombing of Yemen. We cannot let there be a ninth! Please join a coalition of US and international groups including Peace Action, Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Action Corps, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Stop… Read More »International Yemen Can’t Wait Online Rally
Register at : https://www.codepink.org/03272023 Join CODEPINK, World BEYOND War, Andrew Behar with As You Sow, and Hannah Reid Rubinek and Jacey Bingler from Sunrise US on Monday, March 27th at 5pm PT/8pm ET for a discussion about the mounting controversy surrounding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, and how this impacts divestment from weapons, fossil fuels,… Read More »online – Attacks on ESG Investment and What They Mean for our Movements to Divest
The MOVEMENT and the “MADMAN” will premiere on Tuesday, March 28 at 9pm / 8pm (CT) on all PBS stations and will also stream on PBS.org during and after the premiere. The film tells the little-known story of how, in the fall of 1969, two of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history at the time caused President Nixon to abandon his secret, self-described “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the Vietnam War, including the possible use of… Read More »The Movement and the “Madman” (online film premiere)