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Together, we’ll learn how we can harness their teachings, tools, and legacies to inform our movement for Palestine and build a future free from oppression and systemic subjugation.

Register to attend.  Bring your questions to Professor M.V. Ramana, author of Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change (2024) and Paul Gunter, spokesman on nuclear reactor hazards and security concerns for Beyond Nuclear.  They will explore the industry and government’s arguments for nuclear power as reliable “green” energy while heavily subsidizing a nuclear power comeback at the taxpayers’ expense. Would the rebound of nuclear power be an environmental disaster at the expense of truly renewable sources of energy that are available to us today? Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear will moderate.

M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Ramana is the author of “The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India” (Penguin Books, 2012), co?editor of “Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream” (Orient Longman, 2003) and the author of “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change” (Verso books, 2024). He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group (INRAG), the Canadian Pugwash Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society.

Paul Gunter is a longtime environmental activist,  energy policy analyst and spokesperson with Beyond Nuclear on nuclear reactor hazards and security. He serves as Beyond Nuclear’s regulatory watchdog on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the commercial nuclear power industry. He is a 2008 recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award from the Tides Foundation for environmental activism  on the nuclear power and climate change issue. He has widely appeared in print and electronic media including Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now.” He was a cofounder of the antinuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976 to oppose the construction of the Seabrook (NH) nuclear power plant through public education, mobilization and non?violent direct action that helped launch the U.S. antinuclear movement. Prior to joining Beyond Nuclear he served for 16 years as the Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project for Nuclear Information and Resource Service in Washington, DC.

Sponsored by MAPA and Peace Action Maine. Cosponsored by Clamshell Alliance, Veterans for Peace national, VFP Golden Rule project, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Citizens Awareness Network, Cape Downwinders, Pax Christi MA, United American Indians of New England, North American Indian Center of Boston, Winona LaDuke, Tara Houska, Diné No Nukes, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safely, No TMI Restart, Dorchester People for Peace.                             

• Do not make any purchases 24 Hrs
• Do not shop online, or in-store
• No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
• Nowhere!

• Fast Food
• Gas
• Major Retailers
• Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non essential spending

• Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary
• (Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies)
• If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses.

• Talk about it, post about it, and document your actions that day!

• Corporations and banks only care about their bottom line.
• If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.
• If they don’t listen (they wont) we make the next blackout longer (We will)

1. The specific weapons that Israel is employing to maintain its apartheid system and for its assault on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.

2. The military contractors who produce and provide these weapons to Israel – especially those here in Massachusetts.

3. How divestment campaigns work and how they can function to push for an end to U.S. war aid to Israel.

4. The Bill in the Massachusetts Legislature (H.D.3630) to divest the Mass. State Pension Plan from companies selling weapons to Israel and Mass. Peace Action’s divestment campaign focused on pressuring the Mass. State Pension Fund and Massachusetts Universities to divest their holding in companies that provide these weapons to Israel.

Noam Perry is AFSC’s Economic Activism associate and one of the creators of Investigate, AFSC’s project that aims to expose corporate involvement in oppressive state violence structures and to promote standards for corporate social responsibility and respect for human rights. Its research efforts focus on corporations involved in incarceration and immigrant detention, the Israeli occupation, and the border industries. These are AFSC program focus areas, where there is an identified lack of available resources, coupled with explicit requests for such resources from the movements we work with. The Investigate project reaches out to the responsible investment community, to community activists, and to interfaith partners with information and tools for corporate engagement, corporate accountability, and divestment initiatives, to support the building of wide movements that can influence, limit, and monitor corporate abuse.

Join us for a discussion with Phyllis Bennis, activist, political analyst, and author of the recently published Understanding Palestine and Israel. Rami Khouri, Palestinian-American academic and journalist with over 50 years of experience reporting in the Middle East, will serve as moderator.

As the war in Gaza continues amidst a fragile ceasefire agreement, the struggle and call for justice in Palestine persists with many searching for truth and clarity. In Understanding Palestine and Israel, with a foreword by Palestinian analyst Omar Baddar, Phyllis Bennis answers key questions regarding the history and the current situation of the war between Israel and Palestine, addressing events prior to October 7, 2023, through Israel’s genocidal war and the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election.

From freedom of speech, the 2024 election, to your tax dollars, Bennis and Khouri will unpack historical perspectives, their experiences, and the impact the Palestine-Israel conflict has on Americans and the world today.