Events

Join CODEPINK and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) for phone banks targeting Maersk, where we will be demanding they cut ties with genocide! Maersk facilitates the shipment of weapons to Israel and profits off genocide in Palestine.  

Please sign up for as many shifts as you can participate in! We’ll spend the first 15 minutes going over how to make the calls and answering questions, and by 12:15pm CT, we’ll start making calls. If it’s your first shift or you have questions, please make sure you join on time. If you’ve already participated in a Maersk phone bank with CODEPINK and PYM, feel free to pop in at any time to make your calls. Everyone is free to leave once they’ve made their calls! 

You will be provided with phone numbers and calling scripts once you join the zoom call. Zoom link will be sent upon RSVP.

CONTACT Nour · nour@codepink.org

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At corner of 16th & J, Sacramento - Rain cancels the event FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.  You can also call 916-402-1747 with any questions.           

(Yes it’s true, shifting power relations is the harder nut to crack.)

Hayes and Kaba have decades of organizing experience which they share across 246 pages. As Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of American history at UCLA puts it, “Hayes and Kaba have turned decades of collective wisdom and experience into the text we desperately need right now.”

Each of the book’s ten chapters shares examples of the nuts and bolts, successes and pitfalls of grassroots organizing, where “finding common ground with a broad spectrum of people” is the goal. The authors discussion of the importance of listening skills and patience (along with Paulo Freire’s approach to political education) will resonate with many of us who have been in meetings where we find ourselves working hard to maintain relationships while navigating differences.

Here are Hayes and Kaba on BUILDING A MOVEMENT THE SIZE OF THE ONE WE NEED:

“it’s not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics
and telling them, “Yours are bad, use these instead."

The Common Read is open to MAPA members and our interns, past and present, and is being organized by Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity working group members Suzanne Cooper, Claire Gosselin, and Rosemary Kean. Registration will close at 48 participants.

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The first of the five 90 minute sessions will be held on Thursday, January 23, 7 to 8:30 PM. Remaining meetings will continue on Thursday evenings- February 6 and 20 and March 6 and 20, and all will be on Zoom. Completing the book on the first day of Spring, we’ll move forward with new knowledge and tools to resist the abandonment of our communities by corporations and government and oppose the U.S. war machine at every turn.

You can get the book in paperback, ebook or hardcover from Haymarket Books – copy this link in your browser to see the options: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this- radicalize-you . FYI, there’s a workbook which we have saved as a PDF to be printed or viewed digitally, and other resources to access. Register

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The Israeli war on Gaza – widely considered genocide – did not begin on October 7, 2023. This series will look at the background of Zionism and colonialism that laid the foundation for ongoing wars and today’s violence in the Middle East. Palestinian dispossession, we will see, began more than a century ago.

• January 5 – CONQUEST AND COLONIALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE 20TH CENTURY: The roots of the contemporary Middle East go back to the First World War and its aftermath; the birth of Zionism as a political movement.

• January 12 – MANDATES AND REPRESSION IN PALESTINE AND BEYOND: The failure of the British colonial attempt to shape Palestine in conformance with the Balfour Declaration; Palestinian resistance and the first proposals for partition; Zionist terror; British, French colonialism in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

• January 26 – ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE AND “NAKBA”: The UN proposed partition of Palestine, Israeli declaration of independence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from 1947 to the present; Arab and Palestinian resistance.

• February 2 – LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: How the U.S. has shaped the contemporary Middle East from before the Cold War to the present. Indigenous nationalism and its opponents. Addressing the domestic colonial and imperial background to US support for Israel and its destabilizing interference in the region.

Speaker: Jeff Klein is a veteran anti-war activist, retired machinist and local trade-union president, who for 8 years until 2023 taught a course on “The US in the Middle East” at the UMass Boston Lifelong Learning Institute.  He is a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action and a member of its Gaza Israel Mideast peace campaign’s steering committee.

Since 2004 Jeff has traveled almost every year to Palestine/Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East, and has many close friends among veteran activists in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.  He has also worked in Nicaragua and for the exiled African National Congress in Zambia.  Check out his weekly presentations on “Genocide in Gaza” and read his articles on the Middle East.

Register to attend any or all of the four sessions.

Join CODEPINK and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) for phone banks targeting Maersk, where we will be demanding they cut ties with genocide! Maersk facilitates the shipment of weapons to Israel and profits off genocide in Palestine.  

Please sign up for as many shifts as you can participate in! We’ll spend the first 15 minutes going over how to make the calls and answering questions, and by 12:15pm CT, we’ll start making calls. If it’s your first shift or you have questions, please make sure you join on time. If you’ve already participated in a Maersk phone bank with CODEPINK and PYM, feel free to pop in at any time to make your calls. Everyone is free to leave once they’ve made their calls! 

You will be provided with phone numbers and calling scripts once you join the zoom call. Zoom link will be sent upon RSVP.

CONTACT Nour · nour@codepink.org

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At corner of 16th & J, Sacramento - Rain cancels the event FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.  You can also call 916-402-1747 with any questions.           

Register

The Israeli war on Gaza – widely considered genocide – did not begin on October 7, 2023. This series will look at the background of Zionism and colonialism that laid the foundation for ongoing wars and today’s violence in the Middle East. Palestinian dispossession, we will see, began more than a century ago.

• January 5 – CONQUEST AND COLONIALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE 20TH CENTURY: The roots of the contemporary Middle East go back to the First World War and its aftermath; the birth of Zionism as a political movement.

• January 12 – MANDATES AND REPRESSION IN PALESTINE AND BEYOND: The failure of the British colonial attempt to shape Palestine in conformance with the Balfour Declaration; Palestinian resistance and the first proposals for partition; Zionist terror; British, French colonialism in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

• January 26 – ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE AND “NAKBA”: The UN proposed partition of Palestine, Israeli declaration of independence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from 1947 to the present; Arab and Palestinian resistance.

• February 2 – LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: How the U.S. has shaped the contemporary Middle East from before the Cold War to the present. Indigenous nationalism and its opponents. Addressing the domestic colonial and imperial background to US support for Israel and its destabilizing interference in the region.

Speaker: Jeff Klein is a veteran anti-war activist, retired machinist and local trade-union president, who for 8 years until 2023 taught a course on “The US in the Middle East” at the UMass Boston Lifelong Learning Institute.  He is a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action and a member of its Gaza Israel Mideast peace campaign’s steering committee.

Since 2004 Jeff has traveled almost every year to Palestine/Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East, and has many close friends among veteran activists in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.  He has also worked in Nicaragua and for the exiled African National Congress in Zambia.  Check out his weekly presentations on “Genocide in Gaza” and read his articles on the Middle East.

Register to attend any or all of the four sessions.

This workshop will be led by Michelle Humphrey. Michelle is a literary agent based in Tucson, AZ.

To learn more about the peace economy, visit the peace economy website or explore The Local Peace Economy Workbook. You can download a digital version of The Local Peace Economy Workbook for free, or you can purchase a physical copy. 

These writing workshops will take place monthly.

  CONTACT  Marie · marie@codepink.org

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At corner of 16th & J, Sacramento - Rain cancels the event FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.  You can also call 916-402-1747 with any questions.           

(Yes it’s true, shifting power relations is the harder nut to crack.)

Hayes and Kaba have decades of organizing experience which they share across 246 pages. As Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of American history at UCLA puts it, “Hayes and Kaba have turned decades of collective wisdom and experience into the text we desperately need right now.”

Each of the book’s ten chapters shares examples of the nuts and bolts, successes and pitfalls of grassroots organizing, where “finding common ground with a broad spectrum of people” is the goal. The authors discussion of the importance of listening skills and patience (along with Paulo Freire’s approach to political education) will resonate with many of us who have been in meetings where we find ourselves working hard to maintain relationships while navigating differences.

Here are Hayes and Kaba on BUILDING A MOVEMENT THE SIZE OF THE ONE WE NEED:

“it’s not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics
and telling them, “Yours are bad, use these instead."

The Common Read is open to MAPA members and our interns, past and present, and is being organized by Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity working group members Suzanne Cooper, Claire Gosselin, and Rosemary Kean. Registration will close at 48 participants.

Register
The first of the five 90 minute sessions will be held on Thursday, January 23, 7 to 8:30 PM. Remaining meetings will continue on Thursday evenings- February 6 and 20 and March 6 and 20, and all will be on Zoom. Completing the book on the first day of Spring, we’ll move forward with new knowledge and tools to resist the abandonment of our communities by corporations and government and oppose the U.S. war machine at every turn.

You can get the book in paperback, ebook or hardcover from Haymarket Books – copy this link in your browser to see the options: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this- radicalize-you . FYI, there’s a workbook which we have saved as a PDF to be printed or viewed digitally, and other resources to access. Register

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At corner of 16th & J, Sacramento - Rain cancels the event FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.  You can also call 916-402-1747 with any questions.