Countries throughout the world are celebrating May Day, also referred to as International Labor Day. In Russia, the holiday is marked in every big city. In the capital alone, an estimated 120,000 people have shown up. The holiday is being marked worldwide, starting in the east and following the sun around the globe. In Asia, [...]
IWagePeace.org is helping to bring Combatants For Peace to New Haven to share their techniques for holding constructive bi-national meetings. According to Bruce Barrett, editor of IWagePeace.org and and sponsor of the Billboard from Bethlehem, “starting Monday, July 16, 2012, with the IWagePeace Walk in New Haven, they will struggle with us, as Abrahamic people, walking [...]
Save The Date! Sat., April 21, 2012 3:00 – 6:00 P.M. Refreshments Peoples Center 37 Howe St. New Haven, CT Peace Council Open House, April 21 Guns or Butter? Warmaking takes 58% of the Federal Budget! Change Course! Fund Jobs, Education, Clean Energy! Vijay Prashad “How the 1% Uses the U.S. Military and NATO to [...]
99% Spring Action Training Event sponsor: 350ct.org, MoveOn.org Yale Divinity School on Prospect Hill, New Haven, CT 06511 Saturday, April 14th, 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM (We’ll send you the full address when you sign up.) Let’s keep the momentum going! Please sign up for this gathering right away! Message from your host, Justin H.: [...]
Dear civil rights supporters, On February 18th, 2012 in Berlin, CT, 100 of us met in order to chart a campaign to repeal the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The meeting was co-sponsored broadly by 31 different organizations, including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT), ACLU-CT, National Lawyers Guild-CT, [...]
Hear Keith Bolender, author of Voices from the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism against Cuba. From the moment the revolution triumphed in 1959 up until today, Cuba has been subjected to terrorist attacks as right-wing Cuban exiles, with the aid and complicity of the U.S. government, have sought to overthrow the Cuban government. [...]
In 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the United Nations held its landmark Conference on Environment and Development. Also known as the Earth Summit, the Conference set the global environmental agenda for the next two decades. Now, twenty years on, the world’s governments, development practitioners, and environmental activists are set to reconvene once again, in [...]
G8 Moving to Camp David! NATO summit will still in Chicago… and so will we! On May 6, the White House announced that the G8 summit, scheduled for Chicago on May 19-20, will be moved to Camp David, although the NATO summit will still take place in Chicago May 20-21. Click here to read the [...]
Monday, 26 March 2012 / PNN – The High Follow-Up Popular Resistance Commission during a regular meeting held this afternoon at the Office of mobilization and organization in Ramallah in the presence of the Popular Resistance coordinators from different sites called to broader popular participation in the activities of “Land Day” which falls on the [...]
Say No! to the NATO/G8 Wars and Poverty Agenda A Conference to Challenge the Wars of the 1% Against the 99% Abroad and at Home. Say No! to the NATO/G8 Wars and Poverty Agenda A Conference to Challenge the Wars of the 1% Against the 99% Abroad and at Home. A Conference to Challenge the [...]