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Please join Peace Action Manhattan and Peace Action New York State as we welcome Peace Action National Board member and Upper Hudson Peace Action activist Larry Wittner to NYC!
Larry Wittner: Working for Peace and Justice – Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual
Date: Monday, May 14, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Where: Goddard Riverside Community Center (593 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY at 88th Street)
A New York City-born, Columbia University-educated academic, Lawrence Wittner has been a key participant in the peace, racial equality, and labor movements of the past half-century. This talk is based on his recently-published autobiography, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual (University of Tennessee Press). Copies of Working for Peace and Justice and the author’s other book, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
$20 donation requested, and light refreshments will be served
Copies of Working for Peace and Justice will be available for purchase, and the proceeds from their sale at this event will also benefit the Peace Action Fund.
For more information or to register and pre-pay, please click here. Read more →
Yesterday President Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan and signed an agreement with the Afghan government reaffirming that U.S. combat troops would be withdrawn by the end of 2014 but also committing a U.S. presence in Afghanistan through 2024. This is not the kind of hope and change the peace movement was looking for from the president, as our nation’s longest war continues far into the future.
Peace Action National has some great editorial responses to the president’s speech about this agreement: you can see the piece Executive Director Kevin Martin co-authored here, and the piece Field Director Judith LeBlanc wrote here.
Our friends at Peace Action West have created an editorial packet with lots of information – you can find out tons of information by clicking here and reading their work.
PANYS is coordinating a state-wide lobby day on Monday, May 14 with our 15 chapters to ask our representatives to cut the bloated nuclear weapons budget and fund our communities instead. If you are interested in joining one of our chapters on a lobby visit, please contact the state office at info@panys.org or call 646-723-1749.
The president’s FY2013 budget request includes $7.6 billion for nuclear weapons, part of a ten year commitment to spend $185 billion for nuclear warhead modernization and nuclear-capable delivery systems. Meanwhile, programs such as food stamps and Pell grants are on the chopping block, and with less money available for states, public services and education budgets are being slashed at the local level. PANYS believes our state-wide lobby day effort can influence our representatives – knowing our chapters are coming to them as part of this coordinated effort on the behalf of thousands New Yorkers is a powerful statement, and we can make a difference!
For more information on our “move the money/new priorities” lobby day, keep reading below the jump… Read more →
Peace Action National is on the organizing committee for an amazing event:
Help Build a NATO-Free Future: Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice, Chicago, May 18 – 19
Read the International Call to Retire NATO!
While NATO meets in Chicago & the G8 summit has been moved to Camp David, peace and justice activists will gather to map an alternative path towards a world free of war, want and occupations. Click here for details and keep reading for more info… Read more →
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On Monday, May 14 PANYS is sponsoring a state-wide lobby day, asking our Congressional representatives to change federal spending priorities to fund human needs and our communities, not nuclear weapons or wars. Please contact your local chapter to get involved!