Peace and Economic Security Program

National Project on Foreign Military Bases

Initial conference report


China Delegation

Leaders of the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament with U.S. participants in the Second Annual U.S.-China Peace Forum held in Washington, D.C. March 9, 2009.

Michael Klare – Energy, the Environment, and U.S.-Chinese Relations

Zia Mian – The Nuclear Challenge

Mary Lord - Presentation on the US Peace Movement

Asia-Pacific Page (with information on last year's delegation)


New Strategies for the Obama Era Conference


Photos by Ellen Shub

Featured speakers included:

Noam Chomsky, renowned author and linguist
Bill Fletcher Jr., radical trade unionist
Zia Mian, of the Woodrow Wilson School of Policy, Princeton University
Raed Jarrar, half Iraqi and half Palestinian architect and political analyst
Ken Ward, environmental activist
Anna Galland, of MoveOn.org
Emily Kawano, Center for Popular Economics

Co-Sponsoring Organizations

American Friends Service Committee

Tufts University Peace and Justice Studies Department

United for A Fair Economy

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Massachusetts Peace Action

City Life / Vida Urbana

View Zia Mian's and Noam Chomsky's talks

Anna Galland on Lessons and Hope


Graphic notes by Mike Fleisch


Addressing Obama's Policies

The Politics of Escalation.  Tom Hayden and Joseph Gerson, The Nation, May 12 2009.

Audio Recording: Joseph Gerson on New Strategies for the Obama Era.  Bangor Maine, March 21, 2009

Nuclear Dangers and the Possibilities and Promises of Abolition.  Sermon by Joseph Gerson, Amherst Unitarian Church, February 8 2009.

For Gaza. Talk by Joseph Gerson, January 30 2009.

Obama in Global Perspective: Essay for the Organization of American Historians.

Obama's Election Triumph: Paradoxes of Hope. Prepared for Japan Peace Committee's Peace Journal.

Afghanistan, Socks and a Moral Compass


Book
Cover

New book: Empire and the Bomb
now available

Leading nuclear specialist and peace campaigner Joseph Gerson explains why atomic weapons were first built and used--and how the United States uses them today to preserve its global empire. Read more about Gerson's new book, Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World

Empire and Nuclear Weapons Published on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 by Foreign Policy in Focus

Empire in Decline: What the Presidential Candidates Aren’t Telling Us, Sermon, Bedford, Ma. Unitarian Church, Feb. 10, 2008

Empire, The Bomb, and Common Security, Sermon, Nantucket Unitarian Church, Sept. 30, 2007

Clinton and Obama: Wed to Nuclear Terrorism

Joseph Gerson's Hiroshima World Conference Speech


End the Iraq War

We Can Overcome our Complex of Crises- Joseph Gerson's speech at the Boston "End the War" Rally - October 11, 2008

Hiroshi Takakusaki's speech at the Boston "End the War" Rally - October 11, 2008

Eyes Wide Open

Eyes Wide Open
Download Eyes Wide Open poster (PDF, 1 MB)

No Bases


Asia-Pacific Issues


Recent work for peace and economic security

U.S. Foreign Military Bases & Military Colonialism: Personal and Analytical Perspectives – by Joseph Gerson

Why I was Arrested (On Cambridge Common) For Protesting The War by Joseph Gerson

Sign and Circulate Gensuikyo’s "Call for the Swift Abolition of Nuclear Weapons"

Joseph Gerson's speech to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's Annual Conference

Zia Mian on  “Protecting the Empire: Nuclear Weapons, Military Bases and the United States”


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