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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

AFSC joined other United for Justice and Peace organizations to bring our “Troops Home Now!” message to the January 20 New England Patriots – San Diego Chargers American Football League play off game.

Bring the Voices of Iraq Vets Against the War to Your Home or Community

October 27 National Day of Action New England United Demonstration Boston Common – Photos http://newenglandunited.org

Massachusetts Voters Vote Overwhelmingly to Bring U.S. Troops Home from Iraq Now

On November 7, 60% of the voters in 36 state representative districts voted in favor of a resolution calling on Congress and the President to end the Iraq war immediately and bring all U.S. military forces home from Iraq.

Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon the President and Congress of the United States to end the war in Iraq immediately and bring all United States military forces home from Iraq.

Download Eyes Wide Open poster (PDF, 1 MB)

No Bases

• "Enduring" U.S. Bases in Iraq: Monopolizing the Middle East Prize by Joseph Gerson
• Bases Fuera: No Military Bases Network Launch Conference, March 2007
• Beyond Empire and the Bomb: Joseph Gerson's Bikini Day Commemoration Speech

Asia-Pacific Issues

• Imperial Geopolitics, China, and Article 9: Forces Driving the Possible Revision of the Japanese Constitution
• A China Bibliography

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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