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Anticipating the Obama Administration
Obama in Gloabal Perspective: Essay for the Organization of American HistoriansObama's Election Triumph: Paradoxes of Hope. Prepared for Japan Peace Committee's Peace Journal
U.S. Peace Delegation to China
Between April 17 and 29, 2008 Joseph Gerson, Director of AFSC Programs in New England, led a twelve member U.S. peace movement delegation to China to learn about Chinese perspectives of U.S.-China relations and of the U.S. military build up in the Asia-Pacific Region. The Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament hosted the delegation for meetings with Chinese Party and Government officials, scholars and think tank researchers. The delegation visited Beijing, Yan’an, Xian and Shanghai. A joint AFSC- CPAPD Peace Forum was held in Beijing on April 22. Keynote speeches by Delegation members follow below. Speeches given by Chinese participants will be posted as soon as we receive the translations.
Kitty Hsu Dana – Peace
Forum Opening Remarks
Joseph Gerson - China’s
Rise and U.S.-Chinese
Relations
Joe Volk – New
ideas and New Problems in Maintaining
International
Peace and Security
Kevin Martin – The
Untied States, China, and the Middle
East
Patricia DeBoer - The
Role of NGOs in Building International Peace
and Security
Andrew Tomlinson – Non-Governmental
organizations at the United
Nations and the Work of the
Quaker United Nations Office
Delegation’s
Summary Statement
Meetings
and Interlocutors
Bibliography:
Introduction to Chinese Political History,
Chinese
Security Policies, and
U.S.-Chinese Relations
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, 2008Hiroshi Takakusaki's speech at the Boston "End the War" Rally - October 11, 2008
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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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