Posts tagged as:

war

Special Guest: Nonviolence Activist Kathy Kelly

Event info: Friday 30 September 2011 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

To RSVP and invite your friends on Facebook, Click Here Kathy Kelly, a long-time anti-war activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee will join us for a special presentation. She co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org), a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. About Kathy Kelly: Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, (www.vcnv.org) a [...]

Tagged as: militarism, peace, social movements, war

Read more

Jonathan Steele: Ten Years, Cost of War

Event info: Tuesday 18 October 2011 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Jonathan Steele has covered Afghanistan for the Guardian (London) for more than thirty years, and was part of the Guardian team which published the Wikileaks Afghanistan cables.  His latest book, Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, will be published by Counterpoint in October. October 2011 marks ten years of U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan.   [...]

Tagged as: community, history, Middle East, militarism, politics, war

Read more

“Lioness” Film and Discussion

Event info: Friday 10 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

They went to Iraq as cooks, clerks, and mechanics and returned a year later as part of America’s first generation of female combat veterans. Despite an official government policy that states that women are not supposed to partake in direct ground combat, the five women featured here most certainly did. LIONESS, tells the story of [...]

Tagged as: gender, Middle East, military, peace, trauma, war

Read more

“New Year Baby” Documentary Screening and Discussion

Event info: Friday 30 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

  Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she embarks on a journey to Cambodia in search of the truth and why her family’s history had been buried [...]

Tagged as: militarism, peace, reparations, social movements, South East Asia, war

Read more