An International Conference, Saturday, May 4, 2019; 9 am – 6 pm
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square, New York City
Click here for more information and to register. Admission is free, but space is limited.
The Cold War has ended. The interregnum between the old and new world disorders is marked by increasingly dangerous military, economic and high-tech confrontations among nuclear-armed countries. The U.S. National Strategy makes planning for possible wars against Russia and China the Pentagon’s new priority. China’s influence is growing across the Asia-Pacific and Eurasia. Russia is again asserting itself as a great power. Creation of a unified and independent European Union military has begun. Wars and competition for regional hegemony continue across the greater Middle East. And we face an “Indo-Pacific” strategic competition.
When peace movements have had success in the past, they have been part of broader movements addressing the deeper forces driving militarism and war. Those same forces generate a variety of other injustices and dangers, including growing disparities in wealth, disappearing democracy, xenophobic nationalisms, and destruction of the ecosystems we all depend on.
Speakers include: Daniel Ellsberg – Former Senior U.S. Nuclear War & Military Planner (via video); Boris Kargarlitsky – Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements (Russia); Sharon Dolev – Israeli Disarmament Movement (Israel); Lee Tae-ho – People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (Republic of Korea); Reiner Braun – International Peace Bureau (Germany); Karlene Griffiths Sekou – Movement for Black Lives; Andrew Lichterman – Western States Legal Foundation; Arielle Denis – International Peace Bureau (France); Achin Vanaik – Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (India); Yayoi Tsuchida – The Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Japan); Reese Chenault – U.S. Labor Against the War; Oleg Bodrov – Coalition Clean Baltic (Russia); Joseph Gerson – Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security, AFSC
Conference initiated by: American Friends Service Committee; Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; International Peace Bureau; Peace Action (National, New York and New Jersey); Western States Legal Foundation; Peace and Planet; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – New York Office; International Trade Union Confederation. Click here to register.
