Massachusetts Peace Action presents a screening of the documentary Why We Fight followed by brief discussion.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Coolidge Corner Branch Library, 31 Pleasant St., Brookline • Green Line “C”

Why We Fight, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2005 documentary about the military–industrial complex. The film won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was misled so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.
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President Obama announced Wednesday night that he will withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan this year and 20,000 in 2012. That will still leave 70,000 US troops, tens of thousands of NATO troops, and tens of thousands of foreign military contractors, in Afghanistan. It is a plan for continued war.

Massachusetts Peace Action and other peace groups have scheduled a demonstration Thursday, June 23, at 5pm, at Park Street Station in downton Boston, to protest the continuation of the Afghanistan war.

The action is co-sponsored by United for Justice with Peace, Boston UNAC, Massachusetts Peace Action, Veterans for Peace / Smedley Butler Brigade, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Code Pink, Majority Agenda Project, Massachusetts Global Action, Stop the Wars Coalition, and Military Families Speak Out.

Response vigils will also be held in Newton, Framingham, New Bedford, Worcester, Northampton, and Hadley. See full details here.
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When: Monday, June 27, 2011, 1:00 pm
Where: First Church in Cambridge • Hastings Room • 11 Garden St • Harvard Sq T • Cambridge

Nang Khai will speak on the history of Burma, problems of the military dictatorship and what Americans can do. Khai, a senior at Loras College and native of Mandalay, Burma, is a student activist who is working with Massachusetts Peace Action this summer.

A light lunch will be served. Donation $5 requested.

A Peace Action Lunchtime Seminar

Connecting the twin dangers of nuclear weapons and nuclear power:
No more Hiroshimas and Fukushimas!
 

Saturday, July 16, 2011

2-5pm

Copley Square, Boston

On this day 66 years ago – July 16, 1945 – the nuclear age began with the Trinity atom-bomb test in the New Mexico desert. It’s time for the nuclear age to end.
 

Let’s begin to end it in Copley Square on July 16, 2011!
 

Come LISTEN, LEARN and Join in the FUN !
 

Click here for more information!

Donations are needed to sponsor the Festival for a Nuclear Free Future!

• Major Donor: $1,000 or more. Will be prominently listed on our website and printed materials and publicly thanked at the event.
• Sponsor: $500. Will be named as a sponsor on our website and printed materials.   May set up two exhibit tables at the event and has first choice of their position.
• Supporter: $100. Will be named as a supporter on our website, and may set up one exhibit table at the event.
• Endorser: $40. Will be named as an endorser on our website.

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