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SUMMARY:Divesting from Israel's Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nJoin us on April 1 to learn about: \n1. The specific weapons that Israel is employing to maintain its apartheid system and for its assault on Gaza\, the West Bank\, Lebanon and Syria. \n2. The military contractors who produce and provide these weapons to Israel – especially those here in Massachusetts. \n3. How divestment campaigns work and how they can function to push for an end to U.S. war aid to Israel. \n4. The Bill in the Massachusetts Legislature (H.D.3630) to divest the Mass. State Pension Plan from companies selling weapons to Israel and Mass. Peace Action’s divestment campaign focused on pressuring the Mass. State Pension Fund and Massachusetts Universities to divest their holding in companies that provide these weapons to Israel. \nNoam Perry is AFSC’s Economic Activism associate and one of the creators of Investigate\, AFSC’s project that aims to expose corporate involvement in oppressive state violence structures and to promote standards for corporate social responsibility and respect for human rights. Its research efforts focus on corporations involved in incarceration and immigrant detention\, the Israeli occupation\, and the border industries. These are AFSC program focus areas\, where there is an identified lack of available resources\, coupled with explicit requests for such resources from the movements we work with. The Investigate project reaches out to the responsible investment community\, to community activists\, and to interfaith partners with information and tools for corporate engagement\, corporate accountability\, and divestment initiatives\, to support the building of wide movements that can influence\, limit\, and monitor corporate abuse. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/divesting-from-israels-genocide/
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CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel,Raytheon Antiwar Campaign
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SUMMARY:"Deadly Betrayal: The Truth about why the US Invaded Iraq" with Dennis Fritz and Lawrence Wilkerson
DESCRIPTION:Former Air Force command chief master sergeant Dennis Fritz and Colonel (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson will be speaking at the Community Church of Boston at 6:00pm on Friday\, April 11 about chief Fritz’ book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why The US Invaded Iraq. This book provides important context for current events happening in West Asia/Middle East. \nFollowing their talk and Q&A discussion (from 6:00pm – 7:30pm)\, copies of Deadly Betrayal will be available for purchase and signing from 7:30pm – 8:00pm. \n\nNOTE: Since we are purchasing copies of the book in advance\, if you would like to purchase a copy\, please let me know\, so we know how many copies to order.\n\n \nThe event is both in-person (565 Boylston St. Boston\, MA 02116\, 2nd floor) or on Zoom. Register and select the option you like! The event is sponsored by Community Church of Boston and Massachusetts Peace Action. Thank you and we hope to see you there. \nParking is available at the Back Bay Garage\, with entrances at 85 St. James Ave. and 199 Clarendon St. Community Church of Boston can validate so parking is only $8! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book:\n\n\nBased on dramatic first-hand evidence\, Deadly Betrayal uncovers why and how a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration created a fabricated justification to attack Iraq. \nThe book provides a detailed insider account of how a Pentagon cabal strategized to manipulate intelligence\, pressure the United Nations\, force a Congressional authorization for the use of force through political threats\, and scare the American people after 9/11 into supporting an attack on Iraq. \nAuthored by a Pentagon insider and senior enlisted leader of nearly three decades standing\, Command Chief Master Sergeant\, Retired\, Dennis Fritz worked directly for and advised some of the most senior General Officers in the Department of Defense. They included General Richard B. Myers\, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the height of the Iraq War. After military retirement\, Fritz found himself inside Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon working for Douglas Feith\, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and key architect of the case for war. He was detailed to the Pentagon as a contracted Research Fellow and Analyst on a special project to gather and review all Iraqi Pre-War Planning Documents for declassification. His access to thousands of personal handwritten notes\, documents\, and Pentagon’s internal conversations\, has allowed him to tell the real story of why America invaded Iraq. \n“This book is an actual act of service. It will help many people\, including veterans\, connect the dots to explain this century’s American wars and give them further permission to ask tough and uncomfortable questions.”\n—Matthew Hoh\, former Marine Corps officer and Iraq War veteran who resigned his State Department position in Afghanistan over that war’s 2009 escalation. \n“I have known Dennis Fritz for three decades and served with him for many of those years. As my senior enlisted advisor in several commands\, I benefited from his sound counsel. While I do not agree with some of his conclusions in this book . . . I respect Dennis and was always proud to serve alongside him.”\n—General Richard Myers\, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff \n“Sooner rather than later\, in my view\, historians will write the complete and accurate history of these disastrous wars from start to finish\, and sordid will it be. Alas\, however\, as with most history that is as accurate as humans can make it\, those guilty of the crimes and ravages it inevitably encompasses\, will have escaped all but a divine providence’s justice. This book at least will perhaps disturb their present comfort. It does mine.”\n—From the Foreword by Larry Wilkerson\, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/deadly-betrayal-the-truth-about-why-the-us-invaded-iraq-with-dennis-fritz-and-lawrence-wilkerson/
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CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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