The threat of war continues to loom over Iran. After more than two weeks of nationwide unrest that rocked the country, the protest movement appears temporarily contained following an intense and coordinated security crackdown. Meanwhile, outside actors openly brag about exploiting the situation for their [...]
Dr. Ivana Nikolic´ Hughes will discuss the urgent need for a negotiated end to the Ukraine War, even with significant concessions to the Russians given the increasingly dire military situation facing the Ukrainians. This would prevent the US or NATO from escalating with new long-range [...]
Sari Bashi, internationally renowned human rights lawyer and the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. Sari lives in a mixed Israeli-Palestinian family, which is the subject of her new memoir, Upside-Down Love. Sari will share her perspective on the ceasefire in [...]
Join us on Tuesday, February 24, to mourn the 4th anniversary of the Ukraine war. Boston - Park Street Station, 12 noon to 1:15 pm Pittsfield - Rep Richard Neal's office, 78 Center St, 12 noon Northampton - Rep Jim McGovern's office, 94 Pleasant St, [...]
We present State of Passion, a feature-length documentary film by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged [...]
The AAUP and AFT have organized a national campaign resisting the Trump attacks on our campuses, to engage faculty, staffs, students and alumni The call is for teach-ins on the first Fridays of the month leading up to a national event on Friday May 1, [...]
Swiss Col. Jacques Baud (retired) is a military and international affairs analyst who will speak about his first-hand knowledge of the Donbass area of Ukraine. From 2012-2017, he was seconded to NATO by the Swiss government to head NATO Counterproliferation of Small Arms and Light [...]
The AAUP and AFT have organized a national campaign resisting the Trump attacks on our campuses, to engage faculty, staffs, students and alumni The call is for teach-ins on the first Fridays of the month leading up to a national event on Friday May 1, [...]
Rafael Hernández, leading scholar of both Cuban politics and Cuba-US relations takes on the question of the outlook and options for Cuba in the face of the US all out siege and oil blockade. How long can Cuba hold out? What is the nature of [...]
Two leading activists and former members of the Bolivarian government will speak to these questions, and then answer yours as we continue to build a movement to support the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan people, and the President of that country, kidnapped and held for ransom. [...]
…Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War Join us for a discussion of Linda Pentz Gunter's newly published book No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War in a webinar moderated by Chris Nord of the [...]
Our guest speaker is Prof. Peter Kuznick of American University, founder of the Nuclear Studies Institute and longtime advocate for nuclear disarmament. He will discuss how the Ukraine War is the most likely international flashpoint that could lead to WWIII between the US/NATO and Russia, which [...]
Why is the US at war with Iran? Did Iranians come into existence in 1979 and start shouting “Death to America”? Iran is one of the most consistently demonized nations in U.S. discourse. U.S. officials, and media, frequently use obscene, dehumanizing, and misleading language with [...]
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel's main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an [...]
While all eyes are focused elsewhere, the war in Ukraine rages on. And the distortion of the war and its causes continue to lead the U.S. and the west down a road that has led to catastrophe for Ukraine and that continues to feed the [...]
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