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You are warmly invited to a community gathering at 7pm on Saturday, November 11, 2023 featuring scholar and activist David Cortright speaking on “Why Nuclear Disarmament is More Urgent than Ever“ Upper Hudson Peace Action is sponsoring Professor David Cortright who will speak on “Why Nuclear Disarmament is More Urgent than Ever” Saturday, November 11, 7:00 PM…

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The Tom Paine chapter of Veterans for Peace is sponsoring, with Upper Hudson Peace Action co-sponsorship, a public reading of John Hersey’s classic book, Hiroshima, which follows the true stories of six people caught up in the atomic bombing of their city. Starting at 11:00 AM on August 6, the event will take place in…

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In 1958 four Quaker peace activists sailed the Golden Rule toward the Marshall Islands in an attempt to halt thermonuclear weapons testing. The US Coast Guard boarded her in Honolulu and arrested her crew, causing an international outcry. Arrest of the crew and rising awareness of the dangers of radiation and nuclear war led to…

By Not Investing in Fossil Fuels & Weapons Free Online Interactive Talk With Michael Richardson, Co-founder of Rivers & Mountains Greenfaith Date:  June 14, 2023      The recording of the session can be found here: Links mentioned in the talk:https://www.rivers-mountains-greenfaith.org/https://www.rivers-mountains-greenfaith.org/divest-invest-workshophttps://fossilfreefunds.org/https://weaponfreefunds.org/ Details: This talk contains some useful green investment and banking strategies for all of…

Upper Hudson Peace Action and Peace Action New York State are pleased to invite you to a talk by Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing about a system of global governance for peace. Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing is a prolific author, speaker, and international lawyer with 20 years of experience in public and private legal practice. She is the founding director of The Center for Peace and Global Governance, a virtual think tank…

Non-Violent Solutions to World Conflcit1. https://www.brandeis.edu/peace-conflict/pdfs/198-methods-non-violent-action.pdf Gene Sharp 198 non-violent methods of non-violent action a. https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/nv_tactics_book This monograph updates Gene Sharp’s 1973 seminal work Methods of Nonviolent Action, reworking Sharp’s classifications to include 148 additional tactics. Brief yet comprehensive, this overview of nonviolence explains the mechanisms by which nonviolent actions succeed. added 10/3/222. http://nonviolence.rutgers.edu/ Digital…

Indivisible Columbia County NY will join March for Our Lives’ Day of national action, in reaction to the latest wave of gun violence. They will be holding a vigil at the gazebo in Chatham on June 11, 2022 at NY 11:00 – Noon. March for Our Lives (MFOL) was founded in the wake of the…

Wednesday June 8, 7:00 PM Eastern Time, via Zoom Speaking on “How the Peace Movement Can Work More Effectively to End the War in Ukraine”, our speaker, Larry Wittner, is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and an award-winning author of numerous books on peace movements and foreign policy.  His hundreds of articles on international…