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Take Action to Support the Nuclear Ban Treaty! Honduras has become the 50th country to ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This means that the treaty has reached the number needed to go into effect. This will start on January 2022 according to the United Nations. 122 countries out of the 193-member UN General Assembly have expressed support and 84 have signed the treaty. Write your representatives and tell them to support this effort! According to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres this development, “represents a meaningful commitment towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons.” But this is only the beginning. Countries with nuclear weapons, including the United States, Russia, and China, have shown opposition to the treaty which aims to destroy all nuclear weapons and ban new ones. The countries that possess nuclear weapons, the US, Russia, the UK, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel have not signed the treaty. Changing perspectives in nuclear countries is incredibly important in the movement for nuclear disarmament. Citizens and residents of nuclear powers need to use their voices to support the elimination of these dangerous weapons. Tell your representatives that you want them to push for the United States to join the treaty!
Events and Meetings:
Now through September 30, Watch Nuclear Bamboozle for Free. The Nuclear Free Team is delighted to be able to offer this amazing film free of charge, thanks to a grant from the Sierra Club Grassroots Network. This film is a must see for everyone, but especially those who are tempted by the "bamboozle" that nuclear power is a harmless climate solution. Registration for your free viewing of "Atomic Bamboozle" at this link: https://watch.eventive.org/scnuclearfree/play/65df9b811095cc004ea923de. You can also register for a discussion of this film on September 30 – information on this event is included below.
Monday, September 16, 2024, 8:00 PM. JVP HAC Webinar - Health Care Under Fire in Gaza: Reports from the Ground. Speakers: Drs. Seema Jilani and Arham Ali. Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council. More information and registration here.
Monday, September 16, 2024, 12:00 PM. Voices of Determination: The West Bank Behind the Headlines. Join us for a conversation with an incredible line-up of experts: Israel's leading human rights attorney Michael Sfard, Executive Director of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, Noa Sattath, Breaking the Silence founder and now Co-Director of OFEK: The Israeli Center for Public Affairs, Yehuda Shaul, and Senoir and Founding Rabbi of IKAR, Sharon Brous. These are the people who are doing everything in their power to block Netanyahu and his cabinet from de facto annexing parts of the West Bank. Register here.
Monday, September 16, 2024, 7:30 PM. Veterans for Peace Webinar: Global Chaos and the Multipolar World. Matt Hoh is a Marine Corps veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Matt worked for the State Department but in 2009, resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan over American escalation of the war. He has been Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. He's written for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, CounterPunch, CNN, Defense News, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, Mother Jones, the Raleigh News & Observer, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and more.
Matt will present on the developing multi-polar world, Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East and US policy concerning all those and more. We encourage you to read, in advance of the zoom on the 17th, Matt's article in the latest copy of Peace and Planet News, "An Escalatory Game for Fools and Madmen". Join the webinar here.
Monday, September 16, 2024, 8:00 PM. Abortion Access Now. Get ready to dive into the movement! Join the Abortion Access Now coalition for an introductory training webinar—this is a national coalition of 9 powerful reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations, including the ACLU, with diverse supporters from coast to coast. You'll learn how we're gearing up to create transformative change and secure abortion access for everyone, everywhere, in this crucial moment. Don't miss this chance to be part of a powerful movement. Sign up to receive access information for the Abortion Access Now coalition webinar. Leave fired up, empowered, and ready to take bold action to protect abortion care for all! Register here.
Monday, September 16, 2024, 5:00 PM. Grassroots Election Protection Coalition/ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY. Weekly zoom meeting. Register here.
Monday, September 16 through Thursday, September 19, 2024, 3:00 PM. Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & fear into action to stop a genocide. Many of us are grieving, angry, scared and confused. Wherever you are, you are needed urgently now to act to stave off imminent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. As we hold the devastating pain of the last few days, in which thousands of Palestinians and Israelis have been killed, we are terrified. The U.S. government is rushing to send more weapons to the Israeli military as it wreaks devastation on the over 2 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza. We must act together to demand the U.S. immediately de-escalate to prevent imminent genocide after 75 years of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. Invite your friends to this daily power-half hour to take action in the political community. Call on Congress to demand they stop fueling violence -Get messaging resources and pointers for having the hard conversations with people in your life -Intervene in the media narrative beating the drums of war against Palestinians Come to channel grief and fear into action to stop the bloodshed. All are welcome. All are needed. URGENT: We need all hands on deck now to act. Register here. If the Zoom room is full, join us on YouTube
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 11:00 AM. Kumi Now! Rise Up Together for Justice. Kumi Now is an online gathering every Tuesday with a guest activist on the ground exploring issues of critical relevance to the Palestinian people and how you can get involved. Register here.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 8:00 – 9:00 PM. The Military Industrial Complex with Bill Hartung (a WIRN webinar). William D. Hartung focuses on the arms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center's Sustainable Defense Task Force. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011) and the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press, 2008). And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995) is a critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations. War Industry Resisters Network. Register here.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 1:00 PM. Apartheid-Free Webinar: Medical Apartheid in Palestine. Join AFSC for a webinar to hear from Yazid Barhoush and Dr. Alice Rothchild about how Israel has implemented a policy of medical de-development on Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Register here.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 8:00 PM. Legacies of Dissent: American Jews, Zionism, and Palestine With Professors Marjorie N. Feld and Geoffrey Levin. Geoffrey Levin’s Our Palestine Question and Marjorie Feld’s The Threshold of Dissent reveal the long history of debates over Zionism and Israel within the American Jewish community. Levin records the voices of American Jews who called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinians from even before Israel’s founding. Feld examines how and why mainstream Jewish leaders marginalized anti- and non-Zionists from the 1880s through the 1980s. Feld and Levin will talk about the implications and costs of limiting the Jewish communal agenda with an eye toward today’s Jewish protests over the devastation in Gaza. Reconstructionists Expanding Our Conversation on Israel/Palestine. Register here.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 11:00 AM. In Context Briefing on Defending Dissent: Palestine, Freedom of Speech and the Future of Protest. As we approach November's historic election and the new semester begins on college campuses, all eyes are on the precarious state of American democracy. Top of mind for many are urgent questions about free speech, dissent and growing concerns surrounding the U.S.'s role in Israel-Palestine. Over the past year, those who criticize Israel's conduct in Gaza have faced extreme repression, including expulsions from their universities, dismissal from employment, doxing and, at times, arrest and violence from police. Join us on Tuesday, Sept 17 at 11:00 am ET / 6:00 pm Jerusalem time to learn more about growing repression of dissent on Israel-Palestine, a trend that has built over decades and escalated in the past year. From anti-boycott legislation to the recent arrests of student protestors, leading experts will examine how these actions impact American democracy and our right to collectively organize on a range of issues – from Palestinian rights to the environment, racial justice, reproductive rights and beyond – at such a critical juncture. More information and registration here.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. The Ohio Council of Churches Election Education Lunch and Learn Webinar. Topic: Ensuring a safe voting environment. Presenters: Jaladah Aslam, Susan Smith, and Joan Van Becelaere. Register here.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 1:00 PM. The Stones Cry Out Webinar Series. Speakers: Mark Braverman, Kairos USA, and Jonathan Kuttab, Friends of Sabeel North America. Register here.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 7:00 PM. Stand Up Columbus. Last week, Columbus Stand Up hosted our second community conversation on climate justice in partnership with Green Columbus. Many attendees said this was the first time they had heard details about renewable energy and utility policy. The discussion made clear that the climate crisis presents both tremendous challenges and opportunities, and our community is eager to address both. Specifically, the group wants to work on connecting young people to job opportunities in renewable energy. As a follow-up, we’ll be hosting a virtual organizing call with Green Columbus on pm to discuss the next steps for environmental justice efforts. Feel free to join us and continue to follow @columbusstandup on Instagram and Facebook for more information. Join the meeting here. (872 4928 0727 Passcode: 434177.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, Forging a Shared Homeland: Confronting Annexation & Settler Violence. Join Combatants for Peace and American Friends of Combatants for Peace for a talk on Forging a Shared Homeland: Confronting Annexation & Settler Violence. This conversation will be led by CfP activists, Jamil Qassas, Itamar Feigenbaum, Mai Shahin, and Elie Avidor. The discussion will be moderated by Carly Rosenthal, Activist and Development Officer at Combatants for Peace. Register here.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 7:00 PM. End Nuclear Colonialism: Uranium Mining on Indigenous Land. Join us at Massachusetts Peace Action Indigenous Solidarity Action Group in a full hour presentation with questions and discussion about the history and legacy of Uranium mining on Diné/Navajo Land in New Mexico from the 1940s in preparation for the building of the Atomic Bomb to the present opening of mining in the Grand Canyon Arizona land- traditional lands of the Havasupai, Diné, Hopi, Pueblo and other tribes. Tribal members will shed light on the increase of nuclear weapons and the misinformation that nuclear power is a “green alternative” for fossil fuels. Register here.
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 8:00 PM. September Mass Call: Racial Capitalism and Palestine. The call will feature speakers who have worked with Mennonite communities for decades to advance racial justice, and who bring their expertise to this moment of great crisis in Gaza. Speakers will discuss how apartheid in Palestine is advanced by a system of racial capitalism, and how struggles for justice there are deeply connected to racial justice movements in the United States and around the world. Register here.
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 7:15 AM - 3:30 PM. 2024 Ohio Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. Protecting the Spaces and Places of Ohio’s Environment. Hosted by the Ohio Environmental Council and Environmental Professionals Network. Location: Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, Columbus, OH. Virtual attendance will be possible for main stage discussions only. Registration: $25.00. More information and registration here.
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 6:30 – 8:00 PM. Veterans for Peace Meeting. Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Whetstone Branch, 3909 N. High St., Columbus 43214.
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 10:00 – 10:30 AM. Churches for Middle East Peace Weekly Briefing.
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join us on Zoom for a weekly briefing on current news regarding the Hamas
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Hear from CMEP Staff and other experts. Register
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Friday, September 20, 2024, 12:00 PM. Action Hours Cease Fire Now. Join AFSC staff every Friday to hear updates from Gaza. Then, take action with us as we contact our elected officials and call for an us. Register here.
Saturday, September 21, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM. Weekly Rally for Peace. Location: East North Broadway and High St., Columbus.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 6:00 PM. Community Emergency Response In Ohio. Learn how some Ohio cities are keeping their communities safer by sending trained peers, clinicians and other unarmed responders on crisis calls. We'll hear from people doing the work in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton and Shaker Hts. Register here.
Tuesday, September 25, 2024, 11:00 AM. Climate justice in a militarized world. Join for a webinar on the struggle for climate justice in a militarized world. AFSC staff and Partners will talk about their work and experiences in the U.S., Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa supporting efforts to realize climate justice and challenging the devastating impact that war and militarism on the environment. Learn from their experiences and our discussion of actions you can take to make a difference. This webinar is being held in coordination with the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice. More information and registration here.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 6:00 PM. National Lawyers Guild Webinar: Repression and Dissent on Israel-Palestine in the United States. Join the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) for a timely conversation about the growing protest movement in the U.S. against the Israeli government’s war on Gaza and widespread efforts to suppress it. Leading this conversation are senior staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Brian Hauss, Just Vision’s Outreach Associate and journalist from Gaza, Fadi Abu Shammalah, Cal Poly Humboldt Professor, Gabi Kirk, labor organizer, Matteo Hintz, with moderation by Just Vision’s Education and Communications Specialist, Daniel Nerenberg. More information and registration here.
Thursday, September 26, 2024, 8:00 PM. A Night with the Experts. The Fallacy of Reviving Nuclear Energy. Featuring: Stephanie Cooke, Opinion Writer for Energy Intelligence and Author. Cooke knows all too well that the attempt to revive nuclear energy is complete fallacy and will only hurt efforts to reduce carbon emissions through renewable means. Cooke has the statistics, the historical perspective and the expertise to make the case that NEIS has been promoting for years: You Can't Nuke Climate Change. She has much to share about potential of renewables, the roadblocks to bringing these energy sources online, the political push for reviving nuclear energy and the dangers of wasting billions of dollars on a nuclear renaissance that will only make climate change worse. In a recent editorial, Cooke writes: "What’s missing are leaders willing to buck their own powerful nuclear bureaucracies and choose paths that are far cheaper, less dangerous and quicker to deploy. Without them we are doomed to more promises and wasteful spending by nuclear proponents who have repeatedly shown that they can talk but can’t deliver." Registration for the Zoom Link is required: click here .
Wednesday, September 26, 2024, 9:30 AM. The 2024 Elections Amid the Gaza War: The Future of US Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Global Standing. Arab Center Washington DC’s 9th Annual Conference is dedicated to discussing the 2024 presidential elections in the United States amid US policy toward the Gaza war. Experts will assess the current state and future of US democracy, explore the impact of the election results on US foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and examine the potential changes in US global power and influence in light of US policy toward Israel’s war on Gaza. The various conference sessions will also address the implications of the election outcomes for democracy and human rights in MENA, international law and the global law-based order, regional geopolitics and shifting alliances, and the future of US foreign policy. Register here.
Monday, September 30, 2024, 8:00 PM. Atomic Bamboozle Webinar Discussion Panel for the Sierra Club's Nuclear Free Team's Online Film Series. Please join us at for a Webinar Discussion on the documentary film "Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance." Register here.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, Peace, War, and Human Rights. This webinar is part of the Faithful Voters series in anticipation of the United States election in 2024. Dan Moriarty, Peace and Nonviolence senior program officer, will address the global peace and nonviolence issues that we hope the candidates will address. Maryknoll. Register here.
Thursday, October 3, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Peacekeeper And Poll Monitor Training – OSU CSW. Please bring your skills and courageous faith to support democracy and love in these challenging times. For more information, please email Rev. Joan or Rev. Susan. Location: League of League of Women Voters Offices, 471 E Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215. Register here.
Saturday, October 5, 2024, Christian Zionism and the Israel Lobby: A Conversation with Ilan Pappe. Dr. Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and professor of history at the University of Exeter, where he leads the European Centre for Palestine Studies. He is the author of numerous books including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Those who donate $100 or more to PCAP will receive a copy of his most recent book: Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (One World Publications, 2024). (My note: you can purchase the book from the publisher for $40 and the Ebook for $28.00.) Register for the webinar here.
Sunday, October 6, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 PM. SURJ Mass Meeting. Join Showing Up for Racial Justice in Columbus for an Ohio-wide in-person mass meeting to discuss how we got to this political moment, get clear on the need to organize white communities into growing multi-racial movements for racial and economic justice, and commit to action. Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Main Branch, 96 South Grant Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
Sunday, October 7, 2024, 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Redbird Books to Prisoners. We collect, pack, and send books to Ohio prisoners every 1st and 3rd Sunday. Location: Thirdhand Bike Coop, 979 East 5th Ave, Columbus. Please don't park in front of the building.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 8:00 PM. Exploring the Contributions of Women Towards Peace, Dignity and Justice in the Holy Land. An interreligious conversation with two important Palestinian voices, Dr. Rima Salah and Dr. Eman Abdelhadi, on the past, present, and future of women’s empowerment, peacebuilding, and the pursuit of justice and dignity in the Holy Land. Churches for Middle East Peace. In person event. Register for the livestream here.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 6:00 PM. Fair Districts All Volunteer Huddle. Join Fair Districts leaders and volunteers for a monthly meeting. Second Wednesday of the month at 6pm! Register here.
Friday, October 18, 2024, 6:00 PM (doors open) 7:00 – 9:00 PM Performances. Mystic Café Variety Show and Open Mic. Help SoulCall Global raise money to feed and house the needy and enjoy an old-fashioned variety show with everything from great music and comedy acts to who knows what. Performers are encouraged to sign up. A keyboard accompanist is available. Donation $15 (or more! 100% of profits go to our charitable programs). Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave., Columbus OH 43214. Information at https://www.soulcallglobal.org. To secure a performance time slot, contact Bob Lipetz for a registration form at bob@debchi.com, 614-906-4350.
Businesses interested in showcasing their services by becoming a sponsor, contact Lisa Ferraro at Soulcallone@gmail.com. Here’s a short video that shows SoulCall distributing food.