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Register to attend.  A discussion with Prof. Omer Bartov. As we’ve been witnessing a genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months, it’s timely to reflect on the politics of the use of the word “genocide”, and the use and misuse of the memory of the Holocaust in WW2.

Prof. Bartov will also expand our thinking about the development of Zionism over time: as a settler colonization effort, as a mechanism for helping Jewish refugees and as an ideological national movement.

Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered a leading authority on genocide.

Our team produced this short filmto center Palestinian children's voices and experiences. We must listen, bear witness, and demandjustice for the children of Gaza.

We hope you’ll join us for thefilm's premiere, with a discussion to follow. Thank you for standingwith Palestinian children.

Featuring:  A Know Your Rights Presentation from the National Lawyers Guild Chicago CONTACT Grace · grace@codepink.org

Register to attend.  Why have our movements for peace, justice and the environment let party politics lead us into a pro-war position? Why does party politics lead us to support wars, or at least not oppose them, purely on the basis of which party is conducting them? This growing polarization is leading us to support or oppose other critical policies as well, purely on the basis of what party those policies are identifies with — rather than a rational and moral assessment of the issue at hand. 

This webinar looks at the contrast between the bi-partisan militarism of the United States, on the one hand, and the starkly different governing philosophies of the two parties, on the other.  A critique of the Labor Movement’s relationship to this problem offers a long-term case-study, but one also increasingly relevant to the environmental movement, and even the peace movement.  The current setback for the Democrats offers us a chance to reflect on what our core values are and how we navigate our relations with party politics going forward.

Harris Gruman is the Executive Director of the Service Employees International Union Massachusetts State Council.  In that role he has helped lead campaigns to win union rights for child care providers and rideshare drivers.  In 2013, he founded and has since helped lead the Raise Up Massachusetts coalition of labor, community and faith organizations, which has nearly doubled the minimum wage to $15-per-hour, created the most extensive paid family and medical leave program in the United States, and won a constitutional amendment to raise tax rates on the top One Percent. In 2024 Harris joined the board of directors of Mass. Peace Action.

CONTACT Jasmine · jasmine@codepink.org

Register to Attend.  The series, Seeking Women’s Health Justice, examines women’s health from the perspective of justice – with the awareness that peace is a fundamental component of health.

“Accelerated Action” is the theme of International Women’s Day 2025 – gender equity, reproductive rights and the reduction of violence against women and girls are highlighted.

In the spirit of supporting these aims, Massachusetts Peace Action features the webinar, Seeking Women’s Health Justice: Activating our Resources in Challenging Times.

Panelists will discuss a broad perspective of ways to address the anti-woman, anti-minority, anti-immigrant, and anti-LGBTQ policy regulations.

This will include a national appraisal of efforts to combat restrictive laws and executive orders; analyses and viewpoints to counter economic challenges; and the public health response to inhumane dictates.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) is an activist, a legislator, a survivor, and the first woman of color to be elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Throughout her career as a public servant, Congresswoman Pressley has been a champion for justice and healing: reproductive justice, justice for immigrants, consumer justice, justice for seniors, justice for workers, justice for survivors of sexual violence, justice for the formerly and currently incarcerated individuals, and healing for those who have experienced trauma.

Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., MPH is currently a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, after serving as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  In addition to her duties at Hunter she continues to collaborate with research colleagues at Harvard, where she is a Lecturer in Medicine.  She is a leading advocate for health care justice and national health insurance for the United States.

Chris Chanyasulkit, PhD, MPH is a public health practitioner, advocate, keynote speaker, and master connector who speaks both nationally and internationally about public health; literacy; civic engagement; and racial, gender, and health equity. She is the Past President of the American Public Health Association (APHA), a mom of three, a dog mom of two pups, and an avid reader.

Join CODEPINK for our online community call, “Missing Peace Mondays,” where we come together to reflect, mourn, educate, and mobilize.

We will be joined by Mohsen Farshneshani, a sanctions attorney with DAWN. Mohsen has successfully led efforts to sanction violent settler groups in occupied Palestine. Mohsen will share his experience submitting recommendations to former president Biden to have settler groups sanctioned. We will also discuss the work ahead under President Trump — who just lifted those sanctions. As always, our MPM community will have time to ask questions about this extremely crucial work!

Mohsen Farshneshani is a U.S. sanctions attorney working with the sanctions nomination initiative team at DAWN. In his legal practice, Mohsen specializes in U.S. economic sanctions administered by OFAC, including compliance, licensing, enforcement, and SDN-List matters.

Mohsen first began his work on sanctions in US-Iran trade diplomacy amid the JCPOA talks between the two countries, during which he primarily liaised with business leaders and U.S. officials. Throughout his career, he has been critical of the biased nature of U.S. foreign policy. Now, Mohsen works to seek long overdue adjustments to U.S. sanctions policy. His return to advocacy was inspired after recognizing the significant potential of sanctions in advancing accountability in Israel-Palestine.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Howard University School of Law, where he focused on international trade.   CONTACT Nour · nour@codepink.org

What I Want You To Know is 

1) A great movie about the madness of war and

2) A perfect organizing tool.

Start by printing 10 copies to post wherever Iraq and Afghanistan veterans might see it: churches, bars, laundromats, VFW and Legion posts, union halls, grocery stores, community colleges, universities

Talk with people where you post it

Invite them to a screening party on March 15 with your friends and fellow activists

Don't just forward it on email...talk with people and urge them to watch it

Go to VFP's facebook and instagram channels and forward it to friends and activists  https://www.instagram.com/veteransforpeace/  https://www.facebook.com/veteransforpeace

See you at the screening March 15 and thank you for helping promote it!

The release of DeepSeek R1 led to an unprecedented drop in share price for several US tech giants, most notably chip-maker Nvidia, which has been attracting enormous investment on the premise that the future of AI relies on faster and better semiconductors.

Just a few weeks earlier, the Chinese mobile app RedNote (Xiaohongshu / Little Red Book) unexpectedly gained a substantial user base in the US in the days running up to the Biden administration’s TikTok ban (which has since been suspended by Trump). The sudden appearance of millions of US users on RedNote led to an unprecedented cultural exchange between particularly young people in China and the US – in spite of the best efforts of the US government to prevent such exchanges.

In this rapidly-changing technology landscape, our webinar addresses questions such as:

• Is the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model a “Sputnik moment”, as it has been described?
• Are we witnessing the decline of US technological hegemony?
• Why has DeepSeek had such a profound impact on the US tech market?
• Has Biden’s “chip war” with China been a failure?
• Can AI be a public good, or is it destined simply to generate profits for Big Tech?
• Is China’s socialist market economy outperforming Western neoliberalism?
• In what way is China’s approach to AI different to that of the US?
• What is China’s Global AI Initiative?
• How are Chinese technologies such as RedNote and DeepSeek impacting perceptions of China?

Confirmed speakers

• Michael Roberts (Marxist economist and blogger)
• Ben Norton (China-based broadcaster and geopolitical analyst)
• Alan Freeman (Economist, co-director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group)
• KJ Noh (journalist, political analyst and peace activist)
• Gary Wilson (Author, War and Lenin in the 21st Century)
• Ali Al-Assam (Managing Director of the NewsSocial Cooperative)
• Radhika Desai (Convenor, International Manifesto Group)

Register to attend.  In the last five years, nuclear tensions between the U.S. and China have accelerated dramatically driven by a series of factors, including the severe deterioration of cross-Strait relations. This presentation will summarize thinking on both sides of the Pacific regarding the current state of this nuclear rivalry and its relationship to the Taiwan issue. Prof. Goldstein will also answer questions about his Asia trip during the winter holiday that took him to northeast China, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and also South Korea.

Lyle J. Goldstein is the Director of the China Initiative and Visiting Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, he is investigating the costs of great power competition with both China and Russia in association with the Costs of War Project at Watson.  Goldstein serves concurrently as Director of Asia Engagement at the Washington think-tank Defense Priorities, which advocates for realism and restraint in U.S. defense policy.  He has a PhD from Princeton, is fluent in both Chinese and Russian, and tweets at @lylegoldstein.