On Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, ex-Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) was one of the speakers at the emergency "End-the-U.S.-Wars" rally. The event was held in Lafayette Park, directly opposite the White House. Rep. McKinney ran for President of the United States in the 2008 election on the Green Party ticket. She is also a champion of Human Rights and has consistently, and courageously, stood up for the beleaguered peoples of Occupied Palestine.
Military budget/25% solution
Cynthia McKinney: President Obama, Stop Bankrupting our Nation!
Submitted by ujpadmin on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 7:59am.Jeremy Brecher and Elaine Bernard: Strategies for Labor/ Peace/ Green Alliance
Submitted by ujpadmin on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 1:54pm.
When: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 7:00 pm
Where: Encuentro 5 • 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor • UNITE HERE Building, Chinatown T Stop • Boston
2009 Dec 16 - 7:00pm
Connecting the Issues: the Economy, the Climate Crisis, & War and Peace
This conversation brings together 2 outstanding, long-time labor-movement activist intellectuals. It focuses on strategies for labor at this critical moment, particularly those that involve systematic collaboration with the peace/anti-war movement, climate justice movement, the single-payer health movement and the diverse coalition that elected Obama.
It also introduces the Majority Agenda Project as a potential solution to the strategic dilemma facing labor organizers: They care about a number of important issues that fall outside the traditional collective bargaining relationship but have to concentrate their work on areas prioritized by the needs of current campaigns.
Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!
Jeremy is a leading labor historian, writer, and documentary script writer best known for the labor history Strike! For more than two decades Brecher and the late Tim Costello have studied and written about labor and globalization, writing such well-known books as Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community and Global Village or Global Pillage. Filed under:
Afghanistan/Pakistan Briefing - UJP Strategy Conference
Submitted by ujpadmin on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 8:53am.
When: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 1:00 pm
to 5:00 pm
Where: Friends Meeting House • 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge
2009 Jun 13 - 1:00pm
2009 Jun 13 - 5:00pm
Let's all get together with each other again.....
On Saturday June 13 from 1-5 in the afternoon, all of us in UJP will gather for our next strategy conference. Once again, we will be meeting at the Cambridge Friends Center in the Harvard Square area.
To start the conference off, two speakers will assess the crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan:
Dr. Joseph Gerson is Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program, American Friends Service Committee, New England. Dr. Gerson’s program work focuses on challenging and overcoming U.S. global hegemony: its preparations for and threats to initiate nuclear war, and its military domination of the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Prof. Adil Najam is Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment at Boston University. He was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. He edits the Pakistani affairs blog pakistaniat.com and testified at the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ April forum on Afghanistan.
