Please join us on
October 5th Annual Gandhi Commemoration Inaugurating The Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute for Peace Studies at Hofstra University with Rev. Mark Lukens and performance of songs from HAIR by students from the Drama Department.
Multipurpose Room, Student Center, 6-8 p.m. Refreshments.
RSVP: IPS@hofstra.edu
International Scene Fall Lecture Series – Hofstra University
Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalist Project at the Institute for Policy Studies
Thursday, October 5, 2017, 4:30-6 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theatre, Axinn Library
Following the lecture, there will be Annual Gandhi Commemoration on Nonviolence and Reception Inaugurating the Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute for Peace at Hofstra University.
RSVP to IPS@hofstra.edu.
For info: Martin Melkonian, Economics (516)463-5595
Lecture sponsored by:
Hofstra’s Departments of Economics, History and Sociology
in cooperation with The Center for Civic Engagement, Institute for Peace Studies, Long Island Teachers for Human Rights, PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra and the The Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives Present:
Our Annual Commemoration of U.S. Bombing
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 at 7:30 p.m. at UUCSR
Sponsored by The Social Justice Committee of Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, Great Neck Sane/Peace Action, and LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives ask you to join us at
CHOOSE PEACE. CHOOSE LOVE. CHOOSE LIFE.
WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND A TREATY TO BAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset NY
IT IS TWO AND A HALF MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
We are running out of time. The dangers of using nuclear weapons continue to increase as global and regional tensions rise. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists the world needs to step back from the brink of nuclear catastrophe. People are demanding a treaty to ban nuclear weapons now!
Speakers: The Rev. Ned Wight, Interim Senior Minister of UUCSR; Michael D’Innocenzo, Emeritus Professor Hofstra University; Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance; Emilie Beck and Lola Solis, Hofstra Peace Fellows; Seemi Ahmed, Islamic Center of Long Island; Shirley Romaine, Great Neck Sane/Peace Action
Music: Acapella Women’s Choir WILLOW and Farah Chandu, Director
The 2017 Program is dedicated to the memory of Alliance Board Member Megan O’Handley and to all those who have worked relentlessly to end war, nuclear weapons and poverty and who have been our drum roll majors in pursuit of peace and human security.
For info: UUCSR (516) 627-6560
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
www.longislandpeace.org – (516) 741-4360
n 1982, 1 million people marched against the #nuclear arms race; 35 years later, we will march again. Will you join us tomorrow? JUNE 17 at Bryant Park NYC.
Pax Christi will be there on Saturday for our ANNUAL PEACE VIGIL to mourn all those lost in war and to renew our efforts to prevent future wars.
Here’s what the May 27th schedule looks like:
MEDEA BENJAMIN WILL SPEAK ON LONG ISLAND
at Hofstra University, Axinn Library at 12:45-2:10 p.m. and
at Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 7:30 p.m. See details below.
Hofstra’s Departments of Economics, History and Sociology
in cooperation with The Center for Civic Engagement, Long Island Teachers for Human Rights and the The Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives Present:
International Scene Lecture Series Spring 2017
Tuesday, March 28 12:45-2:10 pm
Citizens’ Responses to President Trump’s Policies
With MEDEA BENJAMIN, Writer, Activist, Co-Founder, Code Pink
Cultural Center Theatre, Axinn Library, Hofstra University
Co sponsored by Hofstra’s Institute of Peace Studies, Peace Fellows Program and PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra club. Series Co-Directors: Dr. Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History, Dr. Linda Longmire, Global Studies,Prof. Martin Melkonian, Department of Economics. For info: (516)463-5595
Also in the evening at 7:30, Medea Benjamin will speak
At Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock,
48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset
MEDEA BENJAMIN will speak at 7:30 p.m.
STAND UP IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE:
Response and What’s to Be Done When Our Democracy is Threatened
Sponsored by The Shelter Rock Forum, Social Justice Committee of UUCSR and LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives. For info: 516-627-6560
Margaret Melkonian, Executive Director
Andrea Libresco, Board President
Natasha Rappazzo, Peace Program Coordinator 2017
Emilie Beck, PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra Coordinator
L.I. Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
P.O. Box 301, Garden City NY 11530
516-741-4360
longislandpeace@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/LIAllianceforPeacefulAlternatives
Over 30 Years of Peacemaking on Long Island, 1985-2016
Former Secretary of Defense William Perry Makes Case for Abolition
The Next President Can Negotiate a Nuclear Ban Treaty
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 24, 2016
Contact: Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, 516-741-4360, longislandpeace@gmail.com
Long Island, NY — On Monday, October 24, 2016, William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997, will speak at All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. Doors will open at 6:30PM.
In his book My Journey at the Nuclear Brink, William Perry describes his lifelong passion to prevent nuclear war, including his experience as Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997. With George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, he was co-author of a series of influential op-eds in the Wall Street Journal on the need to move toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
Perry believes that the dangers posed by nuclear arms are now greater than ever, and that action is urgently needed to reduce those dangers, and that nuclear weapons should be abolished as soon as possible.
“It is more than dismaying that the presidential candidates have failed to address national security issues and the existential threat of nuclear weapons” says Margaret Melkonian, Director of the LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives. “Scant mention was made during the debates about questions of first use or who could be trusted with ordering a nuclear strike (alarming that this is even considered an option)” says Melkonian.
“The American people need to hold the next Administration to account and to challenge the next President to shift nuclear policy to no first use, to reject spending billions on nuclear modernization and to initiate multilateral negotiations for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. Perry has been making this case and our next President, NY Senators and LI representatives should listen.”
Sponsored by: Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, All Souls Nuclear Disarmament Task Force, Peace Action of New York State.
Endorsed by: Global Security Institute; NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security; Brooklyn For Peace; Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives; United Religions Initiative, Coalition for Peace Action.
The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please send an email to rsvpperry@gmail.com.
For more information: John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, johnburroughs@lcnp.org, 212-818-1857,
15th ANNIVERSARY of the AFGHANISTAN WAR
CALL Your Congressperson and NY Senators today at (855)686-6927
Demand Peace!
Call Senator Gillibrand and Schumer
Call LI Reps Rice, Israel, King and Zeldi
End war in Afghanistan! Bring the Troops Home Now! Take Care of Them When They Get Here!
