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!
PEACE ZONE RALLY, HOFSTRA DEBATE 2016, SEPTEMBER 26
Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
CREATING A PEACE ZONE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND IN OUR WORLD
Peace begins with 3 words
STOP THE KILLING
STOP THE KILLING
END THE WARS IN SYRIA, AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, YEMEN
STOP THE KILLING says President Carter in a NYT op-ed
People are dying. Children are dying.
Peace begins with 3 words
STOP THE KILLING
STOP THE BOMBING IN SYRIA
Almost 500,000 people have been killed in Syria; 10 million people have been displaced from their homes says Robert Koehler on commondreams
STOP THE BOMBING
Peace begins with 3 words
STOP THE KILLING
In Charlotte, in Tulsa, in Baltimore, in Oregon
Peace begins with 3 words
STOP THE KILLING
STOP WEAPONS SALES
STOP THE KILLING
SUPPORT AN ARMS EMBARGO IN THE MIDDLE EAST
During the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King Jr. told us that
the bombs falling on Hanoi and on Vietnamese villages
were also falling on our cities and towns here at home.
Today the $ spent on weapons and bombs means lives are lost.
STOP THE KILLING
CUT MILITARY SPENDING
PEACE BEGINS WITH 3 WORDS
STOP THE KILLING
WORK TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE
WORK TO BUILD BRIDGES NOT WALLS
WORK TO END WAR
WORK TO END MILITARISM, RACISM AND POVERTY
WORK FOR PEACE
WE ARE HERE TODAY IN THIS PEACE ZONE
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
WE ARE HERE TO ASK THE CANDIDATES
ACROSS THE TURNPIKE IN THE WAR ZONE
HOW THEY WILL END WAR?
PEACE BEGINS WITH 3 WORDS
STOP THE KILLING
END WAR.
Andrea Libresco&Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance
Monday, September 26 – Gather on Hempstead Turnpike at 4p.m.
CREATING A PEACE ZONE:BRINGING COMMUNITY VOICES TO THE 2016 DEBATE and COMMUNITY DEBATE WATCH at HOFSTRA
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
CREATING A PEACE ZONE. Gather at 4 p.m. along Hempstead Tpke. to create a peace zone and walk along at 4:30 to Monroe hall, California for a peace zone rally with student faculty and community speakers.
4:45-5:45 PEACE ZONE RALLY outside Monroe Hall with student, faculty and community speakers
6:00- 7:30 Panel “Si Se Puede” to “Build the Wall” The Importance of the Latino Vote in 2016“. In this Debate 2016 panel, journalists, academics, and community activists explore the range of issues affecting the diverse Latino community and how the two major parties are addressing (or not) their concerns. Moderated by Dr. Mario Murillo. Monroe Lecture Center Fortunoff Theater.
8:00-8:50 – BRINGING STUDENT & COMMUNITY VOICES TO THE 2016 DEBATE : Pre-Debate Panel: Kate Alexander, PeaceAction NYS; Emilie Beck, PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra; Frederick K. Brewington, civil rights attorney; Hofstra student Bernard Coles IV; and Paul Gibson, Uniondale Community Land Trust and GUAAC. Moderator: Prof. Andrea Libresco. SPEAKOUT with students and community on issues and questions we would like to see candidates address, Monroe Lecture Hall
9-10:30 COMMUNITY DEBATE WATCH, Monroe Lecture Hall
The Center for Civic Engagement, International Scene,Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives and PeaceActionMatters@Hofstra
For info: 516-741-4360 or 516-463-5595 – longislandpeace@gmail.com
