Greater Boston Codepink and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Boston Branch held an International Women's Day rally yesterday to bring our war $$$ home at the Massachusetts State House. About 100 people marched through Boston Common to the bridge in the Public Garden. Pink Parasol Peace Brigade: COME ON PEOPLE, LET'S TURN THIS COUNTRY 'ROUND, STOP WAR SPENDING AND FUND JOBS NOW!
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Bring our War $$ Home on International Women's Day!
Submitted by Ridgely Fuller on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 12:08pm.Boston Support Action For Anti-War Veterans' DC Protest
Submitted by Michael Borkson on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 10:36pm.by Michael Borkson, Indymedia Boston
Boston, Mass. Dec. 16, 2010:
About 25 peace activists staged a picket and speakout in front of the JFK Federal Building in Boston to support anti-war veterans staging a mass civil disobedience in front of the White House in Wash. DC.
As a picket line paced the sidewalk under the watch of 2 Boston cops, speakers talked of the quagmire of the Afghan and Iraq wars-the cost in deaths of thousands of people, both civilian and military, as well as the destruction of social welfare and the economy at home.
Maintaining Hegemony
Submitted by Joseph Gerson on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 9:08pm.The New Left Project intereviewed Jose
ph Gerson on the subject of U.S. foreign and military policies, published as “Maintaining Hegemony” on the NLP and ZNET web sites. Gerson will speak on similar themes on March 13 at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge.
1. The Pentagon’s new Guidance, 'Sustaining US Global Leadership: priorities for 21st Century Defense states that the US will focus on “rebalanc[ing] toward the Asia-Pacific region…empahsiz[ing] our existing alliances.” What accounts for the renewed focus on the Asia-Pacific region? And what policies are likely to flow from this reorientation?
