Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 8:26am.
When: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7:00 pm
to 10:00 pm
Where: Boston University Law Auditorium • 767 Commonwealth Ave. • followed by reception at Sherman Union Backcourt • Boston
2011 Apr 14 - 7:00pm
2011 Apr 14 - 10:00pm
Understanding the Middle East and South/Central Asia
Noam Chomsky is among the world’s most influential political and social critics; he has written prolifically and lectured widely about U.S. Middle East policies, dynamics within the Middle East and the Central Asian War. Among his most recent books is Gaza in Crisis.
Journalist Beena Sarwar is a leading Pakistani journalist and democracy, human rights and peace advocate. She is an initiator of the Pakistani Campaign for Democracy and a former Nieman Fellow. Beena will be coming to us directly from an Afghan-Indian-Pakistani Trialogue in Berlin.
SEOUL — Gangjeong, a small fishing and farming village on Jeju Island 50 miles south of the Korean peninsula, is a pristine Unesco-designated ecological reserve where elderly Korean women sea divers, haenyo, still forage for seafood. It is also the site of a fierce resistance movement by villagers who oppose the construction of a South Korean naval base on the island that will become part of the U.S. missile defense system to contain China.
South Korea’s president, Lee Myungbak, says the base is needed to protect Seoul from an attack from Pyongyang. The problem with that assertion is that the Aegis destroyers that Lee pledged to deploy at the base aren’t designed to protect South Korea from North Korean Taepodong ballistic missiles (TBM).
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 6:59am.
When: Friday, October 21, 2011, 7:00 pm
to Saturday, October 22, 2011, 6:00 pm
Where: American University • Washington
2011 Oct 21 - 7:00pm
2011 Oct 22 - 6:00pm
A U.S. peace movement capacity building conference
Sponsored by: American Friends Service Committee, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute, Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, Historians Against the War, Korean Policy Initiative, Nodutol, Peace Action, (initial listing)
Panels on Northeast and Southeast Security Issues, Peace Movement Campaigns and Workshops (see below).
Additional information, including registration, is accessible at www.afsc.org/pes.
Please join us and consider having your organization co-sponsor this uniquely important conference.
Even as the Pentagon has been pursuing its Long War across the Middle East and Central Asia, the campaign to contain China has been driving U.S. strategic war planning and military spending.
Understanding the Middle East and South/Central Asia
