Archive for the ‘Lectures & Presentations’ Category
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Jul
12
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Freedom Sounds Like Hafez
A BOOK LAUNCH
Your Lover’s Beloved: 51 Ghazals by Hafez & Iran Today
a reading, book signing and discussion with
Mahmood Karimi-Hakak and Bill Wolak Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul
09
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Filed Under (2009 Election, Activism, Iran Domestic Politics, Lectures & Presentations, Nonviolence, Peace, U.S. Relations, diplomacy, human rights) by admin2 on 25-04-2007
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Statement and Call to Action
July 9, 2009
Dear Friend of United for Peace and Justice,
Over three weeks ago, Iranians held a presidential election. What followed remains unclear, but one thing is for certain: the Iranian government engaged in the suppression of the rights of Iranians to protest their government. Read the rest of this entry »
An important briefing we’re hosting this Thursday in Albuquerque on relations with Iran. If you are in the Albuquerque area (or have friends who do) I hope you’ll join us:
Former Congressman Tom Andrews, National Director of Win Without War
Brigadier General John Johns (ret.),
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan
Thursday, June 5
7:00 PM
Unitarian Church of Albuquerque
Carlisle Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
(505) 884-1801
Tom Andrews & General John Johns will discuss the harm our current policy toward Iran does to stability in the Middle East and our national security. Without a reversal in the policy of making non-negotiable demands, there can be no progress in resolving outstanding issues with Iran or enlisting its cooperation to achieve stability in Iraq. As it now stands, The Bush Administration’s policy of antagonism toward Iran gives that country’s leaders the maximum incentive to develop weapons of mass destruction and continue to keep the US military tied down in Iraq.
I hope we’ll see you there!
Ryan Anderson
Win Without War
Hi New York friends!
I’m sending you all an email to a few of my New York friends because many of you were sponsors of my peace delegation trip to Iran last month and/or were awesome email/phone supporters. So I wanted to let you know the details of the official presentation I will be giving about it here in NYC.
The last two months have indeed been insane with almost more work post-trip than the trip itself. A lot of interviews and articles and yes even the obligatory appearance on Muslim TV — (which was quite “candid cameraish I must say).
My official presentation about the trip in New York City will be this coming Sunday. I pasted the details below for you in case you have the time to come – and are interested in this subject. It was quite the experience and we learned a lot. More than anything, we were brought there specifically by the Iranian government to bring back a message to the American people…
So that is why we do these interviews and presentations. It isn’t necessarily a “perfect message.†But it is a real message – as opposed to what we hear on the news here in the States… which is just ‘the White House said…†So, that will be the aim of the presentation. To show some pictures, tell some stories, and answer as many questions as possible about the subject.
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May
26
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Filed Under (Americans visit Iran, Israel, Lectures & Presentations, Peace, U.S. Relations) by admin on 25-04-2007
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Rabbi Lynn’s Trail Guide To Jewish Nonviolence
Wednesday, May 28, 7:30 pm
JCC of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street in Berkeley
$10-$20 sliding scale, to benefit the Aquarian Minyan
| Rabbi Lynn will share stories of her recent visit to Iran Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb recently returned from co-leading the 7th Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation to Iran. She will share her experience in the light of her work on behalf of citizen diplomacy, and her face-to-face visits with the Jewish communities of Teheran, Shiraz, and Isfahan. She will present a slide-show.Pursuing peace is one of the central tenets of Shomer Shalom, the Jewish Path of Nonviolence. Rabbi Lynn will share the ways in which Shomer Shalom can be a voice for peacemaking in a time when many are advocating war. Share the vision of one of the first ten women rabbis in her thirty-fifth year of rabbinic service and first year as a resident of Berkeley. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb directs The Shomer Shalom Institute for Jewish Nonviolence, Interfaith Inventions and is cofounder of The Muslim Jewish PeaceWalk and Congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, NM. She is author of She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of Renewed Judaism, Harper SF 1995, and is contributing editor of Fellowship Magazine, and numerous essays and articles and member of Imaginaction Theatre Company. The Aquarian Minyan invites you to attend its monthly author series at the JCC, featuring Minyan members who have recently published books. Come schmooze with the authors! Books will be for sale. Light refreshments will be provided. $10-$20 sliding scale, to benefit The Aquarian Minyan. For more information contact Lea AT lmi.net or (510) 528-6725 |
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May
09
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With the Bush administration angling for war with Iran, the city of Chicago is considering going on record opposing it
Michael Lynn
More than 7,000 miles separate Chicago and Tehran. But on May 14, the city council of the American city will consider whether to take a stand on an event that would have far reaching consequences for residents of both: a US attack on Iran.
A resolution introduced into the council by one of its members, Alderman Joe Moore, would put the city on record as opposing a preemptive strike against Iran by the US. The resolution urges all congressional representatives whose districts include parts of the city to “clearly express the will of the people of Chicago in opposing any attack on Iran, and urging the Bush administration to pursue diplomatic engagement with that nation.”
The resolution is the result of an initiative launched by Chicago’s No War On Iran Coalition, a broad-based grouping of local anti-war, social justice and faith organisations. Ranging widely in viewpoints, the goal that unites us all is preventing the United States from launching another elective war that we believe would prove even more disastrous than the five-year-old one next door in Iraq.
Recent events have added urgency to the goal. In April, General David Petraeus, the commanding officer of American forces in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to that country, testified to several congressional committees. In their testimony, both struck a common theme: the role of Iran in promoting insurgent attacks in Iraq. Both men accused so-called “special groups” of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of being responsible for the deaths of American troops and rocket strikes on the Green Zone.
The travelling lecture “THE HUMAN COST OF WAR AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS” focuses On Iran is coming to New York City and to Washington DC in the month of May.
WHEN: Thursday May 1, 2008 7pm
WHERE: All Souls Church; Reidy Friendship Hall
1157 Lexington Ave, @ 79th St. New York, NY USA
212-535-5530
SPEAKERS: Dr. Shahriar Khateri and Dr. Mohammad Soroush, founders of the Society for
Chemical Weapons Victims Support www.scwvs.org
On tour in the U.S. from Iran, Dr. Shahriar Khateri and Dr. Mohammad Soroush, have
many years experience treating victims of chemical weapons used in the Iran/Iraq war of
the 1980s. Speaking to both medical professionals and to the general public, they address
the short and long term medical consequences of chemical warfare hoping to heighten the
awareness of the devastation of weapons of mass destruction and to remind us that we
must work to abolish these weapons.
Tour Sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) www.psr.org and the
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII)
www.campaigniran.
The tour sponsors hope this tour will increase efforts for diplomacy to between U.S. and
Iran and bring us closer to peace.
Co-sponsors: Peace Task Force of All Souls Church and Action For Justice of Community
Church NYC Info: russellbranca@
Stanley & David in Qom, Iran
Stanley Campbell will show slides and speak about his trip to Iran at the
Lakeview Library Auditorium, Peoria IL
Tuesday, April 15 at 7 pm
Mr. Campbell has served 20 years as executive director of Rockford Urban Ministries, and has been on numerous peace missions including Nicaragua in 1985; Guatemala in 1986; a return trip with Vietnam veterans in 1987; and the occupied territories of Israel in 1988 during the first intifada. Mr. Campbell has also joined a Volunteers In Mission/UMCOR work camp to Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1996, and a delegation of the National Council of Churches to Cuba in 2004
“We want to get the message out that if we could talk to the Iranians, so should our government,†says Mr. Campbell after his latest trip to Iran.
Contact: Douglas Thompson 309-264-8914; Razia 309-868-4218
