Vermont Peace Conference 2018

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Format: 2024-04-19
Format: 2024-04-19
Keynote Speaker - Beata Tsosie-Peña - 05/12/2018
Beata Tsosie-Peña is the keynote speaker for the day. She is from Santa Clara Pueblo and El Rito, NM.  She is a mother, poet, seed saver, and is certified in infant massage, as an educator, and in permaculture design. She is also a Green...
How to Get Rid of All Nuclear Weapons - 05/12/2018
Getting rid of nuclear weapons, which threaten all life on this planet, is one small step towards a world beyond war itself. This is an interactive, participatory workshop for those who want to seriously get down to the business of getting rid of...
Economic Revolution - Five Systems to Change - 05/12/2018
The heart of the war machine beats to the drum of the economic elite – the economy needs to change substantially to build a world beyond war. Yet most of the economic systems that drive the problems we face are invisible to most of us –...
Pipeline Politics - The Shocking Truth about Endless Wars in the Middle East - 05/12/2018
Ever since the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy, the American people have been told that American soldiers have been sent to foreign soils to eradicate Islamist terrorists threatening US national...
The Meaning of Jerusalem: The Capital of Israel? - 05/12/2018
For decades the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by the state and armies of Israel and the support of the United States for Israel have been a major source of conflict in the Middle East. Now, the President of the United States, Donald Trump has...
The Impacts of US Militarism in Okinawa and Forewarning Regarding the F-35 - 05/12/2018
Adrienne shares her report back from a recent Veterans For Peace US delegation to Okinawa. There, she and fellow VFP US members joined VFP Okinawa and VFP Japan members to learn more about the impacts of US militarism on the island and show...
The Cold War Then and Now - Cuba and Latin America - 05/12/2018
Although the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, anti-Russian and anti-communist hysteria still fuels American foreign policy. In Cuba, our socialist neighbor in the Caribbean, the United States mounted an especially virulent cold war of dirty tricks,...

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