Two Film Screenings at People’s Church on Friday, 18 May, 7pm
7pm on Friday, 18 May – Join us for screenings of ‘If I Had a Trillion Dollars’ and ‘The Fruit of Our Labor’
IVAW Right to Heal Tour in Chicago – Monday, 14 May – Teach in about Operation Recover Campaign
Right to Heal Tour – Chicago Iraq Veterans Against the War’s Right to Heal Tour will stop in Chicago on Monday, May 14 for a teach-in about our Operation Recovery Campaign to end the deployment of traumatized troops and win service members and veterans right to heal. Will you join us? RSVP and share the event on Facebook. The [...]
Don’t Believe the NATO Hype: Alternatives Exist to War, Economic Crises
Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee, one of the organizations in Network for a NATO-Free Future, had an op-ed published on 10 May 2012 in the Huffington Post. Read it here!
Neues Deutschland (Germany): ‘Wir haben wieder Rückenwind’ (‘We Have Tailwind Again’)
Below, please find a Neues Deutschland article featuring Judith LeBlanc of Peace Action, one of the major organizations in the Network for a NATO-Free Future. To read on Neues Deutschland, please click here, and use Google Translate if you are a non-German speaker. Die US-Friedensbewegung konzentriert sich auf den Militär-Etat Die US-Friedensbewegung bringt sich nach [...]
People’s World: ‘Arab Spring, Libyan Winter’ Has Timely Lessons for NATO Summit
May 8 2012 U.S. and European military leaders will meet in Chicago May 20-21 for their NATO summit. A Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice will convene May 18-19. A timely new book, “Arab Spring, Libyan WInter,” provides a short, information-rich guide to what the NATO controversy is all about. Its focus is the upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa over the past year, but the insights are relevant far beyond.
New Resource for Advocating the End of the War and Occupation of Afghanistan by the US and NATO:
Our friends at Rethink Media prepared a tip sheet for letters to the editor. Afghanistan is in the news and will be in the news between now and the NATO Summit because it is one of their major agenda items. Take the opportunity to press to bring the troops home now as we build for [...]
Why Veterans Are Returning Their Medals to NATO
Read the compelling stories of war veterans who will return their medals while NATO meets in Chicago.
ACLU Publishes May 2012 ‘Know Your Right to Protest in Chicago’
Please download and review this guide if you plan to march or protest during the NATO Summit in Chicago.
