Please note: Many events have been cancelled, postponed or moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please check with local organizers to confirm events and follow local safety guidelines if attending events in person.
The third webinar of the Health and Justice Institute Series discussing how we achieve community health and safety both locally and globally.
Please email Rahel Kemal at rkemal@psr-la.org for more information.
Join Massachusetts Peace Action on Thursday May 12th at 7pm for a showing of The War Game, by Peter Watkins. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, this 45 minute film envisions an escalating war between NATO and the USSR resulting a nuclear attack on Great Britain.
We’re honored to have received a video montage and message from the filmmaker himself, Peter Watkins. After viewing the 45 minute film we’ll be joined by internationally recognized expert on nuclear weapons, Dr. Ira Helfand, to take your questions and lead a discussion.
A coalition of groups has called upon Congress to legislate – and the president to declare – that the United States will neither initiate nor threaten to initiate the first use of Nuclear Weapons. Greater Boston PSR is co-sponsoring an upcoming conference, Prohibiting the First Use of Nuclear Weapons, focused on the importance of passing No First Use. If you would like to learn more about this important issue and how you can help push policy makers to support this policy, register and attend the conference digitally on May 15, 2021 at 12:30 PM eastern time.
Virtual forum organized by Massachusetts Peace Action and co-sponsored by Greater Boston PSR. Includes a panel presentation by PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Director Martin Fleck.
Wed. June 23 at 7:00 pm Eastern Time
Daniel Ellsberg has done it again! 50 years after his courageous whistleblowing release of the Pentagon’s secret Vietnam War history, The Pentagon Papers, he has again shaken the nation and the world with a new revelation. It has critically important implications for the new Cold War confrontation with China and the debate over the possibility over Congress or the the Biden Administration adopting a No First Use nuclear policy.
Co-sponsored by PSR.
From July 25-28, 10 AM to 7:00 PM (CDT) PSR Iowa will again take a prominent role in the Johnson County Fair, exhibiting with the People’s Coalition, promoting clean energy, nuclear abolition, and social justice for the health of all Iowans. We’ll also be polling fair goers opinions about pipelines, CAFO’s, air and water pollution.
Reading of John Hersey’s Hiroshima
Townsend Park, Albany, NY (Henry Johnson Blvd and Central Ave)
Friday, August 6, 2021 at 11:00AM ET
A reading of John Hersey’s Hiroshima will take place on Friday, August 6, 2021 in Townsend Park (Henry Johnson Blvd and Central Avenue), in Albany, NY, starting at 11:00 AM. The event is free and open to the public, and those interested in reading can sign up when they arrive. Please bring chairs. Sponsoring organizations include the Tom Paine Chapter of Veterans for Peace, the Poetry Motel Foundation, and Upper Hudson Peace Action. This public reading, commemorating the atomic bombing of Japan, was started by the late Tom Nattell, an Albany poet and environmental activist, and has occurred every year since the late 1980s. For further information, contact Dan Wilcox: dwlcx@earthlink.net or 518-482-0262.
Hiroshima VIRTUAL Commemoration
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 7:30PM-8:30PM ET
United Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, Manhasset, NY. Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, Willow, and Shelter Rock Unitarian Social Justice Committee invite you to a Hiroshima Commemoration with poetry, music, prayer, and presentations. On the program are music from Karl Jenkins, presentations by Ray Acheson from WILPF and Emily Rubino, Exeutive Director of Peace Action New York State, a reading from Margaret Engels, and music from Willow. Register
The Mighty String Demons Commemorate Hiroshima/Nagasaki
S Staten Island Children’s Museums grounds. 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY
Saturday, August 7 at 11AM-12:30PM (ET)
The Mighty String Demons will use beautiful music, the story of Sadako, and origami paper cranes to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the cause of peace and abolishing nuclear weapons forever. This program is a collaborative project of Peace Action of Staten Island, the Unitarian Church of Staten Island, and the Mighty String Demons.
Sponsor: Peace Action New York State
A Virtual Commemoration of the 76th Anniversary of the U.S. Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Wednesday, August 4 at 7:30 – 8:30 pm Eastern
Keynote Speakers:
Ray Acheson, Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom and author of
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
Emily Rubino, Executive Director, Peace Action NYS
Moderator: Claire Deroche, Social Justice Coordinator, UUCSR
Reading: Margaret Engel, LI Alliance intern
Music: Willow, Women’s Acapella Choir with Farah Chandu
Closing: Margaret Melkonian, LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Sponsors: Social Justice Committee of Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, LI Alliance for Peaceful
Alternatives, Peace Action New York State, and Willow
In the Dark of the Valley, a feature film about the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket-engine testing site near Los Angeles, will screen at the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival on August 5th and the Phoenix Film Festival on August 20-22. The film is an in-depth exploration into the site’s long history of cover-ups and negligence by site owners Boeing, NASA, and the Department of Energy. It also tells the harrowing story of how a community of mothers, led by Melissa Bumstead, have dealt with the struggles of childhood cancer and their new found life of environmental advocacy, and features Dr. Bob Dodge and Denise Dufflied of PSR-Los Angeles.
Tickets are $12 and can be purchased here