Thursday, April 3 , 6:30 – 8:45 pm, Bethlehem Public Library, 451 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY. Film: “The Coming War on China” by John Pilger (2016, 113 minutes) . Filmed over 2 years, the film includes eyewitness interviews and rare archive footage. Are the US and China on the road to war, and with US bases encircling the world’s newest superpower, nuclear r is a nightmarish prospect. The Coming War with China website
John Pilger quote:
“This is not news, or it is news distorted or buried. Instead, there is a familiar drumbeat identifying a new enemy: a restoration of the psychology of fear that embedded public consciousness for most of the 20th century. The aim of The Coming War on China is to help break the silence. As the centenaries of the First World War presently remind us, horrific conflict can begin all too easily. The difference today is nuclear. This is my 60th film, the majority for ITV and including those made for the cinema. Filmed across Asia and the Pacific during almost two years, the story is told in chapters that connect a secret and ‘forgotten’ past to the rapacious actions of great power today and to an inspiring popular resistance, of which little is known in the West.”
Link to John Pilger Obituary (January 25, 2024) in New York Times ( Discussion to follow film. Sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace. Information 518-466-1192
Tuesday, April 1, 7:00PM, St. Vincents,, 900 Madison Avenue, Albany, Parking lot off Madison Avenue East of the Building (See entrance directions below) Joseph Gerson, Co-founder of Committee for a Sane US China Policy, speaking on: From Tariffs to Taiwan: Trump, China & Competition for 21st Century Dominance. Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. A member of the Nihon Hidankyo Delegation which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2024. Lifelong activist and organizer: for AFSC, Clergy & Laity Concerned, War Resisters League among others. His books include Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World and The Sun Never Sets… Confronting the Network of US Foreign Military Bases. Articles in Common Dreams, Truthout, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and Eurasia Review. Organized by Women Against War. Co-sponsored by: Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Creative Action Unlimited, Justice Committee of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet, Palestinian Rights Committee, Tom Paine Chapter, Veterans for Peace, Upper Hudson Peace Action, Upper Hudson Valley Code Pink. Building Entrance: From the parking lot, walk past the residence to the back of St. Vincents church, on Yates Street. Ground level entrance – take elevator to the C level – the upper level of the Parish Hall. Questions: Contact [email protected]
Fight the Trump Agenda
Is the United States Moving Towards Fascism?
Video Presentation and discussion.
Monday, February 3rd, 7PM at the Bethlehem Library
Donald Trump’s agenda will likely not be opposed with a majority of Republicans in both houses. So far, he has signed statements for Mass deportations and to end birth right citizenship. People’s homes and workplaces have been raided and hundreds rounded up and deported. He has free some 1500 people convicted of crimes for rioting at the capital a for illegally block entrance into women’s health clinics. He has revoked anti-discrimination laws and is seeking to take Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Canada. He has withdrawn sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers who have violently attack Palestinians and has even suggest that the Palestinian people in Gaza should leave and go to another country. What next? How do we stop him?
Sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
Building the antiwar movement during the Trump presidency
Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, climate change…
A BNP Forum at the Bethlehem Library
January 15, 2025 at 7 PM
Join Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace for a discussion of the future for our movement during the incoming Trump administration. There will be discussion of why Trump won, what it means for peace on Palestine, Ukraine, Syria and other areas
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Climate Change and Resource Wars
A BNP Forum at the Bethlehem Library
December `7, 2024 at 7 PM
On 17th December we are hosting an important and informative panel examining aspects of the two most important issues facing our lives – Climate change and Resource Wars, and the interlinking causality.
Please join us on 17th December at 7.00 in Bethlehem Public Library on this subject which will affect both us, and the generations to come.
Speakers include:
Mary Fineran, Mark Dunlea, Xanthe Plymale and chaired by Pippa Bartolotti
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The Expansion of the War in the Middle East
Israel’s Attack on Lebanon
Bethlehem Library
October 9 at 7 PM
Join us for some videos of the recent events followed by a discussion.
Many have watched with horror as thousands were made into unwilling suicide bombers as pagers exploded after Israeli spy agencies turned them into bombs. Only days later Israel dropped US supplied 2000 lbs. bunker buster bombs killing many in Beirut. This led to a response from Iran where they aimed missiles at military and intelligence facilities in Israel. US and Israeli forces tried to stop the missiles but many clearly hit their targets. Israel now says it will again attack Iran threatening to expand the war and include other countries including the US. Join us to discuss the situation and discuss what the peace movement can do to help end the crisis.
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A Panel on Free Speech and the First Amendment
Thursday, August 1st at 7 PM
Bethlehem Public Library
Speakers:
Jodi Dean, PhD
Jodi Dean was suspended from her teaching position at Hobart College after publishing a statement on X in support of the Palestinian rights.
Kathy Manley
Kathy Manley is a local attorney who has worked with cases of Muslim civil rights for many years and defended to local Muslim who were falsely charged of crimes after the Iraq War started.
Nicholas DeFazio
Nicholas DeFazio is a recent graduate from SUNY New Paltz who document the encampment and protests for Palestinian rights on his own campus.
As the genocide in Gaza continues, millions across the world, in the US and right here in the Capital Region have protested and demanded an end to the genocide and for the rights of the Palestinians people. In the US, on multiple occasions, hundreds of thousands of people protested in Washington, DC and there were thousands of protests across the entire country. Campuses exploded with encampment and demonstrations during the spring and college graduation saw many protests.
These actions and demonstrations were met with repression. More than 900 college students were arrested during the college protests, some faculty and even college presidents were forced to resign, were suspended or forced out. There is a heightened atmosphere of censorship, as voices who gave any support to the Palestinians were removed from the corporate media. News of events in Gaza was downplayed or not reported and venues were pressured to exclude pro-Palestinian rights meetings. This was the case with the Bethlehem Library, which banned Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace for 1 year after they held a meeting for an anti-Zionist Israeli, Miko Peled which was disrupted by pro-Zionists who did not want his message to be expressed. That ban was lifted after several months and after protests by local residents.
Please join us for this important meeting and help defend our democratic right to freedom of speech.
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View the video of the Miko Peled talk sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
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