Monks visiting towns throughout New England during Non-Proliferation Treaty Walk

On Wednesday, April 21, monks from the Leverett Peace Pagoda will be walking through Hartford as part of a campaign to raise awareness about the abolition of nuclear weapons. They and supporters are walking to inform and rally people for forthcoming Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) Review taking place in New York City in [...]

Saving Afghanistan from the U.S. (and other extremists)

The New Haven Peace Council has announced a “Saving Afghanistan from the U.S. (and other extremists),” with Prof. Vijay Prashad, beginning at 7 p.m. , Sat. March 6, 2010, 37 Howe St., New Haven.
From its intervention to destroy a progressive popular movement in Afghanistan in the 1970’s, to its supporting the Taliban, warlords, Osama bin [...]

Environmental (Dis)Locations: a conference with religious imagination exploring environmental justice and climate change

Environmental (Dis)Locations: a conference with religious imagination exploring environmental justice and climate change will take place April 8-10, 2010 at the Saint Thomas More Center, 268 Park St., Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St., and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 195 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut.
The conference is sponsored by the Edward [...]

The Obama disarmament paradox by Greg Mello | Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Last April in Prague, President Barack Obama gave a speech that many have interpreted as a commitment to significant nuclear disarmament.
Now, however, the White House is requesting one of the larger increases in warhead spending history. If its request is fully funded, warhead spending would rise 10 percent in a single year, with further increases [...]

Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 | Boston.com

Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He [...]