what cop27 Didn't Do

It failed to agree on any steps to phase out fossil fuels
It didn't even talk about reducing animal agriculture as a way of reducing the very serious amounts of methane it produces.
It didn't prevent holding its next "Conference of Parties" in the UAE, another state without political or workers' rights.

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It did promise money to the poor countries who are suffering the most from what the big industrial countries have done to the atmosphere.

Activists used it to give a lot of attention to Alla Abd El-Fattah and the 70,000 other Egyptian political prisoners

Working Class Resistance to Nazi Germany

Details about our 11/28 Event

Merilyn Moos' talk will be shown at SCSU in Englemann B 121 A&B. Park in Lot 12. The entrance is on Crescent St. just before Lyman Hall. After you enter from Crescent St. turn right and you'll be in Lot 12. Details about watching the event on zoom below.

Nov. 2022 video interview Stanley Heller interviewer

Moos talks about her father Siegi Moos

Kuhle Wampe (1932) German film with English subtitles

Siegi Moos was in the film. The script was conceived by Bertolt Brecht!

co-sponsors of the event on the 28th include Promoting Enduring Peace, the Women Studies Department and History Department at Southern Connecticut State University, and Jewish Voice for Peace (New Haven).

To watch the event on Zoom register here: https://tinyurl.com/AntiNaziGermans

This is not just history. As the recent election has probably sent the U.S. Congress into gridlock and inability to deal with the inflation many people will look for magical racist solutions. Look back to the 1930's for lessons for today.

To attend in-person see directions for parking and building and to the classroom immediately below.

Rally Sunday 9/18 for Palestine

Not Another Nickel for Israel’s Crimes

Protest and Rally

Sunday 9/18 at 2 p.m.

Starting at the corner of Main and Washington Streets

Middletown, Connecticut

With its whitewash “investigation” of the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh the Israeli government shows it will not change its murderous course. Palestinians seem to be killed every day by Israeli forces and it’s just been a month since the latest attack on Gaza in which the Israeli military killed 19 and injured hundreds.

Once again, we must launch protest, protest of the overwhelming support Connecticut politicians give to Israel including the river of money that flows to the apartheid state ($4.8 billion this year).

Shame the CT members of Congress for their blank check for Israel and its crimes.

We also will remember that the horrific massacre of at least 1,400 Palestinians and Lebanese in the Sabra-Shatila camps took place from Sept. 16-18, 1982

Middle East Crisis Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace (New Haven), Plant the Land (Gaza), Bristol Anti-Racism Brigade (BARB), & Bristol Advocates for Marginalized Families (BAMF), Promoting Enduring Peace, Workers Voice

(co-sponsor list in formation)

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Video of the most recent rally for Palestine in Middletown

https://youtu.be/BJQTGUhELN0

Gov. Newsom's Plan to Give Life to a Corpse...passes

Newsweek article 9/1

California Embraces Worrisome Nuclear Power Plant Amid Blackout Fears (msn.com)

Why don't they start rationing power use? We know it's coming as a way of phasing out fossil fuel use.

Los Angeles Times Columnist Evaluates - Steve Lopez 8/26

" Newsom is trying to rush a bill that would extend the nuclear plant’s life until 2035, if not beyond, despite a long-established agreement to turn out the lights in 2025. Newsom would also waive environmental reviews and dangle $1.5 billion in taxpayer money for plant operator PG&E. "

"The Diablo Canyon plant sits on and near several earthquake faults, not all of which were adequately considered when the plant opened. It sucks in millions of gallons of seawater daily for cooling and spits out warmer water, killing some fish and altering the marine environment.

And then there’s the possibility of a Chernobyl- or Fukushima-type disaster, along with the unanswered question of where to safely store nuclear waste.

“Accidents don’t happen frequently, but when they do, they’re catastrophic,” said Linda Seeley, who is with Mothers for Peace and is on the decommissioning panel that has spent several years planning the phaseout."

90 second video opposes the proposed law

And do we actually want to encourage a technology that armies are willing to hide within and risk continent-wide disasters? For example see the war in Ukraine where Putin's troops are putting military vehicles within the immense Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants.

Find your California legislator here

Emergency Press Conference 8/30 Raw Video

Press Conference On Newsom’s Diablo Canyon SB 846
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/uMr2Hx9rBqFe1aUolYAm6c3FIrMIEG9QPBu0ClO9AS-rAjqxrGv7QbI24Gyh8kH4.uT_sh9cD15ixI4Ul?startTime=1661886228000

Passcode: kVn^4k89

from longtime anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman

All Citizens Must NOW Call CA

Reps & Senators to Stop

Newsom’s Nuke Backstab

By Harvey Wasserman

Governor Gavin Newsom wants to stab California in the radioactive back while picking your pockets. The decision will be made by 11pm Pacific Time tonight.

You can help by immediately—-NOW!—-telling your state Senators and Representatives to kill Newsom’s pet Senate Bill 846, a shameless scam to fatten PG&E while endangering the Diablo Canyon nukes. ( https://mothersforpeace.org/tell-your-legislators-to-reject-newsoms-monster-bailout-bill/ )

In 2016, then-Lieutenant Governor Newsom signed a joint agreement to phase out the two infamous reactors near San Luis Obispo. Drafted by Governor Jerry Brown, state regulators, local officials, unions, citizen, environmental and other groups, the orderly shut-down of the elderly nukes mapped a sane, rational way to proceed.

Designed in the pre-digital 1960s, Diablo was deployed in the 1980s as more than 10,000 protestors were arrested.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Site Inspector Dr. Michael Peck has warned that Diablo can’t withstand a credible quake. In a melt-down, the deeply embrittled Unit One will likely explode, killing the biosphere with apocalyptic clouds.

PG&E has twice gone bankrupt and been twice convicted of federal manslaughter charges involving nearly 100 deaths. Diablo is uninsured beyond a small federal fund covering a bare fraction of its killing power. It is infamous for under-maintaining its infrastructure.

California has more than enough electric capacity to avoid blackouts in all but the rarest instances. One or more Diablo reactor is shut 40% of the time. They block cheaper green power off the grid, and can’t be adjusted to meet fluctuating demand.

Wind, solar, battery and efficiency technologies now employ some 70,000 Californians, versus just 1500 at Diablo. The state has more than enough renewables in operation and development to power it deep into a carbon-free future, with its growing array of privately-owned batteries already guarding against future blackouts.

But Newsom is now assaulting home-owned solar with deadly taxes and gutted buy-backs. His Senate Bill 846 begs the nuclear/utility industry to fund his presidential campaign. Atop a $1.4 billion “loan” it slips PG&E grotesque profits far in excess of what they’d get if the reactors shut as planned.

Tonight Newsom needs two-thirds legislative approval to trash solar, pillage your electric rates and deepen your danger from two uninsured reactors riding a dozen unpredictable earthquake faults.

Newsom has never displayed workable evacuation plans for Los Angeles, the Central Valley or Bay Area. ( http://acehoffman.org/sano/DCNPP_EnoughIsEnough20220829A.mp4 )

Call your state Senators and Reps NOW. We have literally just a few hours—-until an 8-11 pm window tonight—-to stop this unconscionable madness. ( https://mothersforpeace.org/tell-your-legislators-to-reject-newsoms-monster-bailout-bill/ )

Remembering the Sarin Massacre in Syria

How it Was Remembered

PEP sponsored a Zoom event where we saw photos, lit candles in honor of those murdered and talked about ways to support a Free Syria.

On the WPKN radio program Mic Check, Mike Merle interviewed Dr. Zaki Lababidi, originally from Homs, Syria . you can hear it on Soundcloud by clicking here.

Link to journalist & human rights worker comments about the attack

Razan Zeituneh

(BTW Zeituneh was disappeared in Dec. 2013)

Human Rights Watch Report

Stanley Heller interview with an eyewitness Dani Qappani for TSVN

1500 deaths according to this French report

The Greatest nuclear threat right now

Russia is occupying Europe's largest nuclear power plant, in southern Ukraine. In the words of Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency the situation there "is completely out of control" and "Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated.”

Russian President Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons to get his way in Ukraine

We say,

Putin, get your soldiers and weapons out of Ukraine Nuclear Plants
Russia, US, Pledge NOT to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, no matter what
Russia out of Ukraine
Remember Hiroshima, Never Again

Watch Democracy Now 8/4/2022

The Bill is Not What it Seems

Calls for Protests Across the U.S. on Tues. August 2

It guarantees more drilling on Federal land
It forces the government to stop opposing pipelines
It includes billions in subsidies for fossil fuel industry schemes like carbon capture
It ignores calls for climate justice
Read what Gandhi Peace Award winner Tom BK Goldtooth and other frontline community leaders say about the deal by clicking here
You can't just make electric-run equipment popular. You have to reduce the burning of fuel, ration it and gradually stop its use.
You also have to cut back sharply on meat-raising. It's a major cause of global warming gases. Plus we need to rewild much of the land that's used for meat-raising to take carbon out of the air.

Details about Sat. May 14 Zoom Event at 1 P.m.

Only on Zoom

Protest the Kidnapping of the Alabbasi Family

and American Psychotherapist KamAlmaz

The Alabbasi family was taken by Assad forces 9 years ago [See below]. Dr. Majd KamAlmaz is an American psychotherapist taken at a checkpoint in Syria in 2017. all efforts to free them or even account for them have failed.

Hear

Naila Alabassi - a physician and sister of Rania Alabbasi.

Qutaiba Idlbi - Syria Fellow at the International Center for Transitional Justice

Maryam KamAlmaz - daughter of Texas Syrian-American psychiatrist (taken at a Syrian checkpoint in 2017)

Saturday, May 14, 2022

1 p.m.

https://tinyurl.com/PEPeventMay14

Facebook Event Invite your friends

Disappeared for 9 years

Everyone you see in the picture on the right was kidnapped by Assad forces on March 9, 2013. The mother depicted, Rania Alabbasi, was a dentist and Syria's most famous chess champion. In addition to the 8 people shown here the secretary of Ms. Alabbasi was also taken.

Nothing has been heard about any of these 9 people since they were taken.

Click here to watch a 3/7/22 interview with Hassan Alabbasi, Rania's brother who is in Ottawa.

Ask your local media or Congress to raise this issue.

Write to producers@democracynow.org and ask DN! to cover the story.

Details about Thurs. April 28 Forum

7 p.m. Eastern

Here's the link to register

Speakers:

Alex Kuzma - Chief Development Officer for the Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation and has been a spokesperson for the Ukrainian-American community in Connecticut. See his talk at the April 1 march by clicking here

Nidal Betare - a Palestinian refugee, was born and raised in Syria's Yarmouk camp and lived there until December 2011. He is now based in Washington, D.C., where he works as a senior programs manager at People Demand Change He’s written several important articles on the Syrian uprising and its cruel repression.

He wrote "The Assad Dynasty Was Hatched at My Grandfather’s Home. They Later Destroyed it"

New Lines Magazine and

The Palestinian political class has become a heavy burden on the people - The Washington Post

and his most important article "Yarmouk Refugee Camp and the Syrian Uprising" | Journal of Palestine Studies

Moderated by Stanley Heller, PEP Administrator

ample time for Q. and A.

link for archive of articles about Ukraine and Russia

link for archive of articles about Syria

Here's the link to register

The vigil for mubarak Soulemane

Two Elected Officials Spoke

State representative Robyn Porter and member of the City Council of Hamden, Justin Farmer denounced the killing of black youth. The first speaker was Mubarak's sister, Mariyann.

See video of the Rally on June 27

On June 26 on the Black Lives Matter Instagram channel over 26,000 watched Mariyann Soulemane speak about her brother and his shooting (1/15/20) after he was entirely surrounded by CT Trooper and West Haven police cars. There have been no indictments, no firings and no reports.

Come to the vigil that takes place 3 days after Mubarak would have been 21 years old at the corner of Campbell Avenue and Hall Sts. in West Haven. (820 Campbell Avenue) More about the case: WestHavenCall.com

Sponsors: Justice for Mubarak, Black Lives Matter (national), Promoting Enduring Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace (New Haven), Black Alliance for Just Immigration, West Haven Black Coalition, Justice for Jayson, Justice for Steven Barrier, Democratic Socialists of America AfroSocialists & Socialist of Color Caucus

Are we on a path to nuclear war with China?

Listen to Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg was given our Gandhi Peace Award in 1976 for his bravery in issuing the Pentagon Papers. In 2107 he wrote The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner in which he told of his years in the nuclear war making department of the Kennedy Administration. There he learned that the strategy of our military for any war with the Soviet Union was to launch a full military strike with expected hundreds of millions dead.

He leaked a document this year (2021) that showed that in the '50's the U.S. military wanted to use nuclear weapons to defend Quemoy and Matsu, two "rocks" off the coast of Taiwan.

The event will be moderated by Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security , and a peacenews columnist.

Click here for link to register for the Mass Peace Action program