CIFF49 Mar 27-Apr 5 / Sudan, Remember Us screens April 3
Film friends! Tickets to the 49th Cleveland International Film Festival are now on sale to the public! Cleveland Peace Action is once again a proud Community Partner for CIFF49. This year’s film is Sudan, Remember Us. It screens Thursday, April 3rd at 12:20 pm. Tickets are now on sale. Use the discount code “CPA” for $1 off each ticket purchase. Check out CIFF’s full lineup of 300 exceptional films from arount the globe. ABOUT THE FILM – VIEW TRAILER The youth of Khartoum lived their whole life under Omar al-Bashir’s despotic rule, but in 2019 they started a revolution…
Sudan Solidarity Teach-In
Wednesday, March 5th at 5 PM Location: The Root Café 15118 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio 44107 Sudan Solidarity Teach-In If you are not able to attend, please visit the QR code on the flyer for Sudan Solidarity Collective contribution information Cleveland Peace Action, the Sudan Solidarity Collective, and the Root Café invite you to a community teach-in to gain perspective on the crisis in Sudan. The US has a hand in it by supplying weapons to one of the warring parties and not “the good guys.” Three local Sudanese Americans will lead the teach-in about Sudan’s history to contextualize the…
Post-Election Direction: what now? View on YouTube
View on YouTube Thursday, December 5, 2024. 7:00 pm. It was an election like no other: polarizing, ugly, passionately contested. The results suggest a realignment of U.S. politics and a rightward shift in national policies and priorities. Yet most our greatest concerns were invisible during the campaigns. This panel and audience discussion of the election and its implications for our work, took place on Zoom only, thanks to a December snow storm. We addressed Palestine, the growing risk of nuclear war, the iron grip of the military-industrial complex, climate change, Latin America and immigration, and party politics. Panelists: …
Israel’s Illegal Nuclear Weapons Program and the USA’s Complicity: Documentation and a Case for Stopping All Military Aid
By Terry Lodge For the full article on this sordid history, with 27 links to original sources, click here. Below is a summary. Israel is presently violating, and has for at least 47 years actively violated U.S. federal laws which prohibit the provision of U.S. military assistance to a nation that possesses nuclear weapons but refuses to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968 (NPT). Israel is believed to possess from 90 to 200 nuclear warheads and is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead from 4000 miles away. Israel has acquired the Bomb wholly outside of international legal controls…
We Support CWRU Students’ Rights to Free Speech on Campus
Cleveland Peace Action supports Case Western Reserve University students in their stand for free speech on campus, especially around the conflict in Israel-Palestine. We should mention that many leaders in Cleveland Peace Action are alumni of the University. Today’s students, including Students for Justice in Palestine and allied student groups, stand in a long tradition of legitimate on-campus protest, going back at least to the Vietnam War. Editors at the Observer have recently made a compelling case for student free speech on campus. Retribution by the Administration or onerous rules that block any prompt response to breaking news, inhibits…
Civil Disobedience at Toledo’s Air National Guard base goes UNARRESTED
Tuesday, September 10, 2024, by Terry Lodge….. Demanding No U.S. defense of the Israeli Genocide!, this afternoon Veterans for Peace and Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition staged a demo at the entrance to the Toledo Air National Guard base at Toledo Express Airport this afternoon. As we arrived at 3 PM, I delivered a letter of demands to a sergeant who tried to explain to me that he was not authorized to accept mail. He finally took it as we departed. See Toledo Blade coverage for photos We arrived with five people who were willing to risk arrest. The entry…