Peace and
Economic Security Program
U.S. Peace Delegation to China
Between April 17 and 29, 2008 Joseph Gerson, Director of AFSC Programs
in New England, led a twelve member U.S. peace movement delegation
to China to learn about Chinese perspectives of U.S.-China relations
and of the U.S. military build up in the Asia-Pacific Region. The
Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament hosted
the delegation for meetings with Chinese Party and Government officials,
scholars and think tank researchers. The delegation visited Beijing,
Yan’an, Xian and Shanghai. A joint AFSC- CPAPD Peace Forum
was held in Beijing on April 22. Keynote speeches by Delegation
members follow below. Speeches given by Chinese participants will
be posted as soon as we receive the translations.
Kitty Hsu Dana – Peace Forum Opening Remarks
Joseph Gerson - China’s Rise and U.S.-Chinese
Relations
Joe Volk – New ideas and New Problems in Maintaining International
Peace and Security
Kevin Martin – The Untied States, China, and the Middle East
Patricia DeBoer - The Role of NGOs in Building International Peace
and Security
Andrew Tomlinson – Non-Governmental organizations at the United
Nations and the Work of the Quaker United Nations Office
Delegation’s
Summary Statement
Meetings
and Interlocutors
Joe Volk - Walk
and Chew Gum: Can the peace movement do both at the same time?
Kyle
Kajihiro’s Video: U.S. Peace Movement Delegation to
China and Japan Part 1 (30 min)
"Post Card From China" - Andrew Tomlinson
Bibliography: Introduction
to Chinese Political History, Chinese Security Policies, and U.S.-Chinese
Relations
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Leading nuclear specialist and peace campaigner Joseph Gerson explains
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about Gerson's new book, Empire
and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the
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5, 2007 by Foreign Policy in Focus
Empire in Decline: What
the Presidential Candidates Aren’t
Telling Us, Sermon,
Bedford, Ma. Unitarian Church, Feb. 10, 2008
Empire, The Bomb, and
Common Security, Sermon, Nantucket Unitarian Church,
Sept. 30, 2007
Clinton and Obama: Wed
to Nuclear Terrorism
Joseph Gerson's Hiroshima
World Conference Speech
End the Iraq and Afghanistan/Central Asian Wars
Call for international common action against the 60th NATO anniversary
The Peace Movement is International
- and has to Take Action for Afghanistan By Tomas Magnusson - International
Peace Bureau
Joseph Gerson: "The Afghan War- A U.S. Peace Movement Perspective"
Joseph Gerson's speech at the International Afghanistan Congress,
Hanover, Germany "The U.S.
War in Afghanistan: Goals, Future, and Alterantives"
AFSC
joined other United for Justice and Peace organizations to bring
our “Troops Home Now!” message to the January
20 New England Patriots – San Diego Chargers American Football
League play off game.
No Bases
Asia-Pacific Issues
Recent work for peace and economic security
U.S. Foreign Military
Bases & Military Colonialism: Personal and Analytical
Perspectives – by Joseph Gerson
Why I was
Arrested (On Cambridge Common) For Protesting The War by Joseph Gerson
Sign and Circulate Gensuikyo’s "Call
for the Swift Abolition of Nuclear Weapons"
Joseph Gerson's speech to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's
Annual Conference
Zia Mian on “Protecting
the Empire: Nuclear Weapons, Military Bases and the United
States”
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