lesson plans, upcoming events, etc. For educators, we know that there are an incredible amount of tools and materials out there to help them put together lesson plans and projects around social justice issues, creative thinking, and problem solving. Some examples that immediately come to mind are the Zinn Education Pro-ject and Teaching Tolerance. We hope that the educa-tor network will continue to grow and evolve and that teachers will find it useful and will use it often. We also hope that the educator network will allow us some continuity in our work with youth. We hope that the educators, especially if they are advisers to student clubs, will share information with their students about the youth network and about the resources that we offer to students across the state. For youth, we know that there are a large amount of clubs and organizations out there that we aren’t in touch with or that don’t know that we exist. In the weeks since this began we have been in touch with over 30 high schools, uncovering environmental clubs, amnesty international chapters, multiple peace clubs

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On October 1st NH Peace Action launched its new youth project. Over the years we have seen youth activism come and go, and since the loss of the Youth Organizer position in the NH AFSC office in 2010, our youth programs across the State have been struggling. The project we are putting together is one that I have wanted to do for a while, but only recently received fund-ing for through a bequest left behind by our beloved sup-porter Carol Morrison. I have stepped down from the Board of Directors of NHPA Education Fund and was hired part-time to establish and run the program in its first year. The new NHPA Youth Project is going to rely upon the creation and maintenance of two sustainable parallel net-works: A network of students interested in social issues or involved in clubs or organizations at their schools pertain-ing to peace or social and environmental justice and a network of teachers and mentors in high schools through-out the state who focus on, or teach issues pertaining to peace or social and environmental justice. These networks can be used to share resources, ideas,

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New NHPA Youth Program By Alex Fried

The Palestine Education Network (PEN) is a working group of NH Peace Action. The members of this group meet monthly to plan events, provide support to one another in the often dis-couraging work, and share resources. Though small in number, the participants work tirelessly for an equitable, peaceful and just resolution for Palestine and Israel. We are particularly con-cerned that the US role is currently one that seldom publicly questions any activities of the Israeli government. Many Israeli practices towards the indigenous people of Palestine are clearly in opposition to the principles and values-justice, the rule of law, and equality-that are the foundation of our country. The US media gives a biased view of what is occurring in Isra-el and the Occupied Territory of Palestine. Our educational programs are designed to inform people by providing an alter-native view. We are led to believe that Israel is under siege from Palestinians and that Palestinians are the aggressors. Yet ten times as many Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) compared to individual Palestinian at-tacks. We assume (wishful thinking?) that if the citizens of nations, Westerners especially and Americans in particular, were aware of the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the Middle East conflict, they would insist that their govern-ment call Israel to account – not only for the sake of justice for the Palestinians but also to best protect the interests of all, in-cluding the Jews of the world. And the United States would certainly not continue funding an illegal occupation. Both General Petraeus and an about-to-be-published report commissioned by 16 agencies of the US intelligence communi-ty conclude that “Israel is currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider international community.” The Palestine Education Network has set for itself a heavy schedule of activities this fall.

• Four members who have returned from different fact-finding and solidarity trips to the area are available for speaking en-gagements at public forums, church groups, retirement commu-nities, and other venues. Events were held on both October 15 & October 22. Please contact a member of PEN if you would like to have someone speak at your event or group.

• Iyad Burnat, a Palestinian from the village of Bil’in north-west of Ramallah, will be speaking in three locations in the state about his experiences with the Israeli Occupation. His village presented their case to the Israeli High Court and re-ceived a ruling that resulted in the return of just under 40% of the 60% of confiscated land taken from their village to build the illegal settlement of Modi’in Illit. Iyad’s brother Emad has created the film “Five Broken Cameras” which will be shown as part of Iyad’s program. All are invited to attend.

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Achieving Justice and Human Rights in Palestine By Members of Palestine Education Network

� Monday, November 5, taping for Manchester Community TV, 2:00 p.m. / Unitarian Universalist Church of Manchester, 7:00 p.m. � Tuesday, November 6, classes at St. Anselm’s College throughout the day / private Palestinian traditional meal with internationals of Manchester � Wednesday, November 7, Congregational Church of La-conia, 12:00 and 5:00 p.m. � Thursday, November 8, 12:40 - Durham - UNH\MUB "Five Broken Cameras" and discussion / 7:00 p.m. - Durham Community Church "Five Broken Cameras" and discussion.

• Hamde Abu Rahma is a young adult resident of Bil’in. He trained as a photo-journalist in Germany and has returned to his village to document the ongoing violence against Palestinian peaceful demonstrators at apartheid wall locations. He has pro-vided photos from his village that have been paired with thought-ful quotations to create a 2013 calendar. They are available at the NH Peace Action office, at scheduled events, and from PEN committee members for a donation of $20. All proceeds will go to Hamde and the people of Bil’in to continue their work toward justice and peace in the West Bank.

• The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) brought its premier National Summit foreign policy retreat to Boston on October 14-15. “This exclusive annual gathering of-fers AIPAC members unique access to members of Congress, American and Israeli policy makers, and leading Middle East experts” (AIPAC’s words). Kelly Ayotte is one of the confirmed speakers! The once-a-year event is reserved exclusively for those who contribute a minimum of $3600 annually to AIPAC. Several members of PEN will attend the demonstration outside the Sea-port Boston Hotel where the Summit will take place.

• Another film is “Degrees of Incarceration” which describes, with creativity and love, a Palestinian community's response to the crisis of political imprisonment in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. The event will be held at the Manchester Unitarian Universalist Church on Thursday, October 25, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. with opportunity to talk with Palestinians from the Aida Camp.

• PEN continues to sell hand crafts and olive oil from Palestine at its events. Would you like to be part of PEN’s coalition-building? We are always looking for new supporters and members as the situation in Palestine becomes more desperate. The next meeting will take place at 9:15 a.m. on October 20, 2012, at the NH Peace Action office on Park St., Concord. After the meeting, PEN members will participate in the NH Peace Action fundraiser at Ruby Tuesday’s in Concord. Lakes Region contacts: Janet Simmon scd_md@yahoo.com and Betsy Kelly betsy@metrocast.net Manchester area contacts: Carolyn Cicciu c.cicciu2@gmail.com and Will Thomas nhvfp@comcast.net Monadnock Region contact: Jim Smart ejsmart@ne.rr.com Seacoast area contacts: Sandra Yarne skyarne@yahoo.com and

Bill Woodward swampgreenfrog@yahoo.com

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New Hampshire Peace Action Staff

Will Hopkins, Director Doreen Desmarais, Administrator

Emily Spencer, Membership Advocate

In 2008, I was a staffer for the NH Democratic party. I remem-ber canvassing the neighborhood I grew up in. I had a conversa-tion with Todd, my old neighbor, a lifelong Republican. I told Todd about my tour in Iraq, and how the costs of the unfunded wars were sinking us economically, and about how my experi-ences in Iraq had driven me to work for a more sensible foreign policy. At the end, Todd pledged his support for Obama. He was one of many I convinced with my personal story of a war that should never have been fought and its impact on our econo-my. I worked 90 hours a week, opening up the office at 9 AM, and starting my final conference call at 9 PM, seven days a week. I phone-banked, recruited volunteers, persuaded, put up hundreds of yard signs. I poured my heart into hope and change. Standing in Carol Shea-Porter’s post-election suite while she thanked us for our hard work just after Jeb Bradley had conceded the race, the TV behind her jumped up with the words, “CNN Prediction- Barack Obama Wins!” The folks gathered went crazy with joy. I felt tears sliding down my cheeks as I realized that we had won. After all that fighting, the war in Iraq was going to end, and we were going to have sane leadership. I fell off the map for a few months, slept mostly. I came back to help plan the March conference and rally and spoke with hope, that now we would see a change. The next few years brought us change, but not the change I worked so hard for. President Obama’s first term brought us the solitary confinement without charges for over nine months of alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning. It brought two disas-trous surges in Afghanistan. It brought us repeated attempts to renegotiate Bush’s status of forces agreement- not to pull our troops out earlier, but to keep them there longer. It brought us the first extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens, includ-ing sixteen year old Abdulrahman Al-Alawki. President Obama’s first term also brought us the claiming of the right to indefinitely detain without charges, ANY person the president deems suitable. A right claimed in recent history only by the most oppressive of regimes, Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, and Myanmar. Guantanamo is still open, and the US still tortures. We watched and fought with no wind in our sail to oppose the President’s policy as pentagon spending increased from 53% of the discretionary budget at the end of the Bush years, all the way up to 58% now, a real dollar increase from $724 Billion in 2008, to over $900 Billion in 2011 (dollar amounts include veterans spending). While Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president in 2012, actually somehow views President Obama’s military spending as lack-luster, I am broken hearted. I worked for a better man than this; I worked for a better world than this. A few members of NH Peace Action wanted to bring light to the plight of Bradley Manning, and challenge the President’s han-dling of the alleged whistle-blower. So we called the local

Obama For America field office and let them know we would like to drop by with a letter from retired superior court judge, Art Brennan, to pass up the chain of command to the President, as well as some educational information. We let them know that Art would like to read the letter aloud and film it. Hearing no objection from the OFA office, we arrived, to find the shades drawn, the doors locked, and the lights off. We went ahead and read the statement outside, and a few folks made some remarks, when some volunteers arrived, miraculously, the doors opened, and the OFA volunteers were allowed in. As we approached to enter, we heard, “You can’t come in.” The door was slammed in our faces, and locked again. While we kept the mood light and cheery; I passed through my feelings of anger and betrayal toward our president, and went into a kind of mourning. I am sad. All but one person in that demonstration canvassed for Obama four years ago - me as a staffer - everyone else as a volunteer. We worked hard to see a new path for our country - fought and struggled and orga-nized. Now we know exactly how the Obama machine feels about peace and justice activists - and I am sad. I called Chairman Ray Buckley of the NH Democratic Party, I figured that since he knew me from four years earlier, and cer-tainly knew how much the peace movement and NHPA has done to help progressive candidates, that he would at least talk to me. Maybe even call the OFA office and have them let us in so that Art could read his letter. I left a message, but I still haven’t heard back from the chairman. Now I know how the NH Democratic Party views Peace and Justice activists; and I am sad. I don’t want Mitt Romney to be president, it is clear not only that he is a sociopath, willing to do or say anything to gain power, perhaps the only item of policy that he has never flip-flopped on is that he wants a war with Iran. I would put Mitt Romney on a list of the 10 worst people to have as President of the U.S., the other nine are all in prison where they belong. Is President Obama, so confident that we will vote the lesser evil and bear the blood on our hands to avoid the nightmare that would be a Romney presidency? So confident that he can lock us out of the discussion and the political process with impuni-ty? I’m not sure I am rooting for that confidence to pay off. It seems to me that President Obama, and the Democratic Party needs to learn a lesson about standing for something. Will Hopkins is Director of NH Peace Action & NH Peace

Action Education Fund

Locked Out! By Will Hopkins

Fall Event and Fundraiser

The 30th Annual Event and Fall Fundraise, held at the Capitol Center for the Arts on October 5th was a smashing success! Da-vid Swanson, author of “War is A Lie” and musician David Rovics headlined the event attended by approximately 90 people. After some great and stirring music by Rovics, Will Hopkins, NHPA Director, recapped the year for the attendees and intro-duced Alex Freid who has recently stepped down from the Board to come on as part-time staff organizing a brand new Youth Pro-gram. (See article on p1). Alex explained the program (which is funded by a bequest) and then did some fundraising. Thanks to all of you who came through for NH Peace Action! Will also recognized members of Carol Morrison’s family that were in attendance, whose bequest is making this program possible. David Swanson’s remarks were thought-provoking and timely We also held a silent auction and a raffle, where many great prizes and fun were had by all. For those of who have not paid for/picked up your items, please call the office SPECIAL THANKS to the Common Man Restaurant for the appetizers and desserts and to all the volunteers for all their hard work during the evening and to EVERY-ONE who donated to the raffle and auc-tion. Visit davidrovics.com to hear and purchase music from David Rovics and warisacrime.org to get a copy of David Swanson’s book.

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NH Peace Action

Board of Directors Mike Bradley

Lynne Clowes

Dick deSeve

Sue deSeve

Greg Heath

John Lamperti, Chair

REMINDER: If you are moving or going to be away, PLEASE let the office know, we have to pay first class return postage when the mailings get returned. ALSO, Anyone who has email that would prefer to receive their newsletter electronically (pdf format) can drop me a line at Doreen@nhpeaceaction.org or give me a call in the office, 603-228-0559. All other mailings will still go out via snail mail. Thanks to all of you who have already done so! It is helping to save money, trees and the environment!

and gay/straight alliances, and even a feminist club! Our goal is to network all of these students together through social media and email, and also to bring in students at schools who don’t have clubs to help them figure out ways to get involved or start their own organization. It is our belief that the biggest barrier to student activism in high schools isn’t apathy among the students who care about social issues, but the culture of apathy around them. It can be hard for students to break the mold, even if they care about getting involved, because they are afraid of how they will be viewed by their peers. Our goal is for the network to help youth activists from around the state feel like they belong to something outside of their school, and that can allow them to feel justified in speaking out and acting as an agent for change. We also hope that these networks will help to build NH Peace Action as a whole. We would love to see more involvement from educators and youth throughout the year and larger attend-ance at our events and Youth Peace Conferences which we hold in September and March every year. The bigger and stronger these networks are, the better the future looks for NH Peace Action, statewide activism, and our ability to be effective as a force for change. If you know of any youth activism happening in your area, or if you know of any teachers who you think would be interested in joining the network please feel free to contact me. In the coming months we will be launching pages on the www.nhpeaceaction.org website with more information about the project and how to get involved. Alex Freid is a Senior Political Science major at UNH and Co-

ordinator of the NH Peace Action Youth Networking Project.

He can be reached at freid.alex@gmail.com.

New NHPA Youth Program continued from page 1

David Rovics & David Swanson Photo courtesy Michelle Cunha

Lois Booth and Sally Kelley Photo courtesy Steve Booth Photography

David Rovics playing at the NHPA Annual Event Photo courtesy Steve Booth Photography

www.steveboothphotography.com

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NH Peace Action Education Fund

Board of Directors Lynn Chong, Chair

Susan Bruce, Vice Chair

Chris Hobby, Secretary

Jessica Wixson Shaw, Treasurer

Rhylan Bruss

Michelle Cunha

Chris Hanson

Whitney Howarth

Frank Irvine

John Lamperti

Mark Provost

Curt Smith

Sandra Yarne

The Board and Staff of NH Peace Action Education Fund would like to thank the

Anne Slade Frey Charitable Trust

for ongoing support of this newsletter and our other educational programs

“Well of course the people don’t want war…Why should

some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when

the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one

piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither

in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter

in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the lead-

ers of the country who determine the policy and it is always a

simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democ-

racy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist

dictatorship…the people can always be brought to the bidding

of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them

they are being attacked and then denounce the pacifists for

lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It

works the same in any country.” – Hermann Goering,

Reichsmarshall and Luftwaffe-Chief, & President of the

Reichstag during the Third Reich.

Difficult Retirement Let’s say “Beth” and “Ray” live with the state,

for he was a SAC pilot of bomber-loaded planes

He so much considered the state that their husband-and-wife

time was most about him in uniform, that clean appearance “Beth” followed along, auxiliary, her whole life. But spiritually “Ray” thwartly grew, off the natural track as if with heart-lumps, so he looked for a better life, especially

upon retirement needing redemption

In retirement he and “Beth” travel, for its pleasure, but also to make all good and undo that he carried death for mechanical, orderly dropping, in the belly of his plane – he believes in God. Whatever is done (passive voice) by “Ray” is God’s will. So if he had dropped an A-bomb or H-bomb it would be God’s bomb In the Starbucks shop “Ray” gives us a small, brown-covered Gideon’s New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs. I read: All things were made through Him, and without Him Nothing was made that was made. That haunting Nothing, Nada I take the small book. “Ray” shines, feeling better, is im-proved in his retirement, clean man, connecting others to God

Lynn Chong

Alex Fried does some fundraising at the NHPA Annual Event. Photo courtesy Steve Booth

David Swanson, Lynn Chong, Rob Pearlman & Chris Hobby at the NHPA Annual Event

www.steveboothphotography.com

Cardboard Missiles

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I started teaching mathematics at Dartmouth College in Sep-tember 1961. In those days the U.S./Soviet nuclear weapons confrontation was much on our minds, and one of my new colleagues worried about it in an unusual way. Suppose, he thought, U.S. leaders learned that a massive missile attack was on the way. The United States could do nothing to stop the attack, which would devastate this country and kill mil-lions of Americans. But we could retaliate, and deliver the same death and destruction to the Soviet Union. Should we do it? Richard was a mathematician as well as a serious Christian, so he thought, logically and morally, that retaliation would only double the disaster and suffering. We should not retali-ate – but we could never say that. Perhaps only the belief that we would retaliate was preventing that attack from hap-pening. Like most Americans, and presumably most Sovi-ets, he thought “deterrence” was our best hope for avoiding nuclear war. My colleague thought that the U.S. should not retaliate – but he and I knew that we would. It troubled him deeply. He believed we needed to have that nuclear arsenal. But imagine the horror of using those weapons! What a dilemma! I thought of a simple way out: we could make cardboard missiles. They would have to look convincing, and Soviet intelligence would have to see them deployed in their silos. If the Russians thought they were real, dummy missiles would provide that same deterrence with no danger they’d ever be fired, even if we were under attack. We could even save some money. Wasn’t that an elegant solution? Richard and I knew, of course, that it was a fantasy; the gov-ernment would never consider such a strategy. One good reason: the fact that our missiles were mock-ups would be-come the military secret of all ages, and it could never be kept safe enough. Thousands of people would know the truth – that our nuclear arsenal was a giant bluff – and it would be sure to leak out. So the missiles had to be real if deterrence was to function. My plan wouldn’t work. Many years later I learned that the cardboard missile strategy had been tried after all – by the USSR! They didn’t literally build cardboard missile, but close enough. The results were disastrous. In 1957 the Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental missile. This verbal bombshell was quickly followed by the indisputable success of “sputnik,” the first artificial earth satellite, which convinced most Americans that the U.S. had fallen far behind in rocket technology. Both publicly and privately, military analysts sounded the “missile gap” alarm, claiming that the Soviets could quickly build hundreds of ICBMs leaving the U.S. vulnerable to a possible first strike. Soviet Premier Khrush-

chev tried to use this perception – in effect, their cardboard mis-siles – for geo-political advantage, while presidential candidate John Kennedy and others charged the Eisenhower administra-tion with negligence for allowing the “gap” to develop. The “missile gap” was in fact a myth, and the whole idea disap-peared shortly after Kennedy took office in 1961. At the time of their supposed advantage in the late 1950s, the USSR had not deployed the hundreds of long-range missiles predicted by the alarmists, not even the 30 to 50 of the more conservative estimates. That ICBM fleet of which Khrushchev boasted and Kennedy warned consisted of four dubious first-generation mis-siles. The rest of the Soviet ICBMs were not even cardboard; they were purely rhetorical. The United States had overwhelm-ing nuclear superiority all along, based at that time on long-range bombers. The consequences? The “secret” did indeed become known, not (as far as we know) through spies or leaks but through tech-nology, especially overflights of Soviet territory by the U-2 photoreconnaissance plane. By the time of the 1960 presiden-tial campaign U.S. insiders, including John Kennedy, knew there was no missile gap. But they did not say so! Most Americans believed that their lives were in danger and politicians, backed by the “military–industrial complex,” manipulated that fear, acting as though the claimed Soviet superiority was real. The U.S. launched a major ICBM buildup, adding more Atlas and Titan squadrons, accel-erating the Navy’s submarine-launched Polaris, and producing a thousand of the new Minuteman solid-fueled ICBMs. None of these were made of cardboard. We saw that the biggest flaw in the cardboard missile strategy came precisely when it “worked.” The empty Soviet threats, at a time when there might have been an opportunity for mutual restraint, inspired instead a huge U.S. ICBM buildup. That was soon followed by a similar buildup in the USSR – this time of actual, more advanced, missiles. By the mid–1960s the danger of mutual nuclear destruction had become all too real, and would hang over the world for decades to come. It’s still there. There is no Soviet Union and no Cold War, but the missiles that could destroy us live on. Note: President Obama pledged to pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons, and in 2011 the "New Start" treaty with Rus-sia entered into force, a small but useful step toward sanity. Currently the Obama administration is considering an updated "Nuclear Policy Review" and hopefully further progress can be made during the next few years. John Lamperti is a Retired Professor of Mathematics and Chair

of the NH Peace Action 501(c)4 Board of Directors and the NH

representative of the National Peace Action Board.

By John Lamperti

Christmas is Coming!

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We have some fabulous items in the office that make Great Christmas Gifts! Our Rosie the Un-Riveter t-shirts come in sizes from medium to xxl and have been reduced to just $10 each! We also have several oth-er designs in various sizes for $5 each. Also reduced to $10 are the Rosie travel mugs. Both make great gifts for the peace-lover on your list. Books and CD’s, Brian Wilson’s “Blood on the Tracks”; “Come Home America.US” “Ending the War in Iraq” by Tom Hayden; The Soundtrack for Refusal, a benefit concert for the Civilian-Soldier Alliance; and Howie and the Dissidents “Oil Man Commander-in-Chief” are among the many titles we have in stock. We also have a large assortment of buttons, pins, mag-nets, yard signs and bumper stickers available. Below are a JUST A FEW examples of what we have in stock. Stop by the office and pick up some stocking stuffers for the peace activist on your list! Or give us a call 228-0559, we’ll ship them to you! Pins

Stickers

Bumper Stickers

License plate frames Magnets Flags

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Events and AnnouncementsEvents and AnnouncementsEvents and Announcements November 9, 7 PM, The Welcome will be shown at the Pilgrim United Church of Christ, The Welcome offers a fiercely intimate view of life after war: the fear, anger and isolation of post-traumatic stress that affects vets and family members alike. As we join these vets in a small room for an unusual five day healing retreat, we witness how the ruins of war can be transformed into the beauty of poetry. Here our perceptions are changed, our psyches strained, and our hearts broken. And at the end, when this poetry is shared with a large civilian audience, we begin to understand that all of us are a vital piece of the Welcome as Veterans try to find the way back home. 197 Middle Road, Brentwood, NH. This film is FREE and open to the public. Contact Selma at kensel@comcast.net for more information.

November 24, 4th ANNUAL B.A.D. JAM. 6 PM. The Flying Monkey in Plymouth will again host A Celebration of Bruce Alan Downing with an Italian Feast and at least 8 Great Bands! Come see: David Colburn, Ellen Carlson & High Range, Don Williams & Dave Tonkin, Brian Blaisi, Crunchy Western Boys, Uncle Steve Band, Bob King & Margo Yeitch, Mike Bourgeoise & Yhe Meredith Allstars! Tickets are: in advance $25 Adult, $15 Child (under 12), day of show $30 Adult, $20 Child. Proceeds will benefit the Bruce Alan Downing Foundation and NH Peace Action. Tickets are available through the Flying Monkey Box Office, 39 Main St., Plymouth, NH (603) 536-2551 or through NH Peace Action (603) 228-0559.

November 26, 2012 Third Amazing Women for Peace Series, Code Pink ad Global Exchange co-founder MEDEA BENJAMIN will be at Gibson’s Bookstore, 27 S. Main St., Concord, 7 PM. Medea is also the author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control . This event free and open to the public, bring a friend!

December 21, Fourth Amazing Women for Peace Series will host Rev. Dr. Julie Todd, Affiliate Fac-ulty for Justice & Peace Studies, Illiff School of Theology, Denver. Reverend Julie will speak at our annual Winter Solstice in front of the statehouse in Concord at approximately 4:30 pm, immediately following the Homeless Vigil. This event is free and open to the public, bring a friend and a candle!

Please see the website www.nhpeaceaction.org or call 603-228-0559 for more information and updates.

November 12, 7 PM, The Welcome will run again in the Building a Culture of Peace Film Series. Don’t forget it’s a new location at Temple Beth Jacob in Concord at 6:45. Film begins at 7 and everyone is wel-come. Free and light refreshments offered. NH Peace Action Director Will Hopkins will moderate both eve-nings.

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