(Tuesday) May 16, 2017 (4: 30 PM Eastern Time & 1: 20 PM Pacific Time)

NO TO NATO, NO TO WAR! A UFPJ NATIONAL BRIEFING CALL

RSVP for Nat’l Briefing Call: No to NATO, No to War!

Please join us for an important telephone info-session and Q&A with experts and organizers from the No-to-NATO/No-to-war Network.

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https://actionnetwork.org/events/no-to-nato-national-briefing-call

NATO is a dangerous, aggressive and outdated alliance with its roots in the cold war. NATO is an imperial and nuclear force. It’s expansion to Russia’s borders, in violation of an agreement between President Bush and Gorbachev is the primary cause of current U.S.-Russian tensions. Today, US troops and their NATO allies regularly play “war games” along the Russian border, which are experienced as military provocations. One small accident or miscalculation there could lead to the war we all fear. NATO and the US have waged war together in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and today, he U.S., Britain, France and Turkey – all members of the NATO alliance are at war in Syria. President Trump’s erratic stance on NATO has caused further tensions and great unease across an already volatile Europe. The coercive push from United States for European countries to increase their military budgets at the expense of public programs is intensifying existing social pressures emanating from austerity, wealth disparity, war-refugee migration, and aggressive nationalism. Join us to hear from UFPJ’s partners and lead organizers of the struggle against NATO, militarism, and US bases in Europe. Learn about how we can support their demands in our communities. Link with our international peace movement allies to say “No to War, No to NATO!”

Featured Panelists:

Reiner Braun
 Berlin Germany
No-to-NATO / No-to-War Network, no-to-nato.org
Co-Chair of International Peace Bureau, ipb.org

Ludo De Brabander
 Gent, Belgium
No-to-NATO Brussels Counter-Summit Organizer, stopnato2017.org
Organizer for Vrede, vrede.be

Ann Wright Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Col. US Army (Retired) – Worked for NATO subcommand, Allied Forces Central Europe
Veterans for Peace, veteransforpeace.org

Joseph Gerson Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Director of American Friends Service Committee’s Peace and Economic Security Program, afsc.org
Co-Coordinator of Peace & Planet, peaceandplanet.org

Facilitated by: Jackie Cabasso, Oakland, California, USA, Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation, wslfweb.org
Co-Convener of United for Peace and Justice, unitedforpeace.org