Educational Forums in 2023
US Military Bases Overseas focus of May 16th Educational Forum:
What is a military base, and why does USA have so many of them all over the world? A new mapping system created by World Beyond War calls attention to the shocking amount of war preparation USA engages in by placing military bases in every part of the planet, and to the ways military encirclement escalates global tensions and hostilities. We’ll talk about individual bases and the protest movements challenging them with Marc Eliot Stein, one of the members of World BEYOND War’s No Bases team.
Marc Eliot Stein is Director of Technology at World BEYOND War, and host of the World BEYOND War podcast. He lives in New York City.
Join West Suburban Peace Coalition Educational Forum via Zoom on Tuesday, May 16, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (Chicago time)
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85099802808?pwd=a09DOG10SVpYMFpnT1VCRml5d2V1dz09
Russo Ukraine War focus of February 28th Educational Forum
For more on this critically important issue, join West Suburban Peace Coalition Educational Forum via Zoom on Tuesday, February 28, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (Chicago time)
Speaker: To be named later
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87209168707?pwd=cUo0dWdxVzl3UGJqZytYM3Uwa2M1QT09
Nuclear Disarmament focus of January 17th Educational Forum
Does even one in a hundred Americans know the US dropped out of 3 of the 4 major nuclear disarmament agreements with Russia? And that we nearly ditched the 4th in 2021; saved only by the election of Joe Biden who extended it for 5 years in his first two weeks, just 2 days before it would have expired?
For more on this critically important issue, join West Suburban Peace Coalition Educational Forum via Zoom on Tuesday, January 17, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (Chicago time)
We’re honored to have as our speaker, Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst for 27 years (April 1963 to August 1990), serving seven U.S. presidents. His CIA career began under President John F. Kennedy, and lasted through the presidency of George H. W. Bush. McGovern advised Henry Kissinger during the Richard Nixon administration, and during the Ronald Reagan administration he chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President’s Daily Brief.
At his retirement in 1990, McGovern received the CIA’s Intelligence Commendation Medal.[2][7] He returned the medal “in protest in 2006 over CIA use of torture. McGovern continues to comment on foreign affairs, with a focus on overextended US militarism around the world at Consortium News and antiwar.com among others.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85237771507?pwd=d0JRU3BBTm9SVEE4RHNsSGxLUzZtQT09
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com for further information
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