Northampton Committee To Stop the Wars Information and Events

fro Saturday Peace Vigils Resistance! Film Series The Northampton Committee has been holding a Saturday All films are screened in the community room of peace and justice vigil since 1998. Join us from 11:00 a.m. the Forbes Library in Northampton and are free to 12:00 noon in front of the County Courthouse (on Main and wheelchair-accessible. Street between Gothic and King), rain or shine. Wednesday, December 14 Other local vigils: Rising Voices/Hotȟ aŋiŋpi Amherst Town Commons, Sundays 12 pm A group works on Lakota Nation reservations in North Cummington, across from the creamery, Mondays 12 pm Greenfield Town Commons, Saturdays 11 am and South Dakota (including the Standing Rock Springfield, Federal Building, Mondays 12 pm reservation) to save the Lakota language from W Springfield Town Common, 1st /3rd Tuesdays, 4 pm extinction. Wednesday, December 28 Get the News from DN! The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code Democracy Now! is available several times a day on both radio and public A 1493 Papal decree provided the legal framework access cable TV: for the genocide of indigenous peoples of the Americas. UMass WMUA 91.1 FM Valley Free WXOJ 103.3 FM 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Public Access cable TV: Standing Rock Water Protectors Benefit DN! Is available on Northampton Channels 12 & 15, Amherst 12, Saturday, December 10, 5:00 – 8:30 p.m. Hadley 5, Greenfield 15, and others. For a full schedule, see: Holyoke Community Church, 300 Appleton Street http://democracynow.org/stations/Massachusetts Benefit dinner and lecture by Jennifer Weston (Lakota, Standing Rock Sioux) about the Standing Rock Water More on Valley Free Radio WXOJ-FM 103.3 Protectors and how to help them in their protest against Alternative Radio, a show out of Boulder that plays important talks. the Dakota Access pipeline. Saturday 5-6 p.m. Bread and Roses, Friday 4-5 p.m.: Local activists talk about local Trump’s Global Challenges activism and other topics & American Foreign Policy Occupy the Airwaves, Sunday 10am - 11am.Locally produced occupy movement program covering the national and local OWS activism. Tuesday, December 6, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Hooker Auditorium, More Peace and Justice Events Events A faculty panel discussion with: The Western Mass AFSC Calendar lists many events. Go to Vincent Ferraro | Professor Emeritus of Politics, Mount http://afscwm.org/calendar. Also see Climate Action Now Holyoke College Western Mass, http://climateactionnowwma.org/, and No Michael Klare | Five College Professor of Peace and World Fracked Gas in Mass, http://nofrackedgasinmass.org/ Security Studies, Hampshire College Coordinating Protests and Organizing Mlada Bukovansky | Professor of Government, Smith College The American Friends Service Committee is creating a directory of local protests and groups. If you are looking for a group to Jon Western | Dean of Faculty and Five College Professor plug into, or if you have information about efforts underway, of International Relations, Mount Holyoke College please visit http://afscwm.org and click on the link marked Kavita Khory | Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke “Coordinating Protests and Organizing.” College Find your voice. Find your role. Wherever your heart is leading you there's a community out there for you to work with. You are needed in the struggle. We are all part of the resistance now. http://northamptoncommittee.org