Sunday Jan. 8 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern, 7:30 Pacific

We Demand a Livable Climate!

We Demand an End to Putin's Invasion!

Register for meeting here:  Meeting Registration - Zoom

Ending our dependence on oil and gas is the best way to stop fueling thugs like Putin
and the growing climate crisis,” says Svitlana Romanko, Ukrainian climate activist and
attorney.

See her on Democracy Now right after being ejected from COP27

On Sunday, January 8, 2023 Svitlana will make a presentation on this issue. She will
discuss:
• The connection between Putin’s war machine and fossil fuel exports.
• The role of fossil fuels and clean energy for peace.
• Ukrainian reality and the call for a global energy transformation.
• How support for the campaign around these issues can be increased.

Svitlana Romanko is a long time environmental activist and presently represents RazomWe Stand (Together We Stand). She holds a ph.D in environmental, natural resources, land and agrarian law, and a doctorate on climate change law, climate governance and climate policy. she was escorted out of the Cop 27 climate conference after she protested the presence of representatives of Russia, after which she commented: “I am glad that I named evil by name and I was able to tell them what all Ukrainians would like to tell them if they were here. You are a terrorist state, you are genociding, torturing and killing us daily for nine months, your oil and gas are killing us. You are war criminals, you must not be here but in international court.”

Come to the Zoom forum/discussion of the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign

Sunday, January 8, 7:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time; 10:30 a.m. East Coast Time
Check time difference in your area

Register for meeting here:  Meeting Registration - Zoom 

• Jimmy Carter began helping the Afghan mujahedeen extremists in 1979
•  Ronald Reagan gave the mujahedeen billions in weapons
• The U.S. supported the mujahedeen as it smashed the Soviet Union's puppet government, not worrying about what might come next
•  Pakistan has been aiding the Taliban since at least 1994
•  The U.S. winked as Pakistan built nuclear weapons
• The U.S. plans to send Pakistan $438 million in 2021
•  Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld refused to accept a conditional Taliban surrender in 2001
•  The U.S. military tactics of air force bombings, busting into homes and JSOC assassinations drove the Afghans into the arms of the Taliban
• The "War on Terror" was a 20 year catastrophe waged by the Democrats as well as Republicans

Useful articles

Foreign aid to Pakistan

JSOC Killings

The Other Afghan Women - Anand Gopal

Fear is their weapon, Courage is yours

and the archive on Afghanistan on The Struggle

Flash Social Media Hour - suggested by RAWA

Three 5 minute speakers on Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine

Michael Merli -  (pronouns he, him, his) is a proud Muslim revert from Milford, Connecticut.  He hosts every 3rd and 5th Sunday of the weekly public affairs program Mic Check on WPKN community radio, which broadcasts out of Bridgeport, Connecticut. On Mic Check, he helps to amplify local grassroots struggles and the voices and stories of people fighting for justice. He's involved with the No Rugers to Israel campaign, and is a volunteer with Abolition Ummah, a Muslim Women-led organization working to support incarcerated Muslims in Connecticut. 

Suzanne Meriden -  Suzanne Meriden is the executive director of the Syrian American Council. In her role, Suzanne advocates the U.S. government to drive U.S.-Syria policy and support those on the ground in Syria, as well as works with members of the international community. Suzanne is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.  

Stanley Heller - host of The Struggle Video News, on the Board of RPM, author of "Zionist Betrayal of Jews"

Spend 45 minutes tweeting, and sending other social media posts

Register for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArfuCpqz4rE9MSuPfB3mnqjqrbcD8utqDu 

See examples of things to tweet and share below

@RPMrevive  @AfghansTomorrow  @87films  @_HalemaW  @AfgDiasporaEP @syrianACD @SyriaCivilDef @grannies4equal @swilkinsonbc @sahloul  

media

@juangon68  @democracynow @strugglevideo  @GarnetOakMag  @NickKristof @diaahadid   @ikershner @nytimes @nytimesworld  @cbcnews   @france24_en  @newsweek   @ajenglish  @cnnbrk  @bbcworld  @time 

  Online Event

Farmers' struggles: From India to U.S.

The world's food is grown by the world's poorest people. About 70 percent of the world’s food is grown by small scale peasant farmers who also live in the world’s impoverished and rural areas. How did farmers become the epicenter of global poverty and protests against capitalism? And how can we think of our present and future politics of food, land, livelihood through ecologically sustainable, viable and socially just frameworks? This panel will bring speakers from India and the U.S to discuss the contemporary protests and alternative economy experiments.

Saturday, February 27

Noon EST-----10.30pm IST-----5pm GMT  

Watch on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np3L8TJXdAY

Watch on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/100701188165562/posts/257078809194465/

Speakers:

Dr. Vikas Rawal is a Professor of Economics at Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests straddle agriculture, inequality, food security & issues in human development in India. Professor Rawal has worked with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, FAO, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, among others. He has closely followed the most recent wave of farmers protests in India since its inception.  

Rohini Hensman is a writer, independent scholar and activist working on workers’ rights, feminism, minority rights and globalization. Her most recent books are Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India and Indefensible: Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism.

LaShauna Austria  is a member of the Executive Committee of the National AfroSocialist & Socialists of Color caucus within the Democratic Socialists of America.  She is a community organizer, farmer and ordained faith leader with a fierce commitment to and deep experience in building strong, vibrant, and sustainable communities. She collaborates with rural communities, faith-based and secular organizations to address race, food justice and equity issues. LaShauna devotes her current professional life to promoting racial equity and building better food systems.”

Moderator: 

Swati Birla is a member of the Sanhati collective and Revive the Peace network. She is a doctoral candidate in Sociology in University of Massachusetts Amherst who works on histories of ethnic nationalism in the South Asian subcontinent. Her work examines the links between nation formation and violence perpetrated against Dalits (lower castes) and Muslims in contemporary India. 

sponsors: Revive the Peace Movement (RPM),  Afro-Socialist Caucus (DSA), Sanhati, Dwight Hall Peace Initiative (Yale), Boston South Asia Coalition, Solidarity (socialist, feminist & anti-racist), Transnational Solidarity Network, System Change Not Climate Change.