Network for a Nato-Free Future
The Network for a Nato-Free Future is a coalition of peace, faith and economic justice groups hosting a Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice at the time of the NATO and G-8 summits in Chicago May 18-19, 2012.
April 4 Cambridge MA Teach-In on NATO
"The 1% – What’s NATO Got to Do with It? Afghanistan, Libya, Russia, Iran, China & Economic Injustice" , A teach-in with Vijay Prashad, Ellen Frank & Joseph Gerson, was held April 4, 2012 Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle Street, near Harvard Square), Massachusetts.[1]
Anti Nato actions in Chicago
Nato-Free Future helped organize the anti Nato Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice on May 18-19, 2012, in Chicago, and joinedwith the the Iraq Veterans Against the War’s March for Justice & Reconciliation at noon on Sunday, May 20.[2]
Gerson involvement
Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee, one of the organizations in Network for a NATO-Free Future, had an op-ed published on 10 May 2012 in the Huffington Post.[3]
Endorsing Groups
As of may 10, 2012. Italics indicate membership of organizing committee;[4]
- Afghans for Peace
- Alliance for Global Justice*
- American Friends Service Committee-Peace and Economic Security Program*
- Canadian Peace Congress
- CODEPINK*
- Fellowship of Reconciliation*
- Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- Grassroots Global Justice Alliance*
- International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Germany
- International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
- International Peace Bureau
- Latin American Solidarity Coalition
- Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concern
- No to NATO/No to War International Coordinating Committee
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Peace Action*
- Peace Garden Project
- PeaceMajority Report
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Socialist Party USA
- United for Justice with Peace (Boston)
- United for Peace and Justice
- U.S. Peace Council*
- Vermont Action for Peace
- War Resisters League*
- Western States Legal Foundation*
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom*
- World Peace Council
Chicago:
- American Friends Service Committee-Chicago*
- Chicago Area CODEPINK*
- Chicago Area Peace Action*
- New New Deal
References
- ↑ April 4 Cambridge MA Teach-In on NATO with Vijay Prashad, Ellen Frank, and Joseph Gerson, By swolman on February 24, 2012
- ↑ , Nato-Free Future website, Join Us in Chicago!, By admin on February 2, 2012
- ↑ , Don’t Believe the NATO Hype: Alternatives Exist to War, Economic Crises, By swolman on May 10, 2012
- ↑ Network for a Nato-Free Future website, accessed May 10, 2012