Golden Rule’s Arrival in North Coast Harbor delayed. Saturday events cancelled. Sunday and Monday events are unaffected.
The Golden Rule crew will join us in commemorating Hiroshima Day with words, music and inspiration for a nuclear-free world Sunday, August 6th at the Free Stamp, Willard Park, Cleveland Gathering at 7:00 pm – Program begins at 7:30 pm Limited seating available, bring chairs if you can August 6th and 7th – Sunday and Monday – the Golden Rule is open for tours and possibly a short sail, weather permitting. The crew and support team are also available to meet with community groups, congregations, clubs, and schools. To find out more, contact Don Bryant/Francis Chiappa, clevelandpeaceaction@gmail.com, 216-509-7211. More on…
Annual Membership Meeting 2023
Ending the Ukraine War: Can There Be Solidarity Within the Peace Movement? MISSED IT? Now showing on YouTube Recorded Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 A conversation with CPA Board Members Terry Lodge and Mark Weber, and the audience. Moderator: Francis Chiappa Terry Lodge is a longtime environmental and civil rights lawyer in Toledo, Ohio who co-founded the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition in Toledo a few days after September 11, 2001. He and NWOPC have actively opposed every U.S. war and proxy war involvement since. Mark Weber is the outgoing president of Cleveland Peace Action. He is a retired librarian and…
Breaking the Silence
3rd Annual Reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Breaking the Silence: Beyond Vietnam” Speech Monday, April 3, 2023 Cleveland City Hall Rotunda 4:00 pm-5:30 pm Dr. King’s 1967 speech exposing militarism, materialism, and racism continues to reverberate in our nation today as our government spends record billions of dollars on militarism every year while our nation’s poor go hungrier, often based on racial inequity. Our people and our cities could flourish if not for this vast wasteful expenditure. Sponsoring Organizations: Brickhouse Wellness, Carl Stokes Brigade, Cleveland Nonviolence Network, Cleveland Lead Advocates for Safe Housing, Cleveland Peace Action, Cuyahoga…
Join the Northeast Ohio Coalition for Peace in Ukraine (NOCPU)
We are mobilizing in Northeast Ohio to join the National “Rage Against the War Machine” Rally in Washington D.C. February 19, 2023. Add your voice to the growing numbers of people calling for an end to the continual march to global war and destruction. Are you disgusted with our government throwing our hard-earned tax dollars at wars across the globe? Do you see the folly of expanding NATO? Are you sick and tired of hearing about war casualties – human beings dying in war? Must our climate be further destroyed by war? We must add our voice to demand,…
Doomsday Clock 2023
Heightened nuclear tensions, the worsening climate crisis, and the unpredictable nature of disruptive technologies should spur everyone to tune in to this year’s Doomsday Clock announcement. We know we will be. https://info.thebulletin.org/2023Doomsday
What We Must Do About Nuclear Weapons
Cleveland Peace Action takes these positions on the existence and possible use of thermonuclear weapons by countries possessing such unprecedented destructive power: 1) The U.S. must formally declare a No First Strike policy, stating that the U.S. will not be the first to use nuclear weapons in any conflict, including the Russo-Ukraine war, period. 2) The U.S. must halt nuclear arsenal modernization, with its projected cost of $1.7T ($1,700,000,000,000) over the coming 30 years. The 400 live missile silos scattered in five western states must be closed. Modernizing weapons that are not lawful to be produced or detonated is…
BOYCOTT: film screening & discussion
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18th – 6 PM at Cleveland State University Details on Eventbrite Join us at Cleveland State University for this award winning film about free speech and the vigilance of common people in securing our First Amendment rights. When a newspaper publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal challenges. – Panel Discussion – Refreshments – Free to the general public! Cleveland State University Berkman Hall Room BH 201 Sponsored by Cleveland State University Students for Human Rights…
Preventing a U.S. Civil War
Wednesday, October 26 at 7 pm Parma-Powers Branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library, 6996 Powers Blvd, Parma, OH 44129 This is a hybrid program, in person and virtual. To attend on Zoom, register here Matthew Ward, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Baldwin Wallace University will be discussing Barbara F. Walter’s book, “How Civil Wars Start and How to Prevent them.” Matt Ward and his BWU colleague Cait Kennedy will comment on extremism, authoritarianism, and right-wing radicalization in the United States. A community dialogue will follow.