The Timely Importance of Japanese A-Bomb Survivors Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize*
Speech given by Joseph Gerson on Dec. 9, 2024, as part of Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Prize delegation.
Speech given by Joseph Gerson on Dec. 9, 2024, as part of Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Prize delegation.
PRESS NOTICE: Interviews available (Boston) December 5, (Oslo) December 9-11 For more information contact Joseph Gerson at Josephcgerson@gmail.com or 617-216-0576 Joseph Gerson, who helped to launch the nuclear weapons freeze movement of the 1980s and who has worked closely with Japanese and other atomic and hydrogen bomb witness/survivors (Hibakusha) has been invited to join the delegation of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipients. He will … Read more
Forty years ago, when the City Fathers and Mothers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, wanted to add their weight to nationwide demands for peace and disarmament, they invited Joseph Gerson to give the annual holiday sermon. He recently stumbled across the text and thought it as applicable today as it was 40 years ago. Joseph held his audience … Read more
Check out this cutting edge webinar analyzing the profound changes under way since Trump’e reelection and what it means for peace movements.
In this period of tectonic geopolitical and political changes, we do well to heed Antonio Gramsci’s wisdom about interregnums: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Trump’s rule will certainly hasten the U.S. decline and that of its empire with Beijing looking to be the greatest beneficiary.
By Joseph Gerson What do we really know about Trump’s foreign and military commitments, about his acolytes who are jostling for position and influence, and what do we think the tyrant will actually do? On the morning of November 6, many of us woke to the reality that what we thought of as our nation … Read more
Joseph Gerson’s Keynote Speech – Paying for War: Working for Peace – given in Des Moines, Iowa, on October 19, 2024.
Awarding Nihon Hidankyo with the Nobel Peace Prize has been long overdue. It could not come at a more important time.
Download Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region, a practical and instructive resource to help prevent war in the Indo-Pacific region.
Reiner Braun reports back from the Socialist Perspectives on International Relations and Security Policies in a Historic Shift Towards A Multi-Polared World International Conference recently held in Shanghai.