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
Joseph Gerson’s Keynote Speech – Paying for War: Working for Peace – given in Des Moines, Iowa, on October 19, 2024.
A report by Joseph Gerson on the 2024 World Conference Against A & H Bombs held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from August 2 to August 9th.
Speech in July 17, 2024 “Global NATO: Implications and Resistance” webinar organized by the Asia-Europe People’s Forum
Speech by Francis Daehoon Lee of Peace MOMO in Seoul, given at the No to NATO-Yes to Peace conference in Washington, D.C., July 5, 2024
Conversation with Dr. Joseph Gerson on U.S. Empire and Nuclear Weapons. Recorded March 2024 / Originally aired on BCTV: 3/26/24 Faramarz Farbod interviews Dr. Joseph Gerson, the author of four books, including Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World (2007) and With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and … Read more
by Hiroshi TAKA, Co-chair of the Steering Committee, Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs First, it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened all-out nuclear war in his annual state-of-the-nation address delivered yesterday, saying that Russia’s “strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness for guaranteed use.” … Read more
On the evening of Nov. 29, during the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW CPDCS and partner organizations held a very successful (great speakers and packed hall) international forum on the Urgency of Disarmament. We have several speech texts in hand, which you will find here, while others are being transcribed. Co-sponsors included the … Read more
On November 28, during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, CPDCS, the International Peace Bureau, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, held a round table session on the world’s tectonic geopolitical changes and their implications for nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament. We were 25 leading analysts and leaders of … Read more
On Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, concerned people from many of Boston’s suburbs gathered for a Gaza ceasefire rally in Watertown Square. Excellent and deeply informed speeches were given by Assaf Kfoury of Boston University and Abby Yanow of Jewish Voices for Peace. They are pictured here along with CPDCS board member Paul Shannon. Speeches from the … Read more