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Pathways to Peace in Ukraine and An End to War
Tuesday May 3rd 7-8:30 PM via zoom 
 
A panel discussion hosted by The Syracuse Peace Council and Syracuse Democratic Socialists of America
 
In this educational forum, we will hear from panelists on the world’s heightened state of nuclear risks, the state of the refugee crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the strategies that can still be used to end the attack on Ukraine, while avoiding world war. 
 
Many thanks to our co-sponsoring organizations: CNY NOW (National Organization for Women), Syracuse Veterans For Peace Chapter 51, CNY Solidarity Coalition.
 
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYodOyvqjkiEtInhKfx...
 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
This forum is dedicated to the war resisters - those who want an end to the senseless bloodshed of wars everywhere. 
 
Panelists:
 
Aly Wane is an undocumented human rights activist originally from Senegal. He is a Steering committee member of the Syracuse Peace Council and is a policy consultant with the UndocuBlack Network.
 
Donald J. Hughes, Ph.D., has over 20 years experience in environmental investigations, remediation, public education, and scientific writing, volunteers his time on energy, transportation, and climate issues in New York State, and is a member of the Syracuse Peace Council Nuclear Free World Committee. Don has advocated for the elimination of nuclear weapons for decades.
 
Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches militarism and borders, US empire, and movements that challenge it.

Emcee: Carol Baum is a peace activist, steering committee member, and executive staff member, Syracuse Peace Council
 
Concluding action items: Brian Escobar is co-chair of the Syracuse chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America

Join STOP! Coalition, Families for Lead Freedom Now, CNY Solidarity, and more local central New York community organizations in a town hall to talk about the housing crisis in our neighborhoods. We want to see an end to Lead Poisoning, Retaliatory Evictions, rising Utility Bills, and other major threats to living safely and with stability in our homes. 

RSVP and spread the word with: bit.ly/HJ4SYR

Assemblymember Pamela Hunter and Syracuse Common Council members will join our communities to respond to this crisis and how we can move forward with city-wide resolutions and statewide legislation to directly address these issues. Please RSVP and let us know if you will join us in person or online.
 
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Join *John Bellamy Foster* and *Marcello Musto* in dialogue on Ecology and Communism Saturday, May 7th at 2 PM EST!

Register at bit.ly/MarxRevival

From Cambridge University Press:

"The planet is in deep trouble because of capitalism, and Karl Marx, freed from the chains of “real socialism”, is being rediscovered all around the world as the thinker who provided us with its most insightful critique. The Marx Revival is the best, most complete and most modern guide to Marx's ideas that has appeared since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Written by highly reputed international experts, in a clear form accessible to a wider public, it brings together the liveliest and most thought-provoking contemporary interpretations of Marx's work. It presents what he actually wrote in respect of 22 key concepts, the areas that require updating as a result of changes since the late-nineteenth century, and the reasons why it is still of such relevance in today's world. The result is a collection that will prove indispensable both for specialists and for a new generation approaching Marx's work for the first time."

 https://dsausa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqde6urj0oG9xD3-1ypUIt3Yg2huV0SPWY

Description coming soon!

Climate Change as Class War
Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
by Matthew T. Huber

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war

Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’—it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve.

In this groundbreaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement to face this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that will appeal to the vast majority of society: the working-class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we so need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early twentieth Century, winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.

Email Jocelyn Richards at jocelynarichards@gmail.com for more info

Zoom link: https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/85226769329 

We'll be contacting expired and lapsed members of Syracuse DSA to encourage them to renew their membership and recommit to building working class power with DSA. There will be a short training during the first 30 minutes of each phone/text bank so don't worry if this is your first time! We'll also have Zoom open while we make calls so that we can check in with each other and offer support whenever needed.

RVP and info: https://actionnetwork.org/events/canvassing-for-new-york-health-act-3/