EVENTS | Peace Table

PEACE WEEK 2021

IN ANN ARBOR Michigan USA

PEACE WEEK ANN ARBOR: EVERYONE IS INVITED

SUNDAY to SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19-25, 2021

Ann Arbor Community Commons. Fifth Avenue and Library Lane

An open family-friendly event. Come for all events or some.

Be part of the future…

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SUNDAY: noon-3 “Fostering a culture of peace and non-violence”

“Imagine a Park” Regathering visions for the center of the city commons:

MONDAY: noon-3 Beauty is a test of truth. Bring Art or Create some there.

6-9 pm build a storytelling place for making peace with nature

TUESDAY: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE Noon to 3 pm

Crowd-sourcing questions and ideas for the PEACE TABLE

Telling the Story. Resolution1325: Women, Peace, and Security

WEDNESDAY: noon-3…: Discussions of Outstanding Questions

local and global: Groundcover voices, housing, and homelessness, policing, lines 3 and 5, water indigenous rights, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Calamities, from the war system to the peace system, Afghanistan, Palestine, Yemen, Honduras, Haiti, Cuba, China, Ukraine, terror, 9/11 …and more, what is the commons?

THURSDAY: 10 am – 6 pm BOOK TABLES: Searching for Knowledge.

Books from the old Wooden Spoon bookstore and other stores…

Noon: OPEN MIC and Video: SAY your piece of the peace

FRIDAY. 10 am-6 pm MORE BOOKS and decluttering BAZAAR Flea Market, Potlatch excess stuff give away

SATURDAY: noon on… Stating the VISION saying the Truth. Every voice to be heard.

SATURDAY 6 pm on…Dancing the PEACE REVOLUTION

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Peace Day Established by the United Nations in 1981.

This years’ theme, “recovering better for a sustainable equitable world”

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The commons is a place to share community and mutual aid. Every conscious person is concerned about the state of the world, with the doomsday clock but seconds before midnight, and discord is high in our own town.

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and The Megiddo Peace Project offer this program.

1-734-657 8083 PeaceTable.org megiddo@umich.edu

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PAST EVENTS 2020

The Global Event Teach-in Zoom link: 10 AM Stream on www.globalteachin.com

LOCAl Section about 11:30 AM on

Tuesday, May 26, 11:00 AM to 2 PM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86026837770h

For Immediate Release, May 26 2020

The global coronavirus pandemic, leading to about 300,000 deaths, with more than 4 million cases, has led to a global political mobilization. On May 26, 2020, activists, citizens and scholars from 20 countries in over 25 locations will convene “The Global Teach-In 2020: Democratize the Crisis.” The event combines seminars and a global town meeting to identify problems and propose solutions for strengthening democratic institutions. The health, economic, political and informational challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic will be examined.

The Global Teach-In will examine how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the limits of current systems used to manage land, agricultural, human and medical resources. Landgrabs promoting greater intermingling of human beings and wild animals, and thus exposure to killer viruses. A lack of adequate informational channels has limited accurate health information. The global recession has led to a renewed focus on how to create and anchor jobs locally or convert workforces rapidly from exposed service work to critical areas related to health and safety. When and if things “get back to normal,” the looming environmental crisis promises even greater challenges. For these reasons, the Global Teach-In will profile key themes such as the need for and design requirements of a Green New Deal, media accountability and political democracy, cooperative development and local systems to promote sustainable innovation.

Key speakers include: Esty Dinur (Host, WORT Radio, Madison), Karen Baker-Fletcher (Professor of Systematic Theology, Southern Methodist University), David Graeber (London School of Economics Professor and author), Hillary Wainwright (green conversion champion, co-editor at Red Pepper) and Dario Padovan (Turin University Associate Professor and environmental activist). Global Teach-In leaders include: Swedish ethnic inclusion champion Natassia Fry (Kompis Sverige); Anna Gregis (Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Development and Territory Management, University of Turin, Italy); Alan Haber (former Students for a Democratic Society President in the USA); Alhassan Pereira Ibrahim (Centre for Democracy & Development, Nigeria) and cooperative developer Sizwe Mkwanazi (Africa Cooperatives Institute of South Africa); and Fridays for Future activists Iqbal Badruddin in Pakistan, Nina Py Brozovich in Bolivia, Precious Kalombwana in Zambia and Richard Matley in Ghana. The event will be broadcast by the Pacifica radio network in the U.S.

Jonathan Michael Feldman (based at the Dept. of Economic History & International Relations, Stockholm University), the principal convenor, organized the 2009 national Swedish Green New deal conference (broadcast by Swedish Television, SVT) and the earlier 2012 Global Teach-In.

Time: The (Tuesday) May 26, 2020 Global Teach-In will be held on 10:00 Eastern Daylight Time and 16:00 Central European Time.

Event sponsors include: Commons.fi (Finland), Demokratisk Omställning (Sweden), Goliathwatch (Germany), the Stockholm Centre for International Social and Economic Reconstruction (Sweden) and the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Development and Territory Management, University of Turin (Italy).

For more information, contact: globalteachin@gmail.com (email @globalteachin (Twitter), www.globalteachin.com (website). Steaming on: https://www.facebook.com/globalteachin/live

Alan Haber. 734 657 8083

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In Ann Arbor for the last 7 years, since 2014, we have organized: