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Dr. J. Gerson lecture TODAY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julia Steinberger)
Tue Jan 22 08:22:47 2002
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To: 17.919-iap@MIT.EDU, peace-list@MIT.EDU, pugwash@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:22:30 -0500
From: Julia Steinberger <julias@MIT.EDU>
Hi DeclassifyThis-ers, Peace-lister-ers, and Pugwash people!
WHEN: Today from 10 AM - 12 PM
WHERE: 3-343
WHAT: 17.919 lecture by Dr. Joseph Gerson, who will talk about
"Contexts and Cases of Political Repression - The Vietnam War
Era", drawing from his experiences in the domestic anti-war
movement. He is also an expert on US military bases overseas,
and will talk about recent developments in military buildup.
Dr. Joseph Gerson's Biography
Dr. Joseph Gerson is the Director of Programs and the Director of the
Peace and Economic Security Program of the American Friends Service
Committee in New England. An international authority of U.S. foreign
and military policy with considerable experience in the Middle East,
he is helping to shape responses to the terrorist attacks of this week
locally and nationally. He has traveled extensively in the Middle
East, Europe and East Asia. In early September, he initiated the
formation of United for Justice With Peace, a Boston area peace
coaliton, has spoken widely on the current catastrophe, and was the
principle organizer of the Dec. 7 & 8 New England Regional conference
held at Tufts University "After September 11: Paths to Peace, Justice
& Security."
In the past year he has spoken on U.S. foreign and military policy
issues across New England and the United States and in Goteborg,
Sweden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, Seoul, Korea. His article "The
Politics and Geopolitics of Missile Defenses" appeared in the
July/August edition of Z Magazine. His books include: With Hiroshima
Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination; The Deadly
Connection: Nuclear War and U.S. Intervention, and The Sun Never
Sets...Confronting the Network of U.S. Foreign Military Bases.
Joseph Gerson was a student activist at Georgetown University, where
he engaged with the civil rights and peace movements. He became a
draft resister and participated in the 1967 March on the Pentagon,
protests around the 1968 Chicago Democratic Party Convention, directed
Arizonans for Peace (1969-73), served on the staff of Clergy & Laity
Concerned About Vietnam (1970-73), and as Staff Coordinator of the War
Resisters International in London & Brussels (1973-75.)
