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Producer Wilton Vought interviews Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, or Global Network for short. https://space4peace.org The organization argues that increasing military competition in space by countries such as the United States, Russia, China, and others raises the risk of conflict and threatens international security.

First Baptist Church, Community Room 309 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca Speakers: SEAN CHUNG, author of Due Process in Chains: A Self-Help Journal for Protecting Your Rights in the Criminal Justice System Topic: Legal strategies to hold guards accountable for their abuses JASON HOGE, former LAW-NY Reentry program director Topic: Legal resistance to employment and housing discrimination; correcting and clearing records CARL WILLIAMS, Cornell social movement lawyering clinic director Topic: Strategies for decarceration and abolition Event organized by Central New York Communities for Justice info: [email protected] Co-sponsors: OAR of Tompkins County - TC Workers Center - Southside Community Center Greater Ithaca Activity Center - Civic Ensemble & ReEntry Theatre Program Tompkins County SURJ - Group 73 of Amnesty International (Ithaca) - REACH - Ithaca Catholic Workers • Party for Socialism and Liberation, Upstate NY - Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America - Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine Donate via Village at Ithaca, select "Central New York Communities for Justice"

Professor Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East, and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Colombia University. The event was recorded on March 29, 2026 at the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn. and was co-sponsored by First Unitarian Brooklyn’s chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, New York City DSA Anti-war Working Group, and Brooklyn for Peace. The talk is a conversation between Professor Khalidi and Reverend Meagan Henry from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, followed by a Q&A session.