Women Against War Annual Gathering, Wednesday, February 8th, 5:30 PM, Potluck, Woman of Peace Award, Speaker and More.

Please join us for our annual potluck  and fundraising gathering where we will celebrate together with members of Women Against War and many other activists for peace and justice in the Capital District and beyond.
Women Against War’s Annual Gathering
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 5:30 PM
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 510 Albany Shaker Road, Loudonville
(see directions below)
Bring Savory or Sweet Finger Food to Share & Suggested Donation $10-25
Easy Parking Wheelchair Accessible Silent Auction
To help us plan, please RSVP to Maud Easter Maud Easter

As usual we will have updates on the past year of work.  We will share food and information and honor our annual Woman of Peace. This will be followed by an outstanding keynote speaker and a silent auction.

Our Woman of Peace for 2016 is Trudy Quaif, a 14 year member of Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, who also manages and maintains their website.

Trudy is the publisher of the Weekly Peace letter, a calendar of important peace and justice events. She is also the organizer of a series of movies and forums held at the Bethlehem Public Library.

In addition Trudy is the arranger and interviewer for Peace Now a continuing series of video interviews with peace and justice activists,  in which Trudy invites them to share their experiences, inspirations and particular focus with viewers.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Women Against War is bringing Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, to the Albany area as our speaker, on February 8^th at our Annual Meeting and on 3 local campuses.

Depending on interest she might also be speaking elsewhere in our area on February 7^th or February 9^th.  These arrangements are still in progress.

Phyllis has written and edited eleven books.  Her latest –Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror: A Primer  means that her analysis will be particularly valuable in the months ahead. She is an excellent speaker, thoughtful, and frames her recommendations in a broad perspective.

 Phyllis’s other books include: Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,  Before & After; US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror; and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power. She works with many anti-war organizations, and writes and speaks widely across the U.S. and around the world as part of the global peace movement. Phyllis has served as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues. In 2001 she helped found and remains active with the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

You can see Phyllis’s recent interviews and publications here.