If you missed this timely webinar featuring a conversation with the author of the best-selling book Nuclear War, it’s now available to stream on YouTube! Ms. Jacobsen was joined by Archbishop John C. Wester (Archdiocese of Santa Fe); Eddie Laiche (a high school senior at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, CA and co-founder of […]
Pax Christi MA is pleased to be a co-host for Back from the Brink’s virtual event with Annie Jacobsen, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, on Wednesday, May 29 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.
Register here or at Back from the Brink’s website.
Our January 27th online forum, “Building a World Without Nuclear Weapons: An Urgent Imperative,” which we offered with Pax Christi USA, was a huge success, drawing about 500 participants on the live Zoom call, more than 200 on the Facebook livestream, and many more viewing the video posted below, which is hosted on the Pax Christi USA YouTube account. If you couldn’t attend, or haven’t viewed it yet, please watch it and spread the link far and wide so as many folks as possible receive this critical message, so clearly expressed by these powerful speakers.
For more information, including a link to specific action items and a list of our 66 co-sponsor groups, please visit the January 27th Forum Page.
Pax Christi Massachusetts thanks our Representative Jim McGovern for these powerful words and for being part of our forum, “Building a World Without Nuclear Weapons: An Urgent Imperative,” to be held this Saturday, January 27, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Zoom, featuring speakers:
We have reached our goal of 1,000+ registrants for this forum, which we proudly present with Pax Christi USA, but we know EVERYONE needs to hear these speakers on this topic! If you haven’t already, please use the link below to register!
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As we approach the second anniversary of Archbishop Wester’s pastoral letter, cited above, and the third anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entering into force, Pax Christi Massachusetts is planning an online forum on January 27, 2024, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET, entitled Building a World Without Nuclear Weapons: An Urgent Imperative, to examine the existential threat and moral implications of nuclear weapons, to enter into dialogue about solutions, and to urge prayer and action from individuals and groups.
Registration details are still being developed, but three powerful speakers have already been secured: Archbishop Wester; Dr. Ira Helfand, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)/Back from the Brink, and Marie Dennis, Catholic Nonviolence Initiative/Pax Christi International. Claire Schaeffer-Duffy of SS. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker, Worcester, will serve as moderator.
Keep watching www.paxchristima.org for the registration opportunity!
If you have questions about the event, please email paxchristima@gmail.com.
Calling on their neighbors and friends to join them, a coalition of Northampton peace activists initiated a fast for Palestine on December 12, 2023. Pax Christi MA is supporting this effort, which is described in this press release. The fast will be maintained until all of the area’s elected officials support two main demands:
