Matt Hoh Speaks at Maplewood Library

January 19, 2011

Video of meeting is on Maplewood Online.

Click button above to view video on MOL.

::Video by Jamie Ross. ::Photos by Mary Gallagher and Maggie Surovell.

More than 100 attended.

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Peace is Centerpiece of Ron Paul's Campaign

Jon Stewart Skewers the Media for Ignoring Ron Paul Campaign

A Town That's All About Peace
by Erin Hicks

It is a crisp Saturday morning in March. As you walk towards the library, you see people with neon peace signs on their faces and brightly colored T-shirts. At the library, you enter a large room full of talking, laughing people. There are stands and tables everywhere, and even a rock band playing. Find this strange? Well, if you live in Maplewood, New Jersey you wouldn't.

Maplewood Online Discussion Board

To participate in discussions about War and Peace and virtually any other topic under the sun, go to Maplewood and South Orange's discussion board:

MAPLEWOOD ONLINE.

Petition: Bring the Troops Home, Rebuild the Economy

SMPA launched the following petition at Maplewoodstock on July 9, 2011:

Petition
to President Obama, Senators Lautenberg and Menendez and Congressmen Payne and Pascrell

Bring Our Troops Home and Rebuild America

It is time to bring our troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq, reduce nonessential military programs and redirect the resources saved to rebuild America. In this manner, we urge you to enact military spending cuts totaling $2.3 trillion over 10 years, as provided in the "People's Budget" of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and to use the funds saved for job creation, education, the environment and deficit reduction.

To sign the petition, copy the above and paste it into an email and send to:

paul@beaboutpeace.com.

Israeli Palestinian Peace Film Series

Shlomi Ben Yair and Just Vision chmn Bradley Abelow discuss "Budrus" after screening on June 25, 2011 at the Maplewood Civic Center. For more photos click here.

Out of Afghanistan

South Mountain Peace Action calls for the United States to adopt a timetable to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan like the withdrawal timetable in Iraq.

Proposals on how to end the war in Afghanistan:

President's Strategic Review 12-16-10

The Afghanistan Study Group: A New Way Forward

Interview with Matthew Hoh in The Nation 12-17-10

Letter to Pres. Obama by Afghanistan Experts

Human Rights Watch Report on Women in Afghanistan

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Report on Women in Afghanistan

"A Citizen's Proposal for Peace in Afghanistan," by SMPA Chair Paul Surovell