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The Center for Global Justice has initiated the Global Justice Report--a weekly series of online webinars on Mondays at 1 pm (CDT). You can join at https://globaljusticecenter.org/globaljusticereport. Also, together with Educación Colaborativa we have initiated a series of bi-weekly Spanish-language seminars on Wednesdays at 3 pm. You can join at https://globaljusticecenter.org/seminarios.

These online events are free of charge, but due to the pandemic, all of our income-generating programs are suspended and we rely on individual contributions. Please help out if you can.

Videos of Past Events

Experiencia Chilena sobre Municipios y Cambios Climática Teresita Alcantara Díaz y Sergio Otth Silva July 28, 2021	The Cuban Revolutionary Project Today Al Campbell & Mark Ginsburg July 26, 2021	When Workers Take Control Marcelo Vieta July 19, 2021
Is the Global Crisis Killing Neoliberalism? Jerry Harris & Cliff DuRand July 12, 2021	Social Justice Economics Bill Tabb July 5, 2021	Goldman Environmental Prize June 28, 2021
Challenging Power: The Sea is Rising and So Are We Cynthia Kaufman June 21, 2021	Turismo y Transformaciones Sociales Alberto Aveleyra June 16, 2021	Transformative Strategies and Electoral Politics John Lawrence June 14, 2021
More than Neighbors: US/México Solidarity Javier Bravo & Bill Gallegos. Moderated by Meizhu Lui June 7, 2021	The Continuity of U. S. Imperialism Vijay Prashad May 31, 2021	Abolishing Whiteness and White Supremacy: Structure and Agency Melanie Bush & Carl Davidson May 24, 2021

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Upcoming Webinars

Monday, August 2, 2021 - 1:00pm

CDT

Wilmington on Fire

Film Screening & Discussion

In 1898 white upper class businessmen carried out a campaign of disinformation to incite a race riot to unseat the bi-racial city government of Wilmington, North Carolina. The similarities with the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol are striking. But on November 10, 1898 the white supremacists were successful. There was a massacre... Read more

Sunday, August 8, 2021 - 10:30am

CDT

Organized by Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Miguel de Allende

Moral Implications of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Days that Will Live in Infamy

Gar Alperovitz

The world was thrust into the nuclear age when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 killing 135,000 people instantly and another 100,000 later from radiation. Three days later it dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, extinguishing another 80,000 Japanese lives. At the time it was explained as necessary to... Read more

Monday, August 9, 2021 - 1:00pm

CDT

The First Atomic Bombs: The End of WWII or the Start of the Cold War ?

Gar Alperovitz

Following on his August 8 talk at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on the moral aspects of the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 76 years ago, Gar Alperovitz will look at the geopolitical implications of that fateful decision. Was it the opening shot in the Cold War, designed to send a message to the Soviet Union?... Read more

Monday, August 30, 2021 - 1:00pm

CDT

Public Banking: Democratizing Finance

Ellen Brown & Walt McRee

So much of our economic life is controlled by banks -- private banks. When we need money we go to them for loans. And they charge us high interest. When our local governments collect taxes, they deposit the money in private banks, who then use it for loans or even speculate with it for their profit. But what if we the people controlled the... Read more

Monday, September 13, 2021 - 1:00pm

CDT

20th Anniversary of 9/11

Medea Benjamin & Vijay Prashad

On September 11, 2001 the world changed with the attack on the World Trade Center towers. Now on the 20th anniversary of that fateful day, Vijay Prashad and Medea Benjamin discuss the international and domestic consequences of that fateful day. It immediately led to the War on Terror and the further militarization of the imperial role of the... Read more

Monday, September 20, 2021 - 1:00pm

CDT

Militarism & the US Role in a Transformed World

Andrew Bacevich

As the U.S. completes its military withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years, we would do well to remember that our country has not won a war since 1945, even though we have been fighting somewhere or another almost every year since. Except for a couple small excursions, every conflict has ended in stalemate or defeat. This is in spite of... Read more