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Medea, info for the Tues., Dec. 15 webinar: "How to Avoid a War in Asia"
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Join Code Pink, Pivot to Peace, Women Cross the DMZ and World Beyond War
for ...

"How to Avoid a War in Asia"

When: Tuesday, Dec 15, 5:00 PM Pacific Time

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtceqsrDooH9QRWwBRcx_H9ULEpwOB9v4J

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting.

*Panelists:*

Hyun Lee: National Organizer, Women Cross the DMZ

Jodie Evans: Co-Founder, Code Pink

Molly Hurley: Organizer, Pivot to Peace

David Swanson: Exec. Director, World Beyond War

Leah Bolger: Board President, World Beyond War

Panelists will discuss the Korea Peace Now campaign; the China is Not our
Enemy campaign; Denuclearization in Asia; Visions of a World Beyond
War and World
Beyond War’s campaign to close US military bases.

*Bios of Panelists*

*Jodie Evans* is the co-founder of CODEPINK, which works to stop US
Military interventions overseas, promotes diplomatic solutions and
divestiture from war. She served in the administration of Governor Jerry
Brown and ran his presidential campaigns.  She published two books, "Stop
the Next War Now" and "Twilight of Empire," and produced several
documentary films, including the Oscar and Emmy-nominated "The Most
Dangerous Man in America," And "The Square." and Naomi Klein’s; “This
Changes Everything”.  She sits on many boards, including 826LA, Rainforest
Action Network, Institute for Policy Studies, Drug Policy Alliance and the
California Arts Council.

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*Hyun Lee* is the U.S. National Organizer for the 2020 Women-led Korea
Peace Treaty Campaign. She is a writer for *ZoominKorea*
<http://www.zoominkorea.org/>, an online resource for critical news and
analysis on peace and democracy in Korea.

She is an anti-war activist and organizer who traveled to both North and
South Korea. She is a Korea Policy Institute associate and routinely speaks
at national and international conferences as well as webinars and public
seminars. Her writings have appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus,
Asia-Pacific Journal, and New Left Project, and she has been interviewed by
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the Thom Hartmann Show, the Ed Schultz
Show, and many other news outlets. Hyun obtained her bachelors and masters
degrees from Columbia University.

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*David Swanson* is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is
executive director of World BEYOND War <http://worldbeyondwar.org/> and
campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org <http://rootsaction.org/>.
Swanson’s books include *War Is A Lie <http://warisalie.org/>* and *When
the World Outlawed War* <http://davidswanson.org/outlawry>. He blogs at
DavidSwanson.org <http://davidswanson.org/> and WarIsACrime.org
<http://warisacrime.org/>. He hosts Talk Nation Radio
<http://davidswanson.org/taxonomy/term/41>. He is a Nobel Peace Prize
Nominee <http://davidswanson.org/node/4682>.

Swanson was awarded the 2018 Peace Prize
<http://davidswanson.org/2018-peace-prize-awarded-to-david-swanson/> by the
U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation.

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*Leah Bolger* is the President of the Board of Directors of World Beyond
War. She retired in 2000 from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Commander after
twenty years of active duty service. Her career included duty stations in
Iceland, Bermuda, Japan and Tunisia and in 1997, was chosen to be the Navy
Military Fellow at the MIT Security Studies program. Leah received an MA in
National Security and Strategic Affairs from the Naval War College in 1994.
After retirement, she became very active in Veterans For Peace, including
election as the first woman national president in 2012. Later that year,
she was part of a 20-person delegation to Pakistan to meet with the victims
of U.S. drones strikes. She is the creator and coordinator of the “Drones
Quilt Project,” a traveling exhibit which serves to educate the public, and
recognize the victims of U.S. combat drones.

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*Molly Hurley* is recent graduate from Rice University in Houston, TX who
focuses on nuclear disarmament and movement building. She is the inaugural
Nuclear Program Fellow with The Prospect Hill Foundation, a family
philanthropic foundation based in New York. She is honored to have been
awarded the Wagoner Fellowship as well which currently funds her
independent research and will allow her to travel to Hiroshima, Japan next
year for about six months to continue her work there. In addition, she
volunteers part-time as a Fellowship Associate for the grassroots
organization Beyond the Bomb, helping to foster the next generation of
young nuclear justice activists.

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For more information, contact: Marcy Winograd, winogradteach at gmail.com

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Is A Lie <http://warisalie.org/>*. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org
<http://davidswanson.org/> and WarIsACrime.org <http://warisacrime.org/>.
He hosts Talk Nation Radio <http://davidswanson.org/tag/talk-nation-radio/>. He
is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and was awarded the 2018 Peace Prize
<http://davidswanson.org/2018-peace-prize-awarded-to-david-swanson/> by the
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