Peninsula Peace and Justice Center is the leading grassroots activist organization on the San Francisco Peninsula. This site features videos of PPJC's extensive speakers program and our monthly TV program, Other Voices.
Apocalypse Never: How the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons May Actually Happen A talk by Tad Daley - Author of the new book, "Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World" Fellow, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Former speechwriter and policy advisor for Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Sen. Alan Cranston Produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center http://www.peaceandjustice.org
A conversation with Jack Rasmus, Ph.D. Economics Writer for Z Magazine Author of "Epic REcession"
A conversation with Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University In a rare public dispute, the United States and Israel have seemingly squared off over the issue of Israel's ever-expanding settlements. When Vice-President Joe Biden visited Israel recently, he was greeted with an Israeli announcement of 1600 new units to be built in East Jerusalem, an area seized by Israel in the 1967 war, setting off a series of diplomatic barbs from both sides. Meanwhile, out of sight of...
Other Voices TV Peninsula Peace and Justice Center http://www.peaceandjustice.org A conversation with WALTER RILEY Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund SETH DONNELLY Haiti Action Network Walter Riley was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when the disastrous earthquake struck. His account of his experiences is at once harrowing and moving. Riley and Donnelly, both longtime Haiti solidarity activists also discuss the history of U.S.-Haiti relations and the economic colonization of Haiti. Finally, our gues...
A talk by Amy Goodman based on her new book. Recorded in Palo Alto, CA, on November 17, 2009.
Other Voices TV Peninsula Peace and Justice Center http://www.peaceandjustice.org A conversation withJoel Beinin Professor, Middle East History, Stanford University "Failing to pursue justice for serious violations during the fighting will have a deeply corrosive effect on international justice, and reveal an unacceptable hypocrisy. As a service to the hundreds of civilians who needlessly died and for the equal application of international justice, the perpetrators of serious violations must b...
A conversation with Lucy Rodriguez, Attorney, member of recent Fact-Finding Mission of International Jurists to Honduras In a return to the "bad old ways" of Latin America, business elites in Honduras backed a coup against the democratically elected president Zelaya. The people of Honduras have continued to resist the coup, however, and demand the return of their president. Now Zelaya has returned to the country, taking up refuge in the Brazilian embassy. Why is Honduras important? What role i...
With Author Peter Richardson The rollicking story of Ramparts—the magazine that captured the zeitgeist of the ’60s, repeatedly scooped the New York Times, brought the new left into American living rooms, and made an indelible imprint on American journalism "Ramparts was part of the media mud puddle out of which some of the most lively forms of journalism crawled, like gonzo journalism and new journalism. . . . It was rambunctious and clever at a time when journalism had grown stodgy and stale....