Pick of the Day: May 15, 2012

It’s time to break up the big banks

The U.S. went for decades without a financial crisis after the New Deal regulations shackled the banks. It was only with deregulation under Reagan and Clinton that financial crises have been inflicted on us regularly. Now Dimon’s bank’s bad bets have given us one last warning: It is time to break up the big banks. Read the article

Pick of the Day: May 15, 2012

Poll: Americans Support Cuts To Military Spending

Pick of the Day: May 14, 2012

Why We Regulate

Pick of the Day: May 11, 2012

U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam

Pick of the Day: May 10, 2012

Obama “evolves” on marriage

It's a party!

PPJC Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary!
Join us for a celebration picnic! Bring a potluck dish to share, catch up with old friends, make new ones!

Saturday, May 19, 2:00 ~ 4:00 PM
Food ~ Live Music ~ Brief Program
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Activists' Movie Night

The personal side of immigration ... through the eyes of children

Monday, May 21, 7:30 PM
Free and open to all
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What's Ahead for the Economy?

OBAMA'S ECONOMY
Recovery for the Few

Political economist and author Jack Rasmus returns for a new update on our struggling economy ... and struggling workers.

Wednesday, June 13, 7:30 PM
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Online Video  New  Other Voices TV: Corporations Are Not People, Money Is Not Speech How is it that corporations have been found by the Supreme Court to have the same rights as actual people? How is it that the Supreme Court has decided that money is equivalent to free speech? Most importantly, how do we reverse these disastrous decisions that have left our democracy in the hands of the highest corporate bidders, rather than we the people? Move to Amend is a national effort to amend the U.S. Constitution in order to overturn these Supreme Court decisions.(58 minutes) Play this video

Online Video Marjorie Cohn: The United States and Torture Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. We know exactly what they are, how to administer them, and, disturbingly, that they were secretly authorized by the Bush Administration in its efforts to extract information from people detained in its war on terror. What we lack, however, is a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture — one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to “enemies,” ever since. How did America come to embrace this practice so fully, and how was it justified from a moral, legal, and psychological perspective?

Marjorie Cohn is the immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights law.  (59 minutes) Play this video

Online Video Paul George: A Brief History of Economic and Political Inequality Over the past generation, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny elite in the U.S. has grown at an astonishing rate. Today, a mere 1% of the population controls 40% of the national wealth, an all-time record. This concentration of wealth has also resulted in a concentration of political power, and this concentration of wealth and political power has brought us to what is being called plutonomy: an economy powered solely by and solely for the wealthy. The "average American" consumer no longer exists. In this talk, Paul George, Director of Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, will examine how this concentration of wealth and power came to be.  (58 minutes) Play this video

Online Video Paul George: Yet Another War? Iran in the Crosshairs After a decade of war in the Middle East — wars that have cost the lives of thousands, and over a trillion dollars, wars that have left two foreign countries in shambles and our own flat broke — the drumbeats for yet another war in the region are beginning to syncopate our news. This time it’s Iran that finds itself in the crosshairs. What are the possibilities of war with Iran? What are the likely consequences? And why on earth are we even thinking about another war right now? Paul George, Director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, discusses these issues. (48 minutes) Play this video

Online Video Occupy Music Videos  Five musicians, collectively called Occupella/Singing For Peace, and PPJC's video team leader, TD Daniell, have come together to create a series of music videos supporting the Occupy Movement. Hali Hammer: Fight the Status Quo // Betsy Rose: Take Me Out of the Big Banks // Bonnie Lockhart: I Still Ain't Satisfied // Leslie Hassberg: Put It on the Ground