Calendar of upcoming peace and justice events in the Valley and nearby
maintained as a public service to the peace and justice community, though the activities shown are not necessarily endorsed by the AFSC. To request addition of your event, click here.
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| Saturday 5/17, 7pm, Hadley | The Amandla Chorus celebrates its 20th anniversary with a free concert featuring songs of justice and freedom from around the world. Benefit for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts and the Tibetan Association of Western Massachusetts. More.. |
| Sunday 5/25, noon-3:30, Northampton | Fifth Annual Sojourner Truth Memorial Celebration and Commemoration - a variety of events. More.. |
| Wednesday 5/29, 6/7pm, Woolman Hill, S. Deerfield | Mohammed Sawalha, founder/director of the Palestinian House of Friendship in Nablus, West Bank, will talk about the House of Friendship and the current situation in the West Bank. More.. |
| Saturday 5/31, 9:30am to 3pm, Sunderland | Music, Peace-Circle Dance, Meditation, Potluck Lunch, Skype/video conference with Daoud Nassar in Bethlehem - "A peacebuilder's report from a month in Bethlehem" More.. |
| Sunday 6/1, 5-7pm | Mohammed Sawalha - Director, Palestine House of Friendship, Nablus, Palestine will speak at a house party/fundraiser for PHF. More.. |
| Wednesday 6/11, 7pm, Amherst | film: Morristown: In the Air and Sun. Morristown chronicles nearly a decade of change in Morristown, Tennessee, through interviews with displaced or low-wage Southern workers, Mexican immigrants, and workers and families impacted by globalization. More.. |
| Wednesday 6/11, 7pm, Northampton | A reading of Poems from Guantanamo, some twenty-two poems composed by seventeen detainees at Guantanamo. Often written with found or improvised materials, these are poems of remarkable honesty, lucidity and power, expressing a whole array of responses--some stoic, some religious, some despairing-- to life under conditions of indefinite detainment. More.. |
| June 14 - July 14 | Pastors for Peace caravan. It will come to Northampton June 15 - more later. More.. |
| Sunday 6/15, Northampton | Pastors for Peace 19th Caravan of humanitarian aid to Cuba will stop in Northampton to pick up local people joining the caravan, and educational, medical, and especially musical entertainment supplies for Cuba. Read more... |
| Friday-Saturday 6/20-21, UMass | Regional Sustainable Energy Summit. More.. |
| Saturday 10/4 | Agape Community's St. Francis Day celebration and to tell you that we will honor a great peacemaker, Daniel J. Berrigan, S.J., who will read his poetry at the gathering. More.. |