December 2019
20th Anniversary of The WTO Protests
Join the Washington Fair Trade Coalition, IPS's Manuel Pérez Rocha, and community allies to mark the anniversary of the 1999 Battle in Seattle!
Find out more »The School to Prison Pipeline. What it is, Who it Impacts, How Communities can Work to End it
Join this community discussion about the disturbing national trend where children are being funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
Find out more »November 2019
Book Launch for David Kamens’ New American Creed
IPS New Internationalism project and East City Bookshop welcomes local author David Kamens with his new book about "The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism."
Find out more »Author Event: Whose Water Is it Anyway
Join bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow for a talk and book signing of her latest book that explores taking water protection into public hands and how the Blue Communities Project gives people tools they can use to protect water.
Find out more »Conference: Waging Peace in Vietnam
A week of activities with a book launch, documentary films, a Peace Poetry Open Mic and a day-long symposium bringing together historians and Vietnam Veteran war resisters, plus a re-enactment of the candlelight March Against Death mobilization of November 15, 1969.
Find out more »Fire Drill – War and the Military
Join Jane Fonda, Phyllis Bennis, Michael Mann, and Ben and Jerry for a talk and then rally about the link between War/Military and Climate.
Find out more »Brown Bag: The Status of US-Cuba Relations Hidden From Headlines
An overview of incredible, yet little known facts about Cuba and the impact of Trump administration changes to US policy toward the island over the last five years.
Find out more »Book Launch: The United States, Southeast Asia, & Historical Memory
A book launch of the just-released book, edited by Mark Pavlick with Caroline Luft. that "pays homage", as Richard Falk writes in the introduction, "to the unfinished agenda of the Indochina wars."
Find out more »October 2019
Beyond Neoliberalism, Toward a Trade Agenda for People and the Planet
A workshop on progressive trade policy alternatives organized mainly around small group discussions.
Find out more »National Priorities Project’s Fall Party 2019
We're thrilled to announce the theme of this year's party, "Windmills Not War: How We Win Against Climate Change", featuring guest speaker Varshini Prakash, co-Founder of the Sunrise Movement.
Find out more »UN Panel on Cutting Military Spending and Converting Militarized Economies
IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton will speak on “Lessons Learned From Conversion Movements” at a panel on “Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending”.
Find out more »Book Launch: Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash
Come for the Washington launch of Walden Bello's new book that addresses the question: will China be at the epicenter of the world's next financial collapse?
Find out more »Panel: The Israeli Elections and their Impact on US/Israeli Relations
The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development will convene a panel with IPS's Phyllis Bennis, and military, intelligence and foreign affairs analyst Mark Perry, moderated by Dr. Edmund Ghareeb.
Find out more »A New Multilateralism for Shared Prosperity: Achieving a Global Green New Deal
A briefing on: Geneva Principles for a Global Green New Deal, Reforming the Bretton Woods institutions to Support a Global Green New Deal, and the Green New Deal vs. Trump’s NAFTA Deal.
Find out more »Beyond NAFTA 2.0
A public panel that is the release event for "A Progressive Trade Policy for People and Planet."
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