• Film Screening: Earth’s Greatest Enemy

    The Frontroom at WCUW Radio 910 Main Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    Earth's Greatest Enemy A Film by Abby Martin A documentary expose of the world's biggest - and most unaccountable - polluter: the US military. Learn the environmental cost of having a military Empire. https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/ April 13 @ 6:00pm The Frontroom at WCUW Radio 910 Main Street Worcester, MA  01610 Discussion to follow. Free and open […]

  • Film Screening: The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons

    Eager Auditorium 486 Chandler St, Worcester, MA, United States

    Film Screening: The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons The final offering in Nuclear War is Bad For. . .  a film series about nuclear war and how to prevent it.  Alvaro Orus' documentary on the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The film documents the global efforts of civil society to […]

  • Nobel Peace Prize Winning Japanese A-Bomb Survivors Visit Worcester Tuesday, May 5th

    At a moment when nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war have returned to the world’s center stage, Massachusetts peace organizations and disarmament advocates are hosting Japanese atomic bomb survivors (Hibakusha)for a statewide speaking tour May 3-5. Mr. Hiroshi Kanamoto and Mr. Yoshinori Ohmura, leading members of the hibakusha organization Nihon Hidankyo, recipient of […]

  • Center for Nonviolent Solutions Annual Meeting

    Saxe Room, Worcester Public Library 3 Salem Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    The evening includes poetry reading by  Adael Mejia aka Ace The Space gxd - Worcester Youth Poet Laureate 2022-23. Jillian Phillips, Center for New Americans, and former city councilor Etel Haxhiaj to receive the Center's 2026 Peacemaker Award for their radical courage and compassion on behalf of the city's immigrant communities. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.

  • Worcester’s Incredible History of Nonviolent Activism

    Acoustic Java Coffee Shop 3 Brussels ST, Worcester, MA, United States

    From its nonviolent revolt against the British Crown in 1774, to hosting the first national Women’s Rights Convention in 1850, to being a hub of antiwar activity in the 60’s and 70’s. Worcester has long been a city of city of nonviolent activism. CNVS Program Director Claire Schaeffer-Duffy shares some of this little known history […]

  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Kingian Nonviolence with Robert T. Lee Jones

    Clark University, Higgins University Center 950 Main ST, Worcester, MA, United States

    Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free and open to the public. Snacks and lunch provided.  Kingian Nonviolence is the foundation for reconciling conflict nonviolently and addressing the triple evils of our world; RACISM, POVERTY, AND MILITARISM. Nonviolence is an active force for solving social problems, and it is a way […]

  • Free Screening of Earth’s Greatest Enemy

    Northborough Public Library 34 Main ST, Norrthborough, MA, United States

    Director Abby Martin reveals how the US Military, the world's greatest polluter, impacts the environment while operating with minimal accountability. This is an essential film as we face an increased Pentagon budget, war in the Mid-east, and climate change catastrophes. Free and open to the public. Brought to you by Worcester County Indivisible Alliance  

  • Speaking Tour: Iyad Burnat on Voices of Nonviolent Resistance from the West Bank Village of Bil’in 

    Blessed Sacrament (Phelan Center) 551 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    Iyad Burnat on Voices of Nonviolent Resistance from the West Bank Village of Bil'in  Sunday July 5th: 2 -3:30 p.m. Blessed Sacrament (Phelan Center) 551 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Free and open to the public Iyad Burnat is a Palestinian community leader from the West Bank village of Bil'in where he heads the Bil'in Popular Committee Against […]

  • Walking Tour of Worcester’s Peace History 

    Lincoln Square Lincoln Square, Worcester, MA, United States

    Walking Tour of Worcester's Peace History  Wednesday, July 8th: 6-7:30 p.m. Meet at Lincoln Square  Stories of Worcester's nonviolent movements and visionaries come to life in this engaging one- mile tour along Main Street. Come learn about the strategic peace of Wampanoag chief Massassoit, the nonviolent rebellion of 1774, and Quock Walker, the Black laborer […]