Demanding Candidates Confront the
$741 Billion U.S. Military Budget

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Zoom WEBINAR
7:30 - 9:00 PM Eastern U.S.
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/y3un85rg
Contact: Steve Krevisky 860-759-3699, SKrevisky@mxcc.commnet.edu

Dr. Vijay Prashad
Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author
of thirty books, including Washington Bullets; Red
Star Over the Third World; The Darker Nations: A
People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer
Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He
is Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter and a
Columnist for Frontline (India). He is the Chief Editor
of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He has appeared in
two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings
(2017).
Dr. Gerald Horne
Holds the Moores Professorship of History and
African American Studies, University of Houston.
Horne is the author of more than thirty books,
including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism:
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and
Capitalism in Seventeenth Century North America
and the Caribbean; (2018); Paul Robeson: The
Artist as Revolutionary, (2016); W.E.B. Du Bois: A
Biography, (2010).
Dr. Miriam Pemberton
Miriam Pemberton, an Associate Fellow at the Institute
for Policy Studies, she formerly directed the National
Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament
and IPS’ Peace Economy Transitions Project. With William
Hartung she co-edited Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the
Next War and is at work on Six Stops on the National
Security Tour: Warfare Economies and Other Ambitions
(Routledge, forthcoming). Recent articles: “From swords
to ploughshares: lessons learned from conversion
movements” and “Let’s Turn Our Military Resources to
Building a Post-COVID Industrial Base for All Americans.”