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صفحه رویدادهای ویژه کاص   

Special Events page of the PIV


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موضوع طرح پیشنهادی نقشه راه توافق همگانی صلح ایران (تهصا)

The initial sketches of a proposed roadmap toward a 

Global Iran Peace Agreement (GIPA) 



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آرشیو و صفحه حاوی فایل ضبط شده در اتاق پلتفرم "زوم" تبدیل شده به ویدئوی "یوتوب" جلسات هفتگی (فقط فارسی و دوزبانه) قبلی ما را در زیر خواهید یافت 

You will find below the archive (and the page that contains the recorded Zoom file -- converted to YouTube video) of our previous bilingual gatherings, as well as the ones in Persian only--on the sound only Clubhouse App.  

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NOTE: For the sake of brevity, this list is only in English

جهت اختصار, این فهرست فقط به زبان انگلیسی است

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Zoom Link (see below for the meeting dates) of the 

Peace-seeking Iranian Veterans (PIV) 
REGULAR HOST:  

Moji Agha (in Colorado, U.S.) -- Founder of the Peace-seeking Iranian Veterans (PIV); Bilingually translates the Persian-English live (every other Wednesday) peace-building gatherings (on Clubhouse App and Zoom) that are organized by the PIV. 


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OUR IMMEDIATE NEXT 3 GATHERINGS



BILINGUAL EVENT # 14

- Wed. May 14, 2025 -- 10 PM to ... (Iran Time); NOTE: PIV's Zoom session in the U.S. begins a few minutes before 3 PM, Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

NOTE: The cell phone Clubhouse App "room" simulcast begins half an hour earlier at 10 PM, Iran time.

Zoom link: See above

PIV's 14th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker

Megan Chapman, J.D. 

Co-Executive Director, World Fellowship Center, Albany, New Hampshire and Lagos, Nigeria; Bachelor's Degree in U.S. History, University of Chicago; Attorney at Law, American University--focused on economic development, social justice, human rights, and immigrant rights; extensive civil society service and travel experience in West Africa; Worked together with urban poor communities facing land grab and mass forced eviction in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria in 2011; Has worked with the National Immigrant Justice Center, the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Development Law Service, the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), Global Rights, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) of South Africa, and the Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) in Nigeria; She was a Public Interest/Public Service Fellow and served as the Co-Editor in Chief of the Human Rights Brief and the International Editor of Sustainable Development Law & Policy Journal.

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> TBA 

LISTEN to the session--on Clubhouse (cell phone) App >>> 


Persian Session # 13 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)
Wed. May 21, 2025 -- 10 PM to ... (Iran time)
فایل صوتی جلسه کلاب هاوس / Sound recording >>>


BILINGUAL EVENT # 15

- Wed. May 28, 2025 -- 10 PM to ... (Iran Time); NOTE: PIV's Zoom session in the U.S. begins a few minutes before 3 PM, Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

NOTE: The cell phone Clubhouse App "room" simulcast begins half an hour earlier at 10 PM, Iran time.

Zoom link: See above

PIV's 15th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker

Pranay Somayajula: Director of Organizing & Advocacy, Hindus for Human rights; Decolonization writer, 
researcher & cultural critic; MA, Human Rights (London School of Economics & Political
Science); BA, Political Science & International Affairs (George Washington University). 

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> TBA 

LISTEN to the session--on Clubhouse (cell phone) App >>> 



NEXT GUEST SPEAKERS 

OF OUR SUBSEQUESNT BILINGUAL GATHERINGS 

-- Details to be posted above, in time.


Wed. June 11 -- Joseph Gerson, Ph.D.

Jewish American Peace Activist Guest Speaker: PhD in Politics and International Security; Founding President, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security (CPDCS); Seasoned peace movement leader, educator & organizer--including being a participant in a confidential Track II diplomacy process with elite national security figures from Europe, Russia and the U.S. -- and among the many civil society mobilizations and conferences he has helped organize is the 2022 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference; Former Vice-President, International Peace Bureau; Member of Nihon Hidankyo delegation--2024 Nobel Peace Prize awardee; Widely and internationally published in many newspapers, academic journals & online media; Author & Co-author of many books, including: Empire and the Bomb; The Sun Never Sets [on American militarism]; The Deadly Connection: Nuclear War and U.S. Foreign Military Intervention; and Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination. Dr. Gerson Joseph first traveled to the Middle East in 1975 as a member of a National Council of Churches/Breira fact-finding delegation and joined the American Friends Service Committee the following year as a Middle East educator and organizer.  

Wed. June 25 -- Paul Shannon

Chair, Massachusetts Peace Action’s Middle East Working Group; Retired Director, National Film Library of the American Friends Service Committee; Seasoned social science college lecturer, coalition-builder, activist, writer, and speaker in various peace, union, prison reform, human rights, and social justice movements; Recently co-edited a new volume of Noam Chomsky’s writings, Internationalism or Extinction. 

Wed. July 9 -- Weldon Nisly

Retired Mennonite Church Pastor; Served in the Mennonite Central Committee's peace and poverty ministries for 30 years--taking him to war zones in Nicaragua, Palestine, 
and Iraq; Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) leader in the Iraqi Kurdistan and Palestine 
(2014 to 2022). 

Wed. July 23 -- Prof. Patrick Manning -- 2nd guest appearance 

Retired Professor of World History, and Founding Director of the World (political) History Center, University of Pittsburgh; Past President, American Historical Association. HIS AREAS OF FOCUS include: Theorizing human history, including the rise of language, early social evolution of households and institutions, migration in human history, theories of networks, the history of science and knowledge, and today’s inequality, environmental destruction, and popular social movements; Author of many books, including new studies on the emergence of the idea of civilization, and the transformation of empires and nations.

Wed. Aug. 6  --  Cristina Herencia, Ph.D. 
Info to come

Wed. Aug. 20 -- Nicolas Gorjestani, Ph.D.  
Invited special "Mossadeghi" guest speaker -- To be confirmed

Wed. Sept. 3 --  TBA
Wed. Sept. 17 --TBA
Wed. Oct. 1 --    TBA
Wed. Oct. 15 --  TBA
Wed. Oct. 29 --  TBA
Wed. Nov. 12 -- TBA
Wed. Nov. 26 -- TBA
Wed. Dec. 10 -- TBA
Wed. Dec. 24 -- TBA


OUR PAST GATHERINGS -- and the links of their recordings

Latest Previous Event on Top


تازه ترین رویداد قبلی را در بالای لیست (در زیر) خواهید یافت


Persian Session # 12 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)
Wed. May 7, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM (Iran time)


BILINGUAL EVENT # 13

- Wed. April 30, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM (Iran Time); NOTE: PIV's Zoom session in the U.S. begins a few minutes before 3 PM, Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

NOTE: The cell phone Clubhouse App "room" simulcast begins half an hour earlier at 10 PM, Iran time.

PIV's 13th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

Prof. Patrick Manning: Retired Professor of World History, and Founding Director of the World (political) History Center, University of Pittsburgh; Past President, American Historical Association. HIS AREAS OF FOCUS include: Theorizing human history, including the rise of language, early social evolution of households and institutions, migration in human history, theories of networks, the history of science and knowledge, and today’s inequality, environmental destruction, and popular social movements; Author of many books, including new studies on the emergence of the idea of civilization, and the transformation of empires and nations.

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/M0G4eBeR-KQ



Persian Session # 11 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Wed. April 23, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1 AM (Iran time)



BILINGUAL EVENT # 12

- Wed. April 16, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:20 AM... (Iran Time); NOTE: PIV's Zoom session in the U.S. begins a few minutes before 3 PM, Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

NOTE: The cell phone Clubhouse App "room" simulcast begins half an hour earlier at 10 PM, Iran time.


PIV's 12th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

- Jeff Klein: Widely recognized expert (also by international media) about the history of the Middle East and of settler-colonialism--and in July 2009 he participated in a humanitarian relief convoy to Gaza; He taught a course on “The US in the Middle East” at the University of Massachusetts' Lifelong Learning Institute for 10 years--until it was canceled for political reasons--an abbreviated series of these talks can be found and viewed online. Retired machinist and local trade-union President; Member of the Board, Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA); Director of MAPA's Gaza/Israel Peace Campaign and its Palestine-Israel Working Group; Since 2004 Jeff has traveled almost every year to Palestine/Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East, including Syria and Lebanon in 2022. MORE INFO: GAZA IN CONTEXT (History of Zionism/Israel) Four-Part Lecture Series by Jeff Klein >>> Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_75LgjQiAg ** Part Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duY-ABJP_8A ** Part Three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chuz0APhZic ** Part Four: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_pdo_Q8Rpw.

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/yKPdtuFLK30


Persian Session # 10 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Wed. April 9, 2025 -- 10 PM to 12:40 AM (Iran time)


BILINGUAL EVENT # 11

- Wed. April 2, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM (Iran Time); NOTE: PIV's Zoom session in the U.S. begins a few minutes before 3 PM, Eastern Daylight Savings Time, 1 PM, Mountain.

PIV's 11th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

- Dr. William Woodward: Retired Prof. of Psychology & adjunct Prof. of History of Science (University of New Hampshire--UNH);  Author of many books; Co-Coordinator of the "Race, Culture, and Power" Minor, UNH; U.S. Peace Corp volunteer in Turkey and Morocco; Presented a major conference lecture on cognitive dissonance and the psychology of false beliefs.

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/wpieRvV8rb0



Persian Session # 9 -- Sound only  (On Clubhouse App)

Wed. March 26, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1 AM (Iran time)



BILINGUAL EVENT # 10

- Wed. March 19, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM (Iran Time)

PIV's 10th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

WATCH the session's Youtube video of the bilingual 

Zoom portion of the gathering >>> https://youtu.be/HRgnMDqQZtM

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 
- Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh: Solidarity 2020 and Beyond's Co-Founder and Executive Director; 2020 Rotary Peace Fellow at the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand; Expert on peacebuilding, social justice movements, and nonviolent strategy and resistance, including Palestine; She has provided consultancy expertise to the Global Fund for Women, the EU Peace Initiative in Palestine/Israel, the UN, the EU, and the Danish-led Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) in Palestine, and for Women in the Peace Process in Afghanistan. MORE INFO: https://solidarity2020andbeyond.org/who-we-are/



Persian-only Session # 8 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Wed. March 12, 2025 -- 10 PM 1:30 AM (Iran time)



BILINGUAL EVENT # 9

- Wed. March 5, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1 AM (Iran Time)

PIV's 9th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/ogMdJGuccDE

Jewish American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

- Dr. Diane Perlman: A clinical and political psychologist, interdisciplinary social scientist, and conflict transformation analyst; Author of the Living Rights: Making Human Rights Come Alive Activity Book and Journal and a book chapter on the psychology of terrorism--and co-author of Reconciliation: Clearing the Past, Building a Future; Her lifelong commitment to peace-building includes a leadership role in Transcend International; She has attended and presented at many major UN Conferences (on topics such as Women, Climate, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) as a civil society representative for groups like the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Transcend, Mediators Beyond Borders, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility. 



Persian-only Session # 7 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Wed. Feb. 26, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1 AM (Iran time) 



BILINGUAL EVENT # 8

- Wed. Feb. 19, 2025 -- 10 PM to Half-hour after midnight (Iran Time)

PIV's 8th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/Z041SIvugas

Jewish American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

- Prof. Thomas Mayer: Was born in 1937 to a Jewish family in Nazi Germany who suffered grievously in the Holocaust, but he is now strongly for Palestine, against settler-colonial Zionism, and highly critical of the U.S./Israeli foreign policies * Retired (senior) Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado in Boulder--in part focusing on political economy and social class dynamics and analysis * Lifelong peace, social justice, and environmental activist and leader, favoring social democracy.  



Persian-only Session # 6 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Wed. Feb. 12, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM (Iran time) 



BILINGUAL EVENT # 7

- Wed. Feb. 5, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1 AM (Iran time)

Our 7th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/szJ0_MMgIDY

Peace-activist Guests Speakers: 

- Robin Lloyd
Seasoned American peace (and abolition of all nuclear weapons) Quaker activist; 
Chair of Burlington, Vermont (U.S.) branch of the Women's International League 
for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

- Nuri Ronaghy
An economics-educated Iranian-American female co-founder of the U.S. Department of Peace; Seasoned member of WILPF; A former political prisoner in Iran--who was very active, nationally, in the American Soviet Friendship society. 



Persian-only Session # 5 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Wed. JAN 29, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:45 AM (Iran time) 



BILINGUAL EVENT # 6

- Wed. JAN 22, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM (Iran time)

Our 6th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>>  https://youtu.be/uqgKHSLMvBE

American Peace-activist Guest--speaking about: Personal Nonviolence in Support of Political Nonviolence 

- Prof. Paul Croce: Nonviolence activist; Retired Prof. of History and Director of American Studies at Stetson University in Florida, U.S.; Recent past president of the William James Society; Founder/writer of the Public Classroom: 
https://publicclassroom.substack.com/about
Also see: https://origins.osu.edu/author/paul-j-croce



Persian-only Session # 4 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Wed. JAN 15, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1 AM (Iran time) 



BILINGUAL EVENT # 5

- Fri. JAN 10, 2025 -- 10 PM to Midnight (Iran time)

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/MV-67kLNcFw

The 5th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

- Kevin Martin: President of Peace Action & its Education Fund; Former Director of Project Abolition, a national (in the U.S.) organizing effort for nuclear disarmament. 



Persian-only Session # 3 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Fri, JAN 3, 2025 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM  (Iran time)




BILINGUAL EVENT # 4

- Fri, DEC 27, 2024 -- 10 PM to 1:30 AM (Iran time)

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/8NiUP5bFpno

The 4th Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

- Greg Coleridge: Co-Director, National Move to Amend Campaign; past Principal, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy; Former National Governing Board Member, Common Cause




Persian-only Session # 2 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Fri, DEC 20, 2024 -- 9 to 10:30 PM (Iran time)




BILINGUAL EVENT # 3

- Fri., DEC 13, 2024 -- 9 PM to Midnight (Iran time)

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://youtu.be/nfWkb9WchUg

The 3rd Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering 

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

David Swanson: Executive Director and Co-Founder of World Beyond War




Persian-only Session # 1 -- Sound only 
(On Clubhouse App)

Fri, DEC 6, 2024 -- 9 PM to Midnight (Iran time)

 


BILINGUAL EVENT # 2

- Fri., NOV 29, 2024 -- 9 PM to Midnight (Iran time)

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FELjyB4-YMM

The 2nd Persian-English live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

Will Hopkins, American Army soldier in Iraq; Member, Veterans for Peace; Former Executive Director, New Hampshire Peace Action



SPECIAL EVENT # 1 

- Fri., NOV 15, 2024 -- 9 PM to Midnight (Iran time)

WATCH the session's Youtube video >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lW0vGhnCZY

The inaugural bilingual (Persian-English) live peace-building U.S. - Iran "town hall" gathering

American Peace-activist Guest Speaker: 

Cara Bissell, President, Veterans For Peace (VFP) Chapter # 13 -- Tucson, Arizona 

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