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TORONTO REFLECTION: JFK and the Unspeakable

I remember the terrifying photos of missile-laden Soviet ships steaming toward a U.S. naval blockade off the shores of Cuba in 1962. As U.S. President Kennedy (JFK) and Soviet Premier Khrushchev faced each other in a global game of chicken, the world held its breath and prayed for deliverance. The crisis confirmed my impression of Kennedy as a Cold Warrior who invented a nonexistent "missile gap" to justify the nuclear arms race, took us to the eve of destruction over Cuba, and sent the U.S. into the morass of the Vietnam War.

In a new book, JFK and the Unspeakable, Catholic theologian and peace activist Jim Douglass shows us a different Kennedy, born of the Cold War, but reborn and turning toward peace…

TORONTO: Call for expressions of interest and nominations for CPT Toronto Finance and Administrative Assistant

CPT has an immediate opening for a half-time person to provide financial and administrative support for our office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada…Contact Rebecca Johnson, CPT Canada Administrative Coordinator, at rebeccaj [at] cpt [dot] org with expressions of interest, and nominations by 15 February 2008. She will respond with application materials.

TORONTO: Christian Peacemaker Congress joins witness calling on Ontario legislature to respect First Nation moratoria on industr

TORONTO: Location and time of public witness for Native land rights during Peacemaker Congress IX

TORONTO: Peacemaker Congress public witness 21 September 2007 will support Native land rights

TORONTO: CPT accompanies activists protesting Ontario government granting licenses to corporations destroying Native lands and l

TORONTO /CHICAGO: CPT seeking Applications for Palestine Project Support Coordinator

TORONTO: CPT Colombia Team brings case of mining zone human rights abuses to Canadian government roundtable

TORONTO: Bob Holmes' eulogy for Tom Fox

TORONTO: Doug Pritchard's eulogy for Tom Fox