The Peregrine Forum

If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.

In the absence of a viable third party in the U.S. I believe we must build grassroots coalitions across the U.S. to a) implement Direct Action in the streets and in the workplaces utilizing Gene sharp's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (look it up on the Web), b) build local Cooperative Survival Economies to survive both Trump austerity fascism and ecological collapse, and c) strategically vote for progressive candidates where possible but not waste most of our energies in electoral activity.

Hi Everyone,

I have been a radical left activist since age 18 as a freshman in the Vietnam antiwar upsurge at UW-Madison (e.g. see the documentary film "The War at Home"). I have organized and protested against the American corporate-military state my entire adult life. At age 75 I am now beset by a typical array of old-age health problems which have limited my political activism in the past year and a half including with the Peregrine Forum. Now the twilight of life and imminent mortality seems to be on a weirdly convergent course with the onslaught of fully-matured American fascism and the pending collapse of globalized capitalism and indeed of all organized society in a planetary ecological apocalypse. For what it may be worth I hope that Peregrine Forum may once again be an online digital venue with occasional physical public activities in the Madison area. Please feel free to join me with your thoughts, feelings. solidarity and suggestions for joint activity in the time which remains to us. If you would like to talk my phone number is 608-284-9082. PRESENTE!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/opinion/israel-gaza-displacement.html

Opinion | America Must Face Up to Israel’s Extremism Government ministers’ calls to depopulate Gaza implicate the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/11/world/israel-hamas-gaza-war-news

Israel-Hamas War: Israel Says Strikes Are Targeting Three Hamas Strongholds The fighting has intensified in the south, with tens of thousands of Gazans fleeing to the border with Egypt, where the U.N. has warned that the humanitarian situation may collapse.

THREE IMPORTANT PROTESTS plus events listed in graphic below. 1) Die-In for Palestine - Nov 29th 11:30am-1:30pm. Meet at Library Mall on campus, dress warmly, bring blankets and signs. Called by SJPUW Madison. And 2) Lights Up for Palestine, Thur Dec 7 4:30-6pm, Monroe St & West Lawn, called by Madison-Rafah Sister City Project & Palestine Partners, and 3) All Out for Palestine, Sat Dec 9th 1pm at State Capitol Building. Called by Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine. For more info: http://madisonrafah.org/

Dr. Azam Niromand-Rad will speak at the Peregrine about "Iran: Women, Life & Freedom" on Tue Dec 13th at 6:30pm in the Madison Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St in Room 104. For more info about the forum call 608-284-9082.

About Dr. Niromand-Rad: She is board-certified by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and the American Boardof Medical Physics, and is recognized as a Diplomat of the ABR and a Fellow of the American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM). 

Niroomand-Rad is also Associate Editor of the Medical Physics Journal, and the current President of the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP). She obtained her PhD in Atomic and Molecular physics from Michigan State University in 1978 and completed her postdoctoral research in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.


Dr. Niroomand-Rad has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is Co-Inventor of a US Patent for designing a novel stereotactic method for treatment of spine lesions. She recently received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology.

 In addition to herteaching, research, and patient care activities in her department, she has been very involved in the scientific, educational, and professional activities of the AAPM (serving as Chair of the International Affairs committee and the International Scientific Exchange program) and the IOMP.

Professor Niroomand-Rad has organized many international scientific programs in the physics of radiation oncology and has been an invited speaker to many conferences.
Most notably and passionately, in order to promote the status of Medical Physics worldwide, she has organized workshops and training courses in medical physics indeveloping countries and has helped establish several foreign national medical physics
associations.

 The World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering which is held every three years, is the world's leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work as well as major innovations in health-related technologies to an international audience. 

Professor Niroomand-Rad is the immediate past President of the International Organization for Medical Physics, the former Director of Clinical Physics at the Department of Radiation Medicine and a retired Professor of Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center.


Education:
1970 at age 23 - B.S. Mathematics, State Univ. of New York at Albany.
1971 at age 24
- M.S. Physics, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI.
1978 at age 31 - Ph.D. Physics,
Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI.
1981 at age 34 - Professor at Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin.
2001 at age 54 - Honorary Doctor of Science, Regent of the University of the State of N.Y.

Awards and Recognitions:

• Member of Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society.

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude, State University of N.Y. at Albany, Albany, NY.

• Recipient of full academic scholarship from Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Iran to complete Ph.D. degree in Physics.

• Recipient of Affirmative Action Fellowship Award from Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI.

• Recipient of National Research Service Award in Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

• Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY.
• Recipient of AAPM Travel Award.
• Recipient of AAPM International Affairs Travel Award.

• Fellow of American Association of Physicists in Medicine, AAPM, 1997

• Recipient of “Teacher of the Year Award”, Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology, 2001.

• Merit Member of the Sociedad Cubana de Fisica, 2002

• Recipient of AAPM Life Time Achievement in Medical Physics Award, 2006

Exiled Russian Activist Challenges Pacifist Approach to Ending War on Ukraine Russian feminist and antiwar activist Lolja Nordic explains why she supports Ukrainian resistance.