Tell the Canadian Government How to Mark the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Tomorrow is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Today we have joined with peace groups across Canada to send a letter calling on the Canadian government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Appeal for 75th UN General Assembly to find permanent solution to Rohingya Genocide
We call upon the United Nations Security Council, world leaders and the international community to intervene immediately and nonviolently to restore peace and save Rohingya in Arakan State.
When the Election Approaches
By Ngam Emmanuel, World BEYOND War, September 23, 2020 When the Election Approaches The Pharisee spends blank nights. Countless manipulative strategies spiraling the web of
Global Civil Society Calls For UN General Assembly To Investigate Israeli Apartheid
452 trade unions, movements, political parties and organizations from tens of countries call on the United Nations General Assembly to investigate Israeli apartheid and impose sanctions.
Videos and Photos from International Day of Peace Events
Collected here are videos and photos from International Day of Peace events held around the world on or about September 21, 2020. Watch any you missed!
Will Michele Flournoy Be The Angel of Death For The American Empire?
Michele Flournoy, Biden’s rumored choice for Secretary of Defense, would only help to steer the American empire farther down its current path of lost wars, corrupt militarism and terminal decline.
Greenwashing The US Military, Julian Assange, RIP Kevin Zeese
he weather is getting more extreme by the year and conversations about climate change are growing along with it. So when Michael Moore made the movie ‘Planet of the Humans’, criticizing the corporate co-optation of the green movement, he came under attack from well-connected activists.
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Celebración de la vida, la primavera y la Paz / Celebration of Life, Spring, and Peace
El día de hoy, 21 de septiembre, equinoccio y día internacional de la Paz tuvimos un encuentro con el cofundador de la organización global World Beyond War y dos de sus directores, de España y de Nueva York.
WWII was not fought to save anyone from death camps
So, right away we’re faced with the problem that the most popular justification for WWII wasn’t invented until after WWII.
Video: Obstacles to Nuclear Abolition: Telling the Truth About the Relationship between the US and Russia
A Conversation With Alice Slater and David Swanson, hosted by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Remarks followed by Q&A.
Increasing militarization of the High North and the Baltic region
The giant corporations, especially the military industrial corporations, have been pushing vigorously for expanding and extending the role of NATO.
WBW News & Action: a new guidebook to a world beyond war
The Fifth Edition of A Global Security System: An Alternative to War (AGSS) is now available! AGSS is World BEYOND War’s blueprint for an alternative
The Wars of Assimilation
By Ngam Emmanuel, World BEYOND War, September 20, 2020 THE WARS OF ASSIMILATION Strong swift historical tidal waves Drifted captors ashore. Shipwrecked Cruel fate, imprisoned
Kafka On Acid: The Trial Of Julian Assange
By waving all this through — refusing either to strike the new material out or grant an adjournment — Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser turbocharged the tradition written about long ago by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, where he described the Old Bailey as, ’a choice illustration of the precept that “Whatever is, is right”’.
Germany: US Nuclear Weapons Shamed in Nationwide Debate
Public criticism of the US nuclear weapons deployed in Germany bloomed into a vigorous nationwide debate this past spring and summer focused on the controversial scheme known diplomatically as “nuclear sharing” or “nuclear participation.”
Worldwide Peace Manifesto 2020, a message to all world leaders
Many organizations have signed this new manifesto.
Peace Education, Not Patriotic Education
The President’s call to “restore patriotic education in our schools” via the creation of the “1776 Commission” aimed at controlling public school curricula once again set off my alarm bells. As a dual German-American citizen, I grew up in Germany and by design of the education system became very familiar with my birthplace’s history …
Volunteer Spotlight: Robert (Bob) McKechnie
“I am a retired professional educator. After retirement I raised money for animal care and senior citizen ventures – good work. However, throughout those years, I continued to wonder what it would be like to raise money for a cause that really came from my heart …”
Ex-Salvadoran Colonel Jailed For 1989 Murder Of Spanish Jesuits
A former Salvadoran army colonel who served as a government security minister has been sentenced to 133 years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of five Spanish Jesuits who died in one of the infamous atrocities of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.
The U.S. Government Should Be Supporting International Law – Not Undermining It
It’s a sad day when the U.S. government openly assails the international law it helped to create. But that day came on September 2, 2020 when the U.S. government announced economic sanctions against top officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Six Reasons Julian Assange Should Be Thanked, Not Punished
By World BEYOND War, September 18, 2020 1. The effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for journalism is a threat to future journalism that
Tell Canada: #StopArmingSaudi
On September 21st, International Day of Peace, we invite you to join people across Canada in acting to #StopArmingSaudi through various in-person and online solidarity actions.
What Does WWII Have To Do With Military Spending
When you start talking about a major conversion to peaceful enterprises, or nuclear abolition, or the eventual abolition of militaries, you run headfirst into a surprising topic that has very little to do with the world you currently live in: WWII.
Peace Crimes
A new book by Kieran Finnane has the title “Peace Crimes.” It refers to acts of civil disobedience against war, or civil resistance to war.
Talk Nation Radio: Tunde Osazua on the U.S. Militarization of Africa
Tunde Osazua is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace’s Africa Team and the coordinator of the U.S. Out of Africa Network, the organizational arm of the Black Alliance for Peace’s campaign to shut down AFRICOM and end the U.S. invasion and occupation of Africa
Unvanquishable Number
On September 21, the International Day of Peace, you will be able to watch online the new film “We Are Many,” and you darn well should. The topic is the single biggest day of activism on earth: February 15, 2003 — an unprecedented statement against war, too often forgotten, and far too often misunderstood.
Demilitarize! Joining the BLM & Anti-War Movements
Now is the time to link the Black Lives Matter Movement with the Peace and Justice Movement, to shout “Demilitarize” “Defund the Police” but also “Defund the Military” as protesters march at the intersection between militarism at home and militarism abroad.
NATO Poisons Fish In Germany
PFAS in military firefighting foams is to blame for a serious European public health crisis, although few are paying attention
Costs of War: After 9/11 Attacks, U.S. Wars Displaced At Least 37 Million People Around The World
As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced since the start of the so-called global war on terrorism since 2001.
