Volunteer Spotlight: Furquan Gehlen
Each month, we share the stories of World BEYOND War volunteers around the world. Want to volunteer with World BEYOND War? Email greta@worldbeyondwar.org. Location: Vancouver,
No, Canada Doesn’t Need To Spend $19 Billion On Jet Fighters
By Bianca Mugyenyi, July 23, 2020 From The Tyee Canada should not be buying expensive, carbon-intensive, destructive fighter jets. Protests are being held Friday at more
WBW News & Action: 75 Years of Nukes Is Enough
75 Years of Nukes Is Enough. Events: July 30, 2020: Webinar: 100 Seconds to Midnight – What does this mean? What can we do? August
VIDEO: International Press Briefing on Decision to A-Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By World BEYOND War, July 26, 2020 Watch the video here. Speakers include: Moderator Barbara Cochran, Former news executive at NPR, NBC, and CBS and professor
Children of Xenophobia
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 26, 2020 CHILDREN OF XENOPHOBIA Children eating bullets and firecrackers Beggars of smile and laughter Silent corpses sleeping
Why Your Local Police Department is Armed to the Teeth. And What You Can Do About It.
By Taylor O’Connor | www.everydaypeacebuilding.com Black Lives Matter Protest in Seattle, WA (30 May 2020). Photo by Kelly Kline on Unsplash “What the main
The Alps-Adriatic Manifesto: New Politics for a Post COVID World
By Global Campaign for Peace Education, July 26, 2020 Editors’ Introduction This Corona Connection introduces the Alps-Adriatic Manifesto, a declaration of regional trans-border collaboration and
The Pentagon’s Apples
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 26, 2020 This video is from this year’s Peacestock:
Youth Leaders Demand Action: Analysis of the Third UN Security Council Resolution on Youth, Peace and Security
By Global Campaign for Peace Education, July 26, 2020 (Reposted from: Global Network of Women Peacebuilders. July 17, 2020.) By Katrina Leclerc “Coming from
All the Videos of the Recent Peacestock
By World BEYOND War, July 26, 2020 Here’s the playlist.
Women, Peace and Security Video Panel: Observation of 2020 as a Landmark Year
By Global Campaign for Peace Education, July 26, 2020 Featuring Betty Reardon, Kozue Akibayashi, Asha Hans, and Mavic Cabrera Balleza. Hosted and moderated by Tony
‘Medicine Not Missiles’: Langley Protestors Call On Federal Government To Cancel $19B Fighter Jet Procurement
By Sarah Growchowski, July 23, 2020 From Aldergrove Star Concerned residents of Langley, British Columbia, Canada plan to protest in front of Langley-Aldergrove MP Tako
“Cohesive” Italian Parliament On Neocolonial Missions
By Manlio Dinucci, July 21, 2020 Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini (Democratic Party) expressed great satisfaction with the “cohesive” vote of the Parliament on international
Speaking of Things That Should Be Torn Down
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 24, 2020 I lean more toward moving offensive monuments out of central squares and providing context and explanation
Video: Obstacles to Nuclear Abolition — a discussion with David Swanson, Alice Slater, and Bruce Gagnon
David Swanson, Alice Slater, and Bruce Gagnon discuss obstacles to nuclear abolition and the U.S.-Russia relationship.
Identity Apples
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 23, 2020 IDENTITY APPLES I am a fat skeleton, resurrecting from the sad memories of dada and dark
The Man Behind The Petition To De-Militarize Charlottesville Police
July 23, 2020 NewsRadio WINA · The Man Behind the Petition to De-Militarize Charlottesville Police Les Sinclair talks with David Swanson, executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org
Collingwood Peace Group Wants National Fighter Jet Contract Cancelled
by Erika Engel, July 22, 2020 From Collingwood Today Local pacifists are adding their voices to a petition calling for the cancellation of a $19 billion
The American People Agree: Cut The Pentagon’s Budget
From Data For Progress, July 20, 2020 $740 billion. That’s how much Congress is on track to approve for the defense budget in 2021. In
Talk Nation Radio: All Questions Answered
July 21, 2020 davidcnswanson · Talk Nation Radio: All Questions Answered This week on Talk Nation Radio: Where’s our money? Why so many wars? A
Digging Up Permasecrets: A Talk With Nicholson Baker
By Marc Eliot Stein, July 21, 2020 “I believe that secrecy is the refuge of the incompetent, and I believe absolutely that this book demonstrates
Charlottesville Va. Bans Militarized Policing — Your City Can Too
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 20, 2020 By unanimous vote, the City Council of Charlottesville, Va., on Monday evening voted to ban militarized
Who Was Our Worst President? Think About It When A Grim 75th Anniversary Arrives
By Paul Lovinger, July 21, 2020 From History News Network Princeton Professor Sean Wilentz, who teaches the history of the Revolutionary War and early American
Hiroshima And Nagasaki As Collateral Damage
By Jack Gilroy, July 21, 2020 August 6, 1945 found me in a car with my uncle, Frank Pryal. A NYC plainclothes detective, Uncle Frank
The U.S. Island
By David Swanson, July 19,2020 Remarks at Peacestock 2020 Imagine you’re stranded on a barren rock in the middle of the ocean, nothing in sight
“A Tragic Illusion” – Did The Atom Bomb Make The United Nations Obsolete Three Weeks After Its Birth?
By Tad Daley, July 16, 2020 From Global Policy Journal On this day 75 years ago the atomic age was born, with the first nuclear
75 Years: Canada, Nuclear Weapons and the UN Ban Treaty
Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day 75th Anniversary Commemoration with Setsuko Thurlow & Friends Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
David Swanson’s World BEYOND War
MediaSanctuary · Swanson World Beyond War 9’52 Peace 7-15-2020 By Steffi Santos, July 17, 2020 From Hudson Mohawk Radio Network David Swanson is the founder
Seattle Area Billboards Inform Citizens Of Nuclear Weapons Stockpiled In Their Back Yard
July 17, 2020 From Ground Zero Center for Nuclear Action On July 13, and continuing for four weeks, four billboards will display the following paid
Bats With Napalm Vests And Other Great American Innovations
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 16, 2020 Nicholson Baker’s new book, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of
