DRIVE FOR FIVE: How We Build a Bigger Movement
The Drive for Five campaign is a way for you to help grow WBW and it won’t cost you a dime. Here’s how to get started: 1. Email everyone you can, asking them to sign here and to enter your […]
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How We End War
Here are numerous ways to get involved in the project of ending all war. What part do you want to play?
Online Actions
Online Actions
Send this message to your local, state or provincial, and national government officials: The world has had enough of war, and that includes me. Government officials everywhere are being asked to join with the people of the world in signing […]
Alternatives
A Global Security System: An Alternative to War (2018-19 Edition)
“You say you’re against war, but what’s the alternative?” The 2018-19 edition of A Global Security System: An Alternative to War (AGSS) is now available! AGSS is World BEYOND War’s blueprint for an alternative security system – one in […]
Chapters & Affiliates
Find or Create a Chapter or Affiliate
World BEYOND War works with volunteers to organize World BEYOND War chapters around the world. If there isn’t an existing chapter in your area, click here to learn more about starting a chapter near you! We also invite existing organizations […]
Recent Posts
Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kajiwara on U.S. Bases on Okinawa
Rob Kajiwara is an Okinawan-Hawaian singer-songwriter and visual artist. In 2017, he was made a cultural ambassador for his ancestral village of Nakagusuku, Okinawa. In 2018 he was also made a cultural ambassador / special envoy for Ke Aupuni o […]
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
By David Swanson, January 15, 2018 The New York Times loves NATO, but should you? Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or […]
WBW News: Five people can change the world
Join our Drive for Five! Happy birthday to us! World BEYOND War got its start five years ago by asking people to sign on to the WBW Declaration of Peace: I understand that wars and militarism make us less safe […]
Major News in Japan: Event in U.S. Opposing Bases in Okinawa
A major story across Japanese media (links below) is an event that occurred in Washington D.C. on Monday, January 7th at 11 a.m. Opponents of military base construction in Okinawa gathered in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., […]
Anything War Can Do, Peace Can Do Better
By David Swanson, January 8, 2019 William James’ idea of the need to create a moral equivalent of war first struck me, decades ago, when I read about it, as about as sensible an idea as inventing a new way […]
The New Congress Needs to Create a Green Planet at Peace
By Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater, January 8, 2019 A deafening chorus of negative grumbling from the left, right, and center of the US political spectrum in response to Trump’s decision to remove US troops from Syria and halve their […]
U.S. Bases in Okinawa Are a Threat to Freedom
By David Swanson, Director, World BEYOND War Remarks at Rally outside White House, January 7, 2019. There are a number of problems with the idea that maintaining and expanding giant military bases in other people’s countries protects freedom in the […]
Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for Nobel Peace Prize
Mairead Maguire, has today written to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo to nominate Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks, for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. In her letter to the Nobel Peace Committee, Ms. Maguire said: “Julian Assange and […]
Henoko: The Latest Sacrifice Zone of the US-Japan Military Alliance
By Joseph Essertier, January 6, 2019 From ZNet “The capacity to write off large segments of humanity as Other, as disposable, as less than human and therefore worthy of sacrifice, has been utterly integral to the very fact of powering our […]
Things Congress Could Do for Peace, From Easiest to Hardest
davidswanson.org
When talking about how to fund useful projects, or talking about the federal budget or the U.S. economy, talk as if U.S. military spending exists. With 67 percent of federal discretionary spending …Yesterday's Militarism in the Media webinar. We maxed out Zoom's meeting room with 100 people! Next time we'll upgrade our capacity. Thanks to all who participated! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh3xlrfAhhYMilitarism in the Media: On January 15, 2019, 100 participants joined our webinar featuring experts Rose Dyson and Jeff Cohen discussing the role of the medi...
Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kajiwara on U.S. Bases on Okinawa
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Rob Kajiwara is an Okinawan-Hawaian singer-songwriter and visual artist. In 2017, he was made a cultural ambassador for his ancestral village of Nakagusuku, Okinawa. In 2018 he was also made a cult…Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
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The New York Times loves NATO, but should you? Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or…How can we make the best case for shifting from war to peace? Take War Abolition 101 to brush up on your talking points. worldbeyondwar.org/downloads/war-abolition-101-online-course-registration/
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6-week online course: February 18 – March 31, 2019. Course fee: $100 Register/purchase War Abolition 101 below. How can we make the best argument for shifting from war to peace? What must we understand and know about the war system if …Find or Add an Event
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