The No Bases Campaign
Ending all wars means closing all military bases. An obvious place to start is with bases maintained by nations outside their borders. Of these foreign
Ending all wars means closing all military bases. An obvious place to start is with bases maintained by nations outside their borders. Of these foreign
Divestment is a tangible tactic to defund war. About the Campaign Grassroots-led war divestment campaigns are springing up all over the world, from students organizing
World BEYOND War believes that education is a critical component of a global security system and an essential tool for getting us there. We educate
I understand that wars and militarism make us less safe rather than protect us, that they kill, injure and traumatize adults, children and infants, severely damage the natural environment, erode civil liberties, and drain our economies, siphoning resources from life-affirming activities. I commit to engage in and support nonviolent efforts to end all war and preparations for war and to create a sustainable and just peace.
I understand that wars and militarism make us less safe rather than protect us, that they kill, injure and traumatize adults, children and infants, severely damage the natural environment, erode civil liberties, and drain our economies, siphoning resources from life-affirming activities. I commit to engage in and support nonviolent efforts to end all war and preparations for war and to create a sustainable and just peace.
The Introductory Conference of the 1st Neutrality Congress was held on June 1, 2023 with Karen Devine, Juan Sasamoto, Faruk Saman González, and Dr. Edward Horgan. #WorldBEYONDWar
The aim of the International Peace Summit is to publish an urgent global appeal, the Vienna Declaration for Peace, calling on political actors to work for a ceasefire and negotiations in Ukraine. #WorldBEYONDWar
Ann Wright says citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. #WorldBEYONDWar
Franz Jedlicka claims that perpetrators of violence on a grand scale — i.e. warmongers, dictators, and despots — almost always experienced violence as children. #WorldBEYONDWar
Committed activists were out today in Victoria to support demonstrations in Ottawa and demonstrate, locally, our opposition to the CANSEC weapons fair. #WorldBEYONDWar
Educator and peacebuilder Nazir Ahmad Yosufi was born in 1985 in Afghanistan, and has persisted through decades of Soviet war, civil war and U.S. war to devote his life to helping people see a better way. #WorldBEYONDWar
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This event is organized by Ithaca Catholic Worker.
Clarifications of Thought / Roundtable Discussions
on Nonviolent Resistance to US Militarism and Global Domination
1st and 3rd Tuesdays @ 7-8:30 pm
Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2787837555
The Ithaca Catholic Worker is focusing our attention, learning, and reflection on a central theme, that is, Nonviolently Resisting US Militarism and Global Domination which includes, but is not limited to, ending all war(s), de-militarizing and disarming ourselves, our communities, and our world, and finding ways to express the gospel calling to love one another by, first, not killing each other with US weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear. In addition, we believe that this focus must always be seen within the context of what Dr. Martin Luther King calls the giant triplets – racism, materialism, and militarism (adding climate disaster) and how these "isms" intersect with each other.
Our Clarification of Thought / Roundtable gatherings will happen in a hybrid style by zoom and in-person at the ICW house as each person desires. We will try to save the zooms for those who may have missed a session.
The zoom link is https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2787837555 for all gatherings below. Please see our website (ithacacatholicworker.org) for more detailed information about each date and how to stay in touch. Feel free to email us at PDMCWhouse@gmail.com.
January
1/17 MLK anti-war message from "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam" (Leslie Schultz, ICW)
❤️ Our exception is on the 4th Tues.of January :
1/24 Russia / Ukraine War (Clare Grady, Kings Bay Plowshares, with video from Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of Global Net, Keep Space for Peace).
February
2/7 Climate Crisis and US Militarism (Todd Saddler, Extinction Rebellion Ithaca)
Planning for Earth Day Action (Fri. 4/21)
sponsor:UpstateDroneAction.org (Mary Anne Grady Flores, ICW)
2/21 Mardi Gras Celebration (Laurie Konwinski, ICW)
March
3/7 Merchants of Death Tribunal, putting weapons dealers on trial (November 10 - 13) How can we participate? (Nobel Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly & Atty Brad Wolf, co-coordinators of tribunal)
3/21 World Poetry Day (Todd Saddler, ICW, Prof. Lyrae Van Clief Stefanon, National Book Award Finalist, Michael Lee, Ithaca Poet)
April
4/4 Christian Response to Nuclear Weapons (Clare Grady, Kings Bay Plowshares)
4/18 Gun violence from the streets to nuclear weapons (Mark Colville, Amistad Catholic Worker, Kings Bay Plowshares)
May
5/2 Militarism is grand theft from poor people and people of color – domestic theft (Rev. Grayland Hagler,
Co-chair, The Poor Peoples Campaign, FOR board advisor, & D.C. Afro-American faith-based activist)
5/16 Militarism is grand theft from poor people and people of color – U.S. funding of foreign militaries, i.e. the US funding Israel's apartheid state. What do Palestinians ask of us? (IC Prof. Emerita Beth Harris)
June
6/6 Conscientious Objection to War – The example of Ben Salmon (Mark Carver, ICW)
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