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Dear Friend,
Wars have many costs. People are going hungry far from Iran because of the war there. Some costs gain attention, such as the price of the fossil fuels that are so damaging to our world even apart from the wars waged over them. Keep reading for something you can do to open people’s minds to all the many costs of wars.
—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
Palestinians are being criminally deprived of food, water, and medicine. Those attempting to come to their aid should be assisted, not attacked.
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The Fifth Annual 24-Hour Peace Wave remains a 24-hour-long Zoom featuring peace actions in the streets and squares of the world, moving around the globe with the sun. But participants will have until November 1, 2026, to submit videos of peace activism, filmed at any time in the first 10 months of 2026. We will then compile the videos into 24 videos of 40 minutes each. We will then announce the date of a Zoom webinar that will have 40 minutes of video and 20 of introduction and live discussion (including your questions) every hour for 24 hours.
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- Online Discussion: End the 500-Year War Against Africa Now!
- Soberanía en Venta en Paraguay: El Fracaso de las Alianzas Militares en la Región
- In Pursuit of Peace: Afghans promoting peace and social justice in new lands
- Resistance Studies Conference
- War, Peace, and the Arts: An Online Course
- #NoWar2026 Conference: Beyond Borders
- In Canada: Shut Down CANSEC
Here’s something you can do in this teachable moment. Go to a gas station or market with soaring prices. Print out and bring these three pages. Or print the first page as a big poster and the next two double-sided on one sheet. Hand them out and talk to people. Invite media. Or print the first two pages double-sided on a single sheet and the third one as a sticker that can be stuck to appropriate surfaces.
WORLD:
EUROPE:
ASIA:
NORTH AMERICA:
- If We Had No Military Academies, Who Would Train the Sadists?
- World War Trump: In the Trumpian Age, Every Accusation Is Also a Confession
- We Need Children’s Peace Fairs Everywhere
- The Regular Army
- Talk World Radio: Abolish the Police
- How a Student WBW Group Is Advancing the Cause of Peace
- Talk World Radio: Scott Langley on Abolishing the Death Penalty
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3 Responses
> Some costs gain attention, such as the price of the fossil
> fuels that are so damaging to our world
Of course the fossil fuels themselves are so damaging to our world, and the minimally risen prices of them constitute tragically a positive side effect of the war. Unfortunately, most governments do not seize the occasion to liberate their kingdoms from fossil fuels, but instead increase the subsidies for them, in turn fuelling even more aggressive methods of theft (AKA extraction, ultimately NOT “production”) of them, such as oil sand, fr**king, deep sea platforms, shale oil etc. Sweden is one of the worst examples that began with large-scale pumping of tax bucks into fossil fuels in 2022 after the Ukraina War (powered by USA) began, and continues doing so now during the Iran War (powered by USA too). When you run out of fossil one day, just come to Sweden, here “gas” is almost free on every addictive fossil fuel station.
AUX CITOYANS DU MUNDO – LEVONS NOUS COTRE LA PRODUCTION D’ARMES – TANT QU’IL Y AURA DES PRODUCTION D’ARMES IL Y AURA DES GUERRES – SOTP A L’ECONOMIE DE GUERRE-
ET UN MONDE SANS FRONTIERES
COMME PUIS JE AJOUTER A MON COMMENTAIRE – ET “POUR” UN MONDE SANS FRONTIERES