WBW News & Action: Albania Not for Sale

Dear Friend,

Here’s some news about actions against war, and actions in support of nonviolent protests that change the world without war.

—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War

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In Malawi: June 12: Community Peacebuilding Workshop in Malawi

In Burundi: June 12: Youth Dialogue on Peaceful Civic Engagement

• Achieving peace in Taiwan
• The Peace Manifesto
• Soberanía en Venta en Paraguay

Military planes are weapons of mass murder and destruction. Air shows are used to advertise them for purchase by governments.

• Support Aid Flotillas.
• Tell Ireland To Put Peace On The EU Agenda.
• Boycott Thai Airways.

• At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border

Read about inspiring people pushing back against oligarchic destruction.

WORLD:

• World Pays Price for U.S. Cage Fight Culture
• We Need a Culture of Peace
• Watch News from a Country Not Your Own
• Do U.S. War Crimes Doom the World to Endless War and Chaos?

AFRICA:

• A New World BEYOND War Chapter Begins in Somalia

LATIN AMERICA:

• Talk World Radio: Bolivia and People Who Don’t Sit Back and Take It

EUROPE:

• Huge Protest March Ends at Aviano U.S. Air Base in Italy
• World BEYOND War Asks Ireland to Put Peace On The EU Council Agenda
• Condemning the Defence Universities Alliance as a Threat to Academic Freedom
• An Open Letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz
• Condemning the Defence Universities Alliance
• Activists in Bucharest Reject Militarization from Palestine to the Black Sea

ASIA:

• One Gaza Flotilla Boat Made it to Gaza—in Pieces
• Nakba Day Commemorated in Osaka, Japan
• Rape, Assault, and Abuse Are Signature Israeli Government Values Toward Palestinians and Internationals
• Talk World Radio: Stephen Zunes on Iran

OCEANIA:

• What Could Hawaiʻi Look Like if the U.S. Military Didn’t Occupy So Much Land?
• At Music Awards in New Zealand, Singer Tells Government What it Can Do with Military Budget

NORTH AMERICA:

• In Ontario, Canada, Protesters Call on Factory to Shut Down Killing Machines
• Podcast: Where I Live, or Old Battlefields of Brooklyn
• U.S. Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate U.S. and Israeli Militaries
• Hundreds Disrupt CANSEC, Canada’s Largest Arms Show
• Ten Activists in New Jersey Arrested for Blockading Israel-Bound Weapons
• Installing Peace
• VIDEO: Canada’s New War Bank Will Fuel Weapons and a “War-Filled Future”