WBW News & Action: Try This at Home

Dear Friend,

We can end international wars with enough local antiwar activism in enough locations. Below are many resources to help.

—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War

Visit WBW’s Global Events Calendar to find events and add your own events!

Are you looking for a way to get involved in local anti-war organizing? Do you want to learn how everyday people can take action to resist militarism and promote real peace? Do you want to join a global movement of people who care about building a better world for everyone?

• Book Club: Across Mountains, Land and Sea
• Webinar: Human Rights and Welfare not Warfare: Central and Eastern Europe
• Book Club: Unbounded Hues: An Anti-War Novel
• Webinar: Building an Ocean of Peace
• 24-Hour Peace Wave
• #NoWar2026

• Afghans Promoting Peace and Social Justice in New Lands
• Voces de Bolivia por la Paz y Contra la Militarización del País
• The Peace Manifesto Webinar: Activism, Global Cooperation, and Solidarity

World BEYOND War’s David Swanson, Kathy Kelly, Sellah N. King’oro, and John Reuwer, spoke on June 19 at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst at the conference on Resistance Studies.

• War and Resistance Studies, by David Swanson
• We Will Not Be Silent, by Kathy Kelly
• Hidden Power in the Pipeline, by Sellah King’oro
• Flotilla As Resistance, by John Reuwer

On 19 and 20 June 2026, anti-war activists, trade unionists, parliamentarians, student organisers, campaigners and civil-society representatives gathered in London for the International Conference Against War.

• Report from Phill Gittins
• Video

• Report from Annachiara Canetta.

Let’s stop the weapons shipments!

• No Bases in Africa
• Ban Military Air Shows
• Tell Ireland To Put Peace On The EU Agenda!

Jonathan Solari is World BEYOND War’s Major Donor Liaison. Read more here.

Volunteer Spotlight: El Salvador Chapter Coordinator Irvin Pineda.

Find out here.

WORLD:

• Pope Leo, JD Vance, and “Just War” Doctrine
• Antiwar Dissent & Free Speech Special

AFRICA:

• Burundi for a WBW Equips Students With Nonviolent Communication Skills

EUROPE:

• A Letter to The Guardian: A Spending Target Is Not a Security Strategy
• Those Who Never Make It into the History Books
• Four Months Without New START: Our House Rallies Against Nuclear Threats

ASIA:

• Fatalities from Israel’s Vast Gaza Genocide Deliberately Undercounted
• Iran Deserves Better
• Tribunal Invites U.S. and South Korean Governments to Participate

OCEANIA:

• Talk World Radio: What Could Hawaii Be Without the U.S. Military?

NORTH AMERICA:

• Talk World Radio: U.S. Military Spending Is About Double What They Tell Us
• World BEYOND War and Friends Commemorated the Nakba in Baltimore
• “Kick Israel Out Of FIFA,” Toronto Activists Demand During Protest
• $3 Trillion a Year for U.S. Military Spending