WBW News & Action: Stop the War Funding

Dear Friend,

There are many big peace events and opportunities for events coming up, driven by the horrible fact that governments — one far more than all the others — are moving vast resources from everything worthwhile to the war machine. Keep your eyes on the money, and your feet on the street.

—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War

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

The U.S. military budget is a threat to the world, but the world can say No.

The last thing we need is another war, or the devastation of a country through the threat of it. Free Cuba Now!

On Monday, August 24 at 6 p.m. Palestine Time, we wil discuss Palestine’s future. Join us!

There will be events around the world on or about September 21. Let’s make the most of them.

The world will demand peace in Palestine on October 10. Will you help?

Dock workers will block weapons on October 30. Let’s all help!

After each war: more refugees. The answer is not to turn borders into war zones, but to turn the world into a peace zone. Will you come to our annual conference? 

WORLD:

• Videos from the World Social Forum
• Nonviolent Citizen Resistance Moves the World Social Forum Forward in Benin

AFRICA:

• Video: End the 500 Year War Against Africa Now!
• Le Chapitre du Sud-Kivu Continue de S’organiser Pour la Paix
• World BEYOND War 20th African Chapter Launched in Benin

LATIN AMERICA:

• Lessons in Peace and Solidarity in the Wake of the Earthquake in Venezuela
• The Threat Is Not Cuba: It Is the Sanctions and the Policies of War.
• The Trump Hypocrites like Marco “McCarthy” Rubio Are Wrong Again

EUROPE:

• Courage for Peace, Not for War
• The ICE-ification of Europe has already begun
• War Is So Inevitable That Governments Have to Lie to Our Kids to Recruit Them

ASIA:

• Pax Silica: The Philippines’ Role in Propping up U.S. Militarism and War
• Mayor of Hiroshima Delivers Peace Declaration
• Hiroshima 81 Years on: Australia Must Sign the Nuclear Weapons’ Prohibition Treaty

NORTH AMERICA:

• Across Canada We Just Put Elbit On Notice
• Video: JFK Peace Speech Committee Event with Guest Speaker Alice Slater 
• Canadians: 1. Elbit: 0. — Our First #ElbitOut Victory
• Volunteer Spotlight: Baltimore Chapter Co-Coordinator Ronda Cooperstein
• Robert Kagan Asks Why Bother Admitting Crime of the Century Was a “Mistake”
• VIDEO: War Is Still A Lie (w/David Swanson)