Dear Senator Markey, It’s Time to Face an Existential Threat
A constituent writes to U.S. Senator Ed Markey to try to set him straight on nuclear weapons, despite the power of the nuclear lobby.
A constituent writes to U.S. Senator Ed Markey to try to set him straight on nuclear weapons, despite the power of the nuclear lobby.
On September 21st, International Day of Peace, we invite you to join people across Canada in acting to #StopArmingSaudi through various in-person and online solidarity actions.
Now is the time to link the Black Lives Matter Movement with the Peace and Justice Movement, to shout “Demilitarize” “Defund the Police” but also “Defund the Military” as protesters march at the intersection between militarism at home and militarism abroad.
By Pete Shimazaki Doktor and Ann Wright, Honolulu Civil Beat, September 6, 2020 As members of Veterans for Peace, an organization of U.S. military veterans
Unfortunately, U.S. politics is dominated by only two choices: be a good war lover who cheers for more militarism and properly honors those duped or pressured into participating, or be a good war lover who ignores all the wars waging on and mocks participants for not having cheated their way out and gotten rich.
“It is deeply frustrating that New Zealand First MP and Defence Minister Ron Mark insisted on sending the NZ Navy into an area which entails risk to public health, to prop up the United States’ continuing global aggression,” said Valerie Morse, member of the Cancel RIMPAC Coalition Aotearoa.
The Pacific Peace Network (PPN) has called for the cancellation of the Rimpac ‘war game’ exercises in Hawai’ian waters scheduled to start this week.
On Saturday, 8/8/2020, citizens of Nagoya and activists of Japan for a World BEYOND War gathered for a “Candlelight Action” to commemorate the 1945 U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light on the opaque world of the American military presence in Africa. Last year, elite U.S. Special Operations forces were active in 22 African countries …