By: Erica Stanojevic, July 18, 2019 Cities and counties hold billions of dollars of public money in Wall Street banks. Legally, these corporate banks own and control this money, which they use to finance harmful industries including: private prisons, immigrant […]
World BEYOND War — June 3, 2019 On the evening of June 3, 2019, the City Council of Charlottesville, Va., voted to divest the funds in its operating budget from weapons dealers and fossil fuel producers. Here’s the resolution as […]
By David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War, May 19, 2019 A coalition organized as DivestCville.org is asking the City of Charlottesville, Va., to divest all public money from weapons companies, major war profiteers, and fossil fuel companies. At its […]
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 2, 2019 The City of Charlottesville will be considering the question of divestment from weapons and fossil fuels at its meeting on May 6th. For details on the divestment campaign, how to attend […]
By Greta Zarro, April 2019 From Magasinet Motvind We live in an era of information, where news from every corner of the globe is accessible at our fingertips. The problems of the world are laid bare in front of us, […]
By Hal Conte, April 2, 2019 From Freely Magazine A consortium of 90 anti-war, peace and environmental groups are seeking to divest Temple University and other colleges as well as municipalities citywide and nationwide from weapons manufacturers and military contractors, […]
By Peter Phillips, March 14, 2019 Regime changes in Iraq and Libya, Syria’s war, Venezuela’s crisis, sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Russia, and North Korea are reflections of a new global imperialism imposed by a core of capitalist nations in support […]
Reach this page at divestcville.org. Divest all public money from weapons companies, major war profiteers, and fossil fuel companies. The following draft is endorsed by Indivisible Charlottesville, Casa Alma Catholic Worker, RootsAction, World BEYOND War, Code Pink, Charlottesville Coalition For […]
By David Swanson, February 28, 2019 Charlottesville, Virginia, has yet to take down its racist statues (the ones all the fuss has been about or any of the other ones). Charlottesville has yet to ban guns from public events. It […]
Greta Zarro is Organizing Director at World BEYOND War. She has a background in issue-based community organizing. Her experience includes volunteer recruitment and engagement, event organizing, coalition building, legislative and media outreach, and public speaking. Greta graduated as valedictorian from […]
Talk Nation Radio: Misagh Parsa on Protests in Iran
Talk Nation Radio: Misagh Parsa on Protests in Iran
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Sometimes we only find out which US foreign military bases really exist when it's convenient for the military to pretend they are being abandoned.
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By Nick Turse, November 5, 2019 From TomDispatch They called it Castle Black, an obvious homage to the famed frozen citadel from the HBO series Game of Thrones. In the fantasy world of GoT, it’s the stronghold of the Night’s Watch, the French ..."I have seen first-hand how U.S. diplomacy, our country’s relationships with other countries, has been militarized." - Ann Wright, former US Army colonel and diplomat.
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By Ann Wright, November 15, 2019 The settler-colonial history of the United States is not discussed by those in the U.S. government. However, in the lexicon of American studies, settler-colonialism is a major topic, and particularly for historians in the ...
