During a lunch counter protest in 1960, a white supremacist threatened to stab David Hartsough with a knife. What David said to his would-be attacker was the last thing the man was expecting, and it transformed the situation.
The government of Indonesia is continuing to move forward with building a military base (KODIM 1810) in the rural area of Tambrauw West Papua without consultation or permission from the Indigenous landowners who call this ancestral land their home. We’re out to stop this base.
What if a better approach to raising children than feeding them the muck that makes up war culture but instructing them to not play with guns, were to introduce them to a little peace culture?
By Marc Eliot Stein, June 29, 2021 World BEYOND War · A Virtual Antiwar Gathering We cover the #NoWar2021 global peace gathering in real time!
Activists held a banner and signs over a busy Seattle freeway during the morning commute to remind people of the imperative to abolish nuclear weapons.
World BEYOND War strives to make clear that we are both in favor of peace and against war, engaged in striving to build peaceful systems and culture and engaged in working to demilitarize and abolish all preparations for wars.
The similarities between the movement to abolish war and the movement to abolish police and prisons jump out at me anew when reading Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, which is about police and prison abolition.
Canadian peace activists held fast to stop Trudeau government from buying new warplanes.
So, we can have a world beyond war or we can have no world at all.
