Resistance to War, Part 4 of 4: Flotilla As Resistance
To create a World Beyond War and a just and sustainable peace we have to answer the basic question of whether people can protect themselves without pointing a gun at someone. #WorldBEYONDWar
To create a World Beyond War and a just and sustainable peace we have to answer the basic question of whether people can protect themselves without pointing a gun at someone. #WorldBEYONDWar
Peace is not only negotiated in high‑level meetings. Peace is being negotiated right now on the docks, rail lines, and airport tarmacs of Africa, by everyday people who are holding the line and stopping the war machine in its tracks. #WorldBEYONDWar
This conference summons us to escalate our resistance to war planners and war makers. As a member of World BEYOND War, I’m grateful to be here and learn from you. #WorldBEYONDWar
We need to resist, but not as the Democrat who works to keep a Republican war going in order to be opposed to it. We need to resist with the intention of actually resisting, reversing, and overcoming. A useful resistance works to put itself out of work. #WorldBEYONDWar
We should all consider promoting broader access to video-based international news sources. Not necessarily endorsing Al Jazeera itself, but encouraging Americans — and the rest of the world — to step outside their media bubbles and spend time listening to people who live where the bombs are falling. #WorldBEYONDWar
Growing coalition warns that UK universities are being degraded as extensions of the military-industrial complex. #WorldBEYONDWar
The bigotry, the misogyny, the cruelty, the cynicism, the ignorance — all the things one associates with Trump: we have established, respectable, well-funded institutions dressed up as Academia and training young men in all of these things. #WorldBEYONDWar
We need Peace Fairs in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, and High Schools to help maintain the virtues of love, kindness, empathy, and basic human dignity in the sisterhood and brotherhood internationally. #WorldBEYONDWar
The most important facts are usually the ones that cannot be hidden. Almost everyone can be made to not think about them. But that is a very different thing from being hidden. #WorldBEYONDWar