Selections from War Primer by Bertholt Brecht
General, man is very useful.
He can fly and he can kill.
But he has one defect:
He can think. #WorldBEYONDWar
General, man is very useful.
He can fly and he can kill.
But he has one defect:
He can think. #WorldBEYONDWar
Watching a well-known bridge collapse in Baltimore, Marc Eliot Stein quickly saw a pattern of government greed, cowardice and conformity that is already familiar to antiwar activists. “Do we think Anthony Blinken is any more competent than Pete Buttigieg?” #worldbeyondwar
If there is life on other planets, if some creature on night watch somewhere out there in the vast vault of heaven should happen to incline its ear towards the Milky Way, #WorldBEYONDWar
In a room with rain on the wooden roof / we wait for the shooting to start / it is not our own children who carry the arms / nor our own children against whom arms will be carried #WorldBEYONDWar
Michelle Vong is 2023 Oakland Youth Poet Vice Laureate. She recited this poem at a World BEYOND War event in Oakland, California, on January 28, 2024. #WorldBEYONDWar
Two centuries ago, Percy Shelley wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Yet elite power has routinely vetoed their best measures. Still, the ability of poetry to inspire and nurture is precious. #WorldBEYONDWar
Episode 53 of the World BEYOND War podcast is devoted to a friend and presumed hostage, Judih Weinstein Haggai, poet, mother, grandmother, teacher and peace activist.
