The ballooning U.S. military budget (larger than the next ten countries combined) diverts funds from desperately-needed responses to both community health and social service needs, as well as climate crisis challenges.
We should learn that lesson. Taxpayers can’t expect peace when they continue to pay bills sent by merchants of death. During all elections and budgeting procedures, politicians and other decision-makers should hear loud demands of people: stop feeding the beast!
We’re passed the “First, They Ignore You” phase.
World BEYOND War is supporting our Canada Organizer, Rachel Small, in spending the first half of November at Gidimt’en camp at the invitation of Wet’suwet’en leaders who are defending their territory while confronting militarized colonial violence.
Aotearoa 4 Assange and a panel of International experts call on the New Zealand Government to welcome Australian Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, to stand for human rights, the public’s right to know and peace.
Rotary apparently adopted a policy in June of not investing in weapons companies.
In a remarkable feat of epistemic magic, 500 environmental and peace organizations and nearly 25,000 individuals have endorsed a petition that will be delivered to the COP26 climate conference — a petition proposing a solution that could add dramatically to efforts to protect the Earth’s climate, but a solution that it is impossible for most members of the homo sapiens species to become aware of.
We must support the people who have taken to the streets in huge numbers.
Open Letter to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
