The Dangerous Assumption that Violence Keeps Us Safe
A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again.
A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again.
Throughout history, people facing occupation have tapped into the power of nonviolent struggle to thwart their invaders.
We live in hard times which demand courage to promote peace.
We are seeing mutual support across borders and propaganda narratives between U.S. and Russian and Ukrainian advocates for peace.
Re: TPNW – ban on killer robots/autonomous weapons – ban on the use and sale of weaponized drones.
Last September 21st, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the International Day of Peace, as U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan, our local peace organization emphasized that we would be relentless in saying no to the calls for war, that those calls for war would come again, and soon.
Wars start on the battlefield but end at the diplomacy table, so we call for an immediate return to diplomacy and international law.
The United States transferred several parcels of land from former U.S. military bases to South Korea. #WorldBEYONDWar
A webinar presenting the peace poetry of award-winning poets George Elliott Clarke and Gary Geddes.