By World BEYOND War, May 16, 2026
Here’s something you can do in this teachable moment. Go to a gas station or market with soaring prices. Print out and bring the 3 pages below. Or print the first page as a big poster and the next two double-sided on one sheet. Hand them out and talk to people. Invite media. Or print the first two pages double-sided on a single sheet and the third one as a sticker that can be stuck to appropriate surfaces.
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The German government wants that people become fit for war (“kriegstüchtig”). Sometimes at the end of a talk on business matters i ask my partner. ” Are you fit for war as our government wants it?” Most time we have a talk on how crazy it is to become fit for war, or even war-ready, or even to march again against Russia. People remember that it may be very cold there during winter.. Etc.
THIS is great organizing. Make the text simpler and larger
Thanks for your efforts to end all wars, but this campaign is unfortunate. Addictive fossil fuel stations (“gas stations” in US-English) are equally malicious as wars. A world without wars and without addictive fossil fuel stations is the goal, not cheaper fuel. Fuel prices should be increased my means of taxes, not by wars of aggression. And the money from those taxes should go into defossilization and abolishment of car dependency. Both USA and Sweden are heading towards pseudo-elections held later on this year, beween two essentially identical right-fascist parties or blocks, with campaigns dominated by costs of fossil fuel. Is this democracy, or insanity?
Hard to get people who have been taught that the reason a war can be bad is because it makes gas cost more to learn that there are many better reasons to oppose a war if you’re too afraid that someone will misunderstand that you want cheaper fossil fuels or don’t wish they had trains fueled by sustainable energy, not to mention actual self-governance. This war is of course pushing much of the world toward greener energy, which is a wonderful thing without being an excuse to support the war.
It feels to me these days, with military spending through the roof, and AI suddenly everywhere (which people like Tristan Harris consider an existential threat to humanity)—that we are sleepwalking to Armageddon. Here in Canada, the signs are everywhere—in the elimination of endangered species protections, in new pipeline and nuclear energy projects, in the Cdn. hosting of a “war bank”, in new bills like C-22 that increase surveillance of civilians, in anti-immigrant laws, in a military budget of 40 Billion just this year and expected to go triple that to meet NATO’s 5% GDP requirement (why is that suddenly so important?) and so on. Very scary times. Very Orwellian.
AS (Artificial Stupidity) is indeed equally malicious as war, fossil fuel addiction, car addiciton, and capitalism with its eternal growth.
My Unitarian Universalist congregation has supported the US Peace Memorial Foundation’s goals to seek alternatives to war and to grow an antiwar culture. World Beyond War was recognized in 2021 as a US Peace Prize recipient. We honor those who dare to speak out against the US war culture.
I applaud this educational initiative to call attention to this disastrous war on Iran when negotiations were bearing fruit. The fossil fuel industry is clearly benefitting from this conflict and is reaping enormous profits and causing colossal environmental damage.
Inch by Inch, Row by Row, We’re gonna make this garden of peace and environmental justice grow.