WBW News & Action: Imagine Sisyphus Happy

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Military spending is setting new records. Organized murder is being normalized in new ways. Those working nonviolently for peace are encountering new obstacles. This year we’ve had a bank account shut down, a chapter organizer assaulted by police, a staff person arrested in their home, and a number of staff and board members put in danger.

But we go on educating and organizing, persuading more and more people to work for peace, persuading more institutions to divest from war, exposing more lies about weapons shipments to the light of day, exposing the crime of war to more shame and condemnation.

One thing that keeps us going is the solidarity of all who take part from around the world in online events. See videos of recent events and how to sign up for new ones below.

—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War

We just held our third annual Africa regional peace conference. Videos here.

• International Campaign to Free Marwan Barghouti
• Yurii Sheliazhenko on So-Called Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine
• Securing a Pacific Ocean of Peace – Overcoming the Obstacles
• #NoWar2025 Exploring Abolition Movements

Visit WBW’s Global Events Calendar to find events and add your own events!

Our webinar on the dire situation in Sudan and what to do about it is coming up on December 11. Get the link.

• Book Club: Militarized Global Apartheid
• Book Club: Mind Abuse
• Book Club: Four Picture Books for All Ages

Yesterday in the United States flags were flown at half-mast and myths of innocence and righteous warmaking celebrated, as every year on December 7.

WORLD:

• All That Money You Needed to Sustain Life on Earth? Yeah, It’s Gone to Militaries.
• War on Venezuela Is A Lie 

AFRICA:

• Technology for Demilitarization
• World BEYOND War Nigeria Chapter Brings Peace Education to School
• Trump, Kagame, Tshisekedi & the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace: A Peace Deal Short on Peace

LATIN AMERICA:

• The Donroe Doctrine Is a Sadistic Fantasy, and Nothing New
• At Nonviolent Protest of Weapons Fair in Bogotá, Police Badly Injure WBW Chapter Coordinator
• Venezuela on Santita Jackson Show
• Closing All Foreign Military Bases in Latin America
• Abya Yala is a Zone of Peace: A Podcast Interview with Gabriel Aguirre

EUROPE:

• Joint Civil Society Statement on Ukraine’s Unlawful Suspension of the Mine Ban Treaty
• Meet Our New Europe Organizer! 
• Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle

ASIA:

• Go Tell It on the Mountain:  Genocide is Wrong 

NORTH AMERICA:

• Flooding the Zone: Police Raids on Peace Activists
• Top 10 Reasons to Pretend It’s Unusual for the U.S. Government to Blow People Up
• Canada Is Arming Israel Because It Is Afraid of the United States
• U.S. Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide
• World BEYOND War’s Canada Organizer’s Home Raided By Police
• Gerry Condon Is Awarded 2025 U.S. Peace Prize
• The Ontario Federation of Labour Adopts a “Hot Cargo” Resolution Against Israel