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An Incredible Online Course on War and the Environment Is About to Start. It will run from June 7th to July 18th. We will cover:
• Where wars happen and why.
• What wars do to the earth.
• What imperial militaries do to the earth back home.
• What nuclear weapons have done and could do to people and the planet.
• How this horror is hidden and maintained.
• What can be done.
Check out all the details and register here.

World BEYOND War’s #NoWar2021 conference is going virtual! Save the date for June 4-6, 2021. #NoWar2021 is a unique event that brings together a global grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations around the topic of stopping the global arms trade and ending all war. See the full schedule and get your tickets!

Book Club: Waging Peace with David Hartsough: June 2 – June 23: World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist with the author David Hartsough as part of a small group WBW book club limited to a group of 18 participants. The author, a co-founder of World BEYOND War, will send each participant a signed paperback copy of the book. Only 5 spots left! Register here.

Book Club: The End of War with John Horgan: June 1 – 22: World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of The End of War with the author John Horgan as part of a small group WBW book club limited to a group of 18 participants. The author will send each participant a signed paperback copy of the book. Only 3 spots left! Register here.

New Billboards in Germany and Ads in Canada Take on Nukes and Lockheed Martin
See if you can spot where our new ads for Canada have made corrections to and improved the accuracy of a familiar and ubiquitous ad by Lockheed Martin:

And check out the new billboards we’ve put up all over Berlin, Germany (similar to some we ran a few months back, but now with more people out and about to see them):

An outdoor event is planned in Berlin on May 15th.

If you like the billboards and other advertising that World BEYOND War does, you can help us do more by funding them here.

Peace Pledge now signed in 191 countries! Sign it!

Stand with Daniel Hale. To support this whistleblower, go here and scroll down for several ways to help.

Upcoming events:

May 17: Invest in Cures Before Missiles

May 21: Demilitarize U.S. to Palestine

May 30: Peace Literacy

June 3: Venezuela and Nicaragua

Soldiers Without Guns: Film Screening & Discussion: Join WBW & Friends Peace Teams for a screening of Soldiers Without Guns, the story of how the bloody Civil War on the island of Bougainville was halted by a contingent of the New Zealand Defense Force that landed on the island, carrying no weapons. Register here!