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Dear John,

Each year, at my summer camp, we memorialized the U.S.’s horrifying use of nuclear weapons during World War II, which completely destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and left survivors with long-term radiation sickness. We held an annual ceremony to remember these war crimes while trying to educate one another to create a better world. The poems and stories from those days have remained seared into my head just as the literal shadows of victims were seared into buildings from the bombs.

After two of the greatest war crimes of all time, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created the “Doomsday Clock” to measure how close we are to “midnight,” or nuclear/climate apocalypse, based on world events. This might be your first time hearing about the clock. But I’d imagine that it’s not your first time feeling the emotions it evokes: the helplessness, the grief, the anger, the impending sense of doom. It can feel all-consuming; if we’re less than “90 seconds to midnight,” what hope do we have? What pathway can we follow to build and inspire? That’s why we want to change the direction we’re looking at, from “midnight” to “dawn.” Instead of counting down by imagining doomsday, we want to build peace. We’ve created a new Peace Clock, unveiled around the country today that outlines actionable steps to turn the clock’s hand toward a livable world.  

⏰ Sign the Peace Clock Manifesto! <[link removed]>

The steps that lead to catastrophe are not abstract; neither are the steps that lead to peace. The U.S. has provided billions of dollars of new weapons for genocide, war, occupation, military build-up, and escalation from Gaza to Ukraine, from Syria to China. The U.S. must take its troops and weapons out of the SWANA and Asia-Pacific regions and engage in diplomacy to stop its proxy war in Ukraine. If Trump actually wants to be a “peace president,” he will engage with willing partners. And if not, his hypocrisy will continue our march toward a nuclear doomsday. 

☮️ Turn the Clock back: Steps to dismantling war-making! <[link removed]>

Some of the steps that our government can take to work towards denuclearization are crystal clear foreign policy changes, while others are steps that create unity amidst our movements and sectors. And regardless, we will continue to educate on how to dismantle the war economy and create a peace economy. We will continue to shed light on the interests of power. 

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It feels like every conversation I’ve had lately is about the choices that we can make in the coming weeks and years. This makes sense when we are in a moment where dynamics that have been present for decades are now at the surface of U.S. governance and lack thereof. The war machine is as present as ever. So do we react to our current moment by screaming into the sky about how doomsday is rapidly approaching? Or do we take steps to expose and dismantle the war machine while actively creating a Peace Economy? Personally, I can only go forward if we’re creating something new, bringing together the movement, and working toward our collective safety and liberation. 

📣 Join me in rejecting the imagination of doomsday and, instead, creating peace.  <[link removed]>

For more 👉

- Read our co-director Danaka’s article, “Maybe Doom Isn’t Scary Enough. <[link removed]>”
- Read activist Alice Slater’s article, “Change the Conversation From Doomsday to Peace Day. <[link removed]>” 
- Give my recent articles a read, “The Earthquake that Climate Groups Aren’t Talking About,” <[link removed]> and “The Fires in Gaza are the Fires in LA." <[link removed]>
- Check out the War Is Not Green <[link removed]> + Peace Clock <[link removed]> sites
- Sign up to organize and engage locally <[link removed]>!

Towards peace,
Aaron and the entire CODEPINK team

PS: Join us Wednesday 1/29 3PM ET <[link removed]>to discuss finding effective intervention points to move from doomsday to peace! 

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