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DEAR GGJ FRIENDS AND FAMILY, 

On the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, GGJ Stands with our
partners at Women Cross DMZ calling for an end to the war, the
reunification of separated families, and the establishment of a peace
process that centers the leadership of women. Contrary to popular belief,
the Korean War never ended. It has been protracted into seven decades of
political tensions with world-changing consequences. It was through the
Korean War that the United States first launched its global military
presence without officially declaring war, anchoring its geopolitical
foothold on the pretense of peace.

The Korean war began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean Army advanced
into South Korea to unify the peninsula, after the United States and the
Soviet Union had divided it into two separate states. Koreans had lived
under Japanese imperialist rule from 1910 to 1945. Japanese imperialism was
brutal, forcing Koreans to abandon their language, faith, and capturing and
trafficking millions of women as “comfort women'' for Japanese soldiers.
When the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, defeating Japan in
World War II, a devastated Korea was divided by the U.S. and the Soviet
Union into North and South, a communist and a capitalist state, marking the
beginnings of the Cold War. Between June of 1950 and July of 1953, North
Korea and South Korea fought backed by China and the United States,
respectively. Most soldiers in combat were Chinese and American, not
Korean. Yet, more than three million Koreans died in the midst of active
combat, and 70% of them were civilians. An armistice was reached on July
27th, 1953, but the war never ended. Over the years, tensions have ebbed
and flowed, sometimes bringing the countries to the brink of active combat
again.

Today, there are approximately 29,048 American soldiers in South Korea,
63,435 in Japan, 46,900 in Germany, 15,478 in Italy and 9,119 in the UK
[4]. Although the Department of Defense stopped reporting military
deployment figures to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria in 2017, [5] their
September 2019 budget requests to Congress reveal that an estimated 77,000
troops are stationed across the three countries. Following Trump’s drone
strike on Iraq that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, 3,500 troops were added.
[6] An additional estimated 76,000 troops are stationed throughout the
Middle East in unofficial military operations for an estimated total of
156,500 troops in the region. There are an estimated 800 U.S. military
bases in 80 countries, and over half of the US discretionary budget for
2021, $636 billion of $1.485 trillion [7], is expected to go to the
military.

There is no security in war, no safety in a U.S. world police. We call for
the disbandment of US military bases and an end to sanctions, which is war
by other means. As transnational feminists united against militarization
and war, we call for a feminist foreign policy that reorients the United
States’ role in the global community to prioritize interdependence,
connection and cooperation, justice, valuing people and the planet over
profit. We call for investments in a feminist economy to build a more
socially fair and ecologically sustainable society.

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JOIN WOMENCROSSDMZ IN URGING YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO SUPPORT PEACE
IN KOREA.  [9]

This past Juneteenth weekend, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance along with
It Takes Roots [10] (Indigenous Environmental Networ [11]k, Climate Justice
Alliance, [12] and Right to the City Alliance [13]), joined members and
partners digitally and on the ground for M4BL’s #SIXNINETEEN weekend of
actions in Washington D.C.

In D.C. we also joined Right to the City member organization OneDC [14] for
their march to #CancelRent and #DefundPolice. This was one of many marches
that weekend in D.C. and highlighted the vital importance of housing
justice to the fight for Black lives.

In Tulsa and the historically significant Greenwood district, we joined
Indigenous Environmental Network, national partners, and local organizers
with Unify Tulsa [15]to establish a relationship, support local efforts to
build community safety, and protect Greenwood during 45’s dog-whistle
rally held a day after Juneteenth and in the same anniversary month as the
Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921.

CHECK OUT COVERAGE OF THE MOBILIZATIONS AND ACTIONS: 

#Juneteenth Weekend in Tulsa video by Ryan Redcorn [16] with Indigenious
Rising Media [17]

Live Stream of action with Indigenous and Veteran Organizers inside 45’s
campaign rally [18]

Video from the protests in Washington, DC by Roddy Hafiz [19]

MANY THANKS AND ALL SOLIDARITY TO: 

Unify Tulsa [15]

About Face: Veterans Against the War [20]

Movement for Black Lives [21]

The Rising Majority [22]

BlackOUT Collective [23]

Rising Tide North America

Ruckus Society [24]

Veterans For Peace [25]

TAKE OUR LANGUAGE JUSTICE SURVEY - DEADLINE EXTENDED: 

GGJ is assessing our Language Justice practices and needs your help. We
know that organizing across language is key to building the power we need,
so we are asking you to fill out a survey [26]to identify what we are doing
well and where we could grow. As a heads up, it will take about 30 minutes,
but you can pause your entry by hitting Submit at the bottom of any page.
This will take you to the survey end page where it will provide you with a
hyperlink to edit your responses. Save that hyperlink to return to the
survey.

_THE SURVEY DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED 2 WEEKS.  THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE
TIME TO DO THIS!_

TAKE THE LANGUAGE JUSTICE SURVEY HERE [26]

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COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND

This is the moment to respond and re-shape. How we act in moments of deep
crisis reveals to ourselves and others who we are. Help us fight boldly for
another 15 years and support disproportionately impacted communities and
frontline solutions through our COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund, to
support GGJ, grassroots movements in the Global South, Black communities,
Black- and POC-led trans organizing, and worker cooperatives. Two thirds of
all donations we receive during our spring fundraising drive will go
directly to our COVID-19 Emergency Relief fund. These will be evenly split
up between 4 funds.

1. Grassroots movements in the Global South (via Grassroots International
Solidarity Amid Pandemic Fund [28])
2. Black communities in the US (via Movement for Black Lives COVID19 Mutual
Aid Fund [29])
3. Worker cooperatives in the US (via Seed Commons Worker Response Fund
[30])
4. Black- and POC-led trans organizing in the US (via Borealis Fund’s
COVID19 Collective Fund for Trans Communities [31] )

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