Dear John,

David Cobb is our next Local Peace Economy guest this Wednesday, August 13th, 8pm et. He is the founder of The People's Network for Land and Liberation and the gathering Resist and Build. His projects are building supportive tools for cultivating your peace economy. David has been committed to this work for decades and understands what we need to move to next levels and enhance the connective tissues of what we are doing together. David is a great story teller and movement builder. He sees what is needed and creates the containers for a win-win for communities and the future. Join us as we explore with David, connection to community, systemic cooperation, and thriving in our fractured world.

David has more to say than we will have time, but for those who want to connect we will create breakouts that will not end until you are ready to say goodnight. 

If you were unable to join us for last weeks Local Peace Economy meeting, we discussed how to meet this ICE moment together: the video is available on Youtube. 

Mark your calendars! We are excited to announce that we will offer a LIVE Local Peace Economy Learning Hour on August 20th. Joining us will be the author and public scholar Báyò Akómoláfé as well as his co-conspirators Aerin Dunford and Geci Karuri-Sebina. They are self-described "tricksters of the edges" at The Emergence Network, which is a "planetary network of care and inquiry gesturing towards new assemblages of response-ability during moments when the ways that we think about and address the troubling crises of our times are increasingly a part of those crises." In this gathering, they will introduce the concept of Emergence, and then play with the concept and its entanglement with Local Peace Economy Practices as a response to a world on fire. You won’t want to miss this!

If you would like to take action this week, CODEPINK invites you to take action on an issue important to many -- Zionist propaganda in the New York Times. Last week, the NY Times' opinion columnist Bret Stephens published his article named, “No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza.” The NY Times is doing what it infamously does best: justifying Israel’s heinous war crimes against millions of innocent people. Tell the New York Times to stop engaging in genocide denial in their paper, and to begin publishing the truth. 

UPCOMING Local Peace Economy Gatherings:

• Land & Liberation with David Cobb
• Local Peace Economy Learning Hour w/ The Emergence Network.
• You can now register for the LPE Writing workshops from September through the end of the year.

Other supportive resources:

• Local Peace Economy Wiki
• Local Peace Economy Padlet — add yourself and see who is near you!
• Video introduction to the workbook
• Download The Local Peace Economy Workbook (free digital version)
• Purchase The Local Peace Economy Workbook (physical copy)
• The Local Peace Economy website
• CODEPINK Radio Ep. 242: The Local Peace Economy
• CODEPINK Radio Ep. 256: What is the root of peace?

We hope to see you this Wednesday!