Forwarding an urgent notice from Eli McCarthy:

Dec. 21, 2022
Event: Rally for Diplomacy on Ukraine-Russia War
Location: 1st st. NE and E. Capitol St.

Time: 5:30-7pm

U.S. National Advocates and Organizers Urge Diplomacy for a Just Peace in Ukraine

*Support a Christmas Truce
*Support Nonviolent Resistance *End the War

Leaders of national faith-based and peace advocacy organizations will gather today at the Capitol as a response to President Zelensky’s visit to the U.S. today. We stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and all those suffering from this catastrophic war, including those in Russia, Africa, and elsewhere. As supporters of human security and a just peace, we urge the U.S. and President Zelensky to engage in diplomatic negotiations rooted in the needs of the stakeholders and oriented by a vision of just peace.

There are millions of refugees and internally displaced persons in Ukraine as well as tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers killed, not to mention hundreds of children killed and generational trauma instigated across the country as well as in Russia. The ecological damage is also unfathomable. As one human family rooted in empathy, we must end the war and the killing. A Christmas Truce would be one potential step on this path.

We encourage financial, diplomatic, training, and strategic support for the courageous nonviolent resistors in Ukraine as well as in Russia. After recent in person gatherings in Ukraine, these Ukrainian organizers have directly asked for such support by their own government and the U.S.

Contact:
Eli McCarthy, [email protected], 510-717-8867

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to visit Washington D.C. today. His visit should not be allowed to obscure the basic facts:

The U.S. and allies have worked against the negotiation of peace.
Unlimited free weapons works against the negotiation of peace.
No total victory is possible in the foreseeable future, and the U.S. has been preparing for another endless war.
Unlimited free weapons is a choice that sacrifices all the human and environmental crises in need of resources.
Ukraine is a corrupt one-party state that grew out of a U.S.-backed coup in 2014, not a "democracy."
A foreign leader pressuring Congress because the U.S. public has elected a new Congress less likely to provide unlimited free weapons is not democratic.
The biggest chunk of so-called "aid" funding to Ukraine has never left the Washington, D.C., suburbs where the world's five largest weapons dealers are found.
This war is increasingly risking nuclear apocalypse for the Earth; no compromise settlement is worse than that.

More information: https://worldbeyondwar.org/ukraine_action

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