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July 1, 2022 at 1:30 PM

Book Clubs Online with Gareth Porter, Jeff Cohen, Francesco Da Vinci, Alfred de Zayas, Rivera Sun

World's best peace authors and you in small online book discussions for four weeks Check out some of our upcoming online book clubs. These are small-group discussions, four weeks in a row, online with some of the best authors on peace and ending war. This one with Gareth Po…

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June 30, 2022 at 2:00 PM

No U.S. Bases on Norwegian Soil

To: The Norwegian and U.S. Governments There must be no U.S. bases or troops in Norway! ADD YOUR NAME. On June 3, 2022, a majority in the Norwegian Parliament approved a bilateral Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement (SDCA) with the U.S. government, which …

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June 29, 2022 at 3:20 PM

Will you help us raise just 1525€ for Peace in the Balkans?

Let me cut to the chase: Montenegrins need our help. Dear John, Let me cut to the chase: Montenegrins need our help. The good news is, there are multiple ways we can do this right now! The Montenegrin government, supported by important NATO allies, established a military …

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June 28, 2022 at 6:01 PM

Congress is trying again to force women to register for the draft

Again, in another military bill, the U.S. Congress is advancing its plan to require young women to register to be forced against their will to do something they are perfectly free to do right now if they want to: join in the killing and dying of U.S. wars. It's pleasant to i…

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June 27, 2022 at 1:01 PM

WBW News & Action: NoWar2022 Starts July 8

If this was forwarded to you, sign up for future news here. Online version with language translation.   The global antiwar pro-peace event of the year starts on July 8 …

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June 24, 2022 at 6:02 PM

Announcing Harsha Walia as #NoWar2022 Keynote Speaker

Dear John,We're excited to announce internationally acclaimed activist and author Harsha Walia as the keynote speaker for the #NoWar2022 Virtual Conference, our annual global conference coming up in 2 weeks, on July 8-10! Harsha’s keynote talk on “Radica…

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June 23, 2022 at 3:31 PM

Lower the Risk of Nuclear War

The risk of nuclear war may be higher than ever, but there are steps that your Representative and Sentators can take to lower the risk, and you can email them in less than a minute. Start by clicking here. Sixty-two nations have ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nu…

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June 22, 2022 at 3:50 PM

No Guarantee You'll Be This Cute

We might not all be THIS cute in World BEYOND War gear. But we will all start conversations and make friends and discover that support for peace is much broader than we knew. And we'll have supported the work of World BEYOND War both by buying a shirt and by wearing it. Expl…

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June 21, 2022 at 7:00 PM

Incredible Agenda for 24-Hour Peace Wave

Activists and artists and academics around the globe have been busy lining up an incredible agenda of activities to be done live on video, moving around the Earth with the sun for 24 hours. Go to the website and click on each section to see the detailed agenda. And register t…

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June 18, 2022 at 5:00 PM

New 2-Min. Video About What We're Starting on Monday

Our new online course is absolutely critical to ending war and creating peace. It starts on Monday. There are still spots open. I just recorded this 2-minute video about why we're doing it. —David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War Click here. From June 20 - Ju…

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June 16, 2022 at 3:21 PM

Join a 24-Hour Peace Wave Online or Where You Are

24 Hour Peace Wave: No to Militarization – Yes to Cooperation June 25 – 26, 2022 24hourpeacewave.org We're a global movement and a global community with brilliant voices at every longitude and latitude of the Earth. Let's show it! The G7 will be meeting near Munich Jun…

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June 13, 2022 at 3:01 PM

WBW News & Action: Block the Entrance to Every Weapons Fair

Online version with language translation.   The global antiwar pro-peace event of the year is fast approaching: World BEYOND War's online Annual Conference: NoWar2022!   …

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June 10, 2022 at 2:31 PM

Step inside and watch how war lies are manufactured

Gareth Porter's book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is a master class in how war lies are created, distributed, and given the strength of unquestionable permanence. And now Gareth wants to discuss it with you and answer your questions in a sma…

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June 9, 2022 at 3:00 PM

Understanding the Second World War to Make Sure It's the Last

From June 20 - July 31, World BEYOND War will be teaching an online course on the accurate history of, and debunking myths about, the Second World War -- with an eye to preventing a (very different) third and final one. The course is not live or set on any time schedule. The …

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June 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM

Together we'll save this mountain from being made a military base

Montenegro has a new prime minister who promised to save the mountain grassland of Sinjajevina. Our activist allies will soon be meeting with him to present our petition to once and for all prevent the destruction of this mountain for a NATO training ground, and to prevent t…

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June 6, 2022 at 4:04 PM

Let's not be for peace only between wars

If we want to end this horrific war or that horrific war, we're going to need to end what we ought to oppose even more: the entire institution of war, which swallows up enough funding to save vastly more lives if spent more wisely than the lives lost thus far to wars. If we d…

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June 3, 2022 at 2:01 PM

Our online bookclubs create friends for life

Every month for many months we've hosted an online book club with an author and 18 other participants. The books clubs don't always end after the month. One of our authors, Sharon Tennison explains: "Your 'Read-a-Book for four weeks' in April, has become a regular Book Club…

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June 2, 2022 at 1:11 AM

New Online Course Debunking Myths About the Single Most Mythologized War

From June 20 - July 31, World BEYOND War will be teaching an online course on the accurate history of, and debunking myths about, the Second World War -- with an eye to preventing a (very different) third and final one. The course is not live or set on any time schedule. The …

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May 30, 2022 at 1:00 PM

WBW News & Action: Against All Wars

Online version with language translation.   Montenegro has a new prime minister who promised to save Sinjajevina, and we will soon be meeting with him to present our petition to once and for all …

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May 28, 2022 at 5:02 PM

41 days until #NoWar2022, our annual global conference

Dear John,We're 41 days away until #NoWar2022: Resistance & Regeneration, World BEYOND War's annual global conference on July 8-10! This year's virtual conference will be hosted online through the Zoom Events platform. Conference sessions will share …

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May 23, 2022 at 3:01 PM

Ceasefire: Petition and Peace Wave

The Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres has proposed a ceasefire, urged a negotiated settlement, and met with the President of Russia despite opposition in the West to doing so. Pope Francis has urged a ceasefire and negotiations, declared that no war ca…

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May 18, 2022 at 6:30 PM

New Online Course: Leaving WWII Behind

The most common turn in any conversation on abolishing war is to a particular war, the very worst war thus far, which happened 75 years ago: World War II. One of the most common topics of books, films, and other cultural productions, World War II, may also be one of the m…

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May 16, 2022 at 2:30 PM

WBW News & Action: A Peace Wave

Online version with language translation.   Our plan is to hold a non-stop 24-hour rolling rally live streaming on a Zoom channel from 2 p.m. in Iceland on June 25 to 4 p.m. in Ukraine on June 26…

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May 6, 2022 at 3:02 PM

Book Club: Hope but Demand Justice with Pat Hynes

In June 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of the brand new book Hope but Demand Justice with the author Patricia Hynes as part of a small group WBW book club limited to 18 participants. Pat will send each participant a signed pape…

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May 2, 2022 at 1:30 PM

WBW News & Action: Mapping Militarism 2022

Online version with language translation.   There are wars in dozens of countries, and in each of them, as in Ukraine, the victims’ stories are horrifying, and the crimes committed — including th…

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April 29, 2022 at 12:18 PM

What is a world federation? Youth-led webinar on May 13

Dear John, Join the Young World Federalists & World BEYOND War Youth Network for a free webinar on "Abolishing War through a World Federation" on Friday, May 13 at 7pm GMT! (Use this time zone converter to find the webinar time in your time zone.) Wars have existed duri…

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April 27, 2022 at 4:03 PM

You're invited to our upcoming annual conference!

#NoWar2022: Resistance & Regeneration, World BEYOND War's virtual global conference, is coming up this July 8-10! Get early-bird tickets! This year's virtual conference focuses on imagining what a world beyond war can look lik…

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April 25, 2022 at 3:01 PM

We helped these 8 people escape Afghanistan

Our longtime Advisory Board Member and new Board President Kathy Kelly found a way to help eight people -- seven young men and women and one baby -- escape a highly perilous future in Afghanistan. For weeks, after the Taliban took over, Kathy was focused on helping these fri…

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April 21, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Billboards for Peace in Brussels and World

Our billboards have been generating media coverage, education, and activism around the world. We need your ideas for where to put them next. We especially need your funding to pay for them. Here is where to donate. Can you help? Here is where to see all of our designs, ph…

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April 20, 2022 at 2:30 PM

I like your shirt!

I receive emails from people who tell me they'd consider nuclear war worth it if it killed a particular foreign official. I go on radio and tv shows where people accuse me of supporting whichever side of a war they are opposing. I speak to classes of young people who seem com…

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April 20, 2022 at 1:30 PM

THURSDAY Bethesda MD Protest and Petition Delivery at Lockheed Martin

Join a Protest and Petition Delivery at Lockheed Martin Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland On the day of Lockheed Martin's annual meeting, and a day that begins a week of actions around the world, we will be delivering a petition and demonstrating at the company's headquarter…

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April 19, 2022 at 1:00 AM

WBW News & Action: Music Says No to War

Online version with language translation.   World BEYOND War Board Member and National Coordinator of WBW Aotearoa New Zealand Liz Remmerswaal has stepped up to the new role of WBW Vice President…

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April 13, 2022 at 2:00 PM

Bethesda MD Protest and Petition Delivery at Lockheed Martin

Join a Protest and Petition Delivery at Lockheed Martin Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland On the day of Lockheed Martin's annual meeting, and a day that begins a week of actions around the world, we will be delivering a petition and demonstrating at the company's headquarter…

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April 11, 2022 at 4:01 PM

War Abolition 101 -- We All Need It

We all need to know how to make peace. War Abolition 101 begins April 18th. Please sign up, and please forward this to friends, schools, teachers, students, and all potential peacemakers. Click for a video outlining the course: War Abolition 101 is a six week-online co…

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April 8, 2022 at 3:30 PM

Sleepwalking to Armageddon

A special side-benefit of the war in Ukraine: talk of Russian nukes in Belarus and of U.S. nukes in Ukraine, Greece, Japan, etc. Worst case ever of learning the wrong lessons? In May 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of Sleepwalki…

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April 6, 2022 at 2:30 PM

Announcing: #NoWar2022 Conference: Resistance & Regeneration (July 8-10)

We're excited to announce #NoWar2022: Resistance & Regeneration, World BEYOND War's virtual global conference this July 8-10! Registration is now open. Click here to purchase tickets. As we resist the institution of war worldwide,…

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April 4, 2022 at 7:00 PM

WBW News & Action: Drop Banners Not Cluster Bombs

Online version with language translation.   Join the Coming Global Mobilization to Stop Lockheed Martin! Sign the petition we'll deliver, and find or create a local event!   …

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April 1, 2022 at 1:01 PM

​Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin

Join a Protest and Petition Delivery at Lockheed Martin Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland On the day of Lockheed Martin's annual meeting, and a day that begins a week of actions around the world, we will be delivering a petition and demonstrating at the company's headquarter…

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March 31, 2022 at 1:20 PM

In DC April 10th for Peace in Korea

World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war. Donate to support our people-powered movement for peace. ???????????????? Opt-in to mobile updates.??Manage email preferen…

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March 30, 2022 at 6:30 PM

Kathy Kelly: War Is Never the Answer — A Webinar

This free, public webinar will feature reflections by Kathy Kelly, the incoming board president of World BEYOND War. In the past 30 years, Kathy has lived among ordinary families and children during wars waged by the U.S. and its allies against Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, and L…

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March 27, 2022 at 6:02 PM

No War Is A Good War

No war is a good war, including the war in Ukraine. The past month has been horrific. With continued and expanded militarism, it’s sure to get only worse. Will you join World BEYOND War in saying no to all war? Donate here. The growing risk of nuclear weapons use puts not j…

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March 23, 2022 at 4:31 PM

Acquire immunity to war propaganda

It's very difficult when a war is on television and in newspapers not to be seduced by the righteous propaganda that plays on all the best and most noble intentions, even while inflaming them with fear. But it is possible to get vaccinated and face such moments with a healthy…

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March 21, 2022 at 2:01 PM

WBW News & Action: Our New Board President

Online version with language translation.   World BEYOND War is saying farewell and thank you to our wonderful Board President of the past seven years Leah Bolger, and excitedly welcoming as our ne…

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March 14, 2022 at 3:02 PM

What the World Needs Now

Imagine if there were a concise, straightforward book that explained key methods for avoiding a crisis like the one in Ukraine, for resolving it now that it's happening, for resolving similar crises around the world that are not in the media, and for creating structures of go…

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March 8, 2022 at 7:21 PM

Starting next week: Water & War Film Fest

Dear John, In one week, we're kicking off our "Water & War" Virtual Film Festival, in honor of World Water Day. The impact of war on water is one of the most insidious consequences of militarism. In the U.S. alone, the military is among the top 3 polluters of U.S. wat…

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March 7, 2022 at 9:34 PM

WBW News & Action: Abolition of War or of Humanity

Online version with language translation.   Ukraine: Information and Action.   How can we become more effective advocates and activists f…

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March 4, 2022 at 2:20 PM

Citizen Diplomacy Works and Is Needed Now

About four years ago, I took part in a trip to Russia from the United States, as part of a group organized by Sharon Tennison. She had facilitated a huge number of trips and exchanges decades ago, bringing Russians to the U.S. and people from the U.S. to Russia, an effort tha…

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March 3, 2022 at 3:33 PM

WBW's Yurii Sheliazhenko in Kyiv on how to end the Ukraine crisis

Dear John,This week, World BEYOND War Board Member Yurii Sheliazhenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, spoke to Democracy Now! about the unfolding crisis in Ukraine, why the world must pursue a nonviolent solution to this conflict, and how we can work towards a system of global governance b…

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March 2, 2022 at 9:58 PM

Join Me in DC on Thursday Evening to Oppose War

Spoken Words for Peace Join the DC community for a night of spoken word, poetry, comedy, song, live painting, and political education, as we come together for peace and to end militarism, racism, colonialism, and imperialism. Now more than ever we need to build a peace movem…

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February 28, 2022 at 4:21 PM

War Abolition 101: How We Create a Peaceful World

Here's a collection of resources for understanding and acting on the current crisis in Ukraine, including a free, public webinar on February 28th. But for a deeper understanding of how to prevent wars, how to end wars, and what to substitute for wars in international relation…

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