A new petition just launched at http://bit.ly/cvillepeace

The count of signers, all from the Charlottesville area, is publicly visible.

The petition is addressed to the Charlottesville City Council and reads:

We urge you to ban from Charlottesville:
(1) military-style or “warrior” training of police by the U.S. military, any foreign military or police, or any private company,
(2) acquisition by police of any weaponry from the U.S. military;
and to require read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 8, 2020

Hi, my name is David Swanson. I grew up in and live in the state of Virginia in the United States. I visited Italy in high school and then as an exchange student after high school, and later for some months during which I got a job teaching English, and then various other times just to visit or to speak or to protest base construction. So, you’d think I would speak better Italian, but perhaps it will improve because I’ve now been asked to provide read more

Here’s a campaign we’ve started in Charlottesville that can be tried anywhere:

https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v3/petition/no-militarized-policing-in-charlottesville?format=js&source=widget&style=full

From MuslimNetwork TV, June 8,  2020

Dear Friends,

We, the undersigned, are writing to you in support of Lisa Savage’s US Senate campaign in Maine against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).  The November election in Maine for that seat will be a Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) race.  There will be no ‘spoiler effect’ this time.

Lisa is running as an Independent Green. In her long-time peace and climate change activism, she has specialized in linking the Pentagon’s carbon footprint and our climate crisis. She founded the Maine Natural read more

Also view here.

Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States:

• Four policemen indicted.
• More racist monuments dismantled.
• Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial page will defend having done in the way of spreading evil.
• Some minimal and inconsistent

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Photo by Richard Grant, @richardgrant88

Here’s what should happen now, judging by what I see on social and other media.

The U.S. Military and the National Guard and other war-making outfits should clear out of the streets of the United States, get on some airplanes, and head off to properly murder lots of men, women, and children very far away. It’s simply inappropriate to kill people in this enlightened land where we’ve figured out that lives all matter.

War making should not be based on read more