By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War

Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their courage and the absence on their part of cruelty or hatred, has the potential to create a much larger movement, which is of course the key to success.

This is a demonstration read more

Elections, I think most of us can agree, usually bring out the idiocy, superficiality, and illogic in everyone who can muster any. Imagine supporting, as many did, Sanders and then Trump because they were both “outsiders.” On Tuesday, I heard somebody on CNN announce that Sanders and Klobuchar were both “change candidates” (because you’d have to change every bit of the platform of one of them to match that of the other?). Tokenism no longer embarrasses voters or even read more

This has gone virtual and moved online. You can take part without going to Florence, Italy. Details here.

I’ll be speaking in Florence as part of a big peace conference.

9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

INVITO AL CONVEGNO DEL 25 APRILE

Caro Amico, cara Amica,

Dal 1945 ad oggi la guerra non è mai terminata. Al Secondo conflitto mondiale segue la Guerra fredda, quindi una serie ininterrotta di guerre e il ritorno a una situazione analoga a quella della Guerra fredda che accresce il rischio di un catastrofico read more

Charles Kenny’s book, Close the Pentagon, has an endorsement from Steven Pinker despite wanting to close something that Pinker rarely acknowledges exists.

This is a book to answer the question: What if someone who believed that war was only committed by poor, dark, distant people, and had therefore almost vanished from the earth, were to encounter the U.S. military and the U.S. military budget?

The answer is basically a proposal to move the money from militarism to human and environmental read more

This event has moved online and been opened up to anyone anywhere.

Learn more and RSVP.

Flyer: PDF.

WHAT: David Swanson to speak on ending war

WHEN: 7 p.m. April 7, 2020

WHERE: Peace Chapel at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar Springs Road, Dallas, TX 75235

SPONSORED BY: Dallas Peace and Justice Center, Pax Christi Dallas, Code Pink, and Veterans for Peace.

David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. read more