Having Enemies Is a Choice

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 23, 2023

What’s something that nobody can give you unless you want it?

An enemy.

This ought to be obviously true in both the personal sense and the international sense.

In your personal life, you acquire enemies by seeking them out and choosing to have them. And if, through no fault of your own, someone is cruel to you, the option remains of not behaving cruelly in return. The option remains of not even thinking anything cruelly in return. That option might read more

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Vietnam to Ukraine: Lessons for the US Peace Movement–Remembering Kent State and Jackson State!

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MAY 4th Webinar 

Vietnam to Ukraine: Lessons for the US Peace Movement 

Remembering Kent State and Jackson State! 

 

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report

David Swanson, World BEYOND War

And Haig Hovaness, GPAX’s Tribute to Daniel Ellsberg. 

Cosponsors:

Green Party Peace Action Committee (GPAX) 

Peoples Network for Planet, Justice & Peace 

Green Party of Ohio 

MAY 4th Webinar is at 8 pm ET

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Warheads to Windmills

Warheads to Windmills! https://actionnetwork.org/events/warheads-to-windmills-webinar?source=direct_link&referrer=group-world-beyond-war

Warheads to Windmills webinar

Start: Sunday, May 07, 2023• 4:00 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

End: Sunday, May 07, 2023• 5:30 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP

Warheads to Windmills webinar: May 7, 4pm EDT

Climate catastrophe and nuclear war are two existential threats that could end human civilization as we know it. Both of these threats have been exacerbated by the ongoing war in Ukraine, but nuclear war could happen at any moment, whether on purpose or by accident. And global carbon emissions continue to rise despite all the many efforts to reduce them.

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What a Supporter of Peace Can Know and Do on Memorial Day

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 21, 2023

Some countries have a Catholic Church holiday every day of the year. The United States has a war holiday every day of the year. Some of them, such as so-called Veterans Day, began as peace holidays that — like Mother’s Day or Martin Luther King Jr. Day — were carefully stripped of any peace content, and were instead turned toward the glorification of war and war read more

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Illinois for a World BEYOND War Chapter Event featuring David Swanson

I’ll be speaking at this upcoming event that’s meant for anyone in Illinois.

Join the Illinois for a World BEYOND War chapter for a statewide online meeting on Thursday, May 11 at 7:00pm Central, featuring WBW’s Co-Founder & Executive Director David Swanson!

The meeting will kick off with opening remarks by David Swanson, who will discuss the work of WBW globally, from the U.S. to Montenegro, Canada to Ukraine to Latin America, and more, and how WBW chapters can take action.

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