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Join Me and Kathy Kelly in Chicago on the 87th Anniversary of Kellogg-Briand Pact

Please indicate you’re coming here and share it widely:https://www.facebook.com/events/1451800825124185/

Here’s a webpage. Here’s a flyer.   Here’s the book I wrote that alerted people to the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Chicago activist who made it happen and put forward, with others, a vision that could help us actually eliminate war: http://davidswanson.org/outlawry  In that book I advocated celebrating August 27. St Paul, Minn., has taken that up. There’s an event this year in Albuquerque. But I’ll be at the third-annual award ceremony for a related essay contest created by Frank Goetz and others in Chicago.   And if you can’t be there, you can organize your own event to mark the day evoked in “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” when nations said they’d never fight again (ask me to help!).  The Kellogg-Briand Pact bans all war, is acknowledged as in force by the U.S. State Dept on its website — and by the Pentagon just last month in its new publication.

We have a long way to go to end war, and one way is to learn from the model of Kathy Kelly’s work. Join me and her in Chicago where Outlawry of War was born.

And make sure you’re part of World Beyond War.

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The True Nobel Candidates for the true Nobel Peace Prize 2015

Source: http://www.nobelwill.org/index.html?tab=7

The Norwegian Nobel Committee ignores the testament of Nobel. They claim that the “champions of peace” Nobel described in his will no longer exist. To end this charade we have seen no alternative to lifting the curtain of secrecy they hide their waywardness behind.

The Nobel Committee has pursued its own ideas and failed to see how the expressions Nobel used and the promise he gave to Bertha von Suttner to “do something big read more

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Send Me to Cuba to Report on U.S.-Cuba Relations

I hope to travel to Cuba in February with CodePink and to report on U.S.-Cuban relations. To do so I need to raise the funds fast to pay for the trip. If the funds come in, I’ll go, and I’ll publish what I report in various outlets as well as at http://davidswanson.org

Please chip in what you can here http://bit.ly/1JXNGqQ

Please spread the word whether you can personally help or not, on Facebook and Twitter.

Thanks! Peace! Happier New Year Than the Last!