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What Police Videos Teach Us About Wars
Before people had an easy way to see video footage of police murders, headlines crediting the police with just and noble actions couldn’t be effectively questioned.We’re still back there in the dark...
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David Swanson: “We need to unite globally around opposition to the entire...
By Anna Polo, PRESSENZAThis post is also available in: Italian(Image by Ragesoss, Wikimedia Commons)In your website http://worldbeyondwar.org/ you say: “We strive to replace a culture of war with one...
View ArticleSlavery Was Abolished
By David Swanson, World Beyond WarI recently debated a pro-war professor on the topic “Is war ever necessary?” (video). I argued for abolishing war. And because people like to see successes before...
View ArticleToday, Pope Francis Issued the Catholic Church’s First Statement on...
By Rev. John Dear Today, Pope Francis released the annual World Day of Peace Message for January 1, 2017, called “Nonviolence—A Style of Politics for Peace.” This is the Vatican’s fiftieth...
View ArticleBook review/essay: Morally Surviving America’s War on Vietnam
By Johhn Grant The War I Survived Was Vietnam: Collected Writings of a Veteran and Antiwar Activistread more
View ArticlePoet’s notebook: What do I do about the mice: A pacifist's quandary'
It was late,In the middle of the second half of the night.We were asleep.read more
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Resolved: To Find Peace Advocates in Every Nation
From all around the globe, nearly 50,000 people have signed this statement:I understand that wars and militarism make us less safe rather than protect us, that they kill, injure and traumatize adults,...
View ArticleNew poem by ThisCantBeHappening! resident poet Gary Lindorff: 'Endless war'
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View ArticleImagine the Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Peace
The idea has been floated and endlessly reintroduced in legislation since the founding of the United States of creating a Department of Peace. These efforts even resulted in 1986 in the creation of the...
View ArticleWar and Peace in Trump Time: A World Beyond Arlington
Remarks in Arlington, Va., January 29, 2017Happy Year of the Rooster!Thank you for inviting me. Thank you to Archer Heinzen for setting this up. Of course I wouldn't have come had I known UVA's...
View ArticleThinking, and Organizing, Big: The Left Needs to Be a Movement, Not a Bunch...
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Mapping the War Machine
Republished from a multipage article at http://worldbeyondwar.org/mapwarWhen it comes to understanding wars, for some people, a picture of the dead or of the injured or of the traumatized or of those...
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100 Years of Using War to Try to End All War
By David SwansonThis April 4th will be 100 years since the U.S. Senate voted to declare war on Germany and 50 since Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out against the war on Vietnam (49 since he was killed...
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Can Canada Get Out of the War Business?
Canada is becoming a major weapons dealer, a reliable accomplice in U.S. wars, and a true believer in “humanitarian” armed peacekeeping as a useful response to all the destruction fueled by the weapons...
View ArticleRemembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next
An event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech against war. A new movement to end all war is growing.April 4,...
View ArticleWar Abolition 101: How We Create a Peaceful World
Register for Online Course: How to Get to a World Beyond WarSign up here.How can we make the best argument for shifting from war to peace? How can we become more effective advocates and activists for...
View ArticleRemembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next — NYC Event April 3
Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the NextAn event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech against war....
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This wonderful song is nominated to win an important award.Go here to vote for it.read more
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