Peace

White House Peace Vigil Attacked

August 12, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Peace, Vigil, White House

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - An unknown assailant destroyed the White House peace vigil tent, slicing it in half, on Wednesday afternoon. Philipos Melaku-Bello, the coordinator of the vigil, was sitting watch at the time and unhurt. He reported hearing someone call him a racial epithet and turned to see an eight foot gash in the tarp overhead. He put out a call for help on social media and within hours, about ten supporters responded. The attack occurred while Secret Service were moving tourists back from the sidewalk in front of the White House and across Pennsylvania Avenue toward Lafayette Park, and a large crowd surrounded the vigil.

The Global Campaign For Peace Education

August 9, 2016 Staff, www.cpnn-world.org Educate! Education, Peace

By Staff of CPNN - The Global Campaign for Peace Education seeks to foster a culture of peace in communities around the world. It has two goals: First, to build public awareness and political support for the introduction of peace education into all spheres of education, including non-formal education, in all schools throughout the world. Second, to promote the education of all teachers to teach for peace.

Colombia Includes Gender Focus For A Stable, Lasting Peace

August 9, 2016 Patricia Grogg, www.ipsnews.net Create! Colombia, Gender, Peace

By Patricia Grogg for IPS - HAVANA, Jul 29 2016 (IPS) - The novel inclusion of a gender perspective in the peace talks that led to a historic ceasefire between the Colombian government and left-wing guerrillas is a landmark and an inspiration for efforts to solve other armed conflicts in the world, according to the director of U.N.-Women in Colombia, Belén Sanz. In statements to IPS, Sanz described as “innovative and pioneering” the incorporation of a gender subcommittee in the negotiations between the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which began in November 2012 in the Cuban capital and ended in late June with a definitive ceasefire.

Nader, Barghouti To Be Given Gandhi Peace Award

July 25, 2016 Staff, www.pepeace.org Educate! Peace

By Staff of Promoting Enduring Peace - July 22, 2016. Promoting Enduring Peace has announced that it is presenting its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to Ralph Nader and Omar Barghouti. The Gandhi Peace Award has been presented since 1960 to people who have made outstanding contributions to world peace, creating a sustainable ecology and social justice. The first honoree was Eleanor Roosevelt. It has been awarded to César Chávez, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Daniel Ellsberg. Recent recipients have been Rabbis Arik Ascherman and Ehud Bandel, Bill McKibben, Medea Benjamin, Kathy Kelly and Tom Goldtooth.

Russians Ask ‘Why Do You Demonize Us?’

July 10, 2016 Ann Wright, www.opednews.com Educate! Capitalism, Peace, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By Ann Wright for OpED News. I’ve just ended two weeks visiting cities in four regions of Russia. The one question that was asked over and over was, “Why does America hate us? Why do you demonize us?” Most would add a caveat — “I like American people and I think YOU like us individually but why does the American government hate our government?” This article is a composite of the comments and questions that were asked to our 20-person delegation and to me as an individual. I do not attempt to defend the views but offer them as an insight into the thinking of many of the persons we came into contact with in meetings and on the streets. None of the questions, comments or views tell the full story, but I hope they give a feel for the desire of the ordinary Russian that her country and its citizens are respected as a sovereign nation with a long history and that it is not demonized as an outlaw state or an “evil” nation. Russia has its flaws and room for improvement in many areas, just as every nation does, including for sure, the United States.

The Activist As A Young Girl

July 10, 2016 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Educate! Activism, Book Review, Peace, Tax Resister

By David Swanson for Let's Try Democracy. Clare Hanrahan's memoir The Half Life of a Free Radical: Growing Up Irish Catholic in Jim Crow Memphis is a remarkable feat: part Jack Kerouac, part Dorothy Day, part Howard Zinn, and a bit of Forest Gump. First and foremost this is an entertaining and irreverent tale of childhood and adolescence told with great humor, honesty, and empathy. But it's also told by someone who became a peace and justice and environmentalist activist in later life, someone able to look back on the poverty, racism, consumerism, militarism, sexism, and Catholicism of her youth with passion and perspective -- even appreciation for all the good that was mixed in with the bad. Hanrahan writes what in outline form would read like an endless tale of misfortune, and yet leaves you with the thought of how much riotous fun she and her eight siblings and other acquaintances had.

Some Reflections From Our Recent Trip To Russia

July 3, 2016 Jan and David Hartsough, www.worldbeyondwar.org Educate! NATO, Peace, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By Jan and David Hartsough for World Beyond War. We have recently returned from a two week citizen’s diplomacy peace delegation to six cities in Russia under the auspices of the Center for Citizen Initiatives. Our trip included visits with journalists, political leaders, teachers and students, doctors and medical clinics, veterans of past wars, representatives of small businesses and nongovernmental organizations, youth camps, and home visits. Since David’s earlier visits to Russia over the past fifty-five years, much has changed. He was struck by how much new building and construction has taken place, and the “westernization” of clothing, styles, advertising, automobiles and traffic, as well as global corporations and private companies and stores. Some of our reflections include:

Lament For Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection

July 1, 2016 Robert J. Burrowes, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Peace, Violence, Wars and Militarism, Youth

By Robert J. Burrowes. Australia - Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the 'USS Sturgeon' sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship 'Montevideo Maru' which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it. The good news about this commitment was that it was made when I was nearly 14 so, it seemed, anything was possible. Now I am not so sure. Here is my report on 50 years of concerted effort to understand and end human violence. In 1966 one of my immediate preoccupations was war. The US genocidal war on Vietnam was raging and, as a sycophantic ally of the United States, Australia had been drawn into it some years previously. Trying to understand what this war was really about was challenging, particularly given the limited (mainstream) sources of information available to me at the time.

Colombia: A Moment Of Great Promise

June 26, 2016 Cecilia, www.colombiasupport.net Create! Colombia, FARC, Peace, Wars and Militarism

By Colombia Support Network. We celebrate the agreement between the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian government to end 52 years of armed conflict through a verifiable agreement for a bilateral ceasefire. We fervently hope that the serious issues facing Colombia can now be addressed through dialogue and negotiation, without any party seeking to enforce its concepts through a call to arms. The transitional justice system, while complicated and sure to be very costly, holds great promise for a lasting peace with social justice, as long as a strong commitment by the government and civilian society supports the application of the procedures decided upon. The presence of the international community in support of the agreement to end the armed conflict and to submit the final agreement for approval by the Colombian people gives assurance that a very substantial effort will be made to carry through the points of the agreement.

What’s At Stake

June 26, 2016 Kathy Kelly, www.counterpunch.org Educate! NATO, Peace, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By Kathy Kelly for Counterpunch. Yalta - In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, we visited the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in February of 1945, concluded negotiations ending World War II. These leaders and their top advisors were also present at the creation of the United Nations and other instruments of international negotiation and non-military cooperation. Tragically, the creation of the “Cold War” was underway soon after. Reviving tensions between the United States and Russia make it seem as though the Cold War might not have ended. We also met with groups of young adults, teachers, and veterans of foreign wars. At each meeting, participants readily agreed that new peace agreements are needed.

Why Go To Russia?

June 19, 2016 Kathy Kelly, www.antiwar.com Create! Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By Kathy Kelly for AntiWar.com. Since 1983, Sharon Tennison has worked to develop ordinary citizens’ capacities to avert international crises, focusing on relations between the U.S. and Russia. Now, amid a rising crisis in relations between the US and Russia, she has organized a delegation which assembled in Moscow yesterday for a two week visit. I joined the group yesterday, and happened to finish reading Sharon Tennison’s book, The Power of Impossible Ideas, when I landed in Moscow. An entry in her book, dated November 9, 1989, describes the excitement over the Berlin Wall coming down and notes that “Prior to the Wall’s removal, President George H.W. Bush assured Secretary General Gorbachev that if he would support bringing down the Wall separating East and West Berlin, NATO would not move ‘a finger’s width’ closer to Russia than East Germany’s border.

Why I Am Going To Russia

June 19, 2016 David Hartsough, www.popularresistance.org Create! Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Russia, Wars and Militarism

By David Hartsough. The US and Russian governments are pursuing dangerous policies of nuclear brinkmanship. Many people believe we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis in 1962. Thirty-one thousand troops from the US and NATO countries are engaged in military maneuvers on the Russian border in Poland - together with tanks, military planes and missiles. The US has just activated an anti-ballistic missile site in Romania which the Russians see as part of an American first strike policy. Now the US can fire missiles with nuclear weapons at Russia, and then the anti-ballistic missiles could shoot down Russian missiles shot toward the west in response, the assumption being only the Russians would suffer from nuclear war.. A former NATO general has said he believes there will be nuclear war in Europe within a year.

Newsletter: Creating “Positive Peace”

June 12, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drones, Peace, Racism, spying, Torture, Wars and Militarism

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. This weekend the Bilderberg Group is holding its secretive annual retreat in Dresden, Germany. The invitation-only gathering of elites from North America and Northern Europe includes heads of finance and industry, heads of state and intelligence officials. Who knows what schemes they'll cook up? They don't keep minutes or allow the press in and attendees can't quote what was said. It can't be good for the people or the planet. The Global Peace Index was just released for 2016 and it shows that the decade-long trend of increasing violence is continuing. Of note, the inequality between countries is growing; the most violent countries deteriorated by a greater degree than in the past. Countries that are the most peaceful also have the greatest resilience.

Global Peace Index Records Historically Less Peaceful And More Unequal World

June 9, 2016 Staff, www.visionofhumanity.org Educate! Inequality, Peace

By Staff of Vision of Humanity - The 2016 Global Peace Index (GPI) shows the world became less peaceful in the last year, reinforcing the underlying trend of declining peace over the last decade. Results also show a growing global inequality in peace, with the most peaceful countries continuing to improve while the least peaceful are falling into greater violence and conflict. The 2016 GPI report provides a comprehensive update on the state of peace.

Free Prisoners Of Conscience In South Korea

June 5, 2016 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Petitions and Online Actions Corea, Criminal Justice, Democracy, Human Rights, Peace

By Popular Resistance. Washington, DC - A delegation of three women are currently visiting the United States as representatives of a coalition of social justice and labor organizations called the Corean Alliance for Independent Reunification and Democracy (CAIRD) on a peace expedition. They are educating activists in the US about the serious situation in the Republic of Korea for social justice activists. The government of President Park Geun-hye is using the National Security Law in an extreme way to ban protests and arrest activists. For example, simply speaking positively about North Korea is a crime punishable with seven years in prison. Activists who participated in peaceful demonstrations last year are currently in jail or are facing imprisonment. They are considered to be prisoners of conscience by CAIRD members. One activist in particular, Kim Hye-young, needs support from people in the US.

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