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Anti-War Protests In Washington And Los Angeles

March 22, 2015 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Iran, Iraq, Peace, Wars and Militarism

A series of anti-war protests rolled through the US on Saturday, condemning Washington’s involvement in past and ongoing conflicts in the wider Middle East. In Los Angeles about a hundred anti-war activists took to the streets marching on Hollywood Boulevard with coffins. Rallying against US involvement in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Palestine, protesters carried signs reading “Hands off Syria” and “Wanted for the destruction of Iraq.” Organized by the Answer Coalition and supported by other anti-war activist groups including CodePink and Popular Resistance, the activists marched from outside the CNN headquarters on Sunset Boulevard to the TCL Chinese Theatre in the heart of Hollywood. Earlier in the day a 200-strong crowd of anti-war activists took to the streets of Washington DC, as part of a three day 'Spring Rising' campaign, that stands in opposition to US military interventions across the globe – especially its drone campaigns.

Giant Books Shut Down Drone Base

March 20, 2015 Carol Baum, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

At 9:15 am on March 19, the 12th anniversary of the U.S.’ illegal invasion of Iraq, seven members of the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars shut the main gate of the Hancock Drone Base (near Syracuse, NY) with a giant copy of the UN Charter and three other giant books – Dirty Wars (Jeremy Scahill), Living Under Drones (NYU and Stanford Law Schools), and You Never Die Twice (Reprieve). The nonviolent activists also held a banner quoting Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution, stating that every treaty signed becomes the supreme law of the land. They brought the books to Hancock to remind everyone at the base of the signed treaties that prohibit the killing of civilians and assassinations of human beings. The group attempted yet again to deliver a citizens indictment for war crimes to the Hancock Air Base chain of command.

Iraq: 12th Anniversary: Major War Protests Coming to DC

March 13, 2015 Staff, www.SpringRising.org Educate! Peace, Wars and Militarism

Four days of anti-war and pro-peace events are planned in Washington, D.C., marking the 12-year point since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Spring Rising is intended as an antiwar intervention into the world capital of war-making. The U.S. has spread its military across the globe and is engaged in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and, via drone strikes, in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The U.S. government is provoking Russia in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, pushing for another coup in Venezuela, and expanding its military presence in Asia and Africa. The one war the U.S. President seems interested in avoiding -- with Iran -- a group of Senators has now taken it upon themselves to strive to bring into being. Meanwhile, Congress is debating whether to authorize more war making, while the President has made clear the wars will continue regardless of Congress, the United Nations, the rule of law, strategic common sense, or of course basic human morality.

A Global Security System: An Alternative to War

March 10, 2015 Staff, www.worldbeyondwar.org Educate! Peace, Wars and Militarism

World Beyond War, a U.S. nonprofit dedicated to ending all war, published this week a guide toward that end, a short book titled A Global Security System: An Alternative to War. This act constitutes an intervention into the debate over whether to create a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force. In fact, this document should help stimulate a debate over whether to continue with the war approach to global conflicts, authorized or not. It has become routine to acknowledge that "there is no military solution" even while pursuing military actions as preferable to doing nothing. A Global Security System builds a case for alternative actions, both in a moment of crisis, and on the long-term path toward preventing conflict and developing nonviolent means of resolving conflict. This book describes the "hardware" of creating a peace system, and the "software" — the values and concepts — necessary to operate a peace system, and the means to spread these globally.

CNN Cable Commercial Criticizes U.S. Drone Attacks

March 3, 2015 Know Drones, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

LAS VEGAS, NV – Disturbing images of children killed and mutilated by U.S. drones are shown in a graphic and controversial television commercial now airing here on CNN and other cable networks – it is thought to be the first-ever anti-drone war commercial to appear on U.S. television. The spot is airing on CNN, MSNBC and other networks in the Las Vegas area, just a few miles from Creech Air Force Base, a major drone operating and training facility.Sponsored by KnowDrones.com, the spot began airing Feb. 28 and will run through March 6 in the Las Vegas television market. The commercial is expected to be airing in other U.S. markets soon. Major protests opposing the U.S. drone program are taking place at Creech AFB this week by peace, veterans and humanitarian groups from around the nation, including CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace.

March 4-6, 2015: Shut Down Creech!

February 28, 2015 Shut Down Creech!, www.shutdowncreech.blogspot.com Resist! Drone, Peace, Wars and Militarism

Join us March 4-6, 2015 at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs, Nevada, for a national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan,Yemen, Somalia, and everywhere. Sponsored by CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), Veterans For Peace (VFP), Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV) and others. (Learn more about sponsoring/supporting.) CODEPINK will also hold vigils daily on March 2nd and 3rd, prior to the official beginning of this Creech Convergence For Peace, and welcomes everyone to join them. In 2005, Creech Air Force Base secretly became the first U.S. base in the country to carry out illegal, remotely controlled assassinations using the MQ-1 Predator drones, and in 2006, the more advanced Reaper drones were added to its arsenal.

Host A Spring Rising Solidarity Event In Your Area

February 24, 2015 The Soapbox, www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com Organize! Peace, Wars and Militarism

Spring Rising is quickly gathering steam and looks to be one of the largest Antiwar Events in DC since the fall of 05'. We realize that not everyone can come to DC. We also realize that the more voices we have rising as one across not only the U.S. but globally will have a huge impact and will make our voices for Peace even louder. The clock is ticking. Soon Congress will debate and as we know, ultimately pass the Authorization for Military Force (AUMF) giving the President the authorization he wants to sustain endless wars. Please join us in solidarity in your hometown. Tell us about your solidarity events in the contact form below and we will list and promote your action.

When Shock And Awe Turns 12

January 30, 2015 David Swanson, www.worldbeyondwar.com Organize! Peace, Wars and Militarism

Nasty vicious celebrations of murder and torture are dominating U.S. entertainment. The militarized thinking and weaponry are reaching local police departments. A jury just convicted a whistleblower on zero evidence for allegedly revealing that the CIA had given nuclear weapons plans (with flaws added) to Iran. The earth’s climate is going crazy, and the single biggest thing we do to worsen that crisis (war) is also the single greatest diversion of resources away from addressing it. Admit it, if your 11-year-old boy or girl caused a fraction of this sort of trouble, you’d be worried. But you’d also see through to the better tendencies. The U.S. public said no to a war on Syria in 2013. And while it said OK to a war in 2014 it imagined a short, cheap, harmless, beneficial war.

Stop Drones: ‘Time To Rehabilitate Creech’

January 30, 2015 Staff, www.shutdowncreech.blogspot.com Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

Federal Prison Sentence Begins For Anti-Drone Activist

January 23, 2015 Medea Benjamin, www.commondreams.org Resist! Drones, Peace, Wars and Militarism

On January 23, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, will begin a three-month jail sentence in federal prison for a protest against drones (also known as “unmanned aerial vehicles”) at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. I had a chance to interview her before she had to turn herself in. Medea: Can you just say why you have been particularly moved to take action against drone strikes? Kathy: I think 21st-century militarism is very frightening when you combine the military’s Joint Special Operations Forces with drone and air strike capabilities. The military doesn’t need sprawling bases anymore because they can use these new technologies to control populations and instill tremendous fear. But the use of drones creates resentment and antagonism, and continues to kill civilians.

Afghanistan: Building Alternatives To Overcome The ‘Usual’

January 13, 2015 Hakim Young, www.ourjourneytosmile.com Create! Afghanistan, Border-free, Peace, Wars and Militarism

In polluted Kabul, I’ve been trying my faltering best not to live ‘life-as-usual’. The ‘usual’ has no song. It has fumes enveloping the city in the evenings, making us cough. It has no imagination, regurgitating Obama’s lie that the Afghan war is over, while repeating the violent refrains of ‘fight, fight, fight.’ It ignores human beings, especially children. Every week in Kabul, the Afghan Peace Volunteers at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre take me away from the ‘usual’. They’re building an alternative life. Please join them to become a Borderfree Community wherever you are, Communities that try to build green spaces where we share life’s basic necessities with all, and where there’s no war!

Occupy The Rose Bowl Parade Strikes Again

January 4, 2015 Jessica Lux, www.la.indymedia.org Resist! Corporatism, Los Angeles, Peace, Rose Bowl

A people’s parade aligned with the Occupy Wall St. movement trailed the official 2015 Tournament of Roses Parade in near-freezing temperatures Thursday morning. The Occupy the Rose Parade tradition returned for the fourth straight year in a row, joining the 126th Rose Parade in front of one million live spectators on New Year’s Day. True to their tradition, KTLA turned off their live broadcast prior to the arrival of the Occupy the Rose Parade floats and banners. The group of several dozen assembled on a side street off Orange Grove at the rear of the 39 massive corporate-sponsored fresh floral floats celebrating icons of popular culture. Astonished onlookers paused for photos with the “Overthrow Capitalism” banner and the “Stop Wall Street Banksters” message carried by several top-hat clad bankers with an oversized puppet Uncle Sam. Spectators paused to ask, “What is fracking?” in response to the 20 ft. tall flaming oil derrick declaring “Gov Brown: Don’t Frack CA.” John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance” played over public address system as members of Occupy Venice Beach posed with onlookers interested in their other 20 ft. tall float, showing the Constitution of the United States being shredded by a corporate sponsored paper-shredder. Another yellow sheet with red letters declared, “Money Out of Politics.”

Grassroots Message Against Police Violence, & All Violence, Stands Firm

December 31, 2014 Heidi Boghosian, www.commondreams.org Resist! Non-Violence, NYPD, Peace, police brutality

Our movements are nonviolent, and are not to blame for the killing of Officers Liu and Ramos. The peaceful demonstrations and direct actions carried out by tens of thousands of people of all ethnicities in recent months are born of a frustration with a system that guarantees impunity to state agents who kill young African American men. We will not be silenced. We hang this banner proudly on the Muste building, and we will continue to fill the streets with our feet and our voices, because racism and police violence are an affront to our values, and because we believe, as A.J. did, that persistent nonviolent protest will ultimately prevail in creating a more just world.

Alumni Of Elite Israeli High School Call For Army Draft Refusal

December 31, 2014 Maureen Clare Murphy, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Israel, Palestine, Peace, Racial Justice, Wars and Militarism

Dozens of alumni and former staff members of an elite Jerusalem high school have stated their refusal to serve in the Israeli military, and call on future graduates of the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy to reject the draft. Conscientious objectors face prison time for refusing compulsory Israeli military conscription orders. “Refusing to serve in the Israeli military is not an easy choice, but a moral stance against a collective mood manifested in racism and violence on every street these days,” the letter, published yesterday, states. The racism and violence of this “collective mood” in Israel, encouraged by lawmakers who called for genocidal measures against Palestinians, reached a fevered pitch this summer as Israel’s bombs rained down on Gaza.

Selling ‘Peace Groups’ On US-Led Wars

December 27, 2014 Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Peace, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

“War is peace” double-speak has become commonplace these days. And, the more astute foreign policy journalists and commentators are beginning to realize the extent of how “liberal interventionists” work in sync with neocon warhawks to produce and sustain a perpetual state of U.S. war. More and more “peace and social justice” groups are even being twisted into “democracy promotion,” U.S. militarism style. But rarely do we get a window to see as clearly into how this Orwellian transformation occurs as with the “Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria” (CISPOS) based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a spin-off of “Friends for a Nonviolent World” (FNVW), steering its Quaker-inspired founding in nonviolence to promote speakers and essayists with strong ties to the violent uprising to topple the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, resulting in a war that has already taken some 200,000 lives.

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