Today we’re sharing important work to stop war and repression which models what we all need to be doing more and more.
End the War on Iran
Thank you to vets and military family members who demanded End the War last week in the Capitol.
From Peace & Planet News:
These are veterans, military families, and allied groups with direct knowledge of what wars do to families, minds, and countries.
The people who know war best were the ones trying to stop more of it.
The coalition behind the action included 50501 Veterans, Common Defense, About Face, Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, and the Center on Conscience & War.
End Sales of Military Weapons to Israel
On April 13, over 300 New Yorkers, from organizations including Jewish Voice for Peace, staged a sit-in outside the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand demanding they vote to block the sale of U.S. weapons to the Israeli military while shutting down traffic in Midtown Manhattan for over an hour. Note Chelsea Manning in front row, second from the left. About 100 people were arrested.
Andy Worthington: The Guantánamo document that changed my life 20 years ago today
Andy writes of
“the release, by the Pentagon, on April 20, 2006, of the first ever publicly-released prisoner list revealing the names and nationalities of 558 of the 759 prisoners held at Guantánamo at that point in time.
The release of the document came after the prison had been almost entirely shrouded in a deliberate veil of secrecy for the first four years and three months of its existence, enabling torture and other abuse to take place, inflicted on men and boys held as “unlawful enemy combatants” without any fundamental rights whatsoever as human beings.
A second list, revealing information about all 759 prisoners, was released in May 2006, and 20 more prisoners — mostly alleged “high-value detainees” — arrived at Guantánamo from CIA “black sites” in September 2006, and also in 2007 and 2008, when transfers to the prison came to an end.”
Global Vigil to Close Guantanamo Wednesday May 6
Brussels, London, Mexico City, NYC, San Francisco, Washington DC….
NYC: 5:00 pm Wednesday May 6
Outside the main branch of NYC Public Library
Anti-Nuclear March to the UN
The Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference begins on April 27 at the UN. With Hibakusha, atomic bomb victims from Japan and Korea, along with friends from the U.S., all of whom are active for a nuclear-free world, got together yesterday (Sunday April 26) and marched to appeal the dangers of nuclear weapons and demand that the UN conference make progress.
Register here for this webinar which includes the following speakers:
Sean Conner, International Peace Bureau (IPB)
Professor Abdelhamid Siyam, Rutgers University Dept. of Middle East Studies, Palestinian UN Expert
Dr. Mawa Abdelbagi Osman Mohamed, research fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Pax Christi International Consultant on Sudan
Mitchell Plitnick, ReThinking Foreign Policy, Middle East Expert
Chris Cole, Drone Wars, UK
Kathy Kelly, World Beyond War, Weaponized Drone Ban Treaty Campaign
Nick Mottern, Veterans For Peace, Weaponized Drone Ban Treaty Campaign
Susan H. Smith, International Fellowship of Reconciliation