Category Archives: English
Deadly for the Environment and Climate: United States Military and War Policy
Why do weapon systems threaten people and the environment at the same time? by Reiner Braun A 2012 report from the US Congress found that the US Military is the largest single consumer of petroleum products in the USA and thus worldwide. According to recent report by researcher Neta C. Crawford, the Pentagon requires 350,000 barrels of oil per day. For better context of the extremity of this, the Pentagon’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 were 69 million more than … Continue reading →
SAY NO TO THE WAR AND INVASION OF ROJAVA!
A statement by: SAY NO TO THE WAR AND INVASION OF ROJAVA! Solidarity with the People of Turkey (SPOT) calls for an immediate end to the invasion of Northern Syria (Rojava) by the Turkish government. Turkey and all other foreign forces in the region must immediately withdraw from the region. After a phone call between Donald Trump and Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, the American president announced that the US military would withdraw from the region. Turkey has … Continue reading →
No to war against Kurds – IPB calls for negotiations
The war started by Turkey is an aggression against the Kurdish people and an attack against the Syrian territorial sovereignty. Tenth of civilians have already been killed by the Turkish bombing and many of them are escaping from the region.
Read more: http://www.ipb.org/ipb-statements/no-to-war-against-kurds/
No to War and Military Bases – first thoughts afterwards
2019/06/23-30 Ramstein Germany Action week in Ramstein and Kaiserslautern against the Air Base 2019/06/28 Kaiserslautern Germany 3rd international conference “No Military Bases and Wars” No to War and Military Bases – first thoughts afterwards by Reiner Braun For many it was the threat of a war with Iran and the stationing of new nuclear weapons that led thousands of people to the streets to protest against the US Air Base in Ramstein on June 29th2019. The more than 5,000 participants … Continue reading →
NO TO NATO performance in Copenhagen Denmark
Help environment and help humanity – Stop war!
Hey everybody, watch the two minutes video, then you can see what we did the day of the opening of the working year in the government of Denmark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H40RIfthGA&feature=youtu.be
Hope you all had good actions and experiences in this week.
Keep Space for Peace Week – No to NATO Video
The message below arrived today from Global Network board member (and Iraq & Afghanistan war veteran) Will Griffin.
He has produced a stunning & brilliant video for our annual Keep Space for Peace Week (October 5-12) with special emphasis on NATO.
Videos and photos from NoWar2019 Pathways to Peace
We filmed videos and posted them on Youtube.
We livestreamed the panels on Facebook.
Still photos by Ellen Davidson.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019/
PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR and Join the Hibakusha Rebellion!
PLEDGE TO WORK FOR A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD!
Sign the Survivor’s Appeal Below!
We mourn the death of Cynthia Cockburn
Cynthia Cockburn was a British academic, feminist, and peace activist. She was a researcher, writer, and photographer who has contributed to the study of masculinity, labor processes, and trade unionism, and more recently of gender, war and peace-making. She was an active anti-militarist and has long been involved in a number of peace and anti-war organizations. Cynthia was involved in the European Forum of Socialist Feminists and Women Against Fundamentalism and has long been active in the international network and London local group of Women in Black against War. From the beginning she supported the women against NATO network and produced the pink T-Shirts “Say no to NATO” which was handed over to the No to war – no to NATO network. In remembering of here we will use them in our fight against NATO.
2020/04/25 zoom webinar
World Conference
World Conference for Disarmament, Peace, Climate & Justice –> MOVED to the internet! Registration online now !
ONLINE – WORLD CONFERENCE: ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RESIST & REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL JUSTICE
April 25, 2020 9 a.m. New York/Boston/Washington, D.C.
9 a.m. EDT, 3 p.m. Central Europe, 10 p.m. April 26 Tokyo
Register at: bit.ly/abolishnuclear Continue reading →
2019/12/03+04 London, UK
NATO summit – Let us protest
Registration and Tickets on eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-new-world-disorder-tickets-76928839229
2019/10/12-13 VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA
Space Law Conference
Internationale Conference on Super Power Domination in Outer Space and Global Sustainable Development
Global Network Co-Sponsors Space Law Conference in India
2019/08/30 Piran, Slovenia
awareness-raising afternoon for 2nd World March for Peace & Nonviolence
Hello, after the letter of invitation from the Municipality in Italian and Slovenian, here’s a press release for the cross border event on the 2nd World March for Peace and Nonviolence, that will take place Friday, August 30 afternoon. Alessandro Capuzzo The 2nd World March for Peace and Nonviolence in Slovenija, for an international Gulf of Peace and free from nuclear weapons – The 2nd edition of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence will start on October 2 this … Continue reading →
2019/09/14 Brussels, Belgium
NUCLEAR SECURITY IN EUROPE AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE INF TREATY
Organized by Abolition 2000-Europe Nuclear Weapons Working Group www.abolition2000.org | Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation www.russfound.org/ | INES www.inesglobal.net | International Peace Bureau www.ipb.org | IPPWN Europa www.ippnw.eu | ITUC www.ituc-csi.org | With the support of TRANSFORM www.transform-network.net & Belgian Coalition Against Nuclear Weapons www.nonukes.be
2019/07/19 Amsterdam, NL
Initiative DON’T IRAQ IRAN | Manifestation for the US Consulate
Initiative DON’T IRAQ IRAN
July 19th 2019
Manifestation for the US Consulate 12:45h
Museumplein 19, 1071 DJ Amsterdam
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2019/09/23-24 Berlin, Germany
Workshop on “Challenges of a Common Security Policy in Eurasia”
International Peace Bureau (IPB) and Asian-European Peoples Forum (aepf)
With the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stifung, AsienHaus, International Eurasia Press Fund and the European Union
The U.S. Military and Climate Change
Pat Elder on https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-u-s-military-and-climate-change/
https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-u-s-military-and-climate-change/
PFAS Contamination at American Airbases in Germany
https://worldbeyondwar.org/pfas-contamination-at-american-airbases-in-germany/
2019/06/28 Kaiserslautern Germany
3rd international conference
“No Military Bases and Wars”
New location Peace Camp Ramstein
NEW special guest lecture 14h – 15h30 | “Challenges for Peace and the Environmental Movements” by Hubert Weiger, President of the Friends of the Earth, Germany (in Germany, but an English translation is provided)
Read more www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/no-to-military-bases
2019/10/05-12 worldwide
Keep Space for Peace Week | 70 Years Is Enough of NATO
Final Space Week events list is online Continue reading →
2019/09/21-23 New York USA
People’s Mobilization To Stop The US War Machine
https://popularresistance.org/peoples-mobilization-to-stop-the-us-war-machine/
Continue reading → 2019/12/03+04 London, UK
First announcement: NATO summit, 3rd and 4th Dec. 2019
Let us protest in London and elsewhere
Finally, NATO-General secretary Stoltenberg announced the exact days for one of the important NATO-summit. It will be December 3rd and 4th 2019 in London.
Let us prepare protest in London and everywhere
Save the date:
London 30 Nov 2019 counter summit | 1 Dec 2019 Annual Meeting International Network “No to war – no to NATO | 3 Dec demonstration “No to NATO no to Trump”
2019/09/20-22 Berlin Germany
IPB Youth Network Conference 2019 – Transform! Towards a Culture of Peace
Invitation to the IPB Youth Network Conference 2019 – Transform! Towards a Culture of Peace Organizers IPB Youth Network, IPB in partnership with ITUC and ITUC Youth With the support of DFG-VK, International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (tbc) Date 20-22 September 2019 Location Technical University Berlin, Building of Mathematics, Strasse des 17. Juni 136, Berlin, Germany IPB Youth Network Conference Transform! Towards a Culture of Peace (as of 26 July 2019) … Continue reading →
2019/04/29 Washington 19:00
Protect DC Venezuelan Embassy from US-supported Coup
by Pat Elder Reporting from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington. See our media messages attached here. I’ll be speaking tonight on military recruiting – and contamination – at 7:00 pm Washington time.
More information also on https://www.codepink.org/dc_protect_the_venezuelan_embassyhttps://www.codepink.org/dc_protect_the_venezuelan_embassy
Which country has how many nuclear weapons?
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rid-nuclear-weapons-russia-plan-1407113?+Nukes+Roundup
Used in the article: Donald Trump Says ‘We All Have to Get Rid of’ Nuclear Weapons; Russia Responds: Let’s Make A Plan | By Tom O’Connor On 4/26/19 at 12:04 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rid-nuclear-weapons-russia-plan-1407113
2019/06/10-08/06 East Asia
East Asia Peace Walk from Okinawa, to Taiwan, to 3 Japanese islands (missile bases) , Jeju Island, South Korea and finally to Hiroshima.
Hi all, Here is an invitation to join the 2019 East Asia Peace Walk from June 10- August 6 which goes from Okinawa, to Taiwan, to 3 Japanese islands that have missile bases , Jeju Island, South Korea and finally to Hiroshima. Rev Yuichi Kamshita has led walks in the Pacific North West and on the East Coast. Could we add this peace march to all our organizational calendars? VFP, World Beyond War, No to NATO, Nuclear Resister, Codepink and … Continue reading →
2019/10/04-06 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Local Alignments, Global Upheavals
Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/ and
Canadian Association of Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS-CAN) https://pacscan.ca/
2020/05/08 – 08/06
Bike Tour for Peace from Paris to Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Postponed to | verschoben nach 8.5.2021 – 9.8.2021
Website https://bikeforpeace.net/ (most in German language).
Weiterlesen / Read more in German: Friedensradfahrt-Paris-Hiroshima-Verschiebung_auf_2021.pdf
EUROPE AND PEACE: HARD OR SOFT POWER, ARMED OR JUST PEACE?
EUROPE AND PEACE: HARD OR SOFT POWER, ARMED OR JUST PEACE? Kees Nieuwerth Paper presented to the Seminar on European Militarism – organized by the International Network No to War – No to NATO, Amsterdam, 14 April 2019. INTRO. On the third of May, in two weeks time, something unimaginable is going to take place in the United Kingdom, and no, it has nothing to do with Brexit….” The Royal Navy has seduced – there is no other word for … Continue reading →
Border security, military industry and EU militarisation
[Presentation at the seminar on Euromilitarism, Oorlog is geen Oplossing / VD AMOK / Network No to War – No to NATO, Amsterdam, 14 April 2019 by Mark Akkermann]
Last Wednesday the action group ‘Stop the War on Migrants’ held an unnannounced noise demonstration at the headquarters of European arms giant Airbus in the Dutch city of Leiden. The action, at the day of the annual shareholders meeting of Airbus here in Amsterdam, was in protest of both the arms exports of Airbus to countries in conflict and dictatorships, such as Saudi-Arabia and Egypt, and the role of the company in the militarisation and externalisation of the European borders.
Read more: http://www.stopwapenhandel.org/node/2271
For more information on this subject see an overview of our reports and articles at: http://www.stopwapenhandel.org/bordersecurity
We demand the immediate release of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
Statement of the international network “No to war – no to NATO” We demand the immediate release of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange In April 2010, Julian Assange’s whistleblower platform Wikileaks published hundreds of thousands of US documents classified as secret. This uncovered serious violations of international law and criminal law by the USA, including the video “Collateral Murder”. To this day, both Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning are persecuted politically for whistleblowing. Over the next few years, Julian Assange … Continue reading →
Important judgment: Germany obliged to scrutinize US drone strikes via Ramstein
In the summer of 2012, three members of the bin Ali Jaber family were killed in a drone attack in Yemen; many of the survivors were left traumatized. The US military base Ramstein in Germany played an important role in the attack. The German government’s response has been to deny any knowledge of or responsibility for the drone strikes. https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/important-judgment-germany-obliged-to-scrutinize-us-drone-strikes-via-ramstein/
Continue reading →Counter Summit Washington 2019: Real Russia in the real world
Real Russia in the real world Myths, conflicts and provocations Anna Ochkina Western perception of Russia is distorted by propaganda, traditional myths and stereotypes. The same can be said about Russian perception of the West. The difference, however, is that in Russia considerable section of society doesn’t take official propaganda seriously and stereotypes are very much undermined by practical experience given the fact that millions of Russians travel abroad, many lived abroad and many people have relatives living abroad. Moreover … Continue reading →
Counter Summit Washington 2019: EU militarization & NATO
EU militarization & NATO Ludo De Brabander (Vrede vzw) Washington, 2 april In June 2016, Federica Mogherini, the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, presented the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy. It came thirteen years after the first European Security Strategy (2003) and is supposed to give direction to the EU foreign and security policy in the coming years. Absence of European responsibility Mogherini’s Global Strategy offers little room for self-criticism. The … Continue reading →
2019/03/20-08/09 Büchel Germany
20 Weeks against 20 Nuclear Bombs
Our campaign: “Büchel is everywhere – nuclear-free now!” Worldwide Solidarity.
Twenty weeks for twenty bombs – starting again on March 26*, 201 until August 9th, groups and individuals will hold vigils and other kinds of nonviolent direct action (blockades, trespassing, etc.) at the Büchel base to pressure the government, sending back the nucleat bombs. In July and August a peace camp take place.
https://buechel-atombombenfrei.jimdo.com/international/
Read the leaflet for 2019 (only in German language): 201811_buechel_flyer.pdf
Counter NATO Article in The Nation
A friend called an article in the Nation about the counter-NATO events to my attention. It’s based on a press release that David Swanson put out, and included a good quote from me that caught my friend’s attention. You’ll find it at: https://www.thenation.com/article/nato-turns-70/
FYI, The Nation is probably the most important and widely read left magazine in the country, with its hard copy probably reaching 100,000 subscribers or more. (It has 60,000 people who send donations to it, over and above their paid subscriptions.)
Pictures and materials from the 70 YEARS OF NATO – international conference in Florence
Pictures and materials from the 2019/04/07 Florence, Italy 70 YEARS OF NATO – international, about 600 people attended. NATO-Exit: Dismantle NATO, Close Down 800 US Military Bases, Prosecute the War Criminals by Prof Michel Chossudovsky April 04, 2019 DECLARATION OF FLORENCE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FRONT NATO EXIT The book: BOOK 70 YEARS OF NATO.pdf ji
Continue reading →DECLARATION OF FLORENCE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FRONT NATO EXIT
The risk of a vast war which, with the use of nuclear weapons, could mean the end of Humanity, is real and growing, even though it is not noticed by the general public, which is maintained in the ignorance of this imminent danger. A strong engagement to find a way out of the war system is of vital importance. This raises the question of the affiliation of Italy and other European countries with NATO. NATO is not an Alliance. It … Continue reading →