The IPB organized the event and invited four US peace and social activists to share their insights with us:
Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security | Emily Rubino, Director of Policy and Outreach at Peace Action New York State | Paul Martin, Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs at Peace Action | Daunasia Yancey, founder and organizer of the Boston chapter of the Black Lives Matter Global Network | The event will be chaired by Lisa Clark, IPB Co-President. (https://youtu.be/-MqXHUmIGsk)
4th International Congress against Military Bases and Wars
Lecture by Vincenzo Santiglia, NO MOUS Sicily
The citizen movement NO MOUS is composed of a network of local committees, which are responsible for regional coordination, and other organized groups. In the founding declaration, adopted on November 18, 2012, MUOS is described as “a non-partisan and non-denominational movement that can be joined individually; it is composed of different people and cultures and diverse political beliefs, but all of them have committed themselves to the indispensable values of freedom, equality, solidarity, anti-fascism, anti-militarism, anti-racism and the fight against … Continue reading →
Beitrag von Vincenzo Santiglia, NO MOUS Sizilien
4. internationaler Kongress gegen militärbasen und Krieg
Die Bürgerbewegung NO MOUS setzt sich aus einem Netzwerk lokaler Komitees zusammen, welche die regionale Koordinierung übernehmen, und aus anderen organisierten Gruppen. In der Gründungserklärung, die am 18. November 2012 beschlossen wurde, wird MUOS als „eine parteiunabhängige und konfessionsfreie Bewegung bezeichnet, der man einzeln beitreten könne; sie ist zusammengesetzt aus verschiedenen Personen und Kulturen und diversen politischen Überzeugungen, aber alle haben sich eingeschworen auf die unverzichtbaren Werte von Freiheit, Gleichheit, Solidarität, Antifaschismus, Antimilitarismus, Antirassismus und den Kampf gegen die Mafia … Continue reading →
Will the Biden Team Be Warmongers or Peacemakers?
by Medea Benjamin – Nicolas J. S. Davies November 11, 2020 COUNTERPUNCH Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as America’s next president! People all over this pandemic-infested, war-torn and poverty-stricken world were shocked by the brutality and racism of the Trump administration, and are anxiously wondering whether Biden’s presidency will open the door to the kind of international cooperation that we need to confront the serious problems facing humanity in this century. www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/11/will-the-biden-team-be-warmongers-or-peacemakers
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I Lost 39 Members of My Family in the Holocaust, Jeremy Corbyn is No Antisemite | Andrew Feinstein (https://youtu.be/VMc_0gaeoBU)
Successful dialogue between Jeffrey Sachs and Zhang Weiwei
On 24 October, No Cold War hosted a very successful and interesting dialogue between Zhang Weiwei (professor of international relations at Fudan University, former interpreter to Deng Xiaoping, and author of several books including the best-selling The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State) and Jeffrey Sachs (a leading expert in sustainable development, former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and author of several books including the influential The End of Poverty). The online event was attended by … Continue reading →
Vormarsch des Militarismus: Vom Mythos der Reife
Ist politisch erst erwachsen, wer Truppen ins Ausland schickt? Ein törichtes Narrativ, von den Grünen erfunden, bedrängt nun die Linkspartei.
von Charlotte Wiedemann
Wir rufen auf zum bundesweiten dezentralen Aktionstag für „Abrüstung und neue Entspannungspolitik“ am 5. Dezember 2020. Mitmachen!
Erklärung der „Initiative abrüsten statt aufrüsten“ FRANKFURTER APPELL ABRÜSTEN STATT AUFRÜSTEN – NEUE ENTSPANNUNGSPOLITIK JETZT! Das Gespenst des Kalten Krieges ist zurück. Die Welt steht am Rande des Friedens, denn sie wird zu einer zerbrechlichen Einheit. Das Krebsgeschwür des Nationalismus breitet sich aus. Soziale Ungleichheiten spitzen sich zu. Die globale Klimakrise bedroht die Menschheit. Kriege und Naturzerstörung sind entscheidende Gründe für Flucht und Vertreibung. Die Corona-Pandemie ist ein Beleg dafür, dass die sozialen und ökologischen Schutzschichten des menschlichen Lebens dünn … Continue reading →
Abrüsten statt Aufrüsten (disarming instead of investing in arms) – a new policy of détente now!
Abrüsten statt Aufrüsten (disarming instead of investing in arms) – a new policy of détente now! The ghost of the Cold War has returned. The world is on the verge of peace, for it becomes a fragile entity. The cancer of nationalism is spreading. Social inequalities are becoming more acute. The global climate crisis is threatening humanity. Wars and destruction of nature are crucial reasons for flight and expulsion. The Corona pandemic is proof that the social and environmental layers … Continue reading →
The Uncertain Election: Defending Constitutional Democracy and Human Surviva
Joseph Gerson* November 4, 2020 In the run up to the U.S. election, Daniel Ellsberg, the courageous whistleblower who risked 115 years in prison in the early 1970s for revealing the Pentagon’s secret in his effort to stop the killing, wrote that the country was “facing an authoritarian threat to our democratic system of a kind we’ve never seen before.” Despite differing with Biden on many issues, he urged people to vote for Biden “to free the nation from Trump’s … Continue reading →
Declaración del 4to Congreso Internacional contra Bases Militares y Guerra
Declaración del 4to Congreso Internacional contra Bases Militares y Guerra organizado por la campaña “Stop Base aérea Ramstein” (Stop Air Base Ramstein), con el apoyo de la red internacional “No a la guerra – no a la OTAN” (No to War – no to NATO), la Oficina Internacional de Paz (International Peace Bureau) y el Partido de la Izquierda Europea, el 25.09.2020, celebrado tanto de manera presencial (Berlín), como de manera virtual (a nivel mundial), en un evento híbrido debido … Continue reading →
Open letter to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Dear NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, We want to voice our opposition to the fact that you will host the NATO 2030 Youth Summit on November 9th. As young people concerned about our future and the future of our planet, we are very concerned that the focus of the event is ‘keeping NATO strong militarily, making it stronger politically and more global’. We do not believe that strengthening NATO is the best way to secure our future. Instead we would … Continue reading →
UN Nuclear Treaty achieves 50th ratification for Entry into Force on 75th anniversary of UN’s founding
UN Nuclear Treaty achieves 50th ratification for Entry into Force on 75th anniversary of UN’s founding London, 24 October 2020: The United Nations has confirmed that the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has been ratified by its 50th state party, Honduras, and will therefore enter into international legal force 90 days later, on 22 January. “This Treaty bans nuclear weapons production, testing, possession and use, along with other activities that could enable and assist anyone … Continue reading →