https://www.derechoalapaz.com/ucrania-rusia-carta-por-la-paz-que-se-callen-las-armas/
Ukraine/Russia – Letter for Peace: Let the guns be silent
The No to NATO network has also signed, please ask your communities to sign too.
https://www.derechoalapaz.com/ucrania-rusia-carta-por-la-paz-que-se-callen-las-armas/
Ukraine/Russia – Letter for Peace: Let the guns be silent
The No to NATO network has also signed, please ask your communities to sign too.
by Tord Bjork, 23.02.2024*
A new start for the World Social Forum
On the surface, things look very good. Trees are covering more and more areas. In pictures from above, the Himalayan valleys are green, two-thirds forest. But 90 per cent are conifers. Below them there is hardly any vegetation, biodiversity is being lost, the soil is becoming more and more sterile, dry, unusable and unable to store water. The Himalayas are rapidly becoming what is known as a green desert. There is also less and less snow. This is accelerating the melting of the glaciers.
The WSF in Nepal on 15-19 February was the 16th time the meeting was held. 18000 registered participants took part in 400 activities from over 1100 organisations. The organisers estimate that people from 98 countries participated and that 50,000 people passed through the Forum during the meeting days. The march on the opening day was attended by 12,000 to 15,000 people. Participants came primarily from Nepal and neighbouring countries in South Asia, mainly India but also Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
International compromise agreed in Tunis December 2022 one, and if there is interest several assemblies, bringing together different popular movements could be established as permanent features of the global WSF family. They can make statements in their own name during the WSF and on their own mandate between meetings. The first of these is the WSF World Assembly of Struggles and Resistance of WSF, which had a small beginning before and during the WSF in Kathmandu. Several other thematic World … Continue reading →
The elected board the International Committee The WSF is governed by the International Committee which consists of many of the original Brazilian initiators and organisations that are elected if they are active internationally. Conflict between Open Space and a forum that takes decisions. One conflict that has hampered the WSF is between groups who want the forum to be able to make decisions and those who have favored a strict interpretation of what is meant by open space. At a … Continue reading →
Declaration adopted in Porto Alegre The WSF is guided by a declaration adopted in Porto Alegre that seeks alternatives to imperialism, capitalism, patriarchalism and a better relationship between man and nature. The declaration favours what is called an open space where no decisions are made in the name of all participants. Popular movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can participate, but parties and armed groups such as the Zapatista EZLN in Mexico cannot, even though the Zapatistas were the unifying force … Continue reading →
World Social Forum The WSF started in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil in 2001 with an estimated 15000 participants as a parallel forum to the World Economic Forum in Davos. The first time the meeting was held outside Brazil was the fourth time in Mumbai, India in 2004, this time with 150,000 participants. Since then, the meeting has been held in Venezuela, Mali, Pakistan, Kenya, Senegal, Tunisia twice and several times again in Brazil. The first and so far only … Continue reading →
Session 6: Weaving the past, present and future of permanent neutrality
Session 5: The role of civil society in neutrality
Session 4: What does it mean to be neutral in the 21st century?
Session 3: Continuation of Case studies on permanent neutrality
Continuation of Case studies on permanent neutrality – how do states practice permanent neutrality and what are the threats? Continue reading →
Session 2: Case studies on permanent neutrality
Case studies on permanent neutrality – how do states practice permanent neutrality and what are the
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The November 15th San Francisco summit between Presidents Biden of the U.S. and Xi Jinping of China is now history. While we can all breathe a little easier as a result of their joint pledges to reduce tensions and improve cooperation on climate change Continue reading →
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The Common Security Report 2022 is published by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the International Peace Bureau (IPB) and the Olof Palme International Center. More information on https://commonsecurity.org/.
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https://www.facebook.com/events/308019161431307
SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2022 AT 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM UTC+02 Brussel Noordstation
Interview mit Reiner Braun (IPB, No to NATO network) in der Berliner Zeitung am 26.02.2022
Jordi Calvo Rufanges, Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau
STATE OF POWER 2021 May 2021
The arms trade is one of the world’s most successful corporate enterprises. Not only has it created an economic system that grows regardless, it has normalised war and security responses to every social crisis.
https://longreads.tni.org/stateofpower/no-business-without-enemies-war-and-the-arms-trade
2. Dissolution of NATO – for solidarity, sustainability and disarmament Monday June 14th: 1pm to 2.30pm CEST | 1am-2:30am PST | 7am-8:30am EDT | 12pm-1:30pm UK Interpretation: English, French and Spanish By diverting attention and resources to militarism, NATO will also make it difficult to achieve the urgent Paris Agreement climate targets and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Global solidarity and international cooperation is needed to solve common challenges: the pandemic, the climate emergency, and inequality. With … Continue reading →
1. Global NATO – the threat of war Sunday June 13: 3pm to 6:30pm CEST Interpretation: English, French and Spanish Introduction Heinz Bierbaum, Germany, President – European Left Part I NATO2030 – NATO’s new global vision: Ludo De Brabander, Belgium, vrede vzw Nuclear weapons – abolition or new arms race?: Kate Hudson, UK, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) Military spending on the rise: Cloe Meulenwaeter, Barcelona, Centre Delàs d´Estudis per la Pau War on terror – 20 years on: Lindsey … Continue reading →
Dear participants and registrants, with this email, we would like to give you a short overview of our German webinar “SIPRI Figures on Military Expenditure – Developments in Germany and Worldwide”, which we held via Zoom on April 28. This event was one in a series leading up to the Second World Peace Congress in Barcelona being held from October 15-17, 2021, for which we have just published our second programme draft. Find more information about it here: https://www.ipb2021.barcelona/ We … Continue reading →
by Yurii Sheliazhenko Transcript of a presentation delivered at the International Peace Bureau’s webinar on the dangerous US/NATO/Russia/Ukraine maneuvers 5 May 2021. (Video from the webinar: webinar-discussion-about-the-dangerous-us-nato-russia-ukraine-maneuvers-2021-05-05-video/) My main point is to urge you against seeing whole problem only in the Ukraine crisis. Let’s see the big picture. War in Ukraine started in the interests of superpowers. It is a war for status quo, for a cold-war-like world. United States and Russia treat Ukraine and European Union like a chessboard … Continue reading →
What is going on?? And how dangerous is the situation?
Speakers are Bruce Gagnon, Elizabeth Murray, Yuri Sheliazhenkol, Reiner Braun
What is going on?? And how dangerous is the situation? Speakers are Bruce Gagnon, Elizabeth Murray, Yuri Sheliazhenkol, Reiner Braun Events in the U.S./NATO/Ukraine challenge to Russia have been moving at a frenetic pace. Ukraine increased deployment of military troops to the eastern provinces on the border of Donbass. Russia predictably responded by mobilizing a large part of its military to meet the Ukraine threat. In another incident, the US publicized two U.S. warships heading into the Black Sea; Russia … Continue reading →
Common Road Map to End Nuclear Sharing in Europe With the entry into force of the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) the governments in European nuclear sharing countries, i.e. Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, are confronted with a new reality: nuclear disarmament is now on the agenda in security politics. This gives the peace movement in Europe an important chance to shape a new strategy to put pressure on European governments and NATO countries to rethink … Continue reading →
Military Bases: Environment and Geostrategic Impacts
January 24th, 2021, at 19:00 – 21:00 CET (UTC+1)
Organized by Campign Stopp Air Base Ramstein, No to NATO, IPB
join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86300952443?pwd=Rlhvb3JDbE8wMUxmcGp1dzFNRGE5UT09
People’s Voices for Disarmament in Asia
January 24th, 2021, at 9:00 – 11:00 CET (UTC+1)
Organised by IPB
Join: https://zoom.us/j/97388517995?pwd=OUJKa1ZXakxROTRjUTYwOVFXelNhdz09
Dear Friends and colleagues, please find below an information of the World Congress of the International Peace Bureau. Our network will participate in the congress by organizing a workshop on “NATO and Militarization – Mobilizing for the next NATO Summit in Brussels 2017”. Please participate in the thunderclap for mobilization and spread the word outside the social networks as well. Greetings, Lucas Dear friends and colleagues, the IPB world congress Disarm! For a Climate of Peace – Creating an Action … Continue reading →
Statement from the Triennial Conference of the International Peace Bureau September 13-15 Stockholm , Sweden “The World is Over-armed and Peace is Under-funded” – Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General
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