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World Beyond War is an organization fighting ostensibly for "peace" resulting in the weakening of American and European military strength and cohesion to the benefit of North Korea, Cuba, Russia, Iran and other dangerous authoritarian states.

Mission

From the World Beyond War website:[1]

"World BEYOND War was founded on January 1st, 2014, when co-founders David Hartsough and David Swanson set out to create a global movement to abolish the institution of war itself, not just the “war of the day.” If war is ever to be abolished, then it must be taken off the table as a viable option. Just as there is no such thing as “good” or necessary slavery, there is no such thing as a “good” or necessary war. Both institutions are abhorrent and never acceptable, no matter the circumstances. So, if we can’t use war to resolve international conflicts, what can we do? Finding a way to transition to a global security system that is supported by international law, diplomacy, collaboration, and human rights, and defending those things with nonviolent action rather than the threat of violence, is the heart of WBW. Our work includes education that dispels myths, like “War is natural” or “We have always had war,” and shows people not only that war should be abolished, but also that it actually can be. Our work includes all variety of nonviolent activism that moves the world in the direction of ending all war.
World BEYOND War currently coordinates 25 chapters in 14 countries and maintains partnerships with 96 affiliates around the world. WBW functions through a decentralized, distributed grassroots organizing model focused on building power at the local level. We don’t have a central office and we all work remotely. WBW’s staff provide tools, trainings, and resources to empower the chapters and affiliates to organize in their own communities based on what campaigns resonate most with their members, while at the same time organizing towards the long-term goal of war abolition. Key to World BEYOND War’s work is the holistic opposition to the institution of war at large – not only all current wars and violent conflicts, but the industry of war itself, the ongoing preparations for war that feed the profitability of the system (for example, arms manufacturing, weapons stockpiling, and the expansion of military bases). This holistic approach, focused on the institution of war as a whole, sets WBW apart from many other organizations.

Peace Wave

The Peace Wave is designed to protest alliances against aggression from Russia, China, Iran and their allies. From their website:[2]

"International Peace Bureau and World BEYOND War will hold the third-annual 24-hour peacewave on June 22-23, 2024. This will be a 24-hour-long Zoom featuring live peace actions in the streets and squares of the world, moving around the globe with the sun. There will be a live Q&A section on Zoom for the last 10 minutes of each hour.
This Peace Wave will happen during the RIMPAC war rehearsals in the Pacific and just prior to protests of NATO’s meeting in Washington in July.
The Peace Wave supports work for global peace and opposes military buildup including alliances like NATO, its partnerships around the globe, and related alliances such as AUKUS.
The peace wave will visit dozens of locations around the globe and include rallies, concerts, production of artworks, blood drives, installation of peace poles, dances, speeches, and public demonstrations of all variety.

Women & War: World BEYOND War’s 2024 Virtual Film Festival

From the World Beyond War website announcing the "Women & War: World BEYOND War’s 2024 Virtual Film Festival":[3]

Day 1: Discussion of "Israelism" on Saturday, March 9 at 3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5)

Panelists:

Day 2: Discussion of "Naila and The Uprising" on Saturday, March 16 at 3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4)

Panelists:

Day 3: Discussion of "Power on Patrol" on Saturday, March 23 at 3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4)

Panelists:

Ukraine: 'Commitment to Sending No More Weapons'

Time for Ceasefire in Ukraine?

A discussion dated Sept 26, 2023 titled "Time for Ceasefire in Ukraine?" features Medea Benjamin, Helena Cobban, Ray McGovern, and David Swanson.[4],[5]

"In an endless war with already a half million casualties, is it more helpful to continue it -- risking nuclear apocalypse and guaranteeing impediments to addressing climate collapse -- or to demand a ceasefire, peace negotiations, and a commitment to sending no more weapons?
A public discussion featuring Medea Benjamin, Helena Cobban, Ray McGovern, and David Swanson.
Just World Educational, World BEYOND War

Endorsers

Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, RootsAction.org, The Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Charlottesville Friends Meeting.

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Humanity for Peace Connection

Humanity for Peace retweets World Beyond War July 2023

Humanity for Peace retweeted World Beyond War on numerous occasions shortly after their Twitter account began in July, 2023.[6]

People

From the World Beyond War website:[7]

Staff

Board of Directors

Advisory Board

Volunteers

Co-Founders

Past Board Presidents

Coalitions

From the World Beyond War website:[8]

World BEYOND War is a member of the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases; the Divest from the War Machine Coalition; the Global Day Against Military Spending; the International Peace Bureau; the Korea Collaboration Network; the Poor People's Campaign; United for Peace and Justice; the United National Antiwar Coalition; the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space; the international network No to war – no to NATO; Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition; People Over Pentagon; Campaign to End the Selective Service System; No Fighter Jets Coalition; Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network; Peace Education Network (PEN); Beyond Nuclear; Working Group on Youth, Peace, and Security; Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace, WE.net, Abolition 2000, War Industry Resisters Network, Groups Against Arms Fairs.
Our liasons (sic) to various coalitions are as follows:

Rage Against the War Machine

David Swanson of World Beyond War was a speaker at Rage Against the War Machine, a protest held on February 19, 2023 organized by the Movement for a People's Party and the Libertarian Party against US intervention in Russia's attack on Ukraine.[9]

Further, World Beyond War was listed as a "Bronze Sponsor" of Rage Against the War Machine.[10]

Protest Russian Sanctions after Ukraine Invasion

March 18, 2023 Answer Protest Flyer
Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine! From BreakThrough News. Streamed live on Mar 18, 2023

ANSWER has heavily advertised a demonstration held on March 18, 2023 filmed by BreakThrough News to protest sanctions on Russia in the wake of their invasion on Ukraine.[11] The rally was live-streamed on BreakThrough News.[12]

Screenshot of portion of flyer for ANSWER protest for March 18, 2023

From a flyer on their website:[13]

The war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia are making it harder for people to pay their rent, fill their gas tanks, put food on the table and keep the lights on. Much of the damage is due to the sanctions placed on Russia, a major producer of everything from oil to wheat. The US Federal Reserve admits that the conflict is “pushing up inflation” while slowing down growth.
To fight inflation we need to end the US’s massive international sanctions regime and demand they stop sending weapons to fuel the Ukraine war, and stop blocking peace negotiations.
The Wall Street Journal now says: “Gas Prices Poised to Rise Again as Sanctions on Russia Take Effect,” while global economists say the “massive shock” of the war will produce new “inflationary pressures, sapping confidence and household purchasing power.”
US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran are further impacting the market in oil and gas prices, driving up prices and driving the climate crisis destroying the planet. It’s clear as ever that the US’s own policies of sanctions, and the proxy war provoked by NATO policies, is directly impacting the cost-of-living crisis for working class people. Meanwhile the military industrial complex and Wall Street get richer. This is criminal — the time to act is now!

Speakers include:

The protest was supported by World BEYOND War. The People's Forum

Stop the War Statement on Crisis in the Ukraine

A statement Stop the War Statement on Crisis in the Ukraine dated February 18 2022 was signed by Barry Sweeney, David Swanson and Juri Hertel of World Beyond War. The statement was initiated by the Stop the War Coalition, which is dominated by the Communist Party of Britain and the Counterfire, a breakaway from the Socialist Workers Party. The statement had been originally signed by Members of Parliament Diane Abbott, John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Ian Lavery, Beth Winter, Zarah Sultana, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Apsana Begum, Mick Whitley, Tahir Ali and Ian Mearns. All withdrew their signatures after Labour Party pressure.[14]

Friends of Socialist China

Liz Remmerswaal, World Beyond War New Zealand was a signatory of a "Statement opposing the propaganda war on China" by the Friends of Socialist China:

At the Friends of Socialist China webinar on the propaganda war against China, held on Saturday 9 October 2021, the following statement was adopted.
We, the undersigned, are concerned about the escalating propaganda war being waged by the United States and its allies against the People’s Republic of China.
Although China in recent years has recorded some truly remarkable achievements in the realm of human rights – notably, eliminating extreme poverty and successfully containing Covid-19 – it has been subjected in the Western media to the most terrible slanders regarding its human rights record. Unsubstantiated accusations of genocide and forced labour in Xinjiang echo endlessly in Western media and governments, along with conspiracy theories about the origins of the pandemic.
This information warfare accompanies, complements and seeks to build public support for a dangerous New Cold War; it serves to distract from, and justify, the construction of nuclear alliances in the Pacific, the deployment of warships to the South China Sea, the fomenting of a new arms race, and assorted attempts to obstruct China’s economic rise.
We believe that this demonisation campaign is an obstacle to urgently-needed cooperation between the world’s major powers on the questions of climate change, pandemics, nuclear weapons, and economic development. Such cooperation cannot be built in an atmosphere of fear, distrust, enmity and slander.
Therefore we demand that Western governments adopt a principled and responsible approach to improving relations and deepening cooperation with China; and that media outlets cease their vilification campaign and adhere to journalistic principles of honesty and balanced reporting.[15]

Pivot to Peace

Alice Slater, Board, World Beyond War and Joanne Cvar, Volunteer, World Beyond War were signatories an anti-American, pro-Chinese Communist Party pressure campaign called Pivot to Peace organized by ANSWER designed "to educate and mobilize public opinion" on United States Policy toward China. A petition an and online webinar launched the campaign announced July 10, 2020.[16],[17],[18]

Tucsonans Rally Against War with Iran

On the first Saturday of 2020, local groups gathered at De Anza Park to rally against war, especially any escalation against Iran. The event was organized by Tucson Anti-War Committee and sponsored by Veterans for Peace Chapter 13 in conjunction with demonstrations across the United States. 30 Minutes featured excerpts from the event which began with Veterans for Peace member Buzz Davis who introduced the speakers and also spoke. Additional speakers included Jim Byrne, United States Representative Raul Grijalva’s District Director Ruben Reyes, World Beyond War Board President Leah Bolger, Catherine Euler from Women for Survival, and Mary Somers from Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Organizers were Tucson Anti-War Committee - Contact: Jim Byrne. Co-Sponsors: Veterans for Peace Chapter 13 Tucson Contacts: Cara Bissell 718-721-5527 or Buzz Davis.[19]

We stand with Rep. Ilhan Omar

David Swanson, World Beyond War signed a statement in 2019 titled We stand with Rep. Ilhan Omar claiming that Ilhan Omar was the victim of "anti-Black racism and xenophobia".[20]

Peace Treaty with North Korea

Peace Treaty with North Korea

Nodutdol tweeted[21] a statement[22] on North Korea:

"Alarmed by the threat of a nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, concerned U.S. peace groups have come together to send an open message to Washington and Pyongyang that we are strongly opposed to any resumption of the horrific Korean War. What we want is a peace treaty to finally end the lingering Korean War!
"Inspired by the Vietnam-era People’s Peace Treaty, we have initiated a People’s Peace Treaty with North Korea, to raise awareness about the past U.S. policy toward North Korea, and to send a clear message that we, the people of the U.S., do not want another war with North Korea. This is not an actual treaty, but rather a declaration of peace from the people of the United States.
"Our goal is to collect many thousands of signatures, and to publicize the People's Peace Treaty to the people in the U.S. as well as in the rest of the world. Please add your voice for peace by signing the People’s Peace Treaty with North Korea.

The statement was signed by Joe Essertier and David Swanson of World Beyond War, along with Christine Ahn of Women Cross DMZ and Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK.

Urgent Discussion on Iran Nuclear Deal and the Future of US-Iran

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Public · Hosted by CODEPINK: Women For Peace

Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 6 PM – 8 PM EDT

Busboys and Poets Brookland

625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia 20017

What will happen if the US pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal? Are we headed down a path towards war with Iran? What can we do to stop it? Join the conversation and hear the thoughts of our insightful speakers, including:

Sponsors include Busboys and Poets, CODEPINK, National Iranian American Council (NIAC), Institute for Policy Studies, Progressive Democrats of America, Peace Action, World Beyond War, Popular Resistance, Just Foreign Policy, ANSWER Coalition, DC Statehood Green Party, Pax Christi Metro DC and Baltimore, Veterans for Peace DC, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).[23]

No War 2017

World Beyond War Promo for Max Blumenthal

No War 2017 "making deep connections between war and environment" was held September 22-24, 2017 in Washington, D.C..[24],[25],[26]

Speakers

World Beyond War's "No War 2017" speakers:[27]

  • Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. Benjamin is the author of eight books. Her latest book is Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, and she has been campaigning to stop the use of killer drones. Her direct questioning of President Obama during his 2013 foreign policy address, as well as her recent trips to Pakistan and Yemen, helped shine a light on the innocent people killed by U.S. drone strikes. Benjamin has been an advocate for social justice for more than 30 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed — and most effective — fighters for human rights” by New York Newsday, and “one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement” by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. In 2010 she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the 2012 Peace Prize by the U.S. Peace Memorial. She is a former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization.
  • Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Guardian, The Independent Film Channel, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. His new book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, is in stores now. His 2009 book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party, is a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller.
  • Nadine Bloch is currently Training Director for Beautiful Trouble and an innovative artist, nonviolent practitioner, political organizer, direct-action trainer, and puppetista. Her work explores the potent intersection of art and politics; where creative cultural resistance is not only effective political action, but also a powerful way to reclaim agency over our own lives, fight oppressive systems, and invest in our communities — all while having more fun than the other side! She is a contributor to Beautiful Trouble and We Are Many, Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation (2012, AK Press), and author of a Special Report Education & Training in Nonviolent Resistance (2016, US Institutes of Peace.) Check out her column on the blog WagingNonviolence, “The Arts of Protest.”
  • Terry Crawford-Browne is South African and a peace activist, a former international banker who with Archbishop Tutu launched the international banking sanctions campaign against apartheid in 1985. As a member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, he supports the BDS campaign as a nonviolent initiative to balance the scales between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.
  • Alice Day and Lincoln Day first teamed up with VideoTakes, Inc. and the American University Center for Environmental Filmmaking to produce a five-minute trailer of Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives which was screened at the 2006 DC Environmental Film Festival. Throughout 2006 and 2007, the Days and their VideoTakes production team worked continuously to bring the feature-length version to the screen. Their production schedule took the Days to Australia, California, Vermont, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia to conduct interviews and location shooting. The feature-length version premiered at the 2008 DC Environmental Film Festival. Since then, the film has been screened in film festivals throughout the U.S. and some countries overseas, winning 15 awards along the way. A shorter 56-minute version of the film was created that aired nationally on Public Television in 2011 and 2012.
  • Tim DeChristopher is Founder of the Climate Disobedience Center. Tim DeChristopher disrupted an illegitimate Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction in December of 2008, by posing as Bidder 70 and outbidding oil companies for parcels around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah. For his act of civil disobedience, DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Held for a total of 21 months, his imprisonment earned him an international media presence as an activist and political prisoner of the United States government. He has used this as a platform to spread the urgency of the climate crisis and the need for bold, confrontational action in order to create a just and healthy world. Tim used his prosecution as an opportunity to organize the climate justice organization Peaceful Uprising in Salt Lake City, and most recently founded the Climate Disobedience Center. He continues the work to defend a livable future.
  • Dale Dewar is retired from her position as Executive Director of Physicians for Global Survival, the Canadian affiliate of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Much of her clinical work was in Northern Saskatchewan, among the largest uranium mines in the world. She and her husband, Bill Curry, received the Global Citizen’s Award for Saskatchewan in 2010 for environmental activism and international volunteer work. They were Sunderland P Gardiner Lecturers with Canadian Yearly Meeting (Quakers) in 2014. From 2003 to 2013, Dale developed and facilitated “Care to Care”, an advanced obstetrical and human rights training program for doctors and midwives in Northern Iraq. In 2016, she ran as a Green Party candidate in the provincial election. Besides doing volunteer work, she continues to work part time as a physician in Nunavut. Bill died suddenly in October 2015 but she continues to live on an acreage with many cats, a dog and a variable number of chickens. She likes cross-country skiing, yoga, cycling and the wide prairie skies. She blogs here and http://imdoc-daledewar.blogspot.ca.
  • Thomas Drake is an NSA whistleblower, prosecuted for speaking truth to power. Drake is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower. In 2010 the government alleged that Drake mishandled documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake’s defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to “plea bargain with the truth”.
  • Pat Elder is the author of Military Recruiting in the United States, and the Director of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, an organization that works to counter the alarming militarization of America’s high schools. Elder was a co-founder of the DC Antiwar Network and a long-time member of the Steering Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. His articles have appeared in Truth Out, Common Dreams, Alternet, L.A. Progressive, Sojourners Magazine, and U.S. Catholic Magazine. Elder’s work has also been covered by NPR, USA Today, The Washington Post, Aljazeera, Russia Today, and Education Week. Elder has crafted bills and helped to pass legislation in Maryland and New Hampshire to curtail recruiter access to student data. He has been instrumental in helping to convince more than a thousand schools to take steps to protect student data from recruiters. Elder helped to organize a successful series of demonstrations to shut down the Army Experience Center, a first-person shooter video arcade in a Philadelphia suburb. Pat Elder worked to pressure the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child to call on the Obama Administration to adhere to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict regarding military recruiting practices in the schools.
  • Daniel Ellsberg joined the Defense Department in 1964 as Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) John McNaughton, working on the escalation of the war in Vietnam. He transferred to the State Department in 1965 to serve two years at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, evaluating pacification in the field. On return to the RAND Corporation in 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; in 1971 he gave it to the New York Times, the Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. His trial, on twelve felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, which led to the convictions of several White House aides and figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Ellsberg is the author of three books: Papers on the War (1971), Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002), and Risk, Ambiguity and Decision (2001). In December 2006 he was awarded the 2006 Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” in Stockholm, Sweden, “. . for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”
  • Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He was a co-founder of the Global Network when it was created in 1992. Between 1983–1998 Bruce was the State Coordinator of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice and has worked on space issues for 30 years. In 1987 he organized the largest peace protest in Florida history when over 5,000 people marched on Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first flight test of the Trident II nuclear missile. He was the organizer of the Cancel Cassini Campaign (launched 72 pounds of plutonium into space in 1997) that drew enormous support and media coverage around the world and was featured on the TV program 60 Minutes. Bruce has traveled to and spoken in England, Germany, Mexico, Canada, France, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, Scotland, Wales, Greece, India, Brazil, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Czech Republic, South Korea, and throughout the U.S.
  • Will Griffin is a member of the board of Veterans For Peace. He studied in the California State University San Marcos, Global Studies program with an emphasis on U.S. Foreign Policy and International Conflict and Cooperation (2014). He was a U.S. Army Paratrooper 2004-2010, All-Wheel Mechanic, 4/25th BCT (ABN) in Alaska, Operation Iraqi Freedom 2006-07, Operation Enduring Freedom 2009-10. He is also on the board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, the Steering Committee of the Task Force to Stop THAAD and Militarism in Asia & the Pacific, and creator of The Peace Report social media 2016-Present. Griffin has been part of VFP delegations to South Korea, Okinawa, Palestine, London, India, Nepal, and Standing Rock.
  • Tony Jenkins, PhD, has 15+ years of experience directing and designing peacebuilding and international educational programs and projects and leadership in the international development of peace studies and peace education. Since 2001 he has served as the Managing Director of the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) and since 2007 as the Coordinator of the Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE). Professionally, he has been: Director, Peace Education Initiative at The University of Toledo (2014-16); Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Peace Academy (2009-2014); and Co-Director, Peace Education Center, Teachers College Columbia University (2001-2010). In 2014-15, Tony served as a member of UNESCO’s Experts Advisory Group on Global Citizenship Education. Tony’s applied research has focused on examining the impacts and effectiveness of peace education methods and pedagogies in nurturing personal, social and political change and transformation. He is also interested in formal and non-formal educational design and development with special interest in teacher training, alternative security systems, disarmament, and gender.
  • Kathy Kelly, during each of 20 trips to Afghanistan as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe that “where you stand determines what you see.” In June, 2016, Kathy participated in a delegation that visited five cities in Russia, aiming to learn about Russian opinions regarding NATO exercises taking place along their border. Kelly has joined with activists in various regions of the U.S. to protest drone warfare by holding demonstrations outside of U.S. military bases in Nevada, California, Michigan, Wisconsin and Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri. In 2015, for carrying a loaf of bread and a letter across the line at Whiteman AFB she served three months in prison. From 1996 – 2003, Voices activists formed 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq. Kelly traveled to Iraq 27 times, during that period. She and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing. They have also lived alongside people during warfare in Gaza, Lebanon, Bosnia and Nicaragua. She was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) at Whiteman Air Force Base and spent three months in prison, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning’s military training school. As a war tax refuser, she has refused payment of all forms of federal income tax since 1980.
  • Jonathan Alan King is Professor of Molecular Biology at MIT where he has long taught biochemistry and directed biomedical research on protein misfolding and human disease. Prof. King is a Past President of the national Biophysical Society, and former Councilor of the American Society of Virology and of the American Society for Microbiology. He is a recipient of MIT’s M.L. King Jr. Faculty Leadership Award. Long involved in issues of science and society, Prof. King served for many years on the FASEB national committee addressing the federal R&D budget, as well as the national Joint Committee on Biomedical Research. Prof. King was a co-author of the Science for Peace Resolution of the World Council of Churches, calling for continuing nuclear disarmament. Subsequently he was a leader of the national campaign of biomedical scientists to press the Senate to ratify the Biological Weapons Convention. This culminated in Senator John Glenn’s shepherding passage of the treaty through Congress in 1989. Prof. King currently serves on the Board of Massachusetts Peace Action and chairs its Nuclear Disarmament Working Group.
  • Lindsay Koshgarian is research director of the National Priorities Project. Her research interests include education and workforce spending, social insurance and entitlement spending, debt and deficits, and tax policy and revenue generation. Lindsay came to NPP from the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, where she led economic studies on workforce and education, housing markets and affordable housing, and federal and state spending initiatives, including Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security spending in New England. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from UCLA.
  • James Marc Leas is a Vermont attorney and is a past co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Free Palestine Subcommittee. He collected evidence in the Gaza Strip from November 27 to December 3, 2012 as part of a 20 member delegation from the U.S. and Europe and co-authored several articles describing findings. He also participated in the National Lawyers Guild delegation to Gaza after Operation Cast Lead in February 2009 and contributed to its report, Onslaught: Israel’s Attack on Gaza and the Rule of Law. He has been a leader of a campaign to block the stationing of F-35 jets in Burlington, Vermont, and of the formation of a Vermont chapter of World Beyond War.
  • Annie Machon is a former intelligence officer for MI5, the UK Security Service, who resigned in 1996 to blow the whistle on the spies’ incompetence and crimes. Drawing on her varied experiences, she is now a media pundit, author, journalist, political campaigner, and PR consultant.
  • Ray McGovern leads the “Speaking Truth to Power” section of Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. A former co-director of the Servant Leadership School (1998-2004), he has been teaching there for more than 20 years. His current course is: “On the Morality of Whistleblowing.” McGovern came to Washington from his native Bronx in the early Sixties as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to 1985. In January 2003, Ray co-created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose how intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq.
  • The Reverend Lukata Agyei Mjumbe is a life long political activist, 25 year veteran grassroots community organizer and anti-violence advocate centered in Black and Brown communities. He serves as the dynamic Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Irvington, NJ one of the areas fastest growing urban churches and the first to intentionally bridge together believers from across the African diaspora into one faith community under the banner —- “One People! One God! One Destiny!” Mjumbe has served as a recognized leader in transformational organizing efforts since his days as a campus/community leader in the city of Atlanta during the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King Rebellion statewide as well as in a broad cross section of local, statewide and regional organizing campaigns with organizations and formations in the Black Belt and across the southern U.S. Mjumbe serves as the National Coordinator of the Black Organizing Capacity Support (BLOCS) Project of the Praxis Project and as a Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). He is a high honors graduate of both Morehouse College and Princeton Theological Seminary.
  • Bill Moyer co-founded the Backbone Campaign in 2003 with friends from an artist affinity group. He has dual and intersecting paths as both an activist and artist. His involvement with social change work stretches back to the 80’s, when as a student he was deeply involved in the anti-nuclear movement and the anti-interventionist movement. After a few years of studying political science and American philosophy at Seattle University, Bill went to Big Mountain to assist Dineh elders refusing to relocate off their traditional land, attended the Institute for Social Ecology, and briefly lived on an organic vegetable farm in Vermont.
  • Emanuel Pastreich is director of the Asia Institute in Seoul and associate professor at the College International Studies of Kyung Hee University. His current research is divided between his work on technology and its impact on society and the impact of the Chinese literary tradition in Korea and Japan. Pastreich founded the Asia Institute in 2007, a think tank that coordinates research between experts in Asia and the rest of the world on the intersection of technology, the environment and international relations.
  • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright is US Coordinator with The Leap. He has presented the case for climate justice, environmental justice, and climate change action at universities nation- and world-wide and written on the subjects for various publications. Anthony was named one of Grist’s “50 People You’ll Be Talking About in 2016.” His most important client is his 20 month old son, Zahir Cielo, and he currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
  • Gar Smith is a WBW Coordinating Committee member with a long history as a peace and environmental activist. Jailed for his role in the Free Speech Movement, he became a war-tax resister, draft protester, and “peace beat” reporter for the Underground Press. He led troop train protests in Berkeley and helped organize the Port Chicago Vigil at the Navy’s Concord Naval Weapons Station. Arrested for blocking a napalm truck, he was acquitted after a six-month federal trial. He has covered revolutions in Grenada and Nicaragua and participated in whale-saving missions in Oslo, Tokyo, Bonn, and Bristol. He has sailed on the Rainbow Warrior and the peace ship Fri. He is the founding editor of Earth Island Journal and his writing has appeared in newspapers, online, and in magazines ranging from Mother Jones to Hustler. His exposé, “One Nation Under Guard,” unmasked the hidden martial-law agenda of the Pentagon’s “Urban Warrior” exercises. In 2003, he co-founded Environmentalists Against War and organized the “Carbon-Free” contingent in San Francisco’s massive peace march. He has been honored with the World Affairs Council’s Thomas More Storke International Journalism Award and multiple Project Censored awards. He is the author of Nuclear Roulette and The War and Environment Reader.
  • Joining us via live video: Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower and 2013 Sam Adams laureate.
  • Susi Snyder is the Nuclear Disarmament Programme Manager for PAX in the Netherlands. Mrs. Snyder is the primary author and coordinator of the Don’t Bank on the Bomb annual report on nuclear weapon producers and the institutions that finance them. She has published numerous other reports and articles, notably the 2015 Dealing with a ban; the 2014 Rotterdam Blast: The immediate humanitarian consequences of a 12 kiloton nuclear explosion, and; the 2011 Withdrawal Issues: What NATO countries say about the future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. She is an International Steering Group member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and a 2016 Nuclear Free Future Award Laureate. Previously, Mrs. Snyder served as the Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
  • Mike Stagg is a writer, documentarian, podcast host, free lance journalist and activist based in Lafayette, LA. He’s been active in Louisiana environmental and social justice fights for four decades. He’s worked extensively in print, video and digital media production. He’s volunteered for, participated in and managed grassroots campaigns. He’s been a candidate for office. He is the producer and host of Where The Alligators Roam, a weekly radio show and podcast that originates in Lafayette, also airs in Baton Rouge and is available through iTunes and the Android Store.
  • Jill Stein was the Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2016 and 2012. She is an organizer, physician and environmental health advocate. She has helped in fights for campaign finance reform, racially just redistricting, green jobs and to clean up polluting incinerators and coal plants sited predominantly in communities of color. In 2006, she transitioned from clinical medicine into “political medicine” to help heal “the mother of all illnesses”, our sick political system, so we can begin to fix the other things that are literally killing us. In the 2016 election, she was the only national Presidential candidate to call for an emergency jobs program to solve jointly the climate and economic crises, and for demilitarization through a foreign policy based on human rights, international law and diplomacy. She was also the only candidate to be arrested for supporting the Dakota Sioux in resisting the DAPL pipeline, and standing up for clean water, human rights and a livable climate. Jill is currently working to support local Green candidates in fighting for radical progressive, sustainable solutions that are critical for our future.
  • David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Find him on Facebook and Twitter and contact him at david at davidswanson dot org.
  • Robin Taubenfeld is a national nuclear spokesperson with Friends of the Earth Australia, a mother, teacher, artist, media maker, community worker, and a recipient of a Women's International League for Peace & Freedom’s Peacewomen Award 2016. Six months in the Australian Northern Territory opposing the Jabiluka uranium mine in the late 90s helped Robin understand that uranium is as much a social justice as an environmental issue – in the broader picture, much more a political issue than an economic one. Since that time, Robin has spent much of her time attempting to make the links between peace, social justice and environmental issues, with a focus on – militarisation, nuclearisation and colonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
  • Brian Terrell is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. He lives on a Catholic Worker Farm in Maloy, Iowa, and has been a peace activist since 1975, participating in communities of resistance around the US and the world. On September 21st, Brian is returning to the United States from his fifth visit to Afghanistan.
  • Brian Trautman is the treasurer of Veterans For Peace and a lifetime member of the organization. He is a U.S. Army veteran, having served on active duty as a cannon crewmember from 1993-1997. Brian has been employed in various administrative and faculty positions in higher education over two decades, including as an instructor of peace studies and economics at a community college since 2008. He is on the steering committee of his local peace group, Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice. Brian became involved with the peace and justice movement during the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. His interests as a peace scholar-practitioner include peace education, counter-hegemonic struggles, ecosocialism, indigenous knowledge systems and intersectional social justice.
  • Richard Tucker is an environmental historian at the University of Michigan. He specializes on the world history of environmental impacts of war and militarism. He hosts the website environmentandwar.com. He has been a peace and environmental activist since the Vietnam War years.
  • Ann Wright is a retired Army Reserve colonel and a 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She was also a diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She received the State Department’s Award for Heroism for her actions during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She resigned from the Department of State on March 19, 2003, in opposition to the Iraq war. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience and appeared in the documentary “Uncovered”.
  • Emily Wurth is Food & Water Watch’s Co-Organizing Director. Emily conducts research and promotes policies at the local, state and federal level to help protect the nation’s water systems as public assets, and to safeguard the country’s water resources. Emily has a B.A. in international studies and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She can be reached at ewurth(at)fwwatch.org.
  • Kevin Zeese is an organizer with Popular Resistance. Its Our Economy, Creative Resistance, and a radio show are all projects of Popular Resistance. Zeese is also an attorney who has been a political activist since graduating from George Washington Law School in 1980. He works on peace, economic justice, criminal law reform and reviving American democracy. His twitter is @KBZeese

Stop THAAD in Korea and End Militarism in Asia and the Pacific

World Beyond War was a member of the Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea and End Militarism in Asia and the Pacific steering committee in 2017. The Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea and End Militarism in Asia and the Pacific is opposed to South Korea's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system, which would protect them from missiles from North Korea. Instead, Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea and End Militarism in Asia and the Pacific promotes "reunification" of North and South Korea, a common goal of pro-North Korea communists.[28]

Individual supporters from World Beyond War were David Swanson and Alice Slater, of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and World Beyond War, based in New York City, New York.

Left Forum 2015

World Beyond War was represented in a panel discussion at Left Forum 2015

War Normalized or War Abolished: Drones, Nukes, and the Choice Before Us

A discussion of war now and in the future with David Swanson, Alice Slater, Joe Scarry, Nick Mottern, and Amanda Bass.
"How are drone wars and nuclear proliferation changing warfare and the risks involved? Can the institution of war be ended? What could be done with the $2t/year saved globally? What system of laws, institutions, structures, and patterns of behavior can replace the war system that will avoid or resolve conflicts nonviolently? What can students do?

Poor People's Campaign

World Beyond War has been an "endorsing partner" of the Poor People's Campaign.[29]

People's Climate March

World Beyond War was listed as a "Partnering Organization" with the People's Climate March, first held in 2014, scheduled ahead of the United Nations summit on climate change that took place in New York City "to discuss an international carbon-emissions agreement."

References

  1. ↑ World Beyond War Website: "Who" (accessed July 10, 2023)
  2. ↑ Peace Wave (accessed March 21, 2024)
  3. ↑ Women & War: World BEYOND War’s 2024 Virtual Film Festival (Accessed February 16, 2024)
  4. ↑ Peace Action Announcements (Accessed Sept 19, 2023)
  5. ↑ Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine? (Accessed Sept 19, 2023)
  6. ↑ Humanity for Peace Website (accessed July 6, 2023)
  7. ↑ World Beyond War Website: "Staff" (accessed July 10, 2023)
  8. ↑ World Beyond War Website: Coalitions (accessed July 10, 2023)
  9. ↑ Speakers (accessed March 16, 2023)
  10. ↑ Coalition (accessed March 19, 2023)
  11. ↑ Sat. March 18 -- National March on Washington: Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine! (accessed March 14, 2023)
  12. ↑ National March on Washington: Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine! (accessed August 25, 2023)
  13. ↑ FIGHT INFLATION, STOP THE WAR (accessed March 14, 2023)
  14. ↑ Young Labour leaders barred from party's social media accounts (accessed July 11, 2023)
  15. ↑ Statement opposing the propaganda war on China (accessed July 11, 2023)
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200712200053/https://peacepivot.org/full-list-of-signers/ Full list of Signers (accessed July 12 2020)
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200712195337/https://peacepivot.org/ Webinar: Why there should be a Pivot to Peace not war with China (accessed July 12 2020)
  18. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200712195204/https://actionnetwork.org/events/webinar-why-there-should-be-a-pivot-to-peace-not-war-with-china Webinar: Why there should be a Pivot to Peace not war with China (accessed July 12 2020)
  19. ↑ Tucsonans Rally Against War with Iran (accessed July 11, 2023)
  20. ↑ We stand with Rep. Ilhan Omar (accessed July 11, 2023)
  21. ↑ (Accessed February 7 2018)
  22. ↑ Sign the People's Peace Treaty with North Korea (Accessed February 7 2018)
  23. ↑ [ https://www.facebook.com/events/1040754679421278/]
  24. ↑ Tweet from CodePink dated Sep 23, 2017 (accessed July 11 2023)
  25. ↑ Tweet from World Beyond War dated Jul 27, 2017 (accessed July 11 2023)
  26. ↑ No War 2017 (accessed July 11 2023)
  27. ↑ No War 2017 Speakers (accessed July 11 2023)
  28. ↑ NO TO U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE IN KOREA (accessed July 30 2017)
  29. ↑ Endorsing Partners, accessed 12-31-2015
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