World BEYOND War

Wars are raging and the climate is collapsing. Is there something that can be done to address both problems at once? Watch this webinar with Dr. Elizabeth G. Boulton, Tristan Sykes (Just Collapse), and David Swanson, with Liz Remmerswaal Hughes moderating.

World BEYOND War hosted this webinar on November 3, 2022 featuring WBW board member John Reuwer, who recently returned home from Ukraine. John reported back on his first-hand observations of the ongoing conflict and shared his insights on how we can move forward to push for peace in Ukraine and worldwide. Plus, we heard from special guest speaker Yurii Sheliazhenko, WBW board member and executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, based in Kiev, Ukraine, who spoke about peacemaking amidst war in his country. This webinar was sponsored by the WBW Central Florida Chapter and the Veterans For Peace, The Villages, FL. Chapter 136.

Yurii Sheliazhenko, WBW board member and executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, based in Kiev, Ukraine, speaks about peacemaking amidst war in his country. Yurii Sheliazhenko, PhD, is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is based in Ukraine. Yurii is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, a board member of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, and a council member of the International Peace Bureau. He obtained a Master of Mediation and Conflict Management degree in 2021 and a Master of Laws degree in 2016 at KROK University. In addition to his participation in the peace movement, he is a journalist, blogger, human rights defender, and legal scholar, an author of academic publications and a lecturer on legal theory and history. He has been a facilitator for World BEYOND War's online courses. Yurii is a winner of the International Peace Bureau's 2022 Sean MacBride Peace Prize.

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Debate set up by World BEYOND War on September 21, 2022, International Day of Peace. Arguing that war can never be justified was David Swanson, an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and U.S. Peace Prize recipient. Arguing that war can sometimes be justified was Arnold August, a Montreal-based author of three books on US/Cuba/Latin America. As a journalist he appears on TelesurTV and Press TV commenting on international geopolitical issues, is a Contributing Editor for The Canada Files and his articles are published world-wide in English, French and Spanish. He is a member of the International Manifesto Group. Moderating was Youri Smouter, host of 1+1, a topical history and current affairs program on his YouTube channel 1+1 hosted by Yuri Muckraker aka Youri Smouter. He is based in Southern Belgium and is a left-wing media critic, NGO critic, anti-imperialist, an advocate for Indigenous solidarity and a Native Lives Matter movement and socially liberal thinker. Doing tech support and timekeeping and polling was WBW Organizing Director Greta Zarro. Participants on Zoom were polled at the beginning and end of the event on the question "Can war ever be justified?" At the beginning 36% said yes and 64% no. At the end, 29% said yes and 71% no.

James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty answer questions online about their film The Singing Revolution. Learn more at: https://singingrevolution.com

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I War Abolisher Awards 2022 ai Lavoratori Portuali Italiani, a un Regista Neozelandese, a un Gruppo Ambientalista Statunitense e al Deputato Britannico Jeremy Corbyn https://worldbeyondwar.org/i-war-abolisher-awards-2022-andranno-ai-lavoratori-portuali-italiani-a-un-regista-neozelandese-a-un-gruppo-ambientalista-statunitense-e-al-deputato-britannico-jeremy-corbyn/

2022 War Abolisher Awards Go to Italian Dock Workers, New Zealand Filmmaker, U.S. Environmental Group, and British MP Jeremy Corbyn. https://worldbeyondwar.org/2022-war-abolisher-awards-to-go-to-italian-dock-workers-new-zealand-filmmaker-u-s-environmental-group-and-british-mp-jeremy-corbyn/

On August 29, 2022, the Central Florida chapters of Veterans For Peace and World BEYOND War hosted a webinar with Dr. Douglas Dransfield on "Back from the Brink of Nuclear War." Dr. Douglas Dransfield lives in Cape Elizabeth, ME. He is a retired pediatrician, father and grandfather. He was a neonatologist at Maine Medical Center and cared for infants in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. He is Secretary of PSR Maine (Physicians for Social Responsibility, Maine Chapter) and the co-chair of the chapter's committee working to prevent nuclear war. PSR Maine actively promotes Back from the Brink, a call to work together toward a world free of nuclear weapons and advocate for common sense nuclear weapons policies to secure a safer, more just future. Doug enjoys speaking to the public as an opportunity to tell what is and can be done by individuals to end the risk of nuclear war.

On August 9, 2022, the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Coalition hosted the 77th Anniversary Commemoration of the Atomic bombings of Japan. Peace activists and dynamic presenters, including keynote speaker Akira Kawasaki, youth speaker Rooj Ali, and Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow, highlighted the importance of Canadian support for the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The event also featured a message from City of Toronto Mayor John Tory, and music by Grammy-nominated flautist Ron Korb.

A webinar hosted by World BEYOND War on August 8, 2022, with Todd Pierce and David Swanson moderating. Sponsors: Project for the Study of American Militarism, World BEYOND War, Women Against Military Madness, CODE PINK, Veterans For Peace, Andy Worthington, Mondoweiss, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, Antiwar.com, RootsAction.org, Canadian BDS Coalition, UNAC, Twin Cities Assange Defense, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, DC Action for Assange.

Video by Helena Cobban of Just World Educational. Event held at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC on August 5, 2022, with: Reiner Braun of International Peace Bureau Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.us Negar Mortazavi of Iran Podcast Sam Rosenthal of RootsAction.org and Defuse Nuclear War Angelo Cardona of World BEYOND War Kazuyuki “Kaz” Nakazato of Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) Washington D.C. Office

"The Day After" is a U.S. post-apocalyptic film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. A record-setting 100 million people watched it in the U.S. - and 200 million on Russian TV during its initial broadcast. The film postulates a fictional war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact countries over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, and of several family farms near nuclear missile silos. Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan watched the film more than a month before its screening on Columbus Day, October 10, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war." Maybe this film can still change hearts and minds! We watched the film. Then we had the presentations and a question-and-answer period that are contained in this video -- with our experts, Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US and Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

Washington has called Russia and China 'existential threats' to the US. NATO is expanding up to Russia's border and the war in Ukraine is escalating as the US-UK-NATO continue to ship weapons to Kiev. At the same time NATO is expanding into the Asia-Pacific region closing the military circle around Beijing. How should peace people interpret and react to these dangerous developments? Join us for an informative presentation & discussion with Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Hosted by the Central Florida chapters of Veterans For Peace and World BEYOND War.

Helen Peacock

Panel: Reinvesting in a Just, Peaceful, and Green World This panel both concretely explores how to divest public and private dollars from extractive industries like weapons and fossil fuels, and at the same time, how to rebuild the just world we want through doable reinvestment strategies that prioritize community needs. Featuring Shea Leibow of CODEPINK and Britt Runeckles of Towards a People’s Endowment. Moderator: Greta Zarro. Held on July 9 2022 as part of the #NoWar2022 conference.