Organize locally to be part of national campaigns with international participants as well. Visit DC for a conference with great speakers. Participate in One, Participate in Two, Participate in All Three. Just Participate.
DONE WITH VIOLENCE?
DONE WITH VIOLENCE?Get Involved with Campaign Nonviolence
Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term movement for a culture of peace and nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, environmental destruction and the epidemic of violence.
For an overview of Campaign Nonviolence from the past two years, see our CNV 2014 Booklet PDF and our CNV 2015 Booklet PDF.
Here’s what we’re doing this year! See our Next Steps page for further details. Plus, see our CNV Tools and Resources section below for help building Campaign Nonviolence!
1. Taking nonviolent action
2. Fostering a nonviolent culture
3. Expanding nonviolence training
4. Nurturing a movement of movements
5. Spreading resources for peaceful change
6. Building Campaign Nonviolence
Campaign Nonviolence will march for justice, peace and environmental healing throughout the US and around the world September 18-25, 2016, including the International Day of Peace, September 21.
Save the date! Visit our CNV Actions page here!
Imagine Nonviolent Los Angeles. Nonviolent New York City. Or Nonviolent Kabul. What would it take to foster a nonviolent city where you live? Campaign Nonviolence calls on communities everywhere to imagine what their nonviolent city would entail; to identify what would be involved in achieving this; and to take concrete steps toward this long-term goal. The Nonviolent Cities Project is a great platform for connecting the dots and nurturing a culture of peace and nonviolence.  Click here to learn more!
Nonviolence education is key to long-term change by spreading the tools of nonviolent transformation and by training both advocates for change and the larger society. Working with training organizations—and long-time nonviolence trainers—we will identify and organize at least 1,000 trainings and workshops for nonviolent change over the next year. We call on every local group to host, organize or lead a nonviolence training in 2016. Click here to learn more!
Connect the dots between issues and movements to create people power for change! Meet with other organizers and members of organizations, campaigns and movements in your city, area or region at least twice for relationship building and to explore the ways to mutually support, connect,synergize and maximize the impact of your collective efforts. Click here to learn more!
To build the capacity of this movement, Campaign Nonviolence offers numerous resources to support your organizing for nonviolent change, including new books, workshops, social media, and many tools on the CNV website for mainstreaming nonviolence, connecting the dots between issues and movements, building your campaign, and taking training. Click here to learn more!
Take the Campaign Nonviolence Pledge. Organize or join a local CNV affinity group. Become a CNV Promoter. Take the CNV Vow of Nonviolence. Click here to learn more!
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WORLD BEYOND WAR
World Beyond War is a global nonviolent movement to fully end the institution of war and establish a just and sustainable peace. We cannot do it without your support. Our homepage is at WorldBeyondWar.org.
Sept. 23-25 in DC: NO WAR 2016
Real Security Without Terrorism
Agenda.  Speakers.  Register to attend.
If You Want to End War Click Here
If You Want to End War People have signed in this many countries: 135.
If Your Organization Wants to End War Click Here
Hundreds of great organizations have signed.
Please share our 3-page and 1-page flyers. Thank you!
Find your language.
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Preparing for 16th Annual Keep Space for Peace Week
No Missile Defense
Stop Drones Surveillance & Killing
Stop the Endless Wars
No to NATO
End Corporate Domination of Foreign/Military Policy
Convert the Military Industrial Complex
Deal with climate change and global poverty
It’s that time of year when the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space begins to compile a list of local actions held around the world in conjunction with Keep Space for Peace Week.
Just this morning I emailed out the first list which is always a bit slim but you’ve got to begin some place. Before long folks will start sending in notices about events they plan and just before space week starts the list is always quite impressive.
So far we’ve heard from folks in England, Australia, Sicily, Germany, Venezuela and in the US who are organizing events.
This year we are likely to see some events come from South Korea as activists there are in the middle of a huge campaign against the Pentagon deployment of the THAAD ‘missile defense’ (MD) system in the melon farming community of Seongju. I’ve previously written about the raging campaign there to oppose this provocative US deployment.
So-called MD is a key component in the US first-strike attack planning program. MD is a layered program with various systems each playing a role in providing the ‘shield’ after the US first-strike sword lunges into the heart of Russia or China.
THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) is just the latest in a series of US MD deployments now being stationed at bases encircling Russia and China. The PAC-3 (Patriot 3rd generation) MD system is presently deployed near Russian and Chinese borders.
The Navy’s Aegis destroyer-based SM-3 (Standard Missile-3) MD program is bumping up along the coasts of Russia and China and has about the best testing results of any of the Pentagon’s MD programs.
US drone bases in the US and around the globe are often key targets of space week protests. In order to fly the drones they must be guided by military satellites and ground down-link stations that are strategically placed around the world. These same installations help the US Space Command coordinate the aggressive MD system as well.
Our actual goal, as we mark our 16th year of organizing Keep Space for Peace Week, is to help increase public understanding about how the Pentagon has taken over the space program in order to “control and dominate” space on “behalf of the war fighter” and corporate interests. All US military operations these days are coordinated and directed by space technology.
The Pentagon and the aerospace industry have bragged for many years that Star Wars (the name given to describe all of this) will be the largest industrial project in the history of Earth. In fact this program is so expensive that the US can’t afford to pay for it alone – thus the reason the Pentagon is rounding up the allies to get involved in this military space program. But all allied military space technology systems must be “inter-operable” with US space operations which of course means that everything is run through Pentagon satellites, ground-stations, and command and control centers with the US at the top of the “kill chain”.
How does all of this get paid for? Obviously the cost of space warfare technology is one key reason we see major emphasis on domestic austerity budgets in the US and across allied countries. They are robbing from the poor and the working class to fund these space technology programs that are making the few at the top very rich. Better we convert these weapons factories and build solar power, wind turbines, mass transit systems, tidal power and other things that help us deal with our real problem today – climate change.
Our poster for Keep Space for Peace Week is heavily focused this year on Pentagon MD deployments around the world. You can see the poster here
Anyone can participate in space week – you can help by writing a Letter to the Editor of your local newspaper, put up some of our space week posters around your community, or hold a house party and show one of our many videos which can be seen here.
Please let us know if you plan to organize a local event during space week this year. We welcome your solidarity in our campaign to keep space for peace.
Bruce Gagnon
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