Peace All Over the World | Playing for Change
Robert Bradley is originally from Detroit, Michigan, but we filmed this song in Los Angeles in front of a Playing For Change graffiti wall painted by a local artist.
Kathy Kelly | A Good Beginning
If the U.S. might diminish offensive war preparations against Russia, when would DOD budget proposals begin to reflect this?
Three Upcoming National/International Actions/Conferences that Promote Peace
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Joe Scarry | The Election 2016 Diet: Invest 100 Hours for Peace
This year seems to underline a difficult truth: in the run-up to the US presidential election, it always seems axiomatic that this will be the opportune time to make headway on the antiwar agenda; but in the craziness of election season itself it becomes obvious just how far out of the action we antiwar people are.
Aprés Nice: Why We Need an Antiwar Movement
Unless we revive an antiwar movement in the United States, none of this will occur in the present time. It is war that is destroying our economic being and our future. Ultimately, it will be our refusal to oppose and work to end war that will destroy our souls.
Desmond Tutu on World Beyond War Plans for September 2016 (Video)
Desmond Tutu discusses the importance of the upcoming NO WAR conference this September.
Kathy Kelly | Group Calls for a National Debate on U.S. “Regime Change” Policy
We are a group of concerned U.S. citizens currently visiting Russia with the goal of increasing understanding and reducing international tension and conflict. We are appalled by this call for direct U.S. aggression against Syria, and believe it points to the urgent need for open public debate on U.S. foreign policy.
Kathy Kelly | What’s at Stake?
Julia, a University student who wants to become an interpreter working with diplomats, said that she is glad and grateful never to have lived through a war." I always want to choose words instead of weapons,” Julia said.
Jane Addams | Peace is not merely the absence of war . . .
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Ann Wright: Building Bridges of Peace instead of Fear — Citizen Diplomacy with Russia
Wright: With international tensions high, members of our delegation believe its time for the citizens of all nations to loudly declare that military confrontation and hot rhetoric are not the way to resolve international problems.
David Swanson | ‘War is a Lie’ (Video)
"David Swanson's War Is A Lie should be required reading. It lays bare the hypocrisy of American 'do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do' foreign policy, exposing the lies and the deliberate glorification of military disasters." - Medea Benjamin, author, peace activist
David Swanson | Talking About Forgiveness
A U.S. Air Force officer recently said that a tool that would allow dropping food accurately to starving people in Syria would not be used for such a purely humanitarian operation because it costs $60,000. Yet the U.S. military is blowing through tens of billions of dollars on killing people there, and hundreds of billions of dollars every year on maintaining the ability to do the same all over the world.