“Real safety comes from us having what we need. It comes from our communities having stable housing, good jobs, health care, connection ─ a cohesion with one another…." Vivian Huang, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Yes! Magazine (Winter 2022)
Climate crisis is a reality worldwide but the genocide on Gaza is exacerbating the global climate emergency.
A CEASEFIRE NOW! is called for in two wars the U.S. government is deeply involved in, shipping weapons and providing financial support. Neither of these wars benefits the American people, whose tax money is supporting death and destruction and taking tax money away from needed help for the hungry, sick, and homeless.
While the perpetrators of those war crimes were never charged, Assange, the publisher of the documentation revealing them, faces a possible U.S. prison sentence of 175 years in what will effectively be solitary confinement. Free Speech, Free Julian Assange!
Stop the Genocide! Free Palestine! Women Against Military Madness Vol. 41 No. 5 Winter 2023 This is the cry heard around the world in response to massacre in Gaza and killing throughout Palestine/Israel. People everywhere have poured into the streets, outraged to know a defenseless population is trapped under bombing, invasion, and siege. War More
"Humanity's fate hangs in the balance," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at second day of global climate conference. 'Not Reduce. Not Abate': UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28 Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres delivers an address at the opening ceremony of the World Climate Action Summit during COP28 More
Not another nickel not another dime, no more $$$ for Israel’s war crimes.
It is an attempt by Israel to erase not only a people, but the idea of Palestine. It is a carbon copy of the massive campaigns of racialized slaughter by other settler colonial projects who believed that indiscriminate and wholesale violence could make the aspirations of an oppressed people, whose land they stole, go away. And like other perpetrators of genocide, Israel intends to keep it hidden.
According to the International Court of Justice, “a State’s obligation to prevent [genocide], and the corresponding duty to act, arise at the instant that the State learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk that genocide will be committed.
The military-industrial complex: The way that Perpetual Wars overseas and territorial acquisition overseas benefits are only for the ruling and Military classes and the arms industry and does not benefit the ordinary working class at all...
The key is community. Not virtual communities. But communities where we can reconnect and see in our wounds the wounds of others.
VFP members, like so many others in the struggle for peace and justice, are always on the defensive because corporations wield governing power and we are always reacting to them — fighting another specific weapons system, another invasion, another human rights violation. How Different Our Work Would Be in a Democracy Presenters: Mike Ferner, More
