“Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing” — Glen’s 6 workshops cover these topics
Please see this summary of the topics I cover in these highly informative, practical, and inspiring workshops: Glen’s 6 Workshops Cover These Topics
International Affairs (Click to see specific nations and regions)
The world is pressuring Russia now. Could world pressure on the U.S. 20 years ago have prevented our tragedies in Afghanistan and Iraq?
In February and March 2022 much of the world has united in pressuring Russia to stop its extremely cruel, illegal invasion of Ukraine. What if — 20 years ago — the world had united in pressuring the U.S. to stop its extremely cruel, illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq? MILLIONS OF LIVES would have been saved. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS would have been saved (and perhaps used for important purposes such as ending poverty, providing health care for all Americans, protecting the environment and climate, and so forth). After losing the war, the U.S. is still killing people in Afghanistan: […]
Nonviolent resistance is effective in Ukraine and elsewhere
Military “solutions” only make problems worse! We need to think and act outside of the militaristic box. Smart nonviolent actions have been PROVEN effective in resisting invasion and occupation. Here are just a few recent examples about Ukraine and elsewhere. Please contact me at glenanderson@integra.net if you want more information. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/02/ukraine-secret-weapon-civilian-resistance/ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/02/the-dangerous-assumption-that-violence-keeps-us-safe/ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/02/ukraine-doesnt-need-to-match-russias-military-might-to-defend-against-invasion/ https://paceebene.org/blog/2022/2/28/nonviolence-news-peace-in-ukraine-resisting-invasion-stopping-atlantas-cop-city?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=77829c74-a970-4ba2-b3eb-5d0582d42ad1 https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/nonviolent-resistance-aggression.html
The New Nuclear Arms Race Is Happening in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The March 2022 episode of “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” provides a lot of information about nuclear weapons that hardly any Americans know. Even people who know a lot about nuclear weapons will learn new information from watching this interview. We really need to understand this existentially crucial information! Glen interviewed our expert guest, Ralph Hutchison, the Coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA, www.orepa.org). OREPA is a very savvy non-profit organization in Tennessee that is working hard to stop the newly escalating nuclear arms race. They are located near the site that has produced 100% of the highly enriched […]
The U.S. military is THE WORLD’S BIGGEST EMITTER of climate pollution.
Recently, I have read DOZENS of articles about this. Here are just a very few. If you want more, e-mail me at glenanderson@integra.net The U.S. military emits more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than entire countries such as Denmark or Portugal. However, nobody knows exactly how much, because the Pentagon’s reporting is spotty. A Humvee gets between four and eight miles per gallon; an F-35 requires 2.37 gallons per mile. See this article: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012022/military-carbon-emissions/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=b7cb2b8041-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-b7cb2b8041-327502737 A friend added this information in response to another friend’s article about military pollution of the climate: “The British military emits as much […]
Let’s create a TRULY PEACEFUL foreign policy!
For many, many decades — regardless of which political party runs the Executive Branch or the Congress — the U.S. has had a BI-PARTISAN CONSENSUS that militarism should dominate our foreign policy. Even when we don’t have an explicit “America First” president, our foreign policy ALWAYS seeks narrow nationalism with selfish political, economic and military domination over as much of the world as our government can manage. Politicians pay lip service to peace, but they always do what the paragraph above says. If we REALLY valued the principles of democracy, the public would have a strong voice in shaping foreign […]
Look at what politicians & powerful people ACTUALLY DO. Don’t be fooled by their glib platitudes.
Politicians, businesses, and other powerful sources keep doing bad things but try to fool people by saying glib platitudes. Do NOT believe at face value what they say. Look at what they ACTUALLY DO. For four years the U.S. was ruled by someone who said he would “Make America Great.” His actual policies did the opposite. Politicians and businesses keep saying things that the people want to hear, but their actual policies violate the public’s interests. Platitudes and hypocrisies have been around for a very long time. Jesus kept denouncing people who kept trying to impress people with their religiosity, […]
Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing Creates Real Progress
This article explains why we can make significant progress on any of the issues we care about by organizing nonviolent grassroots movements: Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing Creates Real Progress
The Doomsday Clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight — still the closest it’s ever been
On January 20, 2022, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that they are keeping their Doomsday Clock at the closest to “midnight” it has been since the metaphor was created in 1947, near the beginning of the Cold War. Look for information at https://thebulletin.org/ and Doomsday Clock – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org) Their resource at this link also looks interesting and informative: https://thebulletin.org/virtual-tour/ Also see this article, which was posted at Common Dreams: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/21/doomsday-and-hope
On Sat. Jan. 22, 2022, Olympia celebrated the FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
On January 22, 2022, the Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (OCANW) joined with other peace groups all over the world and celebrated the first anniversary since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect. Now 59 nations have ratified the TPNW. See information after the next paragraph’s report on a victory at the local government level. City of Olympia’s proclamation: Bob Delastrada, Bob Zeigler, and other members of OCANW reached out to Olympia City Council member Clark Gilman, and during the Council’s regular meeting on Tuesday January 18, they adopted a proclamation supporting the […]
SEE THIS IMAGE: We’ve banned OTHER kinds of WMDs. Now let’s ban NUCLEAR weapons too.
People can indeed solve problems! Do not get discouraged! In recent decades we have banned SEVERAL KINDS of Weapons of Mass Destruction: In 1972 the world banned BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. In 1993 the world banned CHEMICAL WEAPONS. In 1997 the world banned LAND MINES. In 2008 the world banned CLUSTER MUNITIONS. NOW LET’S BAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS TOO. Click this link to see the inspiring, persuasive image: We banned OTHER KINDS of WMD. Now ban NUCLEAR weapons The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect on January 22, 2021, for the nations that have ratified it. Since […]
The U.S. has REPEATEDLY threatened to attack other nations with our nuclear weapons!
Most Americans think the U.S. has used atomic bombs only twice (on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945). Actually, the U.S. has PERSISTENTLY used them as an ongoing threat — and has ACTUALLY SPECIFICALLY THREATENED NUCLEAR ATTACK on 30 occasions from 1946 to 2006. (I don’t know how many times since then, but we all remember a few of Trump’s explicit threats.) During times of international crisis the President goes on TV and tells the nation and the world that “ALL OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE.” This is the euphemism for threatening to destroy the other nation that the U.S. president […]
Olympia City Council passed proclamation supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Thanks to Bob Zeigler, Bob Delastrada, and other members of the Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons who helped this effort succeed. Thanks to Olympia City Council member Clark Gilman who shepherded this proclamation through the City’s process and helped pass it at the City Council’s meeting on Tuesday January 18, 2022. They passed this proclamation: Proclamation re Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons
FLYER / FACT SHEET on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Olympia Coalition is joining the WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION of the first anniversary after the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect on January 22, 2021. I sent our Saturday celebrations to ICAN, and they posted the information to the ICAN events calendar: https://www.icanw.org/106247/bannering_and_sign-holding_at_olympia_wa_usa Also, I wrote an EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND ONE-PAGE FLYER/Fact Sheet that succinctly explains the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, why it’s important, and how people can get more information. I promote our Olympia group, our statewide WANW coalition, and ICAN. It needed a 14-inch page, so – if you want to print it […]
The U.S.’s “democracy” is seriously weakening!
The U.S. likes to think of itself as the best democracy in the world — and a beacon and role model for other nations. American politicians like to brag about this. But ACTUALLY, the U.S.’s democracy has been SERIOUSLY WEAKENING for a number of years — and in several ways. Our nation suffers many serious problems, but extremely rich people and big businesses profit from those problems (pollution, low wages, racial injustices, an out-of-control and constantly escalating war machine, elections that are dominated by Big Money, news media that favor the Establishment, Republicans’ many deliberate actions to cheat in elections […]