Nonviolent actions really do work!!! They have been used successfully in many nations!!!
Several posts in the “Nonviolence” category of this blog provide much evidence that NONVIOLENT ACTIONS — organizing and resistance — REALLY DO WORK!!!
Peace (See Foreign Policy and specific nations and regions — and ALSO see Military Spending and Nuclear Weapons)
What Is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons? See this 1-page info.
People around the world who want to abolish nuclear weapons are supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). This page explains it clearly: TPNW summary page
“International Courts and War Crimes” — TV + online
Anyone anywhere can watch the April 2023 program on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series. This interview informs people about exciting, positive ways to protect peace, human rights, and fairness worldwide. Joanne Dufour is exceptionally well informed about the United Nations, International Humanitarian Law, international courts, war crimes, and related issues. She explains these and related topics in a one-hour TV interview that you can watch through this blog post. (See the link below.) Also, people in Thurston County WA who have cable TV can watch it on channel 22 three times a week throughout April 2023: every Monday at 1:30 […]
Poverty results from this: A Quarter of Biden’s Budget Will Go to Pentagon Contractors. They donate heavily to Congress’s armed services committees.
A Quarter of Biden’s Budget Will Go to Pentagon Contractors March 9, 2023: Today the White House released the President’s budget request, laying out the President’s priorities for the country. Lindsay Koshgarian Originally in National Priorities Project https://ips-dc.org/release-a-quarter-of-bidens-budget-will-go-to-pentagon-contractors/?emci=25fec40e-5dbf-ed11-a8e0-00224832e811&emdi=2e50aed4-6cbf-ed11-a8e0-00224832e811&ceid=3993183 Congress’s Armed Services Committee members received $5.8 million from military companies during 2022 election cycle By Taylor Giorno March 3, 2023 1:43 pm https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/03/armed-services-committee-members-received-5-8-million-from-defense-sector-during-2022-election-cycle/?emci=0661e8b7-c6bd-ed11-a8e0-00224832e811&emdi=8c04c0d9-c4be-ed11-a8e0-00224832e811&ceid=8396435 Here is an interesting post about budgets and military spending: https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/bidens-fy2024-budget-request World Beyond War created a billboard that connects the dots between military spending and hunger: https://worldbeyondwar.org/explained/ I wrote this article and produced my […]
STOP the U.S.’s 60+ years of hatred and abuse of Cuba!
For more than 60 years the U.S. government has taken cruel actions against Cuba. The U.S. government has vented hatred and abuse against our neighbor — and hurt ordinary people there. The U.S.’s abuses against Cuba seem petty and cruel to the rest of the world. This hateful mania seems to the rest of the world as stupid as the Republican Party’s hateful mania against LGBTQ persons. The rest of the world gets along just fine with Cuba, but the U.S. is a “rogue nation” in hating and hurting its neighbor. Actually, the rest of the world greatly appreciates Cuba […]
3-minute video: Tom Lehrer’s funny song about nuclear holocaust
In the early 1960s a university professor of mathematics wrote funny songs about topical issues. At the link below you can watch/hear him perform one about nuclear weapons killing all of us. It’s titled, “We Will All Go Together When We Go.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Gun manufacturers promote violence in U.S. and worldwide! STOP THEM!
Look beyond gun ownership to the gun manufacturing companies. This could transcend political parties. We Need to Broaden Our Conversation About Guns: Looking at gun manufacturing — rather than just gun ownership — can help bridge America’s red-blue divide. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/we-need-to-broaden-our-conversation-about-guns/ We Need to Talk About Gun Manufacturers to REDUCE VIOLENCE BOTH domesticallyl and globally! Americans cannot end gun violence without confronting the fact that the U.S. is the world’s primary supplier of weapons. Gun violence within the U.S. exists within the context of worldwide military violence promoted by U.S. gun manufacturers. https://truthout.org/articles/we-need-to-talk-about-gun-manufacturers/ […]
War hawks promote war with China. We must PREVENT that!
Much smart research — and many smart articles — have exposed the hard reality that much of the U.S.’s foreign policy is driven by military weapons manufacturers that profit by promoting our militaristic foreign policy. Also, many politicians promote nationalism and militarism as a way to rally voters to cheer for them. Now powerful forces are rallying the U.S. to support a war with China — or if not an actual war, at least the steps leading up to war. They don’t seem to recognize that wars fail to solve problems. Also, they don’t seem to realize that the […]
Slash the Military-Industrial Complex. Cutting the Pentagon Budget in Half Would Finally Force the Generals to Think
Here’s an interesting article about this: https://www.juancole.com/2023/02/military-industrial-generals.html A new book says Eisenhower was right: The US military budget is ‘a theft from those who hunger.’ The book also provides information about protesting for peace. See this: https://wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2023/02/eisenhower-was-right-us-military-budget-book-review-trillion-dollar-silencer-joan-roelofs/ A new effort in the U.S. House would reduce wasteful Pentagon spending and redirect funds to critical basic needs. The first few short paragraphs of the article I linked below say this: Today Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) reintroduced the People Over Pentagon Act, which would cut $100 billion in defense spending and reallocate the funds to human […]
To solve political-social-economic problems, we must organize PEOPLE-POWER grassroots movements
Several years ago, a guest on one of my TV programs said that only 5% of democracy is about voting, while 95% of democracy is about organizing grassroots movements. I agree. People who have official power (politicians, big businesses, etc.) want ordinary people to feel powerless and get out of the way, so they themselves can make all of the important decisions. Alice Walker said, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” If ordinary people actually did recognize our power — and our huge potential to organize strategically from the grassroots […]
FREE, ONLINE: Watch a powerful 1966 British film about nuclear war
In 1966 the BBC produced a powerful film, “The War Game,” about what would happen if a nuclear war hit Britain. It was so powerful that the BBC was afraid to show it on TV until several decades later. “The War Game” simulates a documentary about people experiencing a nuclear war and the realities that occurred afterward. The film was so strong in 1966 that BBC did not air it when it was scheduled. Later it was shown at film festivals – and ultimately on British TV on July 31, 1985, a week before the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima […]
Peace instead of nuclear war! Urge Congress to pass H. Res. 77.
The Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has been supporting the “Back from the Brink” campaign (www.preventnuclearwar.org), which urges 5 smart changes in U.S. policy to reduce the likelihood of nuclear war. “Back from the Brink” recently sent an ACTION ALERT urging us to urge Congress to support H.Res.77, which supports the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Please sign this message: https://preventnuclearwar.org/hres77/ HERE IS MOE INFORMATION from “Back from the Brink,” including “talking points” so you can write a letter to your newspaper’s editor – and including more opportunities: Last Friday marked the one year […]
Click to tell Congress to ABOLISH Junior ROTC
For many years the military has been PERVERTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS by SUBSTITUTING MILITARY PROPAGANDA instead of honest history courses — and TRAINING STUDENTS TO MARCH AND SHOOT GUNS. The instructors are military people, NOT certified teachers. This happens in many, many schools nationwide (especially in low-income and minority neighborhoods) through the Junior ROTC program. Also, many military instructors in the Junior ROTC program have been caught sexually abusing female students in the JROTC program. The program also VIOLATES the international Convention on the Rights of the Child. I encourage you to click this link and substitute your name and contact […]
TV + online: “Smart Strategies to Organize for Peace and No Nuclear Weapons”
The March 2023 program on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series provides fresh insights and smart strategies to help us achieve peace in the world and abolish nuclear weapons worldwide. In this TV program, I address these main points: Point #1. The U.S. has been provoking nuclear weapons since the 1940s. Point #2. Nuclear weapons exist in the overall context of U.S. foreign policy. To achieve peace, we must debunk the MISTAKEN ASSUMPTIONS that have trapped us in endless wars and the suicide of nuclear weapons. To get out of those traps, we must think clearly and creatively – and de-militarize […]
Here is what a REAL “Christian nation” would look like
Right-wing Christians and most Republicans keep saying they want the U.S. to be a “Christian nation.” But they do NOT want it to be the kind of society that Jesus was actually promoting. Jesus NEVER objected to abortion or homosexuality or immigration. What Jesus REALLY kept teaching and practicing are ethical, humane, loving, compassionate actions: Feed the hungry Heal the sick Welcome the stranger (and the foreigner and other ethnic groups) with equal human dignity as ourselves Instead of attacking LGBTQ persons or persons who want abortions, Jesus REPEATEDLY LAMBASTED: Rich people who failed to share with the poor Self-righteous […]