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Subject: Tell the Next U.S. President We're Done With War
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What Could Unite a Larger Peace Movement? Oh, This!
By David Swanson
In a time of division and disagreement, when people who all agree on
something important sometimes spend more time bickering with each other than
working on their collective cause, is it possible to craft an agenda that
brings them together and adds to their numbers?
It turns out, somewhat to my surprise, the answer is yes.
I discovered this by creating a petition that has very quickly been endorsed
by RootsAction, the Future of Freedom Foundation, World Beyond War, the
Libertarian Institute, DailyKos, Black Vietnam Veterans of Atlanta,
Progressive Democrats of America, Veterans For Peace Chicago Chapter,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Code Pink, Massachusetts Peace Action,
Maryland United for Peace & Justice, Upstate Ground the Drones and End the
Wars, Pax Christi Seed Planters, The War and Law League, Environmentalists
Against War, the PDA Reno Chapter, Voters Occupy, Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition,
Vietnam Echos, Spokane Veterans for Peace, Benedictines for Peace of Erie
PA, Tyneside East Timor Solidarity, Palouse Peace Coalition, Helfenstein
Soup Council, Timothy Dawkins El Project, Green Party of Collin County,
Brian Boortz Public Relations, A Green Road, We The People for Democracy,
Peaceworkers of San Francisco CA, Green Party of Spokane County, Montrose
Peace Vigil, Ecumenical Peace Institute, Pax Christi Southern California,
Veteran for Peace 72, Peaceful Skies, Granny Peace Brigade Philadelphia, The
Clueit Foundation, Office of the Americas, Veterans For Peace of Western
Pennsylvania, Presentation Sisters Justice Commission, Women Against War,
Farmington Maine Friends Meeting, Secular Student Alliance at LaGuardia
Community College, Faith & Social Justice Alliance Dayton Ohio, The Oracle
Institute & Peace Pentagon HUB, Peace Action Maine, Mt. Diablo Peace and
Justice Center, Northeast Philly for Peace & Justice, Citizens
International, National Department of Peacebuilding Committee through the
Peace, White Rabbit Grove RDNA, North American Climate Conservation and
Environment, The Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, Colonie des Pionniers de
Developpement, Malu 'Aina Center for Nonviolent Education & Action, the
Carpe Diem Voice, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Corvallis, Mindfulness in Education, Brandywine Peace Community, Article V
Convention for Our Children's Future, and the Liberty Tree Foundation for
the Democratic Revolution.
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Yes, some of those groups I've never heard of. A few of them may consist of
three guys with misspelled signs who've been standing on a lonely street
corner so long their town has planted bushes around them. But that's sort of
the point. A unifying effort should revive old organizations and give birth
to new ones. It should also be uncomfortably large, bringing together people
who want completely different policies on other issues but agree on this
one.
So, what is it that the above organizations and 17,241 individuals thus far
agree on? This:
Tell the next president: No more war!
Please sign this petition to the 45th President of the United States:
We call on you to end perpetual war by the United States Government. As
signers of this petition, we commit ourselves to building nonviolent
pressure to end continual U.S. warfare. We also reject our country's bloated
military spending and massive arms sales that make the USA the world's
leading arms trafficker by a huge margin.
Sign as individual.
Sign as organization for which you are authorized to sign.
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Importantly, this is a statement to whoever becomes U.S. president next
year. It might be someone you considered a lesser evil or a wonderful
national leader. It might be someone you believed would adopt a peaceful
policy without any public pressure required. Or it might be someone you
recognized would require a massive movement to restrain them from destroying
the earth. It doesn't matter. You believe that representative government
requires that people communicate how they want to be represented. You
believe that peace is possible and preferable. You are in that strong
majority of the U.S. public that believes the wars of the past 15 years have
made us less safe, and you want to end them.
Also importantly -- for both better and worse -- this petition avoids the
details of any particular war. Once a particular war is mentioned, many
people expect a petition to be fairly lengthy, to list all the causes of the
war, to mention all the criminals and profiteers on every side of the war,
to stipulate exact relative levels of blame for each party involved, and to
advocate for particular policies aimed at establishing justice. Yes, some of
that will be necessary work. But it is also critical that we confront the
problem illustrated by the sheer number of U.S. wars now raging and by the
evil industry of weapons dealing that fuels so many sides of so many wars
around the world.
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the U.S. and lesser arms dealers can be brought to abandon their deadly
trade, if the wars can be ended and resisted, each in its turn,
opportunities and resources will open up for positive approaches. But
clearly the first two steps are (1) recognizing we have a problem, and (2)
ceasing to make it worse. The panicked cries of two years ago to "Do
something!" about ISIS (where "something" meant: bomb people) has
predictably (and many of us did predict it) made everything worse. And the
general public, not just the full-time activists, knows it.
There will be new opportunities to expand this coalition post-election and
post-inauguration. But we should not miss the opportunity to spread it and
expand it and make it known now as a movement of nonpartisan principled
advocacy for peace.
*****
Winter Beyond War!
Spread the World Beyond War message this and future winters with
sweatshirts, long-sleeve shirts, and coffee mugs that declare us to be
already against the next war, and that reject the idea of "humanitarian
war."
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