OMNI
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
ORGANIZATIONS NEWSLETTER #1, January 6, 2017
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice.
What’s at stake: As others
prepare for war, we must prepare for peace. We must answer the mindless call to
arms with a thoughtful, soulful call to resist the build-up for war. A new,
resolute peace movement must arise, become visible, and challenge those who
would make war inevitable. Dennis Kucinich
We
are not alone!
My Peace
Movement Directory (2001) described 1200 peace organizations in North
American from Mexico City to Ottawa alone. When you remember
the UN’s immense capacity for a better world and that the other eight following
organizations represent only a tiny sample of the thousands of peace and
justice organizations around the world, you will feel the hope all together give. This newsletter from OMNI samples
international peace and justice organizations:
based abroad, with chapters or members around the world, in US whose
work extends abroad—any organization with global vision and reach. Thousands are engaged in the struggle. And
tens of thousands indirectly. We are not alone in the struggle for a just and peaceful world!
Such dedication and cooperation have had
victories.
Rebecca Solnit knows as much as anyone
about the losses the planet has suffered in recent decades, and more than most
she confronts them. Like Thomas Hardy,
she know that “if way to the Better there be/it exacts a full look at the
Worst.” But she also celebrates
successes. Her book, Hope in the Dark, relates the scum and
perfidies, but also the wonderful beneficial revolutions of race, gender,
sexuality, food, economics, energy, and more that have occurred during our lifetimes—“the
victories that begin in the imagination and change the rules.”
She
takes a full look at the Worst in her opening two chapters: Chap. 1 entitled “Looking Into Darkness”; Chap. 2
“When We Lost.” But in chapter 3, “What We Won,” she
distinguishes eight “reasons to hope for the future.” I’ll try to epitomize each in a
sentence. 1) ignition of the massive,
global peace movement on February 15, 2003, against the invasion of Iraq, “when
somewhere between twelve and thirty million people marched and demonstrated, on
every continent”; 2) expansion of citizens worldwide who engage politically; 3)
shift in mainstream media to reporting the peace movement as more than marginal
rabble; 4) public resistance overcame fear and engendered lasting trust and coalitions
for peace; 5) these coalitions using the Internet achieved a “global movement
without leaders”; 6) dichotomies rejected, the enemies became violence, all
war, all weapons of mass destruction: the peace movement; 7) the US military-corporate-congressional system became a subject of mainstream
media scrutiny; 8) distancing of formerly close allies from US hegemony—Canada,
Mexico, Turkey.
-- Dick
Contents: INTERNATIONAL Peace
Organizations
Dick, Introduction
Governmental Organizations Making
Peace
United Nations
International Cities of Peace
Mayors for Peace
Non-Government (NGO)
Network of Spiritual Progressives
Culture of Peace News Network
(CPNN)
Institute for Economics and Peace
Peace Media Service (PMS), Johan
Galtung
The Carter Center
Peace Action
World Beyond War
The
peace, justice, and ecology organizations did sit on their hands during the presidential
campaigns, but plunged into the middle of them.
Since both of the two major Parties are War Parties, many peace and
justice organizations have intensified their “educate the candidates
and Parties” campaigns.
A
dramatic example is Amnesty
International, which displayed a full-scale replica of a Guantanamo prison
cell at both nominating conventions, to demand opposition to torture, to
prolonged detainment without charge, to unaccountability of high-level
officials, and other human rights abuses.
Larry Cox is Exec. Dir. of AI.
Like
AI, Friends of the Earth believes
that we cannot take for granted that a change of Administration or of Congress
will change the carbon regime to the degree that must happen if we are to bring
down CO2 to 350 PPM quickly enough. The
Lieberman-Warner energy bill was proposed, but defeated, and anyway it was
deeply flawed and would not require the real changes needed to stop climate
change. So FOE is keeping the pressure
on not only the Bush Admin. but also on Congress and the presidential
candidates, to make sure they face facts and seek real solutions,
not the greenwashing now pervading corporate tactics. Brent Blackwelder is President of FOE. www.foe.org
For
a third example, the Friends Committee
on National Legislation (FCNL), the Quaker lobbying organization, is
“urging presidential and congressional candidates to embrace a vision of a
world free of nuclear weapons.” And they
and we cannot count on the next president and Congress to reverse US nuclear
weapons policy, but we must push them to complete nuclear
disarmament, no first use policy, renegotiate START, ratify the CTBT, and
rescue the NPT. www.fcnl.org
These
campaigns are not new, for these organizations and hundreds of peace, justice,
and ecology organizations have always been in the middle of politics against
the special interests that bribe our politicians, rob the people, and
endanger the planet, and especially during presidential campaigns. Let us join with them in educating our
candidates and our present Cong. delegation about human rights, global warming,
US permanent war, nuclear weapons, and other urgent matters, including the
power of corporations to determine national policies. If we do not, we can be sure the forces in
politics for profit will fill our vacancy.
GOVERNMENTS MAKING PEACE
UNITED NATIONS
www.un.org/en/
3 January
2017 – On his first day in office, United Nations Secretary-General
António
Guterres called for teamwork, telling staff at the world body's New
York ...
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Fun
relief for children in northeast Nigeria. All children deserve to be
children. uni.cf/2hCSa0T via
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9 hours ago · Twitter
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being traumatized, most refugees are "surprisingly resilient" says #UNHCR mental
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www.un.org/
Global
association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law,
security, economic development, and social equity.
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What if
the United Nations didn't exist? It's a
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One of
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Information
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Facebook page of the United Nations** http://www.un.org.
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CITIES AND PEACE
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An Issue of the CPNN Bulletin http://cpnn-world.org/new/?p=6777
 CulCulture
of Peace News NetworkInternational Cities of Peace, September,
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 Hiroshima shortly after it was destroyed by an atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Mayors for Peace 1-2 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku Hiroshima Japan Tel: +81-82-241-2352 Fax: +81-82-242-7452 Email: mayors@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp Internet: www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/ mayors/english/ President: Mr Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima  FRONT PAGE Site Search About us | Quiénes somos | A propos de nous | Über uns | Mayor Monitor Directories Events Debate  International City Mayors Foundation United Nations Alliance of Civilizations International Organization for Migration Integration: Building Inclusive Societies United Cities Sister Cities International Glocal Mayors for Peace Urban pollution ICLEI The Americas Canadian Municipalities Association of Mexican cities Conference of Black Mayors National Urban League National League of Cities US Conference of Mayors Mayors' Institute on City Design Europe Austrian Cities Association French Association of Mayors German Cities Association UK LGA Asia & Australia Australia ALGA Africa Africa MDP  City Mayors reports news from towns and cities around the world. Worldwide | Elections | North America | Latin America | Europe | Asia | Africa | Events |  Mayors from The Americas, Europe. Asia, Australia and Africa are competing for the annual World Mayor Award. More  City Mayors ranks the world’s largest as well as richest cities and urban areas. It also ranks the cities in individual countries, and provides a list of the capital cities of some 200 sovereign countries. More  City Mayors reports political events, analyses the issues and depicts the main players. More  City Mayors describes and explains the structures and workings of local government in Europe, The Americas, Asia, Australia and Africa. More  City Mayors profiles city leaders from around the world and questions them about their achievements, policies and aims. More |
Mayors from 554 cities united
against nuclear weapons
In August 1945, atomic bombs reduced
the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki within minutes to rubble and killed
hundreds of thousands of its citizens. Today, almost 60 years after the war,
thousands of people in both cities still suffer from the trauma and the
devastating after-effects of radiation. To prevent any repetition of the use
of atomic bombs, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have continually sought
to remind the world of the inhuman cruelty of nuclear weapons and have
consistently urged the abolition of such weapons.
On 24 June 1982 at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament, Takeshi Araki, the then Mayor of Hiroshima, proposed a ‘Programme to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons’. This proposal offered cities a way to transcend national borders and work together to press for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. Subsequently, the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on mayors around the world to support this programme. The Mayors for Peace is composed of cities around the world that have formally expressed support for the programme announced by Mayor Araki in 1982. The organisation is now supported by 554 cities in 107 countries and regions. Mayors for Peace is recognised by the UN as an official NGO (non-governmental organisation). Mayors for Peace aims to build solidarity and facilitate coordination among the cities that support the Programme to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Its primary goal is to work internationally to raise consciousness regarding nuclear weapons abolition. It is also formally committed to pursuing lasting world peace by working to address starvation, poverty, refugee welfare, human rights abuses and environmental destruction. The executive council of Mayors for Peace is made up of the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Como (Italy), Hannover (Germany), Malakoff (France), Manchester (United Kingdom), Muntinlupa (Philippines) and Volgograd (Russia). |
 26 mayors from across the world are competing for the 2014 World Mayor Prize CHOOSE THE WINNER NOW Support the Mayor you believe should win the 2014 World Mayor Prize  NORTH AMERICA • Mayor Naheed Nenshi Calgary, Canada • Mayor Annise Parker Houston, USA • Mayor Mick Cornett Oklahoma City, USA • Mayor Kevin Johnson Sacramento, USA LATIN AMERICA • Mayor Marcio Lacerda Belo Horizonte, Brazil • Mayor Álvaro Arzú Guatemala City, Guatemala • Mayor Carlos Eduardo Correa Monteria, Colombia • Mayor Carlos Ocariz Sucre, Venezuela EUROPE • Mayor Daniel Termont Ghent, Belgium • Mayor Alain Juppé Bordeaux, France • Mayor Albrecht Schröter Jena, Germany • Mayor Yiannis Boutaris,Thessaloniki, Greece • Mayor Giusy Nicolini,Lampedusa, Italy • Mayor Nils Usakovs Riga, Latvia • Mayor José Ramón García,Ribera de Arriba, Spain • Mayor George Ferguson,Bristol, UK • Mayor Joe Anderson,Liverpool, UK ASIA • Mayor Tri Rismaharini (Risma) Surabaya, Indonesia • Mayor Yona Yahav Haifa, Israel • Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog Iloilo City, Philippines • Mayor Hani Mohammad Aburas Jeddah, Saudi Arabia • Mayor Park Won-soon Seoul, South Korea • Mayor Aziz Kocaoglu Izmir, Turkey AUSTRALIA • Mayor Clover Moore Sydney, Australia AFRICA • Mayor Jacqueline Moustache, Victoria, Seychelles • Mayor Thabo Manyoni Mangaung, South Africa Previous winners and runners-up |
MAYORS FOR PEACE (another link)
NON-GOVERNMENTAL PEACE ORGANIZATIONS
Network of Spiritual Progressives • 2342
Shattuck Avenue, Suite 1200, Berkeley, CA 94804 • Phone: 510-644-1200
Fax: 510-644-1255 • info@spiritualprogressives.org
Fax: 510-644-1255 • info@spiritualprogressives.org
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Revolution: The NSP Newsletter, December 2015 |
In the 21st century, our security
and well being depends on the well being of everyone else on this planet as
well as on the health of the planet itself.
An important way to manifest this caring is through a Global Marshall Plan that would dedicate 1-2% of the U.S. annual Gross Domestic Product each year for the next twenty years to eliminate domestic and global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, and inadequate health care and repair damage done to the environment by 150 years of ecologically irresponsible forms of industrialization and “modernization” throughout much of the world.
An important way to manifest this caring is through a Global Marshall Plan that would dedicate 1-2% of the U.S. annual Gross Domestic Product each year for the next twenty years to eliminate domestic and global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, and inadequate health care and repair damage done to the environment by 150 years of ecologically irresponsible forms of industrialization and “modernization” throughout much of the world.
We
support a Global Marshall Plan that includes
§ Participation
in planning and fund-distribution decisions by the recipient countries’ most
talented and ethically sensitive leaders as well as activists from local
communities representing the poor and outstanding figures in the ethical,
cultural, religious and non-profit sectors of the relevant societies.
§ Methods
for ensuring that the monies are used in the most effective, environmentally
sustainable and culturally sensitive ways.
§ Safeguards
to guarantee that the monies are not siphoned off by governments or local
elites or primarily for creating the infrastructure for large corporations, but
actually reach the people in need.
§ Amending
all existing and future trade agreements to ensure that they serve the economic
well-being of the poor and not just the interests of the wealthy nations or
local elites in countries with high levels of poverty.
§ Retraining
the military to build and rebuild vital infrastructure.
§ Global
leadership by the United States to start this effort and encourage other
advanced industrial societies to join the plan.
We
approach this initiative with a spirit of humility, not only because of the
legacy of colonialism and self-interested Western trade policies which
contributed to the underdevelopment in poor countries, but because we can learn
much from the cultures and spiritual heritage of other societies—recognizing
that their economic poverty does not signify a poverty of wisdom. Generosity of
spirit as well as financial generosity are an integral part of our Global
Marshall Plan , which we affirm not only because it is a central component in
any rational plan to achieve “homeland security,” but also because it reflects
our commitment to recognize every human being on this planet as equally
valuable and deserving of care.
The NSP’s
Global Marshall Plan is a strategy for real homeland security.
Global
Marshall Plan News from the Tikkun Daily Blog
Network of
Spiritual Progressives • 2342 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 1200, Berkeley, CA 94804 •
Phone: 510-644-1200
Fax: 510-644-1255 • info@spiritualprogressives.org
Fax: 510-644-1255 • info@spiritualprogressives.org
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Dear Friends,
To avoid flooding your mailbox with too many emails, I send out
this notice of my blogs only twice a year.
I have just posted my culture of peace blog for August 1, under
the title: "Political will – Will it be there for the global meeting on
climate change?"
You will find it at http://decade-culture-of-peace.org/blog
It is based on this month's CPNN bulletin. If you did not
receive the bulletin, you may find it at http://cpnn-world.org/new/?p=3427
The blogs and bulletin are the basis for my newest book, Embrace the Fire: Plant the seeds for a culture of peace. It may be read on line at http://culture-of-peace.info/books/Embrace-12.pdf or a paper copy can be purchased at https://www.createspace.com/5575904 (North America) or at http://www.amazon.fr/Embrace-Fire-Plant-Seeds-Culture/dp/1514661209 (Europe)
The blogs and bulletin are the basis for my newest book, Embrace the Fire: Plant the seeds for a culture of peace. It may be read on line at http://culture-of-peace.info/books/Embrace-12.pdf or a paper copy can be purchased at https://www.createspace.com/5575904 (North America) or at http://www.amazon.fr/Embrace-Fire-Plant-Seeds-Culture/dp/1514661209 (Europe)
Previous blogs over the past six months include the following:
How One Culture of War Begets Another & Planting Seeds for a Culture of Peace
How One Culture of War Begets Another & Planting Seeds for a Culture of Peace
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Oct 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service
We are now living the
accelerating history of the end of the US empire, in the wake of about 11 in
Europe; and the general decline and fall of Western hegemony. Yet, EU creates
an EU Army HQ, USA elects a president known for belligerence, Brexit England
revives symbols of an empire long since gone; finding meaning in war and
domination. Far better would have been for all three to lift up the bottom
living in misery.
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The
Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded
in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter.
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Practical,
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congressional voting record, email alerts,
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Dec 28, 2016
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