Wednesday, March 20, 2024

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #169, MARCH 20, 2024.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #169, MARCH 20,  2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.

Veterans for Peace and 350.org Resisting the Convergence of War and Warming.
Ground Zero and the convergence of warming climate, rise in authoritarianism, and wars.
OMNI'S Mission: a peaceful, equal, and just world.

Save the Date: March 26, 2024, How to Fight the Climate Crisis and Militarism Webinar.  Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis Working Group.  March 13, 2024.

 

 

 

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Join Veterans For Peace and 350.org for a training on taking action on climate and militarism

 

On Tuesday, March 26, noon ET/9 am PT, Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project will present a webinar, “How to Fight the Climate Crisis and Militarism”, with one of the largest climate organizations, 350.org US. The presentation will focus on how US militarism and wars worsen the climate crisis, and how peace and climate activists can take action together, especially by participating in the No MAS (No Military Air Shows) campaign. Please click here to register: bit.ly/protest-airshows

 

Speakers include: 

 

Taylor Smith-Hams, US Senior Organizer for 350.orgGary Butterfield, Past President of VFP San Diego, lead organizer of the No MAS campaign and San Diego 350 member; James Janko, member of VFP Albuquerque, author and environmentalist; Janet Weil, VFP Lifetime Associate member and activist with Extinction Rebellion.

 

Why and How to Fight the Climate Crisis & Militarism As Twin Existential Threats

 

UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez calls the increasing severity of the global climate crisis “Code Red for Humanity.” The environmental destruction, including vast greenhouse gas emissions, caused by two ongoing “hot” wars in Europe and the Mideast makes a mockery of national climate plans. The threat of nuclear annihilation is ever-present, and an escalating international arms race is stealing precious resources from pressing social needs. How do we move from “overwhelmed” to “connected”?

 

Topics covered include the climate/enviro impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War and the Israeli assault on Gaza, as well as the urgent need to reduce the military budget, and more. It is our first-ever webinar co-presented  with a major climate organization, and we are delighted to have national organizer Taylor Smith-Hams join us! It will be interactive with plenty of time for your questions and comments. Register here for this free webinarbit.ly/protest-airshows

 

Veterans For Peace CCMP focuses on the pollution caused by military air shows – put on by the Navy Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds. These expensive, entertainment- and recruitment-focused performances produce prodigious amounts of visible air pollution, noise pollution, and metric tons of invisible greenhouse gas emissions. Protesting these wasteful air shows serves as a powerful public education action about the military’s overall role in worsening the climate crisis. Over 60 military air shows in the US are scheduled for 2024. Veterans For Peace and 350.org have teamed up to organize opportunities to protest these military air shows (No MAS – no Military Air Shows). Join us on March 26: bit.ly/protest-airshows

 

 

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The January 2024 number of Ground Zero typically contains some of the most urgently important information needed to preserve our civilization.  Leonard Eiger, a regular writer, has two articles.  “Reflections on Challenges We Face in 2024” concentrates on the convergence of the warming climate, the rise in authoritarianism, and wars that could “cause the end of civilization” in nuclear war, the “ultimate expression of violence.”  He quotes father Richard McSorley: “The taproot of violence …is our intent to use nuclear weapons.:”  Nonviolence offers a saving alternative in valuing justice above all in bringing peace.  And we must remember the Hiroshima and Nagasaki destruction by the US in their full hideousness, if we are to reject totally the Bush administration’s affirmation of the first use of nuclear weapons, which has not been rejected by any subsequent administration.  

     Eiger’s second essay, “A New Year’s Resolution RESIST TRIDENT!
[Look ahead to OMNI’s annual August Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings with the intent to abolish nuclear weapons.  –D]

 

OMNI’s original mission, don’t forget:

OMNI’S MISSION

We seek a world free of war and the threat of war. 

“We seek a society with equity and justice for all. ...” The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is a national, nonpartisan Quaker organization that lobbies Congress for peace, justice, and environmental stewardship.  The Quaker’s sister org.—the AFSC—has the same mission statement.  AFSC Quaker Mission Statement: “The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) promotes a world free of violence, inequality, and oppression.”   OMNI was based on their mission.  --Dick

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