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Rosa Moiwend speaking on the struggle of West Papuan #039;s indigenous rights
23 Sep 2010
English
6 October 2010, 19.00pm
Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX
Organised by War Resisters' International
WRI Council 2011 in Luleå, Sweden
20 Sep 2010
English
Mark the dates: the WRI Council meeting 2011 will take place during the time of the action camp at the camp itself in Luleå in the north of Sweden. At present, the dates penciled in for the Council are 19-21 July 2011, followed by a seminar organised by/with ofog, and then training and action...
More information on the WRI Council meeting, and also on the seminar, will be available closer to the time. But please keep the dates free...
Please contact the WRI office for more information:
War Resisters' International
5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX, Britain
NO to the new NATO strategy! Active for Global Peace, Disarmament and the End of NATO
20 Sep 2010
English
Counter-summit
Location: To Be Determined
19/11/2010 - Friday
11.00-11.15: Welcome
Vitor Lima (PAGAN) confirmed
Reiner Braun (ICC) confirmed
11.15-13.00: Lectures
1. NATO’s War in Afghanistan (Malalai Joya, Afghanistan) (TBC)
2. The New NATO Strategy and Global Crisis (Vitor Lima, PAGAN, Portugal) confirmed
3. Nuclear Weapons in the New NATO-Strategy (Joseph Gerson, AFSC, USA) confirmed
4. NATO and Latin America (Eduardo Melero, UAM, Spain) confirmed
5. Missile Defense Systems in Eastern Europe / Russia (Jana Glivicka, No Bases, CR) confirmed
No to War – No to NATO
20 Sep 2010
English
Activist Conference, Lisbon, 16/17 October 2010
The No to War – No to NATO Activist Conference will be embedded in the con­ference of the Portuguese organisation “CULTURA”. The CULTURA conference will take place at ISCTE (Instituto Superior de Ciên­cias do Trabalho e da Em­presa) of the University of Lisbon. The location of the Action Conference will be announced shortly.
The following conference schedule is a combined schedule of the two events.
Saturday, 16/10
10.00-13.00: Participating in the CULTURA Event against NATO
!Haga que pase! Information on the struggle of Afrocolombians for the land and against militarism
10 Sep 2010
English
2 October 2010, 19.00pm
Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX
Inland Revenue threatens War Resisters #039; International with seizure of assets due to war tax resistance
10 Sep 2010
English
The Inland Revenue is threatening War Resisters' International, an international network of pacifist and antimilitarist organisations with more than 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries, with the seizure of assets because the pacifist organisation is withholding a proportion of income tax due to its conscientious objection to paying for war.
War Resisters' International has been withholding tax - usually about 7% of income tax, roughly the proportion of the military budget - since the tax year 2002/03 [1]. In its regular letters to the Inland Revenue, the organisation states:
Arundhati Roy: Biodiversity of Resistance
06 Sep 2010
English
Opening speech by Arundhati Roy at the WRI conference on the 22 of January 2010 in Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad, India
The Right to Refuse to Kill
Is war necessary to obtain justice?
15 Sep 2010
English
The German Marshall Fund of the United States annually does a survey on important "transatlantic trends", which can make an interesting read. One of the questions asked is: "Please tell me to what extent do you agree with the following: Under some conditions, was is necessary to obtain justice." (Q29.2). The answers are quite revealing (see graphic below).
‘Haga que pase’: Make it happen!
25 Aug 2010
English
‘Haga que pase’: Make it happen! The short documentary 'Mi FinK' shows the process of community organization and resistance. This participatory action arose in the face of vulnerability to losing the land: one of the few things that keep the community united and free. Since the abolition of slavery in Colombia, the land has sustained the food supply and the economy of the Afrodescendant people of Villa Rica. Today the sugar companies dominate the area, planting sugar cane as a monoculture, thereby forcing out the traditional small farms of the region.
Colombia – the reality of conscientious objection during armed conflict
17 Aug 2010
English
Report on a visit to Colombia in May/June 2010
Andreas
Speck, War Resisters' International's Right to Refuse to Kill
programme worker1, visited Colombia from 19 May until 12 June 2010. During his visit, he
spoke at two conferences on conscientious objection, and visited groups and individuals working on CO in Bogota, Sincelejo, Medellin, Cali, Villa Rica, and Barrancabermeja.
Nonviolence
Techniques for consensus decision making in large groups: the spokespersons council method
20 Sep 2010
English
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The processes and techniques which can be found below show/ prove that even in large groups of hundreds and thousands of people, it is possible to make decisions in a democratic, horizontal, participative manner, without hierarchy, delegations, hierarchies or votes/ voting.
Concentración antimilitarista contra el festival aéreo de Cádiz
14 Sep 2010
Spanish
Un grupo de pacifistas hemos desarrollado en la mañana de hoy domingo 12/09/2010 un acto de protesta en la misma playa de la Victoria (Cádiz) donde tenían lugar los actos del III Festival Aéreo (Militar) de Cádiz.
Frente al ruido espantoso de los aviones de guerra (Eurofighter, Harrier, etc.) los antimilitaristas y noviolentos, sin el más mínimo incidente, hemos desplegado y paseado por toda la playa una gran pancarta donde podía leerse: «Estos aviones han sido fabricados para la guerra».
La Guerrilla de la Comunicación explicada a los niños y a las niñas
03 Sep 2010
Spanish
De la corrección de vallas publicitarias al tartazo pasando por el fake y el camuflaje
¿Acaso la mejor subversión no es la de alterar los código en vez de destruirlos?
Roland Barthes
Kata Pengantar Direktur WMC
03 Sep 2010
English
kembali ke daftar isi
Pusat Mediasi Walisongo bukan hanya sebuah lembaga yang bergerak dalam bidang penelitian tentang konflik, pelatihan, dan pengajaran tentang resolusi konflik, tetapi juga merupakan sebuah lembaga yang mengupayakan penyelesaian segala macam bentuk konflik secara damai. Ke­munculan lembaga ini merupakan respon terhadap khususnya situasi yang menyertai ambruknya rezim otoriter Orde Baru dan munculnya rezim yang menyebut dirinya reformasi. Rezim Orde Baru yang berwatak militeristik lebih mengedepankan pendekatan keamanan dalam setiap proses pembangunan. Konsekuensi dari pendekatan ini sering terdapatnya sejumlah pemaksaan yang disertai dengan tindakan-tindakan kekerasan. Demokrasi tidak berjalan. Rakyat menjadi objek daripada subjek pembangunan.
Editorial
25 Aug 2010
English
Welcome to the August issue of our newsletter. Which is a bit late because of festivities interruptions.
I would like to congratulate the EDO Decommissioners for their court victory. They show how at times taking bigger risks with our actions can bring important victories to our struggles. This risk though must be well planned if not it can backfire. I would like to thank Smash EDO for contributing to this issue.
The Decommissioners - we won!
25 Aug 2010
English
That Dark and Stormy Night
On January 17th 2009 six people broke into EDO MBM/ITT in Brighton and caused £189,000 worth of damage to computers, servers, lathes and other equipment. The activists, calling themselves the ‘decommissioners’, took their action in response to the Israeli assault on Gaza which had claimed 1,400 lives by the 17th. EDO MBM/ITT manufactures the arming unit for the Israeli F16 bombrack.
Court in the Act
Can arms trade be controlled by a Treaty? - The UN ATT negotiations and the real world
25 Aug 2010
English
Wendela de Vries
After years of lobbying by NGO's, the United Nations decided to start negotiations for a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The objective of this treaty is to create a legal mechanism to prevent 'unethical' arms trade. Arms should not be exported when there is a serious risk that they might be used in human rights violations, in war crimes, organised crime or terrorism. They should also not be sold to unstable regions, poor countries or corrupt regimes. Reading this, one cannot conclude anything else than that that this treaty is meant to end all arms trade. However, as is well known, international treaties should not be taken too seriously, especially not when they aim at soft goals like respect for peace and human rights. In the first place, clever diplomatic phrasing will leave lots of useful loopholes for a treaty not to be effective. In the second place, if a state does not is not live up to the treaty, there will be no consequenses. Unless, of course, it is a paria state already.
Campaign of the Month: Exclamation of Outrage
24 Aug 2010
English
This is a new campaign planned to start in autumn (north hemisphere) 2010. Organised by several German peace and human rights organisations, among them: the Armaments Information Office and the German Peace Society (DFG-VK) who is a member of WRI.
The German foreign and economic policy must be an authentic and credible policy of peace based on humanitarian values. This can only be achieved by respecting the dignity and life of all human beings – even or just the one of innocent and
War Profiteer of the Month: BAE Systems
24 Aug 2010
English
Formerly known as British Aerospace, BAE Systems has grown into one of the world’s largest aviation and weapons companies, with major operations not only in the United Kingdom but also in Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and the United States, where it is now one of the Pentagon’s largest contractors. BAE is one of the top producers of armored combat vehicles such as the Bradley Fighting Vehicle (widely used by the U.S.
In prison now
What's new
NATO’s short and crisp Strategic Concept
20 Sep 2010
English
Come to Lisbon. Protest against the NATO summit in Portugal
20 Sep 2010
English
Email list help
24 Sep 2010
English
Website manuals
04 Sep 2008
English
NO to the new NATO strategy! Active for Global Peace, Disarmament and the End of NATO
20 Sep 2010
English
Against the war in Afghanistan – and/or against NATO?
20 Sep 2010
English
Techniques for consensus decision making in large groups: the spokespersons council method
20 Sep 2010
English
No to War – No to NATO
20 Sep 2010
English
The Broken Rifle
20 Sep 2010
English
War tax re­sist­an­ce: Inland Re­ve­nue threa­tens WRI
20 Sep 2010
English
CO alerts
ISRAEL: Conscientious objector Omer Shoshan sentenced to 20 days in prison
23 Sep 2010
English
AZERBAIJAN: Conscientious objector Farid Mammedov sentenced to nine months in prison
17 Sep 2010
English
TURKEY: Conscientious objector İnan Suver ended hunger strike
08 Sep 2010
English
TURKEY: Conscientious objector İnan Suver on hunger strike
03 Sep 2010
English
TURKEY: Conscientious objector İnan Suver arrested
06 Aug 2010
English
ISRAEL: Third prison term for conscientious objector Shir Regev
16 Jul 2010
English
NAGORNO-KARABAKH: Conscientious objector Armen Mirzoyan sentenced to one year imprisonment
08 Jul 2010
English
ISRAEL: Repeated imprisonment of conscientious objector Diane Kogan
22 Jun 2010
English
TURKEY: Conscientious objector Enver Aydemir sentenced to ten months #039; imprisonment
01 Apr 2010
English
ISRAEL: Second imprisonment of conscientious objector Shir Regev
26 Mar 2010
English
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