This week, there are hundreds of workshops and actions going on around the city, which is hosting thousands of participants. Some of them are being co-hosted by close UFPJ allies and partners. These include the workshops on nuclear disarmament and organizing against militarism being held by Peace and Planet, like:

• Confronting the Nuclear Danger in the Era of Rising Great Power Tensions: Analysis and Organizing
• Assemblée de convergence : Élimination des armes nucléaires, et au-delà/ Convergence Assembly : Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and beyond
• Whispers of War
  

There’s also a chance to meet with members of Iraqi civil society, some of whom have partnered with us in opposition to the US invasion and occupation of their country at Baghdad Cafè with the Iraqi Social Forum.

United for Peace and Justice’s co-convener, Terry Rockefeller- a representative of Sept. 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows-, will also be on a panel with members of the Iraqi Social Forum at International Solidarity with the Iraqi Protests and with People’s Civil Struggle in Middle-East Against Fundamentalism, Sectarianism and Authoritarianism. Daesh (IS) is not the only threat!

We hope those of you in Montreal will be able to connect with our allies at these enriching events and that your discussions will influence the direction and power of our future organizing for peace and justice.

If your organization is hosting an event at the Social Forum, please let us know at info.ufpj[at]gmail.com.

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ISIS displaying captured US-made weapons and military machinery

With the Islamic State on the rise, and the ever pressing threat of U.S. attacks or invasion in the Middle East, the peace movement is demanding that President Obama come clean on his strategy for Iraq. While the President has recently claimed that he has “no complete Iraq strategy,” the administration is already deploying around 500 troops, and building a new military base, in addition to the over 3,100 US troops already stationed in Iraq. Meanwhile, war mongers in Congress are beating drums for full-on escalation.

It’s time for the international peace movement to re-activate and oppose continued U.S. military intervention in Iraq.

Read the recent analysis by Phyllis Bennis, former UFPJ Steering Committee Member and Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies here: “Obama Does Have a Strategy in Iraq: Escalation.”

Please share this post and tell us what your group is doing to oppose U.S. military escalation in Iraq.

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The global situation is careening out of control.

Our President, who stated in his 2013 inaugural address that “a decade of war is now ending”, has authorized the bombing of 7 countries (most with which we are not at war):  Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Libya. The U.S. is currently sparring with Russia over the Ukraine, playing a very dangerous game with another nuclear armed power. 

We have been told by Obama administration national security and intelligence officials that there is no military solution in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, yet war is our continuing response. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not created a safer, more stable Middle East.  U.S. and NATO involvement instead have caused chaos and an endless cycle of regional wars. Too many Americans have shown a willingness to go along with more war with very little questioning or objection. 

It is irrational for Americans to believe that people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and across the Middle East will accept U.S. military intervention without fighting back. General McChrystal, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Commander in Afghanistan, warned that “for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.” Former State Department official in Yemen, Nabeel Khoury, estimated that “Given Yemen’s tribal structure, the U.S. generates roughly 40 to 60 new enemies for every AQAP [Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] operative killed by drones.”  Body Count, a recent study by Physicians for Social Responsibility, provides a conservative estimate of civilian casualties: Iraq 1 million; Afghanistan 220,000; Pakistan 80,000. How many new enemies have we created?

There is no solid strategy in place. Wars seem to end, but then reignite with ever more violence. We did not bring democracy to Iraq. We invaded a country with no weapons of mass destruction and no Al-Qaeda presence until after the U.S. invasion. We brought about the death of one million innocent civilians on top of the half million deaths of children, under sanctions from 1991-2003, and left Iraq in chaos with no end in sight. 

Some Americans may be quick to forget the tragedies and misdeeds of war. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the fighting takes place, have not forgotten.  Nor have our military men and women and their families. We must not forget those who served and bore the burden of war, those loved ones who will never return, and all those who were wounded in body, mind and soul. 

Now the war mongers are trying to convince us once again that war is absolutely necessary lest we be destroyed, this time by ISIS (Islamic State in Syria).  ISIS would not exist except for our invasion and occupation of Iraq. The same kind of fear mongering led us to war in Iraq and Afghanistan with catastrophic results! Are we really willing to let those same fear mongers, who have been wrong about everything, lead us into more war? 

ISIS is a terrible, violent entity, but more U.S.-led bombing is not the answer.  A U.S.-led campaign against ISIS is seen as a continuing crusade against Islam. One immediate result of U.S. airstrikes has been a surge in ISIS recruiting.

ISIS is a symptom of deeper problems in the Middle East.  The hard reality is that until the root causes that gave rise to ISIS are addressed, there will be no end to the cycle of violence. ISIS melts into the background, moves to another location, and returns when militias and U.S. air power move out. The struggle against ISIS and Al-Qaeda must be led by the Muslim countries in the region through political, social and economic development, not warfare.  The U.S. should play a positive role by seeking diplomatic means to address the real grievances behind the violence.    

There are no quick fixes. More than a decade of war proves that war is not the answer to violent extremism; it is, in fact, a catalyst.  It is time to stop repeating the mistakes of the past. We need to put our time, money, and intellects into developing a long term strategy that will produce better results than endless war. 

War affects us all, but the profits are reaped by a powerful few.  What we need is a new definition of “national security.”

National security exists when people have jobs with incomes sufficient to provide a decent standard of living, affordable housing and healthcare, education without lifetime student debt, and child and elder care.  National security includes efficient, affordable mass transit, modern public infrastructure, a proper social safety net, transition to sustainable energy, protection of our environment and wholesome food.  National security requires our country to operate in the world by earning respect rather than instilling fear.    

We must stop this madness.  The only thing that has ever put the brakes on the war makers has been people in the streets.  We need tens of millions in streets around the world demanding an end to this insanity.  People are moving; there is an enormous amount of global dissent, but it’s not enough — yet. 

In February of 2003, tens of millions of people around the world did take to the streets to object to a U.S. attack on Iraq. The New York Times called the demonstrations an expression of protest by the world’s other “super-power”. It is time once again for that alternative global super-power to take to the streets.

So spread the word –educate, organize, and mobilize!  Let the super-power; which is all of us; be seen and heard.  See you in the streets! 

• For reflections on the connections between Peace at Home and Peace Abroad, read Michael McPhearson’s thoughtful piece for UFPJ, “Deepening anti-racism Work in the Peace Movement”.
• Join and support the Peace & Planet Mobilization for a Nuclear-free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World, April 24 – 26 in New York City and around the world!

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Who:

What: Iraq: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?

Where: Quaker Meeting house 65 9th street San Francisco

When: 3/29/2015, 5:00:00 PM

On the 12th year of the U.S. War in Iraq, two presenters will lead a discussion on what’s next:

Wardah Khalid is a Scoville Fellow at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, focusing on research, development and presentation of non-violent policy solutions to counter the self-described Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, as well as highlighting why U.S. militarism is undermining locally-led peacebuilding approaches in these countries and throughout the region.

Prior to joining FCNL, Wardah worked as a CVE consultant in Houston, focusing on creating a community plan to counter violent extremism in the local Muslim American community.

Wardah recently graduated from Columbia University where she obtained a masters in International Affairs focused on Human Rights and Middle East Studies. While at SIPA, she interned for various UN and international agencies including UNRWA, UNDP, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate where she conducted research on Lone Wolf Terrorism from a UN perspective. She is also the author of the “Young American Muslim” blog for the Houston Chronicle.

Haider Abdul, Program Officer at Open Society Foundations, was the Iraqi journalist who did the “Talk to an Iraqi” for the radio program This American Life

http://www.ask.com/youtube?q=This+American+Life+and+Talk+to+an+Iraqi&v=GPEX0PnV-LU&qsrc=472

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January 22, 2015

I have been asked to make comments about deepening anti-racism work in the peace movement. Perhaps another way to understand this is how to support a movement for racial justice, and specifically Black liberation, that we understand invigorates and moves us towards a stronger peace movement.

In Veterans For Peace we ask members to use Peace at Home Peace Abroad not as a new initiative but as a lens for organizing and a narrative about war and peace, violence and non-violence. It is a tool to pull out of our organizing toolbox as a way to talk about how war impacts communities here at home, and how injustices here are connected to wars abroad. We understand that we cannot ask people to act on issues of war abroad when facing extreme challenges here at home. The Peace at Home Peace Abroad lens addresses issues across the spectrum of peace and justice struggles. It is a framework to build a broad movement based on the understanding that we must have both peace at home and peace abroad to truly have peace.

Please consider three points to remember that are foundational to broad inclusive movement building:

1. There is no one answer or a silver bullet to building solidarity.
2. Organizing is always about relationships and relevance (Are we connecting and presenting issues and struggles in a way that makes them relevant to people’s lives?)
3. Do we understand and believe that the struggle(s) is directly tied to our own struggle and inextricably bound together? If not, we do not understand and feel the human connectedness of our struggles, we cannot be effective allies and the people most impacted by the issue will smell opportunism and insincerity.

Over my years in the peace and anti-war movement, I have seen organizers bemoan our lack of ethnic, color and youth diversity. One factor I have tried to help people see is that activists of color, especially long-standing leaders, are very much aware of how war impacts local communities. However, they have real-time, in your face struggles to fight. This means that showing up for anti-war/peace activities means doing double duty.  They have little motivation to join anti-war efforts unless doing so will positively impact their home front work. They have no guarantee or reason to believe it will. They have seen little evidence that peace activists will meaningfully support their struggle. This makes it questionable as to whether activists in the overwhelmingly White peace movement understand how or are willing to be the kind of allies needed. This applies to movement work as well as intentional personal transformation in terms of changing their own social behavior and dealing with their own privilege to help teardown White supremacy to re-arrange the social and economic order. It does not make strategic sense to put energy in a place that will make no difference in the eat or don’t eat, have a home or be homeless, New Jim Crow incarceration environment, job or no job and life or death struggle people of color face in the U.S.

Take for example the July 4th, 2014 weekend in Chicago during which there were 82 shootings, 14 of them fatal. How many happened in the Black community I don’t know. I do know that when people in Chicago woke up Monday morning July 7th, no matter their color, they were not thinking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza over that weekend, or the conflict in Syria. And while many people in Chicago care about the Palestinians and Syrians caught in the middle of those conflicts, most are naturally much more concerned with their own personal safety and the lack of peace in their neighborhoods and streets.

So peace allies must make peace relevant, and show up in a supportive and real way that clearly demonstrates a domestic stake in struggles here at home, whatever that struggle may be.

One aspect of that is the militarization of the police, and how it relates to U.S. foreign policy. The recent and ongoing events in Ferguson, MO and around the country illustrate this well. We as peace activists have a real stake in that: it brings the tools of war into our daily domestic lives, invites excessive use of force and impacts all who face conflicts with police. During the past decade as peace activists we have faced police time and time again. But as an overwhelming White movement, the reaction by police has been very different to our protest. Further, the feared played upon to call for more money for more law enforcement and more equipment to solve economic and social problems is the same fear elevated to the international stage that calls for more Pentagon spending on soldiers and weapons to solve global challenges.

However, we as peace activists must understand that the central question is not militarization of the police. That is an outcome. Racism is fundamental to how the West wages war today through dehumanization. The foundation for that dehumanization abroad is dehumanization of brown and black people here at home, via domestic policy and socialization. This is different than simply confronting police misconduct and militarization. Confronting White supremacy gets at the root of why the misconduct and militarization is acceptable. Confronting home grown racism (and Islamophobia as another example), undermines the dehumanization that provides justification for the collateral damage of drone strikes, so-called precision bombing, torture and indefinite detention.

To take an understanding of Peace at Home Peace Abroad a step further, we must also remember the role of patriarchy in war, as it’s central to our global social and economic relationships. It doesn’t take much to see the definitive connection between how women and children are impacted here at home and abroad, especially by war.

I have touched on just a few of the wide range of issues directly related to Peace at Home, Peace Abroad. To build the broad progressive people’s movement we need to achieve peace and justice in this world, we will need to engage people in other movements. It is not our place to take lead, rather to engage with empathy and solidarity, understanding that there will not be peace abroad if we do not work for peace at home.

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Speakers included WSLF executive director Jackie Cabasso, who also spoke on behalf of United for Peace and Justice, Emily Yates, Iraq War veteran, Cat Brooks of ONYX/Black Power Network, Paul Cox of Veterans for Peace, Stephen McNeil of American Friends Services Committee, Janet Weil, CODEPINK staffer and military family member, and a member of Congress member Barbara Lee’s staff, whow read a statement from Congress member Lee.

Video of the press conference

Jackie Cabasso’s statement 

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On February 15, 2003, the world said no to war. Over 20 million people in at least 600 cities around the world took to the streets to oppose the impending invasion and occupation of Iraq, giving voice to the sentiment of billions. The New York Times called it the rise of a new superpower: world public opinion.

 SAY NO TO GLOBAL WARS!

The US-led “global war on terror” never ended. The stakes are getting even higher. In Afghanistan, Iraq and now Syria, it has brought death, displacement and chaos and resulted in the rise of a new terrorist group, ISIS.  Military actions have expanded with the attack and destruction of Libya by NATO in 2011, and continue with regular drone strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Guantanamo is still not closed. In Africa, ethnic terror attacks have led to massive bloodshed, with little media attention compared to attacks against Europeans, and there are millions of refugees and internally displaced persons with urgent needs for humanitarian support across the Middle East.

Tensions between Russia and the U.S. and its NATO allies centered on the conflict in Ukraine have sparked rounds of nuclear exercises and confrontations among nuclear-armed militaries. The US “pivot to the Pacific” adds fuel to an incendiary mix of confrontations over borders, resources, and trade in the Western Pacific, involving three old nuclear powers—the US, Russia, and China, and the most recent addition to the nuclear club, North Korea.  A new nuclear arms race is underway in South Asia between India and Pakistan, with China playing a pivotal role. In the Middle East, nuclear-armed Israel and most of the other nuclear powers are involved in complex webs of alliances and proxy wars, with no end in sight. A quarter century past the end of the Cold War, the potential for nuclear war is ever present and growing.

SAY NO TO MILITARIZING OUR COMMUNITIES!  

At home, governments are spending untold billions on war and militarism, fostering racism, Islamaphobia and xenophobia to justify war, and demonizing and imprisoning immigrants and poor people while engaging in surveillance, intimidation and torture. Austerity programs worldwide cut funding for human needs. Education cuts, coupled with soaring tuition fees and minimal wages in dead end jobs are used to drive up military recruitment in what amounts to a poverty draft. One of the most heartless and cynical ways austerity funds war is on the backs of veterans. The same politicians who try to silence antiwar voices are the first to cut services for the veterans they claim to support and to persecute soldiers who say no to war.

Law enforcement agencies are being transformed from “serve and protect” to “repress and control” not only in the streets but expanding into schools, hospitals and stores.   Rights to assemble and protest are being shredded. Our safety and often our lives are put at risk. “Shoot first and ask questions later” has become the standard operating principle, especially when it comes to people of color. When the police are militarized, they see communities – especially communities of color – as a battlefield and the residents, particularly black and brown youth, as the enemy. Our democracy becomes collateral damage in the wars at home and abroad. It’s time to deepen our collaboration with the racial justice movement.

 SAY NO TO THE WAR ON OUR PLANET!

Wars in the Middle East and Iraq today, like in 2003, aren’t about security. They’re about oil, unfettered U.S. and allied power, and control of resources to ensure the continuation of a consumer-driven corporate monopoly-controlled economy. Meanwhile, millions of people are being driven into a life of basic survival against the forces of greed, ideology and ecological destruction. In North America, we stand in solidarity with the Indigenous nations and communities courageously putting their bodies on the line to prevent construction of pipelines that will move dirty oil from the tar sands of Canada to the Gulf Coast, and fracking, which poisons our air, water and soil. It’s time to deepen our collaboration with the environmental justice movement to keep the oil in the soil and the boots off the ground.

YES! IT’S TIME TO RISE AGAIN!

War, occupation and austerity have not made the 99% safer. War benefits the arms makers, military brass, energy cartels, war lords, drug lords and opportunistic and corrupt politicians everywhere, but leads only to misery, destruction, dislocation and death for the majority of ordinary people.

In honor of February 15, 2003 and the Global Superpower of the people, let’s rise again to work together to build a sustainable world without racism, militarism and police brutality, that is rooted in true peace with justice, dignity and respect for the planet and all that inhabit it!

•   February 15^th: The World Says NO to War! We Say YES to Peace with Justice! Consider organizing a rally, march, vigil, speak-out, die-in, reading of names; leaflet or engage in more creative nonviolent actions at police stations, military facilities , corporate offices or government buildings in your community.

• March 19^th: Commemorate the 12^th anniversary of “Shock and Awe” with candlelight vigils, demonstrations, direct actions, and discussions about the cost of war to our families and communities.

•  April 15 (Tax Day in the U.S.): This year’s Global day of Action on Military Spending is April 13. It will be observed in the US on April 15. Join with thousands around the world taking action to protest the expenditure of our tax dollars on armaments and militarism and demand that military spending be redirected to meet human needs. http://demilitarize.org/global-day-action-military-spending/

•  April 24 -26:Join the Peace and Planet Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free, Just and Sustainable World, international days of action in New York City and around the globe on the eve of the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the United Nations.  The nuclear-armed nations have not met their NPT disarmament obligations and are spending $100 billion a year to maintain and modernize their nuclear arsenals. We need to step up our demand for a nuclear-free, just, sustainable world.  www.peaceandplanet.org

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Every year, United for a Fair Economy releases a report that reflects on Dr. King’s vision of a more equitable society. This year’s report, State of the Dream 2015: Underbanked & Overcharged, explores how an exclusionary and predatory banking system has been built, who is being affected, how much it costs workers and communities, and what we can begin to do to address the problem.  We are viewing this year’s State of the Dream report as an ongoing project: with continued research, policy recommendations, organizing efforts and facilitating the exchange of innovative ideas for how to rein in predators that are stripping wealth out of the communities that can least afford it.

We hope you enjoy a free download of the report here, and if you’d like any copies of the report or its highlights (available in Spanish, Chinese or French), please contact me directly.

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Quoting the Call to Action, which was released today (see attached), Dr. Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee and a co-convener of the network  said that “A nuclear weapon-free world can and must be achieved.” He continued, “The dangers of nuclear war didn’t disappear with the end of the Cold War. The United States and Russia engaged in potentially catastrophic nuclear weapons drills in the first days of the Ukraine War. ‘All options’ remain on the table threatening Iran, the U.S. has flown simulated nuclear attacks against North Korea, and scientists now tell us that an exchange of between 50 and 100 of the world’s more than 16,000 nuclear weapons would result in a global famine resulting in an estimated two billion deaths.”

Jackie Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation and also a co-convener of the international network, said: “The nuclear powers have refused to honor their legal and moral obligation to begin negotiations to ban and completely eliminate their nuclear arsenals. As we have seen at the United Nations High-Level Meeting for Disarmament and at the Oslo and Nayarit Conferences on the Human Consequences of Nuclear Weapons, the overwhelming majority of the world’s governments demand the implementation of the NPT. “We are working with partner organizations in the U.S. and other nations to mobilize international actions to bring popular pressure to bear on the 2015 Review Conference.”

The Spring 2015 Mobilization will highlight the inextricable connections between preparations for nuclear war, the environmental impacts of nuclear war and the nuclear fuel cycle, and military spending at the expense of meeting essential human needs – with $100 billion spent annually on nuclear weapons. The network demands that “the parties to the NPT …use the 2015 Review Conference to immediately, without delay, develop a time-bound framework for negotiating the elimination of their nuclear arsenals” and that the “four states outside the Treaty that have nuclear arms, India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan….join any such negotiations.” Additional demands are to address the causes of climate change, and to cut military spending to meet human needs and to create green jobs.

Judith LeBlanc of Peace Action, the third network co-convener reported that “Plans include a major international peace conference and march to the United Nations on the eve of the Review Conference, the presentation of millions of petition signatures to the Review Conference urging the abolition of nuclear weapons, creative nonviolent protests in New York and in national capitals around the world, and student and youth organizing campaigns.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – which entered into force in 1970 – is one of the seminal international agreements of the 20^th century. Its three pillars committed the non-nuclear nations never to acquire nuclear weapons, while in exchange the nuclear powers committed in Article VI to engage in good faith negotiations to completely eliminate their nuclear arsenals. It also recognizes the right of all NPT signatories to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes – a serious flaw in the Treaty.  A Review Conference is held at the United Nations every five years, providing the world’s nations an opportunity to hold one another accountable to their Treaty commitments.

Should the 2015 NPT Review Conference fail to mandate the commencement of abolition negotiations, the Treaty itself could fail, accelerating nuclear weapons proliferation and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic nuclear war.

The network’s coordinating and advisory committees for the Spring 2015 Mobilization include representatives of major peace, justice and environmental networks and organizations, as well as scholars and physicists. They include: Abolition 2000 (international), American Friends Service Committee (US), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Britain), Earth Action (international), International Association of Peace Messenger Cities, International Peace Bureau, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Japan Council against A- & H-Bombs (Japan), Mayors for Peace (international), Le Mouvement de la Paix (France), Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (US), Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament(international), Pax Christi International, Peace Action (US), Peace Boat (Japan), Western States Legal Foundation (US), United Methodists (US), United for Peace and Justice (US), World Peace Council, World Council of Churches, and many others.

The new Campaign web page is under construction. The Call to Action and list of Coordinating and Advisory Committee members can be found at http://afsc.org/resource/2015-npt-related-organizing.

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“Demilitarization for Deep Decarbonization: Reducing Militarism and Military Expenditures to Invest in the UN Green Climate Fund and to Create Low-Carbon Economies and Resilient Communities” 

by Tamara Lorincz, Senior Researcher September, 2014
IPB Letter to SDSN and IDDRI dated August 15, 2014 

Take Action

Join us for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending every April. In 2015, let’s link the Global Day of Action on Military Spending  to Earth Day, April 22.
About Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project and COP21

Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP)

Green Climate Fund (GCF)

Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

More info about the UN & DDPP
Some Key Resources on Militarism, War and Climate Change – IPB Recommendations

Books and Publications

Conflict and Climate Change, Booklet and DVD
Movement for the Abolition of War, United Kingdom

Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance 
Book by Marty Branagan

The Impact of Militarism on the Environment
Publication by Physicians for Global Survival Canada

The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism
Book by Barry Sanders.

Paying for the Climate Pivot
Article by Emily Schwartz Greco and John Feffer

The US Military is a Major Contributor to Global Warming
Article by John Lawrence

Websites

Costs of War Project

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Stop the Wars, Stop the Warming
Ideas for hashtags
#demilitarize2decarbonize
#lessmilitarylessemissions
###Don’t let the climate be another casualty of war

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