Week of August 19, 2024

Topic Scans and Links:

“No War 2024: Resisting the USA's Military Empire.” The Peace Alliance, with other organizations are convening a No War 2024 conference from September 20 to 22.

A benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance September 15 at 7:30 p.m. PST. If you're in Berkeley, it will be at the Freight and Salvage venue on 2020 Addison Street. Tickets are available at the door or in advance now.

On the 155th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, October 2, the International Day of Nonviolence, Campaign Nonviolence is operating Action Days, encouraging all of us to hold an event or at least attend some kind of nonviolent teach-in on this date.

Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis

80,000 Hours. a nonprofit organization that conducts research on which careers have the largest positive social impact, providing career advice based on that research.

Death Penalty Action, with over 300 other organizations have sent a letter to the president to order that the federal execution chamber in Indiana be demolished, to direct the Department of Justice not to pursue the death penalty and to commute the death sentences of more than 40 inmates who are currently on death row in federal penitentiaries.

Jewish Voice for Peace had a rally in Oakland called Not Another Bomb.