Upcoming massive protest in Washington DC to support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. We must stand together united to fight for peace! War is wholly unnecessary and horrific. It must end. Will you be attending the protest?

Saturday November 4, 2023 | 2pm | Freedom Plaza

https://peoplesforum.org/events/national-march-on-washington-free-palestine/

To Presidents Biden, Putin and Zelensky:

IT’S TIME TO STOP THE KILLING AND DEVASTATION. CEASEFIRE & PEACE NEGOTIATIONS NOW!

The war in Ukraine has taken tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives, uprooted millions, contaminated land, air and water and worsened the climate crisis.

The longer the war goes on, the greater the danger of spiraling escalation which can lead to a wider war, environmental devastation and nuclear annihilation.

The war diverts billions that could be addressing urgent human needs.

Total military victory cannot be achieved by either Russia or Ukraine. It is time to support the calls by Pope Francis, United Nations Secretary-General Guterres, Presidents Lula de Silva of Brazil, Erdoğan of Turkey, Xi of China, and others for a ceasefire and a negotiated end to this calamitous war.

Stop the killing, agree to a ceasefire and begin negotiations!

Here is our latest issue of Pax in Terra - Zine for Peace! Please read and share with your communities. We are always looking for submissions to our zine.

Please send any writing, art, photography, videography, ***WHATEVER you got*** to contact@epaxoc.org and we will add it into our upcoming issues!

Kathleen Temple, a member of EPOC and Shenandoah Valley Anti-War Coalition, wrote a Letter to the Editor for the Daily News-Record.

“Our Representative Ben Cline could, along with his House Budget Committee colleagues, shut off the funding spigot to the Biden administration's war against Russia.

Then, our Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner would be forced to support negotiations to end the terrible war in Ukraine.

The Ukraine war, and indeed any U.S. war, need not continue one more day.

I am with The Experiential Peace Organizing Committee and Peace Praxis, Shenandoah.”

Kathleen Temple

Rockingham County

If the logic that "there are no innocent Russians" because the Russian people have a moral obligation to overthrow their warmongering government were evenly applied, it would also apply to Americans. Even more so, really, since their government is vastly more warlike than Moscow.

Per the "there are no innocent Russians" argument, Americans should be banned from participating in international events. Americans should be kicked out of foreign universities. Cinemas should stop playing Hollywood movies. Hemingway should be banned from schools.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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Decamp writes that "The lessening concern about Putin resorting to nukes appears to be based only on the fact that he hasn’t used any up to this point." But this is as logical as believing that it is safe and wise to jump even harder on the sleeping bear you've been jumping on just because the bear hasn't woken up yet.

The assumption that because a disaster has not happened in the past it will not happen in the future is a type of fallacious reasoning known as normalcy bias. The assumption that because a disaster has not happened in the past it will not happen in the future, even though you keep doing things to make it increasingly likely, is just being a fucking idiot. It's like Wile E Coyote jumping up and down on the land mine until it explodes because it didn't explode when the Roadrunner ran over it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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Letter to the Editor, written by Kathleen Temple, an actively engaged EPOC member!

“The risk of nuclear conflagration by intent or by accident, though it is as high right now as it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, is not much in the public eye. The danger of nuclear escalation is not often discussed. Neither is the population well educated about what post-nuclear destruction would be like.”

Letter to the Editor, written by Kathleen Temple, an actively engaged EPOC member!

“We U.S. taxpayers pay for many things with our taxes, but no department receives nearly as much of our money as the Pentagon. Some estimate that fully half of our federal monies are gobbled up by the war department.”

Blacksburg, Virginia’s Future Economy Collective has new merch on sale! The shirts and tote bags read “PREPPERS FOR A PEOPLE’S FUTURE,” which is a phrase we align with here in EPOC. We know that we all deserve to live in peace. We know that war is an abomination which deprives us all of peace. We know that military spending bloats the national budget and we know that as long as weapons and murder is glorified - then we will never have peace. We will never have a people’s future. Peace NOW!

A repost from an exceptional Caitlin Johnstone video posted to Youtube.

JOIN THE PEACE RALLY! This Friday December 2, 2022 in Blacksburg, Virginia at 5pm, there will be a rally for peace outside the downtown post office. Our survival is on the line. We must demand peace NOW! Ceasefire NOW! Defund wars NOW!

Americans vote for peace in election after election, but wars surface from the bowels of the State Department and Security state. Americans want peace and democracy–not an empire where they are asked to continue sacrificing forever for the armament dealers and the ruling class of U.S. oligarchs.

Americans need to live in a democracy worthy of being touted as an example. But Americans are well aware that their democracy does not represent them but is rigged for the rich. With what we spend on constant wars, we could rebuild our own country and end poverty and homelessness here.

“A bloody stalemate, a struggle for peace.”

Letter To The Editor: U.S. foreign policy endangering us all

The first issue of our zine “Pax in Terra” is now live! Check it out.

Want a more just and peaceful world? Well, we’ve got to organize like our lives depend on it—because it does.