dENOUNCE tRUMP's wAR ON iRAN

It is illegal. There is international law. Countries are not free to go to war whenever they want. There is a United Nations Charter of which the U.S. is a member. This blitzkrieg is aggression, a war crime.

It is unconstitutional. This is plainly, obviously, a war. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress and only Congress the power to start a war.  Even after the surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941 FDR went to Congress the very next day to get permission to go to war. This is a grave violation. In contrast Trump didn’t even bother to have an address to the nation before starting this war. 

It’s built on lies. The president says that the U.S. is under “imminent threat”. Of what? From the nuclear program that he said he had obliterated last year? From missiles that can’t possibly reach the USA. There’s also the lie that the U.S. was engaged in “diplomacy” with Iran. Clearly the talks were a cover for the mobilization.

It might succeed…at first. The Iranian regime is good at killing unarmed citizens but as shown last year it couldn’t even prevent Israeli agents from infiltrating the country and firing rockets from within Iran. After its butchery of the January uprising citizen morale is low. There are some who would welcome back the hideous monarchy of the Shah. This is not the Iran that took hundreds of thousands of casualties defending against Saddam Hussein’s attack in the ‘80’s. Don’t believe the stupid regime threats. Remember the colossal blather from Gaddafi and Hussein as they came under attack. Yet recall how easy it was for Bush to conquer Iraq in 2003 and then all the chaos, lost lives and failure in the years that followed.

The politicians are pretty useless. Yes there was a bit of vernal sniping here and there but the “progressives” in Congress never even had a news conference to firmly denounce the run up to war.

It is Netanyahu’s and the Apartheid regime’s happiest blood-drenched dream. More and more war to justify more and more fascism. Judge those who support his endless violence.

The antiwar movement is weak. In the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq there were massive demonstrations worldwide, 500,000 marched in New York City. As Trump mobilized forces there was virtually no opposition in the streets.

The American people don’t want this war. Polls show it. 

Let’s tell them the truth and organize.

Breaking: In Connecticut a rally will be held on Sunday Feb. 22 at the State Capitol at 210 Capitol Avenue starting at 1:30.

Four years ago (on Jan. 24, 2024) Putin's Russia launched a devastating aggression against Ukraine.  There's a lot of garbage on the Left about Ukraine provoking the attack but the simple fact is that Ukrainians are a nation that Putin wanted to crush and to make them and their land Russian.

The war has ground down to a stalemate with Trump adopting Putin's plan for Ukraine to give up its land in the east in return for security "guarantees" [Remember how well the 1994 guarantees signed by the U.S. and Russia worked.]

Proxy war?  Now that it's clear that Trump and Putin are in alliance why is the supposed proxy (Ukraine) still fighting?

An article on the Yale School  of Medicine site says that 19,000 children were taken by Russian forces for "reeducation" and adoption and only 1,000 returned.

The Trump Administration seeks to abandon the cause of a free independent Ukraine. It has stopped giving weapons to Ukraine.  Last year saw a 99% drop in U.S. military aid.  "Instead, the Trump administration has opted to sell weapons to Ukraine via NATO partners." reports the Kyiv Independent.

Stand with Ukraine. If it feels it has to make huge concessions in the face of Putin and Trump, that's one thing.  But whatever moral pressure we can exert should be against Putin's fascist and imperial project.

In Connecticut a rally will be held on Sunday Feb. 22 at the State Capitol at 210 Capitol Avenue starting at 1:30.

See video of last year's rally here.

Do you get PEP's "Ukraine Posts"?  We're up to post #61.  To get added to our list write to office@pepeace.org

And see the section on our home page where we demolish the Putin-Trump "peace plan".

And our archive of links to scores of articles about Ukraine and Russia

Sensing an opportunity Trump and Netanyahu are gearing up for more warfare against Iran.  They have a puppet all ready,  Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last despised Shah of Iran who was overthrown in a popular uprising in 1979.  But, of course, they could "Machado" him and work out a deal with the mullahs to put Iran under Trump's thumb and let the fascist regime officials stay on top.  

No imperial attack on Iran, no support for a crooked imperial deal.

And of course no solidarity with the "Islamic Republic" which crushed the January peoples' uprising, killing at least 6,000 people and probably many many more.  Amnesty International says thousands of new prisoners are at risk of torture.

Do examine the writings of Iranian exile Siyavash Shahabi.     Read his posts on Facebook.  Some examples:

Feb.  2 "Why is it that when it comes to Iran, the very principles loudly defended elsewhere in the name of democracy and freedom of expression are suddenly abandoned, and society is squeezed into a false binary of Khamenei versus Pahlavi? This kind of polarization is neither accidental nor neutral. It is exactly the point where politics is erased and replaced by a fabricated narrative—one rooted in a political outlook that is always seeking to eliminate social agency.  The myth of Mossad and CIA interference is produced within the same framework. It is a joint product of Islamic fascism and Zionist fascism."

Feb. 1 "Yesterday, retirees of the Social Security Organization in Shush, Khuzestan, gathered in front of the local Social Security office...The retirees chanted slogans such as: “Our rights are won only in the streets,” “Costs are in dollars, our wages are in rials,” “A rich country, what has happened to you?” “Down with servitude, long live life,” calling for the minimum conditions of a dignified and humane life."

Jan. 31 "the Assembly of Isfahan Steelworkers published two important texts: a message of solidarity with those killed in December 2025, and a protest statement addressing workers’ living conditions and the violation of labor rights."

Jan. 30 " The killing of protesters has never been a real red line for the West over the past four decades. On the contrary, whenever protests have directly threatened capital, the global economic order, or the stability of allied states, such repression has either been ignored or described in neutral, harmless language. "

Shahabi also has a blog "The Fire Next Time"

For those who think that an imperial attack on Iran might help the people, read this post from Professor Stephen Zunes. "Knew the young Serbs who for years had been trying to bring down the Milosevic regime, finally succeeding through a massive nonviolent civil insurrection in 2000.  They strongly opposed the NATO bombing a year and a half earlier, believing it set back their cause..."  See complete note on FB

 An initial assessment of the US attack on Venezuela, January 6, 2026

By Roberto López Sánchez

Nothing in Venezuela Is What It Seems - January 9, The Havana Times

 Click here for a January 5 interview with Venezuelan activist Simon Rodriguez .  The title is, "Monroe Doctrine Reloaded.  Trump Kills 80 and Kidnaps Maduro"

From their January 10 article  "How Venezuela’s New Leader Went From Revolutionary to Trump’s Orbit"

"As foreign minister, she was part of the decision-making process seeking a reset of relations in 2017 with the United States at the start of the first Trump administration. That was when Citgo Petroleum, then the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s national oil company, donated $500,000 to Mr. Trump’s inauguration."

Bringing in a new team of economic advisers from Venezuela and abroad, Ms. Rodríguez brokered a truce with Venezuela’s economic elite and embarked on a stealth privatization of natural resources by giving foreign investors control over some coveted projects, such as oil fields, cement plants and iron ore mines.

" But on Friday, less than a week after the United States snatched Mr. Maduro under cover of night, Ms. Rodríguez put out a statement saying that Venezuela was exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic ties and sending a delegation to Washington. "

"Underscoring the strain facing her, Mr. Trump told The Times in an interview this past week that she was in constant communication with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a detail confirmed by a person close to Ms. Rodríguez who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations"

Jan 4

1) No occupation, no bombing, no phony war against drugs or against imaginary narco-terrorists. Condemn the latest imperial adventure.  Bring the U.S. expedition home.

2) It's easy for a superpower to launch an invasion. Not so easy to impose its fantasies on another country. Remember Iraq? Remember Afghanistan? The U.S. has  invaded many times the Western hemisphere. How well has Haiti turned out?

3) Trump claims his action was part of some war on what he calls narco-terrorism.  What a hypocrite!  He recently freed former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been convicted in the U.S. of helping smuggle more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. (NPR tells about other drug dealers released by Trump

4) The big corporations are no doubt salivating over how they’ll get Venezuela’s resources at bargain basement prices. Oil will poison the atmosphere at an even faster rate, but there's also water, gold, "rare earths" and more to be stolen.

5) Where is the huge militia that Maduro said would defend the country? It didn’t exist. Maduro was terrified if he armed the people he’d be the first target.  

 As Trump squeezed on Venezuela Maduro could have freed the union leaders and other political prisoners and proposed a united front but the caudillo had no strategy except trying to appease the empire.

6) Ukraine PM Zelensky's response was shameful. According to the Daily Mail (UK) Zelensky gave a “wry smile” and said that the US could do what it did to Maduro to Russia’s Putin.  Why flatter a US Administration working hard to sell out the people of Ukraine? At the very least Zelensky could have been silent.

7) No doubt resistance will take place sooner or later. “Allies”, mercenaries and collaborators will be called in first with American troops sent in next.  Get those “Support the Troops!” banners out from storage.

8) President Trump says openly that the US will run Venezuela.  Too bad for the Venezuelan stooges of imperialism.

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1-3-26

The grave threats facing Venezuela urgently require mass unity of action from anti-imperialist groups

 We condemn Trump’s military aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores! – Socialist Core 

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From Simon Rodríguez, from Venezuelanvoices.org 1/4/26

Trump openly says that his purpose is to colonize Venezuela ("we are going to run the country") and plunder its resources, that the Venezuelan right wing led by Maria Corina Machado will not govern, and that he does not rule out a military occupation (troops on the ground). Trump is an enemy of the Venezuelan people, he had already shown it by mass deporting and torturing Venezuelan migrants, killing dozens of Venezuelans in the Caribbean, and now killing dozens in Venezuelan territory on January 3 and bombing civil infrastructure like the port of La Guaira. The future of Venezuela must only be decided by the Venezuelans.

It seems unlikely that Maduro was kidnapped quickly and without resistance, without the cooperation of the Chavist armed forces, or at least a sector of them.

 These military are useless to defend the country from imperialist aggression, they only serve to repress the people.

Beyond the just hatred that millions of workers have for Maduro, this US action has nothing to do with bringing "democracy" or "liberating" anyone, but with looting and colonizing. That's what Trump, with his usual brutality, has openly said about his actions.

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Statement by the Latin American Anarchist Coordination – Coordinación Anarquista LatinoAmerica (CALA).  

" every time the United States has invoked these pretexts, the result has been social devastation, loss of sovereignty, and violence. "   

Finally after months in ICE custody and under travel ban Mahmoud Khalil could go to Connecticut to accept the award in person.

Video of Khalil and PEP Administrator Heller holding up the banner PEP created demanding Khalil's freedom

Here he talks about Syria

The Day Had Begun with Hope (Dr. Ezzedin writes)

https://youtube.com/shorts/5clhz68BeSw

Presentation of Courage Award by Justine McCabe

https://youtube.com/shorts/HGYzz2CK14o

Acceptance Message from family of Dr. Abu Safiya

https://youtube.com/shorts/DdQ51Xwph34?feature=share

Poster Shout Out "Free Dr. Abu Safiya"

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j98QR5D28AU

Mahmoud Khalil was born to Palestinian refugees in Syria, took part in demonstrations for freedom, but he had to flee when repression became murderous.  He graduated college in Beirut and completed his master's in public administration at Columbia.  In spring 2024, Khalil emerged as a negotiator and spokesperson during the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.  This year the Trump Administration targeted him and even though he had a Green Card and no convictions for any crime, Trump's people tried to deport him.  Khalil was jailed in Louisiana but is currently freed on bail.  He'll give his tribute to Palestinian doctors and will talk about the difficulties students faced standing up for human rights in 2024, his treatment by ICE and his continued persecution, and what students are doing now to support Palestine. 

...The second Global Tipping Points Report (released 10/13/25) finds that warm-water coral reefs – on which nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend – are now passing their tipping point. Widespread dieback is occurring, and unless global warming is reversed, extensive reefs as we know them will be lost. However, small refuges may survive and must be protected.

Authored by 160 scientists from 87 institutions in 23 countries, the report warns that the planet is dangerously close to triggering other catastrophic tipping points – from melting ice sheets to Amazon rainforest dieback and the collapse of key ocean currents.

See the full article at the Stockholm Resilience Center

The Baby Boomer generation knew about nuclear bombs. In schools in the ‘50’s there were "duck and cover" drills that were supposed to protect from atomic bombs. Brochures were sent home with some very frank information. Most cities turned on their air raid sirens at noon on Saturdays.

As late as the ‘80’s there was instruction. In 1983 there was intense fear of a nuclear conflict.  A movie made for TV was to be shown called “The Day After” which would dramatize a limited nuclear war.  There was concern around the country that thousands of children would be traumatized by the film and schools around the country had special programs to talk about what students would be seeing.  

After tensions eased between the US and the Soviet Union/Russia in the '90, it looked like atomic fears were largely a thing of the past.  However, now that treaties have been abandoned and the nuclear arms race has renewed, the "unthinkable" has to be thought about long and hard.

But what if anything is being taught to students about nuclear weapons? Is it just we have all these bombs so no one would dare attack?

Why not ask your school system? Find out how to contact your school superintendent, high school principal and head of the social studies department. Or email members of your Board of Education. 

The point is not just to scare people. Students should also be taught about nuclear disarmament.  Students should be told that a partial nuclear disarmament started in the 1980’s and reduced the U.S. warhead stockpile by near 90%.  Ask questions.  Are students told about the various nuclear weapons reduction treaties like the test-ban treaty and START?  Do they know that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was signed by 94 countries and became part of international law in 2021 and bans possession of nuclear bombs?  Do they know of current efforts to totally disarm like “Back from the Brink”?

Age-appropriate discussion of nuclear weapons is vital.  

Beginners Guide (from Back from the Brink)

PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, first authorized by Bush in 2003, has saved millions of lives, by one estimate over 20 million.  In one of his first executive orders Trump suspended PEPFAR for 90 days.  All sorts or program shut down.  Then they were partially restored, but the chaos had done its work and PEPFAR was broken.  Finally Trump formally closed USAID which ran the PEPFAR program.

The result has been terrible, murderous.  The site  PEPFAR Impact Tracker cited in an article in The Atlantic  has a live counter for the number of deaths caused.  As of July 8 the number was over 79,000.

This is but a fraction of the deaths expected from an ending of the USAID program. A peer-reviewed article in the esteemed British medical journal The Lancet says the expected number of deaths by 2030 would be 14 million!  No typo there.  14 million, over two Holocausts worth of human beings.  Read about the report in an article on a UCLA site.

Click here to see the 6/24/25 video with Iranian socialist Yassamine Mather.  Mather is in Britain.

Some Takeaways

• The concern about about a nuclear Iran is phony. The treaty that Obama made with Iran completely stopped the possibility of a nuclear armed Iran
• The IAEA does numerous inspections in Iran and even under Fordrow.
• During the bombing the people rallied around the nation, though not the Islamic Republic.
• The regime in Iran could very well disguise its incompetence by attacking on supposed “Israeli agents.” They did this during the Iraq-Iran war and killed thousands of Leftists.
• Russia and China have close relations with Israel and did nothing for Iran but say a few empty words.
• The son of the Shah has no intention of returning to Iran no matter of what Netanyahu tells.
• The sanctions against Iran has benefitted the Iranian Mafia capitalists.
• Warnings were not given by the state to hide during bombings.
• Local self-help groups did function and are a basis for organization.
• The attack on Iran crudely violated international law and the U.S. Constitution.
• Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in London to protest the war.

New 6/25  700 arrested in new repression

[our comment - How did the regime know whom to arrest?  They didn't know

to prevent agents to set up drone launching sites WITHIN IRAN. 

Trump’s Midnight Hammer - Tom Stevenson  LRB  6/24

"As for the 400 kg of highly enriched uranium that was supposedly the reason for the US joining the attack, neither Israel nor the US knows where it is, and they don’t much care."

...And do remember that Biden could have reinstated Obama's agreement on nuclear with Iran, but he tried to appease Israel/Republican objections and never got a new agreement done.  That made it much easier for Trump's strategy.

The same old lies. We heard it all with Gaza. Israel will ONLY bomb ….. and now they bomb everything.

Israel says it will deal with the supposed Iranian nuclear threat by blowing up its nuclear capacity. So they attack nuclear sites. BUT then they assassinate generals and civilian nuclear scientists and destroy airplanes and gas fields and bomb a TV station.

Trump lied that this was purely Israeli warfare knowing full well that it’s US planes and US “intelligence” that makes Israeli attacks possible. Now he has made a demand   for "unconditional surrender" making the U.S. a full partner in this aggression.   On June 17 Trump said all of Tehran should evacuate ‘immediately’.  What kind of immense war crime is being planned?

Read about the definition of the legal crime of aggression.  It's the use of armed force against another state.  It's sometimes considered the supreme war crime because it brings on all the others.

But what about the supposed existential threat from Iran to Israel's existence?  [Even Trump "Intelligence chief" Tulsi Gabbard says Iran isn't building a bomb.] International law allows the use of force to repel an actual attack or a plainly imminent one. But a country  can't just CLAIM it feels threatened and take military action.    India and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons.  Both know it's a danger, but does that mean that each has the right to go invade the other country?

WE NEED PROTEST.

Statement from Iranian Intellectuals Against Israel-Iran War

Statement from an Iranian collective of independent organizations. [That oppose Iran's repressive government.]

Very worth reading, the Facebook posts of Iranian Siyâvash Shahabi.  Here's one.

 A  View from an Afghan/Iranian group, Anarchist Front - English at very end

Kavita Krishnan displays the writing of an Iranian leftist named Sahar Delijani 

India and Pakistan are attacking each other. Nuclear weapons possession is NOT DETERRING either side.

The dream of the far-right is for strongmen to rule with an iron fist all over the world. They say this will bring world order.  Instead it's a recipe for war.

 Military dominated Pakistan and semi-fascist India are at each others throats.

Here are three anti-war analyses from leftists in India.

Nobel peace prize winning ICAN calls for de-escalation.

An analysis of the terrorist attack that was the spark for this warfare on the site of Workers Voice.

This India-Pakistan Skirmish Is Not Like the Others - New York Times 5-7

Two Billion Could Die in an India-Pakistan Nuclear War (2022)

Sean O'Brien will speak on Sat., December 7 about the tech "everybody" is talking about and using AI.   The talk will take place at 2 p.m. in the Community Program room of the New Haven Public Library (opposite the Green) at 133 Elm St.

Free       Refreshments

Title of the talk  "AI Isn't Funny"

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced disruptive technology into the fabric of our society. This presentation examines the intersection of AI with issues of privacy, cybersecurity, environmental sustainability, and human creativity. We'll discuss the growing surveillance structure of both corporate and state actors and examine specific cases of AI-powered targeting of populations. 

We’ll talk about how AI is being used by the military and the massive energy AI requires, accelerating problems with fossil fuel and nuclear energy. 

AI may be able to tell jokes, but it's not funny.  

Check out his website   IvyCyber.com

To learn about his expertise click here

Here are some useful articles about AI

Massive Energy Use of AI and Blockchain - Democracy Now November 19, 2024

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza - 972mag

 As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires - Yale 360

AI Poses Risk of Extinction - Industry Leaders Warn - NYT, May 2023

Obscene Energy Demands of AI - Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, March 2024

ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch - Guardian (UK) 2/2023

Staggering Variety of Clandestine Trackers Found in  Android Apps - The Intercept

Merely changing from fossil fuels  to electric cars is not a winning strategy. For one thing, right now electricity is mostly produced by natural gas and in many places by coal.  For another a massive demand for lithium and other minerals may cause a “green colonialism” as the powerful countries ravage poorer countries and indigenous areas for what they need. The 20th century idea of prosperity being a “new car in every garage” is a now a mistake and a danger. For the sake of a livable climate for humans and other animals we need mass transportation.  The most energy efficient electric vehicle is the bus.  Big buses for long trips and small buses or vans to pick up people from their homes.

Click here  for Simon Pirani's remarks about  a free bus campaign in London

The state of Karnataka in southwest India has a population of 61 million.  It  started a program in 2023 where women can travel on its buses for free.  Here's a video about it. [For some reason everyone uses the word "scheme" when talking about the program.  In the U.S. a "scheme" is something crooked.  ]

https://youtu.be/7m55bWD59_E?feature=shared

Here's three videos about electric powered buses.

Finland

https://youtu.be/mF-Tw0BsaxE?si=ITh6TG-g4EzwWYfo

London

https://youtu.be/1kJf0-lUoRw?si=4C3nDx6_g4DhVaLu

Top 10 Electric Buses 2021

https://youtu.be/jghNvTW6zqE?si=C_16UcrPLzRqLW7_

Now just going to free electric buses would cause problems.  A number of places had free buses after COVID moderated as a way to get people to use buses again.  It was a mixed blessing.  To some extent the buses became a place where people would go who were unhoused, unemployed or having psychological problems.  They could ride around on a warm bus not really going anywhere.  There were sometimes physical attacks on bus drivers.  Piecemeal efforts to make reform have this limitation.  There has to be big efforts on all sides of climate and social problems all at once.

Vocabulary note.  We're talking about vitally needed carbon zero not the "net zero" scam whereby companies can burn fossil fuels while supposedly paying for planting trees  or some other green scheme. 

The City of Nagasaki would not invite representatives from Israel for the annual ceremony.  This led the U.S., the U.K. and a few others to boycott the ceremony.  Why would Nagasaki do this?  Is it overly sensitive to genocide?  Or is it that Israel won't sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?  Biden-Harris, of course, stands behind imperialism's attack dog.

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Putin has said that he could respond with nuclear weapons if any of Russia was invaded.  Well, Ukraine just attacked and occupied in the Kursk region.

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From the site WorkersVoiceUS.org

" In “Hiroshima Notes,” Oe Kenzaburo writes of a moment in the midst of the Korean war when the United Press bureau chief in Tokyo asked a blind A-bomb victim, “I suppose we could end the war if we dropped two or three atomic bombs on Korea; as an A-bomb victim, what’s your opinion?” 

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Click here for Program Friday 8/9 at 6:30 p.m. in Quaker Meeting House

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From the Hiroshima Declaration of the World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs - Hiroshima August 4, 2024

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in 2025, let us launch a grand campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons:

 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a "beacon of hope". It embodies the cause of human survival, and despite obstructions by nuclear powers, 93 countries have signed and 70 have ratified or acceded to the treaty.  

- Never allow the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. let the humanitarian consequences of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as of nuclear tests conducted worldwide be widely known, and let public opinion for the abolition of nuclear weapons be greatly developed. Support Japanese and Korean Hibakusha and the victims of nuclear tests around the world, and cooperate with and contribute to activities to implement articles of the TPNW.

- Strengthen the campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons and for participation in the TPNW in particular. Strengthen this movement especially in the nuclear-armed countries and countries that rely on “extended nuclear deterrence”.

- Make the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, the Meeting of the Parties to the TPNW, and the NPT Review Conference as milestones to develop these campaigns in each country and develop international joint actions and cooperation between governments and civil society movements.

- Refuse military expansion, dismantle foreign military bases, dissolve military alliances, provide compensation and support to victims of war such as by Agent Orange and eradicate war-damages, promote peace education, end the war in Ukraine based on the principles of the UN Charter and diplomatic solution of the problems, stop genocidal attack on and blockade of Gaze by Israel, oppose terrorism by Hamas, and demand immediate ceasefire, and build wide-ranging cooperation with various peace movements working on these demands.

- Turn the tide of global conflict, division, and military expansion to build inclusive peace and redirect resources to solving the problems facing humanity.