Commitment to Nonviolence- Peace With Justice

Collaborative Peacemaking

We commit to nonviolence and collaborative peacemaking...

Therefore, we challenge militarism and organized violence.

Recommended Web Resources

NHCUCC 2019 Resolution "Back from the Brink Initiative to end the threat of nuclear war"

Back from the Brink: The Call to Prevent Nuclear War: https://preventnuclearwar.org

Win Without War:

https://winwithoutwar.org

The People Over Pentagon Campaign:

https://peopleoverpentagon.org

UN Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT): https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt

Poor People's Campaign: War Economy Plank

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PPC-Policy-Platform_8-28.pdf

Opportunities to Redirect and Reduce Excessive Pentagon Spending:

https://peopleoverpentagon.org/guidetocuts/ 

https://getinvolved.pogo.org/

Support the Start Treaty:

https://www.state.gov/new-start/

Interfaith Working Group on Drones

https://www.interfaithdronenetwork.org/

https://www.interfaithdronenetwork.org/films.html

Military Escalation and Economic Sanctions Against Venezuela:

https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/military-escalation-and-economic-sanctions-against-venezuela/

Prayers for Peace with Iran:

https://prayers4peace.org/

Nonviolent Citizen Action:

https://www.nonviolentcommunityaction.com/

Nine of these on Nonviolence:

https://www.nonviolentcommunityaction.com/post/what-is-nonviolence-nine-theses-on-nonviolence?fbclid=IwAR1EJ9vyaaEHhmWnkgovr8Usv-7dL9vGNmyv5GFlaA173A4Zjfsu3MVYuKE

 Albert Einstein Institution:

https://www.aeinstein.org/

Pacee Bene: Campaign Nonviolence:

https://paceebene.org/

Slash Pentagon Spending (Lee/Pocan Letter):

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/progressives-push-slash-defense-budget-267953

Oppose arms sales to Philippines:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/26/citing-dual-threat-covid-19-and-duterte-coalition-calls-congress-block-us-arms-sale?fbclid=IwAR34B2YNE_GX-lUymgjsQ3LbW_RTXFgP5A6WTXkqtbwW3NCKDb4ENYxcKDY

Oppose Nuclear Testing:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-administration-discussed-conducting-first-us-nuclear-test-in-decades/2020/05/22/a805c904-9c5b-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html

Oppose Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/openskies

The Day the Confederate Flag Flew in the United States Capitol:

https://billmoyers.com/story/podcast-bill-moyers-and-heather-cox-richardson/

Books

Medea Benjamin. Drone Warfare

Films

The Bomb, an American documentary film about the history of nuclear weapons, from theoretical scientific considerations at the very beginning, to their present global political implications. 

https://www.pbs.org/show/bomb/

Back from the Brink:

https://preventnuclearwar.org/multi-media/