Dennis Kucinich Speaks at UN for Nuclear Weapons Ban

By Dennis J. Kucinich, on Behalf of the Basel Peace Office
Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament, Tuesday, September 26, 2017
http://worldbeyondwar.org/dennis-kucinich-speaks-un-nuclear-weapons-ban/

Your Excellency, President of the General Assembly, Distinguished Ministers, Delegates and Colleagues:

I speak on behalf of the Basel Peace Office, a coalition of international organizations dedicated to the elimination of nuclear weapons

The world is in urgent need of truth and reconciliation over the existential threat of development of and use of nuclear weapons.

We have a shared global interest in nuclear disarmament and nuclear abolition, deriving from the irreducible human right to be free of contemplation of extinction.

IT’S A LOUSY “ANTHEM” ANYWAY

African American football players with red jerseys and tan pants kneeling on one knee in a stadium full of people

The immensely powerful, deeply moving and historic protests of our nation’s athletes against the absurd rantings of our Great Dictator make one thing abundantly clear: the diversity of this nation is not going away.

But The Star Spangled Banner should. It’s a lousy song with a racist message.  We need a new anthem—-or to acknowledge many of them.

Likewise the dotard illegitimately occupying the White House. We can do better.

So let’s combine the campaigns.

Words to the Star Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key, a slaveowner. He commemorated the failure of the British to conquer Baltimore in the War of 1812, an utterly useless conflict. The Brits had just burned our nation’s capital, partly in response to our burning their Canadian headquarters at York, now Toronto.

As Jason Johnson has shown in his “Star Spangled Bigotry”, buried in the lyrics was a clear racist put-down of freed slaves fighting for the English. They were set to a drinking tune, To Anacreon in Heaven.

Act Now to Save the Rohingya

Lots of men of color on a boat, one in the foreground looking very distressed

In response to the Burma (Myanmar) government backed genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority in that nation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is urging Americans of all faiths and backgrounds to take part in the following actions to increase American and international pressure on the Burmese government. 

IT’S A LOUSY “ANTHEM” ANYWAY

The immensely powerful, deeply moving and historic protests of our nation’s athletes against the absurd rantings of our Great Dictator make one thing abundantly clear: the diversity of this nation is not going away.

 

But The Star Spangled Banner should. It’s a lousy song with a racist message.  We need a new anthem—-or to acknowledge many of them.

 

Likewise the dotard illegitimately occupying the White House. We can do better.

 

So let’s combine the campaigns.

 

Words to the Star Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key, a slaveowner. He commemorated the failure of the British to conquer Baltimore in the War of 1812, an utterly useless conflict. The Brits had just burned our nation’s capital, partly in response to our burning their Canadian headquarters at York, now Toronto.

 

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Welcome to No War 2017: War and the Environment

Remarks at #NoWar2017 conference on September 22, 2017.

Have we lost our way in war?

Opening debate remarks at the University of Pennsylvania on September 21, 2017, on the following proposition: “Are America’s wars in Syria and Afghanistan just and necessary or have we lost our way in the use of military force, including drone weaponry, in conducting US foreign policy?”

Wow, I’ve already gotten more applause than Trump got for his whole speech at the UN.

U.S. wars and bombings in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and the Philippines, and threats to North Korea are unjust, unnecessary, immoral, illegal, extremely costly in several ways, and counterproductive on their own terms.

The idea of a just war comes down to us over some 1600 years from people whose worldview we share in almost no other way. Just war criteria come in three types: non-empirical, impossible, and amoral.

Brian Clash Performs Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska"

Guy wearing a beret with his eyes closed holding an album cover of Springsteen's Nebraska up to his face

Saturday, Sept 23, 3-6pm
Grandview Theater and Drafthouse, 1247 Grandview Ave.
To celebrate Bruce Springsteen's 68th birthday and the 35th anniversary of the release of one of his most accliamed alums "Nebraska", Central Ohio Singer/Songwriter Brian Clash will perform the "Nebraska" album in it's entirety, including b-sides and other songs from the demo Bruce recorded 1/3/1982. Brian will finish out the evening with a selection of his original music. Don't miss this unique tribute to one of the most significant songwrters and perfromer of our times!

Save the Rohingya Rally: Prevent U.S. Military Support to Burma

Photo of many women wearing headscarfs and looking very worried

Friday, September 22, 7-8pm, Ohio Statehouse
Facebook Event

Join Council on American-lslamic Relations [CAIR] Columbus this Friday at the intersection of High St. and Broad St. at the Ohio Statehouse for a rally in solidarity with the Rohingya and to demand that Congress take action to halt the violence in Burma [now Myanmar].

For years, the Burmese government has been committing ethnic and religious cleansing of the vulnerable Rohingya people. The apartheid government of Burma continues to carry out attacks against innocent civilians, causing many to be displaced, forced out of homes, and stranded at the border without food, shelter, or any necessities.

Hosted by CAIR-Columbus.

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