Webinars: News & Updates

A global 3-day conference on nonviolent resistance in the face of invasions, occupations, and military violence.

You say you’re against war, but what’s the alternative? Managing conflict nonviolently is one of the three core strategies of World BEYOND War’s alternative global security system. But when the rule of law and diplomacy are failing and violence is underway, both seasoned activists and newcomers alike often question whether unarmed resistance can be effective against military invasion, occupation, and war. Throughout three days of virtual panels, training, and discussion sessions, #NoWar2023 will make the case for the efficacy of nonviolent resistance as a tool for conflict resolution, highlighting case studies from around the world of unarmed civilian based defense against invasions, occupations, and dictatorships.

Hosted virtually on the Zoom Events platform, World BEYOND War’s #NoWar2023 annual global conference brings together peace and anti-war individuals and organizations from around the world to share, reflect, strategize, and organize towards the abolition of war.

View the agenda and schedual at: https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2023/#nowar2023schedule

Get your tickets at: https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/nowar2023-virtual-global-confe...

You're invited to join World BEYOND War, United4Change Center (U4C), the Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni Association (RPAA), and Peace First for a 5-Part Webinar Series Focused on Reimaging Peace and Security in Latin America & the Caribbean.

The series will provide spaces for reflection and dialogue, feature leading experts from the region, and connect, train, and support young leaders to carry out high-impact peace projects aimed at addressing urgent community needs on the ground.

What: Webinar Series: Reimaging Peace and Security in Latin America & the Caribbean
 

Webinar 5: Showcase of Youth-Led Initiatives, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 6 – 8 pm ET

Webinar 5 provides young people with a platform to present the processes and outcomes of their youth-led peace projects to a wide, international, audience.

Webinar 4 includes an online training session aimed at building the capacity of young people around peace projects and project management. This training session will feed into the development of youth-led peace projects.

Who is the webinar series for? The webinar series is for those interested in peace and security issues in Latin America & the Caribbean. It will be of much interest to those working in the fields of peace education; peacebuilding; youth, peace, and security work in general, and to young leaders in particular. The webinar series may also appeal to those working on similar issues in different parts of the world.

The webinars will feature speakers in their native language and include simultaneous interpretation and translation services in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

Join Equal Exchange and Joe Maxwell from Farm Action for a deep dive on the Farm Bill and how you can make a difference!

The Farm Bill—a massive piece of legislation that is revisited every five years—provides a unique opportunity to raise our voices and press our political leaders for change. It covers everything from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) to subsidies for corporate agribusiess to many other programs that either help or hinder access to locally grown, healthy, sustainably sourced crops and humanely raised animals.

Joe will provide background on the farm bill and share Farm Action’s time-sensitive strategy to encourage meaningful change in this next bill. Collaborating with Farm Action, there is a unique opportunity to engage in this critical campaign to advocate for justice in a dangerously consolidated industrial food system. Together, we can make progress and build a more diverse and independent future that will work for farmers, workers, the planet, and you!

Registration at: https://equalexchange.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctf-yupj0oHNX_fShK3i_VO...

Join a discussion of the latest developments in key regions of the world with several authors of the new anthology: SANCTIONS: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy. 

Case Western:

Our Think Tank is centered around the theme of “A Balm for What Ails Us: Respect. Renew. Reimagine.” Our goal is to provide space for envisioning what liberation looks like for communities historically and currently marginalized by oppressive systems. We know that we cannot envision until we have healed, and we cannot heal until we have acknowledged our history. Our ambition is to foster conversations and reignite passion for social justice across the Cleveland community. We hope you will join us.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about call outs, the internal culture of progressive movements, and how we can build a movement big enough to take on the threats we face. SURJ has spent the last 12 years practicing one of our central values of calling white people in, not out, and adrienne maree brown has been at the forefront of helping movement communities orient around abolitionist values of care and belonging. This moment is ripe for exploring these connections. Join SURJ in conversation with author and facilitator Adrienne Maree Brown to explore why we need collective practices of calling in and how we can build a spiritually and emotionally well-resourced culture for white organizers.

What does hybrid warfare feel like when it’s being waged against you? Find out this Saturday when we speak to Nicaraguan women about their experiences of with the violence of 2018 and their efforts to counteract disinformation since then. Our speakers will break down hybrid warfare and how it affects women in Nicaragua and beyond.

The border is closer to us than we think. With about 50% of the state being within the Border Patrol’s 100-mile border zone and sharing a border with Canada, Ohio is impacted in many ways by immigration enforcement. Many Ohio residents, despite having lived in the state for many years, with a job and a family, still have to fear being arrested or detained, often simply based on racial profiling. Join us for this webinar as part of the IRTF Border Focus Month to get an overview of immigration enforcement in Ohio. Our statewide campaign has been successful in ending ICE contracts at two county jails. Hear some lessons learned from those efforts. But two county jails (Seneca and Geauga) are still making money from contracting jail cells to ICE. Let's work together to end racialized immigration enforcement and detention in Ohio!