FOR-USA: interviews with organizers of social movements about the intersection of militarism and climate crisis.

Dear IFOR colleagues & friends,

FOR-USA has conducted several recent interviews with organizers of social movements about the intersection of militarism and climate crisis.

We invite you to consider watching these new videos published this week via our YouTube channel:

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* Conversation with Lukasz Firla and Kamaran Osman of Christian Peacemaker Teams - Iraqi Kurdistan (30-minute interview + 12-minute short documentary film): discussing the environmental & social impact of the wars in Iraq and efforts by multinational companies to access land and resources in Kurdistan, with particular focus on community resistance to ExxonMobil

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Interview of Leslie Cagan (8 minutes): national organizer of the million-person March for Nuclear Disarmament (1982), the million- People’s Climate March (2013), and past national coordinator of the United for Peace & Justice coalition of 1,000+ groups

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Interview of Tom Wakely (4 minutes): military veteran, seminary graduate, past candidate for U.S. Congress from Texas, & climate justice activist

We are also facilitating the publication later this month of a feature article on Waging Nonviolence on this topic in partnership with Veterans For Peace’s Climate Crisis & Militarism Project, which will be a followup story to the COP26 summit.

Discussion on climate change in Bangladesh! - BASTOB and ANANDO

BASTOB and Anando jointly sponsored

Are hosting a :

Discussion on climate change in Bangladesh!

On the 30th of October at 16:30pm CEST during the global day of action.

Join the Zoom meeting!!!

Meeting ID: 829 1183 0224 Passcode: iforbranch

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82911830224?pwd=bkxMeWNRUHdwTEtRVXdmMk5PdkJGQT09

Militarism, Resource Exploitation and Climate Change in Iraqi Kurdistan -FORUSA

FOR-USA and Christian Peacemaker Teams Iraqi Kurdistan Program

present:

Militarism, Resource Exploitation and Climate Change in Iraqi Kurdistan

Members of Christian Peacemaker Teams Iraqi Kurdistan Program discuss militarism and oil and gas resource exploitation by the United States and multinational corporations, as well as successful grassroots resistance against ExxonMobil by one community.

Anyone can join with Internet access:

Visit www.forusa.org for more information

"The Dove and the Twig," an eco-pacifist project

"The Dove and the Twig," an eco-pacifist project

Date and time: 4th November 2021 at 18:00 cEST

Presentation of the new book by MIR Italy on peace and environment and the importance of combining pacifist and environmentalist efforts in a common ecopacifist action. Speakers will be: MIR Italy president - Pierangelo Monti, Representative of IFOR - Zaira Zafarana, climate journalist -Valter giuliano and a representative of Extinction Rebellion.

Anyone can attend In person of Onilne!

You can either join us at the MIR Italy headquarter in Torino, Via Garibaldi 13, or follow the YouTube streaming.

You can also visit their Facebook event page!

Or visit their dedicated webpage!

SISTERS NEXT DOOR : Empowering Women and Girls for Sustainable Development

SISTERS NEXT DOOR

Empowering Women and Girls for Sustainable Development

Sisters Next Door is a gender equality, peace building and good governance advocacy non-governmental organization, that works assiduously with partners and stakeholders to bring about change in the lives of ordinary people.

We design intervention programs aimed primarily at women and girls and advocate for a more inclusive and responsive government based on a clearly defined template.

Visit their website!

More info:

Madina, Accra Ghana
Phone: +233 20 205 1042
Email: info@sistersnextdoor.org
director@sistersnextdoor.org

Globaly tree plantation - BASTOB

Globaly tree plantation - BASTOB - Bangladesh

Per persons 10 Thousand tree plantation in his live time

01/01/2021

Contact: kingshumajumder@gmail.com

Klimaziel: Frieden - International Fellowship of Reconciliation - Austria

Our friends from International Fellowship of Reconciliation - Austria are also organizing an event for the Global Day of Action.

Klimaziel: Frieden

At 10:00 AM, everyone can join online, the event will happen in German*

This is how you can join!!

-Go to our Facebook Page and share our graphic about Klimaziel: Frieden or share a link to our website

The aim is to spread awareness for our campaign Klimaziel: Frieden to support talks about military emissions at the COP26

Click here to visit their website.

Click here to visit the Facebook Page.

Fellowship of Reconciliation India - Climate Cafe! Discussions over a cup of Chai !

Our Friends from FOR- INDIA are also planning many events and activities surrounding climate change and COP-26.

You can visit their website for more information on the organization and find ways to contact hem.

They urge anyone interested ins peaking about climate change matter, to pass by and have a cup of Chai.

Discussion of climate change over a cup of tea- Chai pe charcha- Climate Cafe India, and in particular, where we are located now in Kerala has faced a series of natural disasters- from drought to floods, from landslips leading to destruction of lives, livelihood and property to outbreak of contagious diseases, from fear of the known and even greater fear of the unknown.

Everyone has something to say about the climate change and the situation we are in but all mainstream discussions are always dominated by scientists and policy makers in the government while the opinion of common people are rarely heard.

Why should we leave the discussions on climate change to politicians and subject experts? Specially so when almost every part of the world is reporting sudden floods, fires, rivers overflowing, drought, pandemic and threats to the coastal cities due to global warming. Surely all of us at some point has felt that the powers of the government have limitations and all people have a stake in their own security and well being.

The concept of Climate Cafe was introduced by Rebecca Nestor from Climate Psychology Alliance at Oxford in the United Kingdom where any one could join and talk about climate and the problems caused by climate change.

The venue is small inexpensive cafés ( in our own environment at the benches of Thatta-Kadas over Suleimeni Chai or tea) where a free flow of discussions without any chief guest, advise, admonishment ,no canvassing to be any part of any protest and no pressure to change the way you think is respected.

The idea is to: 'Just say what you have to say over a cup of tea and deepen your involvement with the baby steps of knowing others to have views on the happenings around'.

Join the BOCS Foundation for their Global Day of action event CO-rehabilitation!

Our friends from the BOCS foundation in Hungary are organizing an event for the Global Day of Action on the 30 of August.

Join the BOCS foundation for their event:

CO rehabilitation

• You can join their website by clicking here

• You can also join by visiting their dedicated webpage

• You can also join their Facebook page here!

• You can also join by Skype: bocsc3

A katonaság megtagadókat még mindig nem rehabilitálták.

Torino local group of MIR Italy and Nonviolent Movement | MILITARISM DRIVES CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

#COP26 Giornata Globale Azione DISARMO E AMBIENTE

Come to Castle Square and hold your personalized sign to denounce militarism and its tragic impact on climate!!!

Anyone around Torino can join in person by coming to Piazza Castello, 10124 Torino TO, Italia and virtually by sharing on FB the pictures we post.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FACEBOOK EVENT

Right at the end of the International disarmament week, on the day of the G20 hosted in Rome and right before the COP26 starts, it is importance to raise our voice for peace and environment, denouncing that military industry, weapons, wars...are destroying the Earth too. We will be standing with signs and a new huge banner in a circle of silence for one hour in the middle of the heart of the city right by the government building and the city and region headquarters.

Click here to like and follow Mir-Mn Piemonte facebook page!!!

A Political Agenda by Rete italiana Pace Disarmo for Disarmament and Peace

Our friends at Rete italiana Pace Disarmo (Italian Network for Peace and Disarmament) are joining us on the Global Day of Action withe their own initiative.

Un’agenda politica per il Disarmo e per la Pace

A Political Agenda for Disarmament and Peace

Online streaming of the Conference, taking place during the Nonviolence Festival in Torino.

Watch the recording here!

As a contribution to the celebration of the UN International Week for Disarmament 2021 (24-30 October), the Italian Network for Peace and Disarmament has organized (in collaboration with the Sereno Regis Center of Turin and the Nonviolent Movement) the Conference "A political agenda for Disarmament and Peace", scheduled in Turin on Saturday, October 23, 2021.

PROGRAM:

An agenda for disarmament: a possible political project? Francesco Vignarca (Italian Network for Peace and Disarmament) Mao Valpiana (Nonviolent Movement)

Humanitarian disarmament: a new paradigm for pacifist action Rosario Valastro (Vice-President Italian Red Cross) Paolo Pezzati (Oxfam Italy)

Working for peace through disarmament: ongoing campaigns Venessa Hanson (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) don Renato Sacco (Pax Christi Italy) Giuseppe Schiavello (Italian Campaign against Mines)

Defending the planet and fighting climate change: a new frontier of Peace Vanessa Pallucchi (Legambiente) Fabio Brandoni (Legambiente)

100 years of resistance to war Natalia Garcia and Semih Sapmaz (War Restisters' International) - linked from London Martina Lanza and Daniele Taurino (Nonviolent Movement)

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You can find out more information on these initiatives here.

https://retepacedisarmo.org/evento/unagenda-politica-per-il-disarmo-e-per-la-pace/ https://retepacedisarmo.org/evento/settimana-internazionale-onu-per-il-disarmo-2021/

Click and follow for more!!!

FB: https://www.facebook.com/RetePaceDisarmo WEB: https://retepacedisarmo.org/