Peace Action WI acknowledges that in Milwaukee we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland and Wisconsin is the home of the sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican Nations. We affirm our solidarity and support for the rights of Wisconsin Indigenous Nations.
January 25: Kinnikinic/Lincoln
February 1: 16th St/Wisconsin Ave
Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine, with Peace Action WI members
Watch the 2025 Doomsday Clock announcement on January 28
The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.
Where: South Division High School
1515 W Lapham Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53204
Date: January 25th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM Registration | 10:00 AM Program Start |
3:00 PM Program End
REGISTER
Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice
STAND FOR PEACE
SATURDAY, Jan 25, 12:30 PM
Join us this Saturday for our weekly Stand for Palestine. We meet on the corner of Hwys 20 and 31. Drive into the Kohl's parking lot and parking near the AT&T store (5502 Washington Ave, WI53406.)
Thurs, Jan 30, NOON-12:30 PM
La Crosse, WI at Main St & 4th St
Contact Deborah Buffton [email protected]
Jan 26, 2025 at 4PM
Protest at 4PM (
Thursdays at 4 PM)
Milwaukee Jewish Federation, 1360 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Fox Valley Peace Coalition
Vigil in Appleton First Saturdays
Feb 1, 2025 at 11 AM
College & Appleton St
for info: [email protected]
CODE PINK POTLUCK AND ORGANIZING MEETING
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025 at 6 PM
Zao Church 2319 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211
RSVP
Join us to strategize on how to meet the challenges of the incoming Trump administration. We will be joined in solidarity by local peace groups, who are planning actions for Jan 20, 2025 inauguration day.
This is also the 4th Anniversary of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We will have a discussion of the Back from the Brink of Nuclear War, we will be asking the City of Milwaukee to pass a Back from the Brink resolution.
Co-sponsored by Co-sponsored by Peace Action WI, Veterans for Peace Milwaukee Chapter, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-Milwaukee.
FEBRUARY FORUM
Saturday, February 15, 2025 from 10 AM– 11:30 AM
Zao MKE Church – 2319 E. Kenwood Blvd. – Milwaukee, 2nd Floor
“Nourishment Through the Gifts of Water and Friendship”
Dr. Andrea J. Stapleton, Grace Avila, & Theresa Lindberg
Members of the Board of Directors of Global Partners: Running Waters
They will describe how Global Partners: Running Waters has impacted lives in Central America by the implementation of water systems, while building relationships across nations to collaborate on easing the burdens on human lives resulting from complex systemic inequities.
They will discuss the consequences for people who must live without clean and accessible water, the nature of the work of Global Partners: Running Waters, and the impact on the communities who implement water systems. They will describe how the mission extends beyond the implementation of water systems, but also the creation of cultural exchanges, and the human impact that results from awareness, education, and solidarity.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7165675210?omn=82730357220
Food Not Bombs Milwaukee
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Noon until 1:30 PM
Jackson Park, Picnic Area #1, 43rd St near Cleveland Ave
Hot food and sandwiches.
Free store with groceries, clothes, and home goods or kids toys when we get the donations.
We always appreciate food donations and people helping out with distribution.
We have a good distribution every third Saturday.
WISDOM FOR JUSTICE!
Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility- Shut It Down!
Campaign Against Torture to End Solitary Confinement
Sunday, Feb 23 at 11-11:30 AM
Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) 1015 N. 10th St. Milwaukee, WI 53233.
Conditions of Confinement Actions
On the 23rd of each month, WISDOM leaders and others around the country take a moment to remember people in prison -- especially the people in Solitary Confinement who are locked alone in a small room for 23 hours every day. This month, we remember that isolation includes Christmas and New Year's day. These gatherings are not long, but they are meaningful. Please join us if you can in any of these places:
- At 11 am at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (1015 N. 10th St, Milwaukee)
- At 12:00 noon on the Capitol Steps in Madison (State Street side of the building)
- At 12:00 noon on the southeast corner of the Green Bay Correctional Institution (on Webster Street)
You can visit https://www.nrcat.org/torture-in-us-prisons/take-action/together-campaign for details about the campaign.
Military bases are part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars. This increased militarism makes wars more likely.
Bases are often the worst environmental disaster sites, polluting air, soil, and water, and often generating horrific noise pollution. Foreign bases are often mini-apartheid states with second-class status for locals and criminal immunity for militaries — a situation that can often be traced back to stolen land and other injustices.
Through public pressure, bases have been closed, plans for bases have been blocked, and bases have been converted to other purposes, superior environmentally, economically, and in terms of achieving peace.
On February 23rd, people all over the world plan to hold protests calling for the closure of military bases, including those of their own nation's military and those of foreign militaries. The list of planned actions is being updated at
https://daytoclosebases.org.
‘BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE & PALESTINE!’ FORUM FEB. 22, 2025, 2-4 PM
2222 S Park Street, Madison, WI
Milwaukee Veterans for Peace_ A recording of the fine event on this past Veterans Day at City Hall i Milwaukee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hltdJSqXfDA&authuser=0
ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Ex-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
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It's Time for Congress to Challenge Years of Failed Pentagon Audits
Greg Williams, Director of the Center for Defense Information
Project On Government Oversight
"A closer look at a few concerning Pentagon programs offers a clear example of where we’re going wrong and highlights the pressing need for acquisition reform.
- The Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program: This $141 billion program, designed to replace our current ICBMs, has seen costs soar over 81% through its program cycle. Yet even absent reliable financial data, Congress’s support for this program seems unwavering.
- The Constellation frigate program: This $22 billion program is running three years behind schedule, a delay the Government Accountability Office (GAO) attributes at least in part to “the Navy’s decision to begin construction before the design was complete.”As my colleague Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette recently testified, “Agreeing to a contract for a critical program like Constellation without first having a design for that program seems like, at best, acquisition and procurement malpractice.”
- The F-35 Lightning II fighter program: At an investment of nearly $2 trillion, the F-35 program has been so plagued by cost overruns, delays, and performance problems that there is not space to list them all here.10At the same time, the Department of Defense inspector general identified the Joint Strike Fighter Program (the F-35) as one of 10 “weaknesses” in the FY 2022 audit:
The [Joint Strike Fighter, or] JSF Program Office was unable to verify the completeness and value of the JSF Program assets, and the assets were not in an accountable property system of record. Not only were the auditors unable to perform the necessary procedures to conclude on the JSF property balances, but they also could not quantify the extent of the misstatement.
Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura
Hideko with her mother who perished in the blast
Video link for Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura's Story
A moving recount on video, by Hideko Tamura, was 10 years old living in Hiroshima, when atomic bombs wrought terrible destruction on the Japanese cities and citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. She describes her experiences before, during and after the Hiroshima bomb.
She appeals to us all, "I depend on all of your energy, please continue what you are doing to rule out violent means, especially this inhumane, horrible weapon.... We are not barbarians, we are humans, and let us be truly and fully human...."
She’s the author of "One Sunny Day, A Child’s Memories of Hiroshima" and "When A Peace Tree Blooms.”
Hind Rajab, six-year-old girl in Gaza, targeted by an Israeli army tank while trying to escape her neighborhood with her uncle and members of his family. Hind, six of her family, and two paramedics from the Red Crescent Society who came to their rescue were all killed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
Opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
by Janan Najeeb, Peace Action WI member and Founder and Executive Director of theMilwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition
Why do college students protest? They know truth about Israel's genocide in Gaza
"We are telling them that a bunch of tents on college campuses is more problematic than the ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands of Palestinians, including more than 70% of whom are women and children, done with our tax dollars and military support."
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2024/05/13/uw-madison-protests-gaza-palestinians-war-genocide/73614300007/
Brief video on the Merchants of Death.
https://x.com/btnewsroom/status/1767684183609020482?s=12&t=NGZ9khDodTFDZ8bpfgyhgA
TBD: meet at 7:30am Weekday Coffee and Banner Drop for Palestine
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Hosted by Milwaukee 4 Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Milwaukee
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Location: Meet at Colectivo Lakefront, walk to bridge over Lincoln Memorial Parkway
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Details: We start the new year with more energy and a louder voice. Please join JVP Milwaukee and Milwaukee4Palestine on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7:30 am for a morning coffee and then a banner drop at 8 am. We cannot stop. We will not stop.TBD
TAKE ACTION TO STOP US RETALIATION FOR ICJ RULING IN
SOUTH AFRICA v. ISRAEL
Email and call your congressional reps.
Capitol Hill switchboard: 202-224-3121
Sample Script: Hello, my name is __________ and I am your constituent in zip code ___________. Please issue a statement (email, social media post) urging the Biden administration to restore funding to UNRWA, the UN relief agency providing the bulk of humanitarian relief–water and food– to the imprisoned Palestinian people under Israeli assault in Gaza. To cut off funding for UNRWA at Israel’s request is to threaten 2.3 million Gazans with mass starvation and turn Gaza into an extermination camp. Demand the White House fund UNRWA and not undermine the World Court order demanding provision of humanitarian aid. The US must not commit genocide in my name. Thank you.
Summary of the UNWRA situation from the BBC News:
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize- awarded to jailed women's rights activist, Narges Mohammadi.
She is an Iranian physicist/engineer who has been working for women's rights in Iran for several decades and for her outspoken leadership she is in prison with a sentence of 31 years and 150 lashes
Demand that Gwen Moore call for an immediate ceasefire, no more weapons to Israel.
Office of WI Congressional Rep Gwen Moore, Phone: (414) 297-1140
The Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine
Website: https://www.wiscoforpali.org
URGENT! Call Congress: Stop the Gaza Genocide
Over 2 million Palestinian people trapped in Gaza are living through genocide in real time, as Israel bombs and starves them. Your solidarity is vital.
Representatives Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, Andre Carson, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez have just introduced a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and for humanitarian assistance to be allowed to enter Gaza. It is essential that we generate thousands of calls to elected officials asking them to support this life-saving resolution for a ceasefire.
TAKE ACTION: Call your members of Congress. It's extremely important to urge them to support this ceasefire.
Fill in your information and click "Call me.”
You'll receive a phone call on the number you provided and be patched through to your representatives' and senators' offices, one after the other. After you speak to one office, press * (star) to be connected to your next representative, until you've called all three. If you don't get through, leave a voicemail.
Note that we should be thanking Reps. Bush (MO-01), Tlaib (MI-12), Carson (IN-07), Lee (PA-12), Ramirez (IL-03), Bowman (NY-16), Watson Coleman (NJ-12), García (IL-04), Jackson (IL-01), Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Omar (MN-05), Pressley (MA-07), and Velázquez (NY-07) for their support of the resolution.
SCRIPT 1 FOR SENATORS:
My name is [YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME], and I'm a constituent of [SENATOR'S NAME]. I'm calling about Palestine and Israel. The senator must take immediate steps to deescalate, by calling for a ceasefire, pressuring Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and refusing to send any additional weapons or funding to the Israeli military. I am asking the senator to publicly call for a ceasefire along the lines of the resolution in the House led by Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib.
Any more military funding to Israel will further fuel violence by actively arming the Israeli government. This is a genocide. The senator must take action now to stop Israel's genocide against Palestinian people in Gaza and end all U.S. complicity in Israel's violence,
SCRIPT 2 FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME], and I'm a constituent of [REPRESENTATIVE'S NAME]. I'm calling about Palestine and Israel. The representative must take immediate steps to deescalate, by calling for a ceasefire, pressuring Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and refusing to send any additional weapons or funding to the Israeli military. I urge the Representative to add their name to to the ceasefire resolution introduced by Reps. Bush and Tlaib and co sponsored by 11 other Representatives.
This is a genocide. The representative must take action now to stop Israel's genocide against Palestinian people in Gaza and end all U.S. complicity in Israel's violence.
Women's Earth and Climate Network
Indigenous leaders urge Biden to shut down Line 5 pipeline due to ‘imminent’ threat. Peace Action WI has signed on.
CALL
President Biden has the authority to make the call to Shut down Line 5
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Phone: 1-202-456-1111
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Governor Evers may have the authority to make an emergency/crisis call
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Phone: 608-266-1212
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Online: https://evers.wi.gov/pages/connect.aspx
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Report: The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare
In FY 2023, out of a $1.8 trillion federal discretionary budget, $1.1 trillion — or 62 percent— was for militarized programs. That includes war and weapons, law enforcement and mass incarceration, and detention and deportation.
Less than $2 out of every $5 in federal discretionary spending was available to fund investment in people and communities, including primary and secondary public education, housing programs, child care programs, federal disaster relief, environmental programs, and scientific research.
The U.S. spent $16 on the military and war for every $1 that was spent on diplomacy and humanitarian foreign aid.
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The vast majority of militarized spending was for weapons, war and the Pentagon, at $920 billion.
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Only $56 billion was spent for international affairs, diplomacy, and humanitarian foreign aid.
Antiwar Activists Publish Ceasefire in Ukraine Petition in Washington, DC newspaper on Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Peace Action WI delivered the Peace in Ukraine appeal letter to Gwen Moore's office, Ron Johnson's Office and Tammy Baldwin's office.
IT’S TIME TO STOP THE KILLING AND DEVASTATION. CEASEFIRE & PEACE NEGOTIATIONS NOW!
The war in Ukraine has taken hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives, uprooted millions, contaminated land, air and water and worsened the climate crisis.
The longer the war goes on, the greater the danger of spiraling escalation which can lead to a wider war, environmental devastation and nuclear annihilation.
The war diverts billions that could be addressing urgent human needs.
Total military victory cannot be achieved by either Russia or Ukraine. It is time to support the calls by Pope Francis, United Nations Secretary-General Guterres, Presidents Lula de Silva of Brazil, Erdoğan of Turkey, Xi of China, and others for a ceasefire and a negotiated end to this calamitous war.
Stop the killing, agree to a ceasefire and begin negotiations!
Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base - Kitsap, WA - August 8, 2022
- The carbon bootprint of the US military, larger than that of many countries.
- The wars for oil and other resources – how they support the fossil fuel-based status quo.
- The unequal burden of both climate crisis and militarism on people of color, the poor, and future generations.
- The resources spent on militarism and war – redirect to respond to the existential threat of climate crisis.
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