
Tell your members of Congress to oppose the tanks and more weapons for Ukraine because there is no military solution. We need a ceasefire and negotiated settlement.
As your constituent, I urge you to publicly oppose President Biden’s decision to send 31 General Dynamics’ battlefield tanks—with a price tag of $400-million. This is a move that will only escalate the war in Ukraine. These hard-to-maintain, toxic jet gas-powered tanks, usually coated with depleted uranium, are approved for a spring offensive guaranteed to result in more death, destruction and climate havoc in Ukraine, home to a third of the European continent’s biodiversity.
The White House has repeatedly told us the US will not engage in a direct war with Russia; yet it reverses itself over and over again to up the ante with more sophisticated weapons: HIMARS rockets that can directly strike into Russia; Patriot missiles on which Ukrainians will train in the United States; now Abrams high-powered 70-ton tanks run on toxic aviation gas. These weapons undermine the possibility of a diplomatic solution, fueling the fiction that this war can be resolved on the battlefield.
We urge you to challenge the tank shipments and demand diplomacy now.
First Supreme Court Candidate Forum on the Wisconsin Tour for Justice & Democracy!
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023 AT 1 PM – 3 PM
Turner Hall - 1034 N. Vel R. Phillips Ave. - Milwaukee
Event by Building Unity and Wisconsin Voices

Support the WI Tour for Justice and Democracy - Feb. 7 - April 4!
For 8 weeks of Saturday’s the Building Unity “VoteMobile” will be traveling to eight different regions of Wisconsin, promoting voting, justice, and our growing movement for peace, justice, sustainability, and democracy.
Sign on our Letter of Support here and send it out to your people. Join the tour either in-person or virtually. Let’s use this race for a new Justice for some new Justice in Wisconsin! Help us build the movement!
The Wisconsin Tour for Justice and Democracy Schedule:
Art Heitzer, Attorney & Founder of the WI Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, on
Cuba, the US, the UN, and Our Media
Saturday – February 11th, 2023 from 10 AM – 11:30 AM
Followed By The Annual Business Meeting of the UNA of Greater Milwaukee
Attend In-Person at Peace Action Wisconsin – 1001 Keefe Street – Milwaukee, WI
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7165675210?pwd=WjJUcTE3c0gwd1NhQndab3dFQ3hRQT09
zoom id: 716 567 5210 password: 178153
By Phone Only: 1.312.626.6799 zoom id: 716 567 5210 password: 178153
Attorney Art Heitzer is a founder of the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, www.wicuba.org, and Co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Cuba Subcommittee. He has visited Cuba over a dozen times as part of a sister church, a sister city, and for legal research. Art Heitzer’s talk will focus on the promise of the 1959 Cuban revolution, the responses of the US and allied establishment (especially the continuing extraterritorial economic blockade), the role of the United Nations, and the portrayals by US mass media — concluding actions you can take and how to get more information.

Please join us online on Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 at 7 P.M. Central, for a webinar and discussion, “Why and How to End the War in Ukraine” – organized by Chicago Area Peace Action and co-sponsored by Black Alliance for Peace, Chicago Committee Against War & Racism, CODEPINK, and RootsAction.
REGISTER HERE!
Featuring presentations by Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK and retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, we will focus specifically on the WHY and HOW of ending this war.
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Watch Party at 11:30 AM at the Peace Center at 1001 E Keefe Ave. Picket at Keefe and Weil St at 11 AM- 11:20 AM with Milwaukee Green Party and the End the Wars Coalition.
- Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine
- Negotiate Peace
- Stop the War Inflation
- Disband NATO
- Global Nuclear De-Escalation
- Slash the Pentagon budget
- Abolish the CIA and Military-Industrial Deep State
- Abolish War and Empire
- Restore Civil Liberties
- Free Julian Assange
There will be a national rally at the Lincoln Memorial at 12:30 pm on Sunday, February 19th, on the anniversary of the Ukraine War and President’s Day Weekend, to Rage Against the War Machine! Veterans, speakers, rock musicians, comedians, and more. After the rally, we’ll march to the White House and deliver our demands to Warmonger-in-Chief Joe Biden.
Speakers: Jimmy Dore, Medea Benjamin, Scott Horton, Garland Nixon, David Swanson.
Organizers: People’s Party, Libertarian Party. Sponsors: Mises Caucus, Peace in Ukraine coalition, Liberty Speaks, Radical Caucus, Action 4 Assange, Punk Rock Libertarians, World Beyond War
Feb, 24, Friday, 2 PM at St, Francis of Assisi Church, 1927 Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Press Conference with speakers to mark the 1 year occupation of Ukraine by Russia. We will be calling for diplomacy and peace talks, not more years of war.
2023 International Women’s Day-
The United Nations Association of Milwaukee and Peace Action WI
Stopping Violence Against Women in Milwaukee and Beyond
Saturday, March 11, 2023, 10AM- 11:30AM
IN-person at Peace Action WI at 1001 E Keefe Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53212
and on Zoom
Speaker from HIR Wellness, on the work of helping survivors of violence and how violence impacts our native communities.- Jamie Kellicut
Speaker from Yemen about the effects of the brutal war on women and about human rights abuses against women in the region
International Women’s Day 2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023 12 PM- 14PM
HANDS OFF OUR BODIES: HANDS OFF OUR FAMILIES
- Pro-Reproductive Rights
- Protect Trans Women’s Rights
- Better Compensation for Domestic Laborers
- Pro Labor Rights and Collective Bargaining
- Paid Parental Leave for All
- Police Accountability
March starting at Dontre Hamilton (Red Arrow) Park (920 N Water St, Milwaukee, WI 53202)
End with speeches/tabling/social at Village Church (130 E Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202)
Save the Date to Act for War Abolition!
March 27, 2023
Madison will host direct action opposing F-35 jets, militarism and war.
All people willing to commit to non-violence are welcome.
A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight
2023 Doomsday Clock Statement
Editor, John Mecklin
January 24, 2023
This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward from 100 seconds to midnight, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)
Socialist Education Project (SEP) presents its 4th Monday Webinar
Recording: Vijay Prashad, “The Rise of ‘The Darker Nations’ in the 21st Century: Responses to Crises of War, Poverty, and Environmental Disaster”
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including "The Darker Nations" and "The Poorer Nations." He recently published a revised version of his groundbreaking book, “The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World,” New Press, August, 2022 which he will discuss followed by questions and comments.
FOX VALLEY PEACE COALITION

Monthly Vigil in Appleton
Saturday, Jan 7, 2023, 11 AM- 12 PM
Houdini Plaza, West Lawrence St, Appleton, WI
Animated Graphic of Military (red), Government (blue) and Humanitarian Expenditures (yellow) Tax dollars to Ukraine
Each dot represents $100,000 in US taxpayer dollars, according to the creator of this highly illustrative graphic. In 2022, the US is projected to send $60 Billion in military aid, $27 Billion in government aid, and last on the priority list, $15 Billion in humanitarian aid.



For Total Cost of War Since 2001, taxpayers in the state of Wisconsin are paying $127.25 billion.
Milwaukee Peace Rally Sept 15, 2022
LOS ANGELES PROGRESSIVE
Let's Defuse Nuclear War, Together

Thousands of women protesting at the RAF Greenham Common air base in 1982. The demonstrations continued until 1991 when the final American Cruise missiles were removed. Photograph: PA
Bangor Trident Nuclear Sub Base - Kitsap, WA - August 8, 2022
Flash Mob performs "War What Is It Good For" by Edwin Starr…
Amazingly choreographed 6 minute video of a demonstration outside the Nuclear Weapons site.
When the dance was completed, some people remained on the roadway holding two large banners that read "ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS" and "NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE ILLEGAL: Get them out of Kitsap County" respectively. Eleven activists were removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol Officers and cited for "Pedestrian on roadway illegally". The other two activists crossed the Blue Line onto the submarine base, were detained by Naval security personnel, and cited for "Trespassing" on Federal property.
https://www.codepink.org/gaza2022?utm_campaign=gaza2022_4&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

The Israeli Occupation Forces bombed Gaza last week. Join the global call on the U.S. to stop funding the ethnic cleansing of Palestine!
Dear President Biden Members of the U.S. Congress,
The events that transpired in Gaza last week make one thing clear: US taxpayer dollars that go to Israel in the form of $3.8 billion in military “aid” are being used to further harm and kill Palestinians. We, the undersigned, are demanding that the United States stops funding Israeli war crimes and human rights abuses and halt all weapons sales to the occupation.
Your administration insists that it cares deeply about human rights around the globe, yet you refuse to hold Israeli occupation accountable for its daily human rights abuses.
The slaughter and daily assault on Palestinian human rights being carried out by Israel is an unacceptable use of US taxpayer dollars. We demand an end to U.S. collaboration in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
US Members of Congress like Representatives Betty McCollum, Chuy Garcia, Marie Newman, Rashida Tlaib and several others have called for the conditioning of aid to Israel. The concept of revoking or halting aid is not new, and it is supported by many lawmakers and their constituents. We call on Congress to suspend all aid and block any weapons sale that gets announced to the occupation.
US taxpayers pay Israel over 10 million dollars a day, and Israel uses that money to inflict violence all over Palestine. We call you to halt this “aid” and demand that Israel stop its assault on Gaza, its evictions in East Jerusalem, and its attacks on Al-Aqsa. We demand that not one more tax payer dollar gets sent to fund apartheid and anti-Palestinian violence. We look forward to seeing how you will carry out these demands.

Stand for World Peace
Peace Action WI Joins U.S. National Call in Support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
In the face of widespread concern about the threat of nuclear weapons, World BEYOND War joins with organizations and individuals across the country in releasing the following statement:
STATEMENT ON THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
AND ON THE TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The power to initiate a global apocalypse lies in the hands of the leaders of nine nations. As 122 nations of the world indicated when they adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July, 2017, this is unacceptable.
As concerns about the threat of nuclear weapons re-enter the public consciousness, it is important to know that humankind is not without an answer to the nuclear threat. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force on January 22, 2021, provides a clear pathway to the elimination of the nuclear threat.
We call on all nuclear armed states to take immediate steps to:
- engage the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
- attend the First Meeting of States Parties, and
- sign, ratify and implement the Treaty.
We also call on the U.S. media to recognize the existence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to include the Treaty in discussions, articles, and editorials regarding the nuclear threat and methods available to address it.
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The Statement has been endorsed by Peace Action WI and organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people in the United States as well as by a growing list of individuals. A list of signatories can be found at nuclearbantreaty.org.
Peace Action WI also encourages support for this Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments, and recommends participating in these events:
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