#anti-war

[thererisesaredstar]

by studiosalud (2024)

[radicalgraff]

"Sabotage the War Machine"

Mural seen in Gadigal / Sydney

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

If you want to help out, press the donate button.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) is a non-profit, human rights organization with members inside and outside Iran. It is a non partisan and politicall

[allgremlinyaps]

US users, practicing your right to dissent checkpoint 👉

Tell Congress: No Unconstitutional War with Iran

The president’s reckless decision to bomb Iran without bothering to ask for congressional approval is a clear constitutional violation that

PROTECT CIVILIANS IN IRAN AND ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST

Civilians across the Middle East are paying the price for escalating violence following joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliato

Tell Congress: No Funding for Iran War!

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 2,076 civilians, injured thousands more, and displaced up to 3.2 million people. The U

Additionally, here's an article that could be helpful to fight misinformation and ignorance about what's happening. Just the tip of the iceberg in terms of resources, really, but I needed to see more targeted posts like this without having to trudge through the bot-filled news tags. I encourage you to disrupt your day-to-day function to bring attention to American war crimes! Silence is consent!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

All Quiet on the Western Front had its New York premiere on April 29, 1930.

Photo: Irving Browning via the New York Historical/Getty Images/Facebook

[nobrashfestivity]

Makoto Wada, Anti-war poster for the women and children of Vietnam, 1968

[notaplaceofhonour]

In my early 20s I was a hardline pacifist who believed it was better to die than to kill even in self-defense, and found slogans like “going to war for peace is like trying to fuck for virginity” (nevermind how loaded the concept of “virginity” is) compelling. I still think war is a horrible thing to live through and wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, and I believe deescalation is generally preferable to war if at all possible. I just have a more pragmatic view of things now.

I’ve always been the kind of person who leans into learning more about things I dislike to try to understand how they tick, rather than simply hating it and shouting about it. It’s why I’ve listened to hundreds of hours of a podcast about Alex Jones, read multiple books about QAnon and put myself through 4 hours of Jessie Gender’s antizionist screed and even more explicitly hateful material like the Protocols, and periodically check in on SJP & JVP feeds to see what they’re saying. War is no exception. I’m interested in learning more about why people go to war, how they go to war, the unintended consequences of war, and the messy nature of peace processes.

I’m certainly no expert, but I feel like I’m at least semi-knowledgeable about a handful of wars. But the more I learn, the clearer it becomes that so many ostensibly pro-peace folks (even aside from/before 2023) just do not have the slightest interest in understanding the thing they’re criticizing beyond “thing bad” and 1001 justifications for why it is bad.

And that’s so disheartening. Because I do want to live in a world without war, or at least never have to see my country go to war again in my lifetime. But how are we supposed to do that if we don’t understand war?

How can you navigate your way out of terrain you refuse to understand, much less walk through?

[chainofclovers]

text: Israeli Jews and Palestinian Israelis come together to demand an end to the war on #Gaza.

.

Peace activists have taken part in a protest in Israel's third-largest city, Haifa, demanding a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and the exchange of captives and prisoners between Hamas and #Israel.

.

Currently, they [the protestors] are chanting 'refuse to kill, refuse to fight, refuse to murder' - this is our call," says Omri Evron, a member of the Communist Party of Israel, who helped organise the anti-war protest.

(x)