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We just had a terrific annual conference on abolition. The videos will be public soon. In the meantime, here’s an article Greta Zarro wrote beforehand, and the text of my remarks that opened the conference. You’ll see below that our annual conference on Africa is happening in about a month. Also below, is a report on a recent terrific direct action in Canada, and a link to resources for the upcoming Armistice / Remembrance Day. Most urgent is the action below to build pressure against a U.S. war on Venezuela.

—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War

The U.S. War Department is now sending numerous battleships and submarines, including the world’s largest aircraft carrier, toward Venezuela, where Trump has threatened attacks on land to follow those that have killed over 40 people on 10 boats. The CIA has already been assigned to overthrow the Venezuelan government. We need to raise hell! A U.S. decision to massively bomb Syria in 2013 was reversed in large part by public pressure. Several times a push in Washington to urgently start a war on Iran has been halted, in large part by public pressure. Sign this petition now and share it widely:

• Tell the World’s Governments to End the Genocide: Take Action.
• Declare Neutrality and Help Prevent a U.S.China War: WBW’s Global Events Calendar to find events and add your own events!

World BEYOND War’s 3rd African Virtual Conference aims at analyzing the effects of Western imperialism, highlighting African resistance, and imagining a decolonized, war-free collaboration based on equality, justice, and peace. 

• Book Club: Propaganda, Lies, and False Flags: How the U.S. Justifies Its Wars — Register.
• Book Club: Militarized Global Apartheid — Register.
• Book Club: Mind Abuse: Media Violence and Its Threat to Democracy — Register.
• Book Club: Four Picture Books for All Ages — Register

November 11, 2025, is Remembrance /Armistice Day 108 — which is 107 years since World War I was ended in Europe (while it continued for weeks in Africa) at the scheduled moment of 11 o’clock on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 (with an extra 11,000 people dead, wounded, or missing after the decision to end the war had been reached early in the morning — we might add “for no reason,” except that it would imply the rest of the war was for some reason).

Protesters shut down access to the “Best Defence Conference” in Canada. 

• The World Confronts the Genocide Washington is Trying to Bury 
• Abolition Is the Way 
• Why Abolition Matters in This Moment
• Talk World Radio: The Illegality of Military Bases 
• Continuity and Changes in Imperialism and Resistance 

AFRICA:

• WBW’s Africa Organizer Testifies on Disarmament at United Nations 
• WBW Organizer Tim Pluta Testifies at United Nations on Crimes in Western Sahara

LATIN AMERICA:

• Webinar: El Precio de la Guerra. ¿Quien Paga por Cada Arma Fabricante? 
• Peace Advocates in Ecuador: New WBW Chapter

EUROPE:

• Staying Active and Keeping the Pressure on in Italy
• Four Days of Activities for Peace

ASIA:

• Israel and “The Big Lie”
• Welcome to Hell: Remembrances of Time in Israeli Prison 
• The Israeli Occupation Forces Attacked our Ship, The Conscience 

NORTH AMERICA:

• Wall-to-Wall Media Coverage of the Blockade of a London, Ontario, Arms Fair
• Dismantle the House of Dynamite
• The Murdering of Boaters is Public, Not Secret
• How Not To Say ‘No Kings’ to Venezuela 
• Portrait of a No Kings Rally