Feb 22 - April 8 Lenten Vigil for Disarmament, Bath, Maine
The Lenten Vigil for Disarmament begins on Ash Wednesday, February 22 when we gather across from the Administration building at Bath Iron Works on Washington Street and then walk down the street to leaflet the workers at the shift change from 11:30 to 12:30. We witness against the continued production of the nuclear capable Aegis guided missile destroyers here at BIW by General Dynamics. The Vigil continues every Saturday in Lent: February 25, March 4, 11, 18 , 25 and April 1 and Holy Saturday April 8 to remember the Aegis Plowshares , whose witness 32 years ago on Easter we hold in our hearts. We recognize that the building of these warships, whose missiles kill indiscriminately, are a preparation for war which robs us of the ability to address the many needs not being met here in Maine and around the world. It is a war against the poor, a Crime against Humanity. We need to repent and turn away from the Idolatry of the false god of militarism. True security comes not from our military industrial complex but from our ability to live justly with our sisters and brothers and to share our resources equitably. Each warship built keeps us from the Love needed to heal our Mother Earth. Disarmament (Resurrection!) calls us to turn away from warships and instead to begin the healing of the many crises that surround us. Please bring signs.
Join the #DivestFromDeath Week of Action November 7th - 13th!
This November 7th through 13th, Dissenters invites you to join us for a #DivestFromDeath Week of Action — a week of movement building, action, and solidarity for the global liberation of all Black and Brown people, here and around the world. Divest From Death is a campaign to pressure institutions to divest from war profiteers led by young people who will turn the tides of endless war and continue to fight for the life-affirming future we deserve.
We are calling on communities all over the U.S. to organize #DivestFromDeath actions against war and militarism in your community to demand our institutions to divest from endless wars and reinvest in what our communities actually need to be safe. Every year, U.S. war profiteers — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Raytheon — fuel violence here and abroad with billions of dollars of weapons manufacturing to arm violent regimes in the Philippines, in Israel, and to local police departments across the U.S.
But from Chicago to Tehran, the people are rising up to get free, to break the power of the U.S. war industry, and halt the unjust war on communities of color around the world.
Commit to take action with us and to stay plugged into preparation for our week of action on November 7th - 13th by signing here! We will follow up with trainings and other support offerings for folks who sign up to take action.
Reach out to us at info@wearedissenters.org with questions!
November 10 Youth vs. Apocalypse March & Rally
Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco, 10 AM. For more info: <youthvsapocalypse.org>
Choose Action Now is the youth’s response to failed negotiations and 27 years of delay on substantial climate action by world leaders. Through the collective power of our movement, we will demonstrate that youth leaders CAN be the change we want to see in the world, regardless of the outcomes of the negotiations at COP27.
We are coming together to confront the systems that sacrifice our lives for a profit, be that climate destroying fossil fuel companies, or those that profit from and promote militarism and war. In the middle of war around the world and violence on our streets, we are gathering to celebrate our community and each other – to show that we are not disposable and that young people and the planet must be protected from all forms of violence.We know that the military is the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world and is exempted from following climate protections just as police are offered qualified immunity for their actions. Just as military expansion sacrifices the lives of youth of color through military recruitment, and of communities around the world through militarization and violence, it is also waging a war against our planet.
We call out Lockhead Martin for their role in climate destruction and making money off war, for their huge influence on foreign policy and endless war. We call out the billions of dollars of federal subsidies that go to enriching their CEO instead of addressing the climate emergency.Lockheed Martin is responsible for building nuclear weapons the world is now being threatened with. We know that military escalation leading to nuclear war would wipe out 99% of life on earth. We call for an end to militarization and escalation.
Young people are rising against war, militarism, and the escalating attacks on life on earth. We refuse to be sacrificed, and we refuse to watch our world be sacrificed to make someone else a profit.
Sept 21
Protest Zelensky's meeting with U.S. War Profiteers in Austin TX
No to U.S./NATO Proxy War on Donbass & Russia
12 noon to 7 pm
At the Austin Convention Center,
500 E. Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701
West Coast: 323-899-2003
East Coast: 410-218-4835
Sept 11
Online, 2-4 PM Pacific | 4-6 PM Central | 5-7 PM Eastern
Hear lessons and updates from the campaign tour to Europe to build the movement for a just and lasting peace!
From late June to early July, Resist US-Led War members integrated with peace advocates, workers’ organizations, national liberation, and revolutionary solidarity organizations in Europe and bore witness to their struggles against imperialist wars. We also participated in conferences and joined thousands of people at protest actions against the NATO Summit in Madrid. This reaffirmed to us the need to unite with all possible forces to end all wars of aggression.
Reaffirming that international solidarity is key in achieving just and lasting peace, anti-war organizations look forward to building and connecting peoples’ movements across the globe with a common goal of winning the people’s war against imperialism. Join us to hear how we can build the strength needed to make this goal a reality.
Sept 9
Endicott, NY & Owego, NY, 11AM & 12 noon
All of the events below took place as part of our week of action, April 17-24, 2022!
April 15th
Bath, Maine
Smilin' Trees Disarmament Farm
Time: 11:30am -12:30pm
The Lenten Vigil for Disarmament begins on Ash Wednesday, March 2, when we gather across from the Administration building at Bath Iron Works on Washington Street from 11:30 to 12:30. We witness against the continued production of the nuclear capable Aegis guided missile destroyers here at BIW by General Dynamics. The Vigil continues every Saturday in Lent: March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2 and 9. Then on Good Friday, April 15 (note change from last year), we hold the final Lenten Vigil at the same time and place. We gather in solidarity with tax resisters all over the US protesting at manufacturing sites for the military industrial complex saying No! to the use of our tax dollars to support endless war. Lent signals a turning point from winter to spring, from despair to hope, from choosing death to enhancing life, from building "destroyers" to creating a world without war. Each warship built keeps us from the Love needed to heal our Mother Earth. Disarmament (Resurrection!) means turning away from warships and instead healing the many crises that surround us. Please bring signs and wear a mask.
Palo Alto, California
Time: 11:30am-1:30pm
King of Prussia, PA
Time: 12pm
Linthicum, MD
Time: 3pm ET
Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland is organizing a demonstration at Northrop Grumman, a letter to its CEO and a leaflet to be handed out to the workers at 793 Elkridge Landing Road, Linthicum, Maryland on Earth Day, April 22, at 3 PM.
April 16th
Corvallis, OR
Let's Use Our Taxes for a Better World
Time: 5-6pm CDT.
Organized by VFP Linus Pauling Chapter 132. What would you rather spend our money on than militarism? Come join advocacy groups from around Corvallis to share how we can use our taxes to build a better world. Chapter 132 and other local activist groups will speak about how they would redirect funds from militarism to serving human needs. For more information, view the Facebook Event Page.
Spokane, WA
Proposed Parade and Demonstration
Time: TBD
Organized by VFP Spokane WA - Proposed Parade thru International District & Proposed Demonstration Front Gate FAFB
Lancaster, PA
Penny Polls in City Center Square
Time: 11am
Organized by 1040 for Peace - Penny Poll where public can "vote" on how they'd like to have their federal taxes spent. 1040 for Peace website.
April 17th
Washington, D.C.
Fund Communities Not War!
Time: 12pm
Organized by CodePink - We will take to the streets in Washington DC for disruption, political education, and community building through art. Final details to come!
Chandler, AZ
Event at Northrop Grumman
Time: 10am
Organized by Phoenix Anti-War Coalition - Attendees at the event will be holding signs and tax info flyers
April 18th
New York, NY
No Wars, No Warming: Fund Our Future
Time: 12pm
Organized by Extinction Rebellion NYC - The climate and peace movements come together for a rally and short march in front of the IRS this tax day, April 18th, to demand that our tax money stop being used to fund endless war and environmental destruction. The Pentagon is the number one institutional consumer of oil on the planet. In order to maintain it's 800+ military bases around the world, the Pentagon alone produces more fossil fuel emissions than 140 other countries, COMBINED. We recognize that the people who are most often placed in harm’s way from armed conflict are also the people who have and will continue to face the brunt of the climate crisis. In this moment, after two years of Covid19, our tax money should be funding social services that benefit the communities most impacted by the climate crisis and most affected by decades of systemic underfunding. The US has no problem dumping over half of its federal budget into policing the rest of the world through the Pentagon but refuses to cover the things people actually need. Join us to demand that our tax money stop fossil-fueling endless war, and start funding healthcare, green jobs and infrastructure, other climate adaptation measures, and housing. We demand a livable future.
Get more details on the Facebook Event Page!
Flower Mound/Dallas, TX
DFW Tax Day Action: Cut the Pentagon Budget; Take our Country (& Planet!) Back from War Profiteers!
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm (Okay to come & go)
Organized by Veterans For Peace Chapter 106, North Texas, CODEPINK Greater Dallas, Dallas Peace & Justice Center, Dallas Anti-War Committee - This Tax Day we are calling on you to join an action in our community that targets the war machine and promotes investment in a peace economy! We are demanding a cut in the ridiculously bloated Pentagon budget and redirection of those resources to human needs, as well as the conversion of war companies to useful production... for the sake of people, planet, peace and a future.
WHAT: Informing the public about the costs of war, where their tax $$ are going, and the trade-offs that would surely improve their lives. We'll have signs, flyers, pie charts, the number to call Congress, other visuals and our voices for clarification as we interact with post-office patrons mailing their tax forms at the last minute to make sure they're postmarked by the due-date -- April 18, 2022.
WHEN: Monday, April 18, 2022; 11:30AM - 1:30PM (Okay to come & go)
WHERE: U.S. Post Office, I-30 and Sylvan Ave, Dallas.
*Let us know if your organization would like to endorse/cosponsor/promote/attend.
**See Facebook event page to RSVP & get info & updates, including any last-minute changes.
Washington, DC
Tax Day: Give Peace a Budget! A night of poetry, comedy, art & political education
Time: 6:30pm
Join CODEPINK, American Friends Service Committee, War Industries Resistance Network, Poor People's Campaign, poets, comedians, and other artists on Tax Day and Global Day Against Military Spending for a night of political education about the bloated Pentagon budget, and our work to re-invest war spending in people, the planet, and peace, instead.
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
WAR IS NOT GREEN The U.S. Military: Planet Earth’s Greatest Enemy*
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Governor's Mansion 1006 Summit Ave, Saint Paul, MN. View the Facebook Event Page!
Featured speaker: Barry Riesch, VFP Chapter 27
The U.S. Military is poisoning our planet! The Air we breathe, the Water we drink, our Soil for food. The Department of Defense (DOD) has over 800 bases and over 4,775 defenses total WORLDWIDE, with 8.8 million acres in the United States.
No Reporting ► No Accountability - For decades the U.S. military has contaminated the air, soil, and water worldwide, including in the states, by burning contaminants or dumping them in the ocean and then hiding or simply not reporting major pollution. Besides fossil fuels some of the contaminants are: bacteria, pathogens, metals such as lead and mercury, and PFAS flamethrower.
Sponsored by WAMM’s End Military Madness Against the Earth action group and cosponsored by Veterans for Peace Chapter 27 and the End War Committee of WAMM
*Title of forthcoming movie from Abby Martin.
Portland, Maine
Maine TaxDay/EarthDay Pop-Up Art Exhibit
Time: 2:00pm - 6:30pm
Street Art Pop-Up Art Exhibit.
Stay for a minute, stay for a while.
Congress Sq. Park, Portland, Maine
Get attention from the "real media" camera at 6:30! Can you pass out literature? Take photos! Share on Tweet and with your friends.
Share your music. Poems.
VFP Maine Chapter 001 / Peace Action Maine
April 20th
Boston, MA (Date Moved Due to Storm!)
Invest in Life not Death: A march against financial institutions supporting both Raytheon and Fossil Fuels
Time: 12pm
The Raytheon campaign and climate justice activists will march to various financial institutions in Boston that provide investment and lending support to both Raytheon and to fossil fuel companies.
Gather at noon, April 20, in downtown Boston at the Sam Adams statue at Fanueil Hall
View the Save the Date announcement on their website.
Minneapolis, MN
WAR IS NOT GREEN The U.S. Military: Planet Earth’s Greatest Enemy*
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Peace Bridge (Lake Street and Marshall Ave Saint Paul, MN). View the Event Page!
Featured speaker: Sue Ann Martinson, Rise Up Times, EMMAE
The U.S. Military is poisoning our planet! The Air we breathe, the Water we drink, our Soil for food. Money for Human Needs, Not War! No Tax $$$ for War.
The Department of Defense (DOD) has over 800 bases and over 4,775 defenses total WORLDWIDE, with 8.8 million acres in the United States.
No Reporting ► No Accountability - For decades the U.S. military has contaminated the air, soil, and water worldwide, including in the states, by burning contaminants or dumping them in the ocean and then hiding or simply not reporting major pollution. Besides fossil fuels some of the contaminants are: bacteria, pathogens, metals such as lead and mercury, and PFAS flamethrower.
Sponsored by WAMM’s End Military Madness Against the Earth action group and cosponsored by Veterans for Peace Chapter 27 and the End War Committee of WAMM
*Title of forthcoming movie from Abby Martin.
Ongoing Event - Wednesday Weekly End War Vigil: Every Wednesday at the the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm between April 1st and October 31st Signs provided or bring your own. Check the calendar for special themes!
April 21st
Virtual Event / Milwaukee, WI
The Climate Crisis and Militarism: an Earth Day Presentation
Time: 7pm Central Time
View the Facebook Event Page for More information
Portland, OR
Teach-in at Portland State University
Time: 12:00pm
Ames, IA (and over zoom)
Zoom Webinar for Iowa State University Students
Time: 5:00pm
April 22nd
Virtual Event
Averting Climate Catastrophe: No New Arms Race!
Time: 7 pm EDT/4 pm PDT
An online webinar with discussion. Presented to Veterans For Peace and open to the public. Moderated by Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK
Panelists:
- Ann Wright, author, activist, retired U.S. Army Colonel and U.S. State Department official
- Dr. David Vine, Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University and author of The United States of War
- Erik Edstrom, Afghanistan war veteran and author of UN-AMERICAN: A soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War
Asheville, NC
Convert the War Economy: Windmills Not War Machines
Time: 10am local time
Organized by Reject Raytheon AVL - The Pratt & Whitney plant now being built in Asheville is a danger to people and planet. It will manufacture airfoil turbines, integral components of jet engines to be used in both military and commercial aircraft. What is needed is to convert our economy from one centered on the war industry to one that addresses the climate emergency. The Pratt & Whitney plant can and should be producing components for wind turbines, rapid rail systems, and solar collectors. Not for jet engines.
We will hold a rally on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, at 10 am. at the Bent Creek River Park to raise awareness about the Pratt & Whitney plant and to call for Windmills Not War Machines. Please join us to stand for people and planet over profits.
View the Facebook Event Page for more details!
Ithaca and Syracuse, NY Earth Day
Tucson, Arizona
Demonstration at Raytheon Missiles & Defense HQ
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 a.m
Join the Raytheon Peacemakers as we demonstrate against war and those who profit from it. Survival demands better ideas, not better weapons. The peace vigils are a regular, nonviolent presence in our community:
- to call for an end to wars and occupations waged by our government in our name and with our tax dollars
- to take a stand against war profiteering
- to remember the victims of war (including those killed by drones)
- to join others around the world in working for peace
Please note: Signs and banners will be provided, or you can bring your own. Find additional details here!
Linthicum, Maryland
Demonstration at Northrop Grumman
Time: 3pm
As part of the call by the War Industries Resistance Network, Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland is organizing a demonstration at Northrop Grumman, a letter to its CEO and a leaflet to be handed out to the workers at 793 Elkridge Landing Road, Linthicum, Maryland on Earth Day, April 22, at 3 PM. Northrop Grumman is a notorious weapons contractor, which has received the largest amount of tax dollars to work on nuclear weapons.
April 23rd
Huntsville, AL
War industry Conversion to a Sustainable Future
Time: 10-11am
This North Alabama Peace Network event will focus on War Industry Resistance. War industry conversion to a sustainable future. The event will take place at the corner of Airport Rd and Whitesburg Drive.
Ventura, CA
Demonstration and Educational Gathering
Time: 12pm PT
Organized by California for a World BEYOND War - We will host a public demonstration and educational gathering in Ventura, California to coincide with Earth Day week festivities, in order to promote Divestment from the war economy and Investment in a peace economy, for the sake of people, planet, and a just transition. More details to come!
Northampton, MA
Royal Oak, MI
Madison, WI
Grand Prairie (Dallas/Ft. Worth), TX
WHEN: Saturday, April 23, 2022; 2:00 - 3:00 PM
WHERE: 1701 W Marshall Dr, Grand Prairie, TX 75051 (on southbound State Hwy 161 access road)
April 21st-28th
Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin
A number of groups around the world, from Canada to South Korea, Colombia to Australia (and more!) are coming together to organize a Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin.
Lockheed Martin is by far the largest weapons producer in the world. From Ukraine to Yemen, from Palestine to Colombia, from Somalia to Syria, from Afghanistan and West Papua to Ethiopia, no one profits more from war and bloodshed than Lockheed Martin.
Learn more here!