"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

 

"Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty" - Ghandi

   Movimientos de Paz

Books Not Bombs! Stop the War Against Iraq!

The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) calls upon students on campuses across the United States to join us in a one-day student strike on March 5th, 2003.  As students and youth, our futures will be shaped by the actions that the Bush administration takes today.

 

Emergency Appeal to the U.N. Security Council

President Bush is pushing hard for a second Security Council resolution that would authorize war against Iraq. But millions of us believe that a war on Iraq would be wrong -- especially when tough inspections can disarm Saddam Hussein without the loss of a single life. Sign the emergency appeal to the U.N. now

September 11th Family Members To Visit Iraq;   People-to-People Delegation Will Highlight the Human Face of War"


Bolstered by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assertion that "wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows," family members of September 11 victims will travel to Iraq from January 5-14, 2003, to make public their conviction that war will not bring peaceful tomorrows to that nation, to the Middle East region, or to the United States.

 

   Un mundo en Guerra

Pakistan Says It Was Close to Nuclear War

Pakistan President Says He Was Prepared to Use Atomic Weapons Against India Earlier This Year   Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Monday he`d been prepared to use atomic weapons if Indian forces crossed into its territory earlier this year when tensions peaked in an admission of how close the neighbors came to nuclear war

 

U.S., U.K. Escalate Air Patrols Over Iraq

(AP) - The United States and Britain have more than doubled the number of air patrols in the "no fly" zone over southern Iraq this week to keep Iraqi air defenders off guard and mask the start of any war, a senior defense official said Wednesday. 

 

U.S. Sends Bombers to Guam to Deter North Korea

WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) 
 With U.S. bombers headed for the western Pacific to deter any North Korean aggression in the event of a war with Iraq,  officials and critics in Washington and Seoul clashed on Wednesday over whether the nuclear crisis was...

 

 

      Latino America 

Seven Dead, 68 Wounded in Colombian Mall Blast

A bomb ripped through an underground parking lot at a shopping mall near Colombia's northeastern border with Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and injuring 68 others in an attack police blamed on leftist rebels.

Venezuela, sin acuerdo

La oposición venezolana, reunida en la Coordinadora Democrática (CD), considera este martes si sigue o no en las negociaciones con el gobierno del presidente Hugo Chávez.

 

Mayas entierran en cremonia ritual a víctimas de masacres de la guerra civil en Guatemala

Los mayas realizaron el sábado un fúnebre ritual para enterrar a las víctimas. la mayoría mujeres y niños, de una masacre ocurrida en 1982 aparentemente bajo responsabilidad de la fuerza armada de Guatemala.

 

      Heroes de la Paz

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
By Rev. Martin Luther King

"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together:... "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam."

The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence!

The Institute, founded by Arun Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi's grandson) and his wife Sunanda, was established to promote and teach the philosophy and practice of nonviolence to help reduce the violence that consumes our hearts, our homes, and our societies.

Rigoberta Menchú Tum
 Nobel Peace Prize 1992

"in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"