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Anti-War


Events Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Peace symbol File links The following pages link to this file: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament User:ContiE Peace symbol Categories: GFDL images ...


Cairo Conference
Human Shield Action
Vietnam War Protests
Afghanistan War Protests
Iraq War Protests
delegates attending the conference The Cairo Conference (against U.S. hegemony and war on Iraq and in solidarity with Palestine) generally known simply as Cairo Anti-war Conference is an anti-war and anti-neo-liberalism conference held in Egypt. ... On January 25, 2003 an international group of volunteers left London and headed for Baghdad to act as voluntary human shields, hoping to avert a U.S. invasion. ... Protests against the Vietnam War started in 1945 when United States Merchant Marine condemned the U.S. government for the use of U.S. merchant ships to transport troops to subjugate the native population of Vietnam. ... In 2001, a number of small protests against the invasion of Afghanistan occurred in various cities and college campuses across the United States and other countries in the first days after the start of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...


Organizations


ANSWER Coalition
Anti-War Coalition
Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament

Not in Our Name
Stop the War Coalition
United for Peace and
Justice

Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Veterans
Against the War


List of all anti-war
organizations
Jump to: navigation, search ANSWER banner at the head of an April 12, 2003 anti-war march in Washington DC. A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)—also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition and sometimes written as ANSWER—is a protest... Jump to: navigation, search The Anti-war Coalition (AWC) is a South African Anti-war Coalition. ... CND logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ... Not in Our Name (NION) is a United States organization founded on March 23, 2002, in order to resist the U.S. governments course in the wake of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. ... The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) (informally just Stop the War) is a UK anti-war group set up on 21 September 2001. ... Jump to: navigation, search United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is a coalition of more than 1,300 international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to what they describe as our governments policy of permanent warfare and empire-building. ... Veterans for Peace is an American organization founded in 1985. ... Jump to: navigation, search Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is a tax-exempt Non-profit organization and corporation, originally created to oppose the Vietnam War. ... Jump to: navigation, search In order to facilitate organized opposition to war, anti-war activists have often founded anti-war organizations. ...


Media/Propaganda


Books
Films
Peace Symbol
Protest Song
Chants and slogans
An anti-war book is a book that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. ... An anti-war film is a movie that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. ... Jump to: navigation, search A peace symbol is a representation or object that has come to symbolize peace. ... Gamebeatz! GAMEBEATZ.COM! GO THERE! -Sky ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


General Anti-War


Anti-Imperialism
Conscientious Objector
Pacifism
Peace Movement
2003 Iraq War
Vietnam War
War on Terrorism
The Left and Opposition
to War
Jump to: navigation, search Anti-imperialism, strictly speaking, is a term that may be applied to any idea or movement opposed to some form of imperialism. ... A conscientious objector is an individual whose personal beliefs are incompatible with military service, perhaps with any role in the armed forces or just with a particular war. ... Vereschagins painting Apotheosis of War (1871) came to be admired as one of the earliest artistic expressions of pacifism. ... Rainbow peace flag. ... This article is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Children run down a road near Trang Bang after an ARVN napalm attack on villages suspected of harboring National Liberation Front fighters in this June, 1972 photo by Huynh Cong Ut, which became a symbol of the international movement against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ... Criticisms of the War on Terrorism addresses the issues, morals and ethics surrounding the War on Terrorism. Arguments are also made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Left has historicaly been largely opposed to war. ...

Why War?, originally started by students of Swarthmore College in October 2001, is an anti-war organization working to activate a broad, global movement for peace and justice based on the principles of nonviolence. The organization is most well-known for its involvement in the Diebold electronic civil disobedience campaign and articles on the lessons that protestors can take from animal swarming. Jump to: navigation, search Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States. ... 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: October 2 - Bankruptcy of Swissair. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Diebold, Incorporated NYSE: DBD is a security systems corporation which is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs), electronic and physical security products (including vaults and currency processing systems), and software and integrated systems for global financial and commercial markets. ... Electronic civil disobedience, also known as ECD or cyber civil disobedience, can refer to any type of civil disobedience in which the participants use information technology to carry out their actions. ... This article is about swarms in biology. ...


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