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Dear Friend,
With one person alone, the U.S. president, threatening several wars at a time, the need for a stronger movement to abolish all war is greater than ever.
—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
We’ve Just Held a Global Day of Action for Venezuela
On January 17, 2026, 42 actions took place in 11 countries for the Global Day of Action in Solidarity with Venezuela, which had been called for by World BEYOND War and endorsed by 42 organizations worldwide.
The struggle for peace in Venezuela is ongoing:
- We delivered a petition to the U.S. Congress on January 14.
- Sign the petition.
- Pass a local resolution.
- Find more here.
Announcing Second Annual Global Days of Action to #CloseBases
The bases problem: The United States has used its bases in Latin America and the Caribbean to attack Venezuela, while threatening to take over Greenland to build more bases there. Iran is bordered by seven nations with U.S. bases. The nations to the south and east of China are packed with U.S. bases, as is Europe, as is Israel. Africa has foreign bases from several empires. Russia is making more use of its bases in Belarus.
Why February 23: On February 23, 1903, the United States took over Guantanamo from Cuba. It has never restored it. People across Latin America have used this date to organize events opposing bases, militarism, and the Monroe Doctrine. We made it a global day of action for the first time in 2025. We’re expanding our second annual collection of events to include the February 21-22 weekend.
What you can do: Use our resources to easily plan a local educational or activist event of any kind: a panel, a protest, an art display, a banner-drop, a sit-in, a press conference, a film screening, a rally, a march.
We call on individuals and organizations around the world to join the Global Days of Action to #CloseBases on February 21-23, 2026, by organizing events at military base sites or other locations near you.
Upcoming Online Book Clubs and Online Course
Digital devices have saturated the planet and revolutionized the ways in which we relate to each other. Now the promise and perils of AI pose new challenges. This book addresses the historic links within the military, industrial, entertainment complex and how communications technology, trends in popular culture and consumer driven capitalism are at odds with goals for future sustainability.
In February, 2026, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of the book Mind Abuse: Media Violence and Its Threat to Democracy with the author Rose A. Dyson.
When you register for the club, we will send you a PDF of the book.
More Book Clubs:
Online Course:
Job Opening
We’re hiring a Major Donor Liaison for World BEYOND War.
News from Around the World
We need to go on opposing and preventing the eternally threatened U.S. war on Iran.
More Articles from Around the Globe:
WORLD:
- Volunteer Spotlight: Deborah Williams
- Our Computers and Televisions Spray Toxic Sludge
- Jeffrey Sachs: Briefing of the UN Security Council on Venezuela
LATIN AMERICA:
- 24 years after 9/11, 15 Are Still Imprisoned at Guantanamo
- The Latest from Venezuela with Gabriel Aguirre
- Who’s Really Running Venezuela?
- The Trump Corollary: A Q&A with Gabriel Aguirre about Venezuela
- Videos: Gabriel Aguirre on the Kidnapping of Maduro
- Statement from Anti-War Organizations on Venezuela
- Statement on Militarization in Latin America
- Statement on Venezuela from International Forum for Peace
- Video: Gabriel Aguirre in Caracas
EUROPE:
ASIA:
OCEANIA:
NORTH AMERICA:
- Talk World Radio: Violence in the Media Is Changing Us
- WBW Intern Elias Lyman to Receive 2026 Student Activist Award
- Post-Base Urbanism: What Happens to Former U.S. Military Bases Abroad?
- War Porn Beats out Venezuela Peace Messages in DC Metro
- Illinois Chapter of WBW Opposes War on Venezuela
- Basic Sanity Is Now Radicalism, and That’s a Good Thing
- Venezuela and Congress’s Duty to Act
- Washington D.C. Censors Peace on Billboards
World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of war.
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