Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-173-april-17.html
PEACEMAKING
United Nations and Better World Campaign
Casa Cry, Catholic Worker Newsletter
UNITED NATIONS
Exciting news! Each year, the Better World Campaign.org publishes a comprehensive guide highlighting America’s crucial role on the global stage through its engagement with the United Nations. This guide equips supporters, policymakers, and inquiring minds with insights to understand the value of U.S. involvement in the UN. It spotlights the value of UN funds and programs in advancing U.S. interests, explains constructive engagement on UN reforms, advocates for full U.S. engagement with key UN bodies, and more.
[I checked out BWC, and it seems to be an objective NGO not directed by corporations or any part of the oligarchy. Let me know if you have found otherwise. –D]
CASA CRY, NEWSLETTER OF CASA MARIA C.W. APRIL, 2024. [I subscribe to several Catholic Worker newsletters because they remind citizens of the US that we have alternatives to our government’s devotion to conquering, violence, killing, torturing. All CWs are vitally relevant to peace and justice individual lives and organizing. Their newsletters are free, btw, though the CWs need donations. Well, the central The Catholic Worker costs 1 penny. Below is the opening to April’s Casa Cry, edited by Don and Roberta Thurstin.–D]
“Can anything be more stupid than thinking that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river whose ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him, never met him and do not know him?” ― Blaise Pascal. By in large the current war in the middle east is between Hamas and Netanyahu. They have yet to learn the secret to stopping war is “Love your enemies AND do good to them”. “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” ~ Howard Zinn.
“The ultimate purpose for which a bomb exists is to kill people, to maim people, to cause people great suffering. Over the last twenty years the U.S. Catholic Bishops have unanimously taught as a canonical unit, National Conference, that it was morally in conformity with the Gospel of Jesus Christ for U.S. Catholics to be members of the chain of murder that was required to bomb, kill and maim millions of civilian men, women and children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and the Ukraine.” —Emmanuel Charles McCarthy.
We need to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ by doing what Christ did. He did not retaliate against those who unjustly caused him severe agony and death on a tree. Rather he did what he preached. He forgave them and refused to do bad to them. That is why Christ plays an extremely important part of our lives. —Don T.