Below is a list of strategies and website that came out of the USSF Workshop, "A War Economy or an Economy of Peace?" organized by WILPF, Bite the Bullet: War Profiteering Education & Action Network and the WRL. A significant part of the discussion focused on the nuclear weapons complex.
Strategies to dismantle the war economy
- Counter-Corp Recruitment
- Divestment
- Self-Governance (Who Decides?)
- Faith Based/Moral
- Expose the ties & consequences
- Challenging notion of “National Security”
- Borrow strategies from successful movements (Environmental Justice, Animal Rights, AIDS Activist…)
- Wreak Economic Damage/Lower Opportunity Costs
- Language – Choose great names to split consciousness
- Visibility
- Local initiatives – nuclear free zones, etc. Mayors for peace.
- Leverage Consumer Power (Girlcotts, Boycotts)
- Union campaigns
- Nonviolent Direct Action
- Support Reaching Critical Will (www.reachingcriticalwill.org [1])
- Illuminate costs of militarism; show positive vision – Economic Conversion
- Creative Resistance
- Coordinated Days of Action (E.g. August 6-9 (No Nukes, No Wars…))
- Iraq War Moratorium – every third Friday, escalating
- Global Marshall Plan (see Network of Spiritual Progressives)
- Advertising (E.g. Portland WILPF radio ad)
- Encourage antiwar activists to focus on profiteers
- Join the BtB network
- Link to other movements (e.g. Immigrants Rights, Climate Justice (see nowarnowarming.org))
Websites to check out:
- www.wilpf.org [2]
- www.spaceforpeace.org [3]
- www.reachingcriticalwill.org [4]
- www.bitethebullet.us [5]
- www.newsds.org [6]
- www.warresisters.org [7]
- www.spiritualprogressives.org [8]
- www.wilpf.org [9]
- www.unitedforpeace.org [10]
- www.august6.org [11]
- www.corpwatch.org [12]
- www.defenselink.mil [13]
- www.globalsecurity.org [14]
- www.sourcewatch.org [15]
- www.atomicvigil.org [16]
- www.wslfweb.org [17]
- www.wmdreport.org [18]
- www.abolition2000.org [19]
- www.disarmamentactivist.org [20]
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