Tag: World Beyond War

  • Roger Waters, A Song, SUMUD, Palestine Will Be Free

    Roger Waters, A Song, SUMUD, Palestine Will Be Free

    A new song by Roger Waters: SUMUD means “steadfast perseverence, particularly in resistance to the occupation of your homeland.”

    Editor’s Note:

    Here in Minnesota (a homeland within the homeland of America) we are also practicing a form of steadfast perseverence. It is characterized by continued protest around the genocide in Palestine, calling for the state to divest its holdings in Israeli companies to regular street protests and marches and bannerings, at minimum once a week but often more.  

    Although there has been intense resistance around Palestine regularly since October 7, 2023, another form of steadfast perseverence is taking place in protests against ICE: Now since Trump’s targeting of the large Minneapolis  population of Somali people, a support movement that is characterized by steadfast resistance by all organizations that work for peace and justice, including religious groups as well as street protests and other nonprofits. The Twin Cities, and to some extent all of Minnesota, is home to a large Hispanic population as well. Weekly protests against ICE and immigration policies and other creative protests occur regularly.

    On Saturday, December 20, 2025 15,000 people marched on Lake Street in the center of Minneapolis on a cold and windy day to protest ICE and in support of Minnesota’s Somali community as well as other targeted peoples. 

    Every day resistance continues and will continue in one form or another of creative and steadfast perseverence.

    Thank you Roger for your steadfast defiance and for giving us this phrase in your wonderful song about what is necessary and about what we need to continue to do in practicing steadfast perseverence.

    Roger Waters is the cofounder of Pink Floyd. He is known worldwide for not only his music, but his work for justice and peace. He won the Artistic War Abolisher of 2025 Award from World Beyond War for his “incredibly powerful combination of songwriting, singing, speaking and performing against the horrors of war,” in the words of David Swanson, World Beyond War executive director.

    Because of his activism he has had many of his live concerts cancelled in Europe and elsewhere and attacks on his work, but he wonderfully and steadfastly perseveres.

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  • War Abolisher Awards 2025, World Beyond War

    War Abolisher Awards 2025, World Beyond War

    From World Beyond War

    The presentation of the 2025 War Abolisher Awards to Ralph Nader, Roger Waters, and Francesca Albanese

    World BEYOND War’s Fifth Annual War Abolisher Awards recognize the work of individuals who directly support one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War’s strategy for reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book A Global Security System, An Alternative to War. They are: Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace.

    The awardees for 2025 are Ralph Nader, Roger Waters, and Francesca Albanese.

    The Artistic War Abolisher of 2025 award goes to Roger Waters for his incredibly powerful combination of song-writing, singing, speaking, and performing against the horrors of war. During the event, we will play a new 8-minute song pre-recorded by Roger Waters called Sumud.

    The David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher of 2025 award — named for the late co-founder of World BEYOND War  — goes to Ralph Nader for his brilliant and relentless advocacy, educating, organizing, analyzing, and criticizing war and related crimes and abuses.

    The Individual War Abolisher of 2025 award goes to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, for her fearless, incisive, and eloquent reporting on the genocide in Gaza.

    Moderating the event will be WBW Board Member and Secretary Robert Fantina, and presenting the awards will be WBW Board Members Alicia Cabezudo and Edward Horgan, and RootsAction Senior Partnerships Coordinator Hanieh Jodat Barnes.

    World BEYOND War thanks RootsAction for helping spread the word about the War Abolisher Awards.

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  • Democracy Now! interviews Francesca Albanese on the “Economy of Genocide”

    Democracy Now! interviews Francesca Albanese on the “Economy of Genocide”

    The Individual War Abolisher of 2025 award by World Beyond War goes to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, for her fearless, incisive, and eloquent reporting on the genocide in Gaza.

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    Glenn Greenwald interviews Francesca Albanese.

    Information about Francesa and the 2025 War Abolisher Awards from World Beyond War.

     

    Please join World Beyond War for the presentation of the 2025 War Abolisher Awards to Ralph Nader, Roger Waters, and Francesca Albanese.

    The event is free and open to the public.

    War Abolisher Awards 2025

    The event begins on July 24, 2025, at 18:30 UTC, which is 6:30 a.m. in Auckland, 8:30 a.m. in Honolulu, 11:30 a.m. in Los Angeles, 12:30 p.m. in Mexico City, 2:30 p.m. in New York, 7:30 p.m. in Yaoundé, 8:30 p.m. in Berlin, and 10 p.m. in Tehran.

    World BEYOND War’s Fifth Annual War Abolisher Awards will recognize the work of individuals who directly support one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War’s strategy for reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book A Global Security System, An Alternative to War. They are: Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace.

    The awardees for 2025 are Ralph Nader, Roger Waters, and Francesca Albanese.

    The Artistic War Abolisher of 2025 award goes to Roger Waters for his incredibly powerful combination of song-writing, singing, speaking, and performing against the horrors of war. During the event, we will play a new 8-minute song pre-recorded by Roger Waters called Sumud.

    The David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher of 2025 award — named for the late co-founder of World BEYOND War — goes to Ralph Nader for his brilliant and relentless advocacy, educating, organizing, analyzing, and criticizing war and related crimes and abuses.

    The Individual War Abolisher of 2025 award goes to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, for her fearless, incisive, and eloquent reporting on the genocide in Gaza.

    Register for the award event July 24th:
    https://worldbeyondwar.org/war-abolisher-awards/?clear_id=true

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