Free Press Second Saturday Salon, December 2021
Channel: nation of gandhis
Date: 11/07/2021

At the December Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon, we discussed a progressive agenda for 2021, both locally and nationally. Many local activists reported on their goals and events for the new year.
For the Free Press salon, he reiterated most of his “27 Things” recommendations that included: ending student debt; getting a repeat vote of the ending of the war on Yemen, and into undoing and ending the practice of allowing presidents to start dozens of wars but forbidding them to end them; contacting your Congress Members to end the trading of weapons that cannot actually be used without abusing human rights; organizing a major coalition to support the reintroduction of all of Rep. Omar’s peace bills, including the Global Peacebuilding Act, the Global Migration Agreement Act, the Congressional Oversight of Sanctions Act, the Youthbuild International Act, the Resolution on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Resolution on the International Criminal Court. See Pathways to Peace; Sign and share the petition asking President-Elect Biden to end Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court; stop Biden’s terrible picks for Secretary of “Defense”; shaming the shameless over the inauguration funding of yet another presidency brought to you by the war profiteers; ending the Cuba blockade and more.

The keynote was peace activist and political writer David Swanson on an Anti-War Agenda for 2021 and “27 Things You Can Do to Let There Be Peace on Earth.”

David Swanson is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and FaceBook. Help support his work: http://davidswanson.org/donate. Sign up for his emails.

David Swanson’s Talk Nation Radio show plays locally on WGRN 94.1FM on Wednesdays at 7:30am. Most of his articles appear on freepress.org.

Connie Hammond mentioned supporting the bill H.R.2407 - Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act.

David also talked about electing Ohio’s Nina Turner to Congress.

Suzanne with the Free Press recommends David’s book Curing Exceptionalism.

Mark Stansbery would like to put together a coalition of people and groups in central Ohio to work on progressive issues in 2021.

Video of David Swanson at the salon.
See for more info: https://columbusfreepress.com/article/progressive-agenda-2021-free-press-december-second-saturday-cyber-salon