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We Need a Movement to End U.S. Wars in the Middle East, Latin America and at Home

This article was originally written for Works in Progress,  a newspaper just  relaunched in Olympia. Print edition to begin in June. Also included is video of talk I gave at No Kings Rally, March 28, 2026. The article is an expanded version of my talk. It deals more with strategy.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-movement-to-end-us-wars-in-the-middle-east-latin-america-and-at-home/

Stop U.S. Wars in the Middle East, Latin America and at Home

Talk at No Kings Rally, March 28th, 2026

Video  of my talk at this rally

Trumpism is conducting a war against the people of the U.S. and globally. It is an authoritarian, bullying playbook that violently oppresses and exploits and dehumanizes immigrants and poor people at home and abroad, takes resources from the global South, and demands total U.S. dominance.  Let us connect these domestic and global attacks and build the power to stop them. I will focus on the global.

In each of the following cases, there is a continuity of a bipartisan project of US immoral and illegal intervention, and new more blatant and murderous aggression…  Against US intervention

Video of February 21, 2024 Forum, “Jewish Perspectives on the Israel War on Gaza”

Different perspectives -Rabbis David Basior and Seth Goldstein, Evergreen faculty, Nancy Koppleman and me (Peter Bohmer) at The Evergreen State College.

https://evergreen.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=629dcb9d-785c-4212-8627-b120001bd99a

Global Justice and Participatory Socialism

We live in a world of obscene economic inequality within and between nations. In this essay, I will address what a participatory socialist society[1] would mean for global justice and equity.

A guiding principle is that the quality of life would be the same within and between societies[2].

A goal is global equity, the same quality of life within and between nations (societies), with diversity of cultures, diversity of what is produced, in the kinship sphere, etc.

There is no moral justification for the quality of life being better because one lives in one society rather than another, it is an accident of birth.  Global equity should be a principle of groups and individuals advocating in favor of participatory socialism.,,I am including both the text and the video of my talk. https://znetwork.org/zvideo/global-justice-and-participatory-socialism/


[1] I am using the term, participatory socialist. Many of the authors in this text use the term participatory society. The difference is over terminology, not over the vision.

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