{"id":3160,"date":"2026-04-05T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:38:33","slug":"we-need-a-movement-to-end-u-s-wars-in-the-middle-east-latin-america-and-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/we-need-a-movement-to-end-u-s-wars-in-the-middle-east-latin-america-and-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need a Movement to End U.S. Wars in the Middle East, Latin America and at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article was originally written for Works in Progress, \u00a0a newspaper just\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/znetwork.org\/znetarticle\/we-need-a-movement-to-end-us-wars-in-the-middle-east-latin-america-and-at-home\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Building an Anti-War Movement
\nThere has never been a war that has been as unpopular from the start as this U.S.-Israeli War on Iran. This creates an opportunity to get the U.S. to withdraw and end its attacks on Iran. The No Kings rallies locally and nationally are important actions towards stopping these wars and the Trump agenda, but they alone are not enough. Voting matters but it alone is not enough. Many levels of protest and resistance are needed: people in the streets, direct actions against institutions complicit with this war machine, non-compliant non-cooperation, and more. But even this is not enough.
\nCurrently, there is no mass anti-war movement in the United States. Moving beyond one-off mobilizations and building an infrastructure for ongoing organization that actively involves people is necessary. So is a movement focused on all lives lost, not just the lives of U.S. citizens. It is important to reach out to those not involved, to do political education, and to make it easier to get plugged in. Building this infrastructure will create the conditions that when a mass anti-war movement erupts, this will expand its effectiveness and increase its longevity. Currently, there is a lack of anti-war organizations that can involve people in an ongoing way to effectively mobilize large numbers to oppose U.S. aggression abroad in the way that various organizations existed in the 1960s. Why this hasn\u2019t happened yet is not entirely clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5,6,125,120,10,13,14],"tags":[55,57,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}