World BEYOND War supports the No Kings rallies planned around the United States on June 14:
https://www.nokings.org
World BEYOND War supports the No Kings agenda of opposing dictatorial
power for U.S. presidents, but does not advocate proper non-Trumpian
celebrations of the U.S. Army or flag. Instead we advocate building a
culture of peace and of respect for all people and living things on
Earth.
We say No to the military parade but also to the military’s wars.
We say No to cutting useful government services but also to dumping
ever more funds into war profiteering. We say no to kings but also to
Congress Members behaving as royal court jesters rather than as the
first branch of government. We propose that the rise of the imperial
president over the past few decades has been centrally based on
warmaking. We recall the words of James Madison:
“War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In
war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will
which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked,
and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the
honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the
executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war,
finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow
they are to encircle. The strongest passions, and most dangerous
weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable
or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and
duty of peace.”
Signs you might want to bring to the No Kings rallies could say:
- No Weapons Parades! No Weapons Shipments! No Weapons Use!
- Stop moving our money from where we need it to the Pentagon!
- Tell Congress: the Constitution put you in charge. Act like it!
For those three posters, download and print this PDF.
Or recommend others to us or just make your own!
Power to the people, not the profiteers!
—World BEYOND War
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