HIGH SUICIDE RATES AMONG UNITED STATES SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS OF THE POST-9/11 WARS

The study finds that at least four times as many active duty personnel and war veterans of post-9/11 conflicts have died of suicide than in combat, as an estimated 30,177 have died by suicide as compared with the 7,057 killed in post-9/11 war operations.

#NoWar #Pacifism #AntiMilitarism

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2021/Suicides

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

#MartinLutherKing , Beyond Vietnam

#antimilitarism

@MatthiasSchmelzer

"Social activity that does not advance human well-being, such as “bullshit” and “batshit” jobs, the arms industry and the military, advertising, lobbying, planned obsolescence, fast fashion, border security, and large parts of the financial industry, will have to be scaled down. The same goes for any economic activity that cannot be restructured socioecologically, such as a large part of motorized individual transport (above all in cities), ..."

#degrowth #antimilitarism

Olga Karach, an infamous person behind "pacifist" NGO "Nash Dom" so beloved by western antimilitarist appeared to be working with russian secret service according to statement from lithuanian government that recently declined political asylum for her #Belarus #Antimilitarism

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"Germany said in 2022 that it supports “disarmament initiatives like the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”.

However, it has consistently voted against an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2018 that welcomes the adoption of the TPNW and calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to it “at the earliest possible date"."

#nuclearweapons #antimilitarism #nowar #germany

@Anarco @Radical_EgoCom @Dionysius Give alternative ideas for actions that will help people living in so called Ukraine then 😉 and for Kurds, Palestinians, Tibetans, EZLN etc. Usually you can send them some money, buy something from them like Zapatistas coffee, talk to other people about them, or actually go there and help. What do you think about people fighting in international units in Rojava against Turkish state? Is that bad too because of #antimilitarism? Rojava is a state, left-libertarian for sure, but still a state.

#ezln #Rojava #palestine #tibet #ukraine

10 Civil Protection Vehicles & 3 Military Vehicles Set on Fire in Switzerland
#AnarchistAction #AntiMilitarism #Switzerland

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/09/10-civil-protection-vehicles-3-military-vehicles-set-on-fire-in-switzerland/

"To say State is to say war. There is no such thing as States at war and States at peace. States that want war and States that want peace do not exist. All States, by the simple fact of their existence, are instruments of war."

— Alfredo M Bonanno, Towards Anarchist Antimilitarism

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-towards-anarchist-antimilitarism

#Anarchism #Antimilitarism

Voltairine de Cleyre (17.11.1866 – 20.06. 1912)

#anarchism #otd
#antimilitarism #pacifism

"... the really desirable thing is that all men ... should be at peace; and that to reach this, all peaceful persons should withdraw their support from the army, and require that all who make war shall do so at their own cost and risk; that neither pay nor pensions are to be provided for those who choose to make man-killing a trade."
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voltairine-de-cleyre-anarchism-and-american-traditions

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
...
All the money you made
will never by back your soul!

Masters of War

#AirDefender23 #antimilitarism #peace

https://youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU

"Eve of Destruction(Lyrics)"

#eveofdestruction
#VorabendZurVernichtung
#BarryMcGuire
#antimilitarism #antimilitarismus
#peace
#nowar

https://youtu.be/I98KeKV_F9g

Nate Hagens:

"It doesn't matter who is right at this point because the risks to our civilization ..., the risk to our biosphere in case there is nuclear exchange far far far outweigh any provincial blaming ..., or whether Putin is a thug ...

These things are irrelevant to the stakes that we face."

#NateHagens #NATO #Ukraine #Antimilitarism #NoWar #Defender23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqgNltPFY5s

"To a decisive extent, the means of defense, the military technology itself, determines the political and social character of the state being defended—that is, defense mechanism themselves in the nuclear age alter the character of the system that creates them for protection.

So it has been with American, as her democratic institutions and habits have shriveled in almost direct proportion to the growth of her armaments."

Tom Hayden, The Port Huron Statement, New York, 1962.

#Antimilitarism

Danke für die Zusendung!
Wir wollen die UDT weder hier noch sonst irgendwo!
#sinkUDT #rostock #udtentwaffnen #antimilitarism

📣 save the dates - wir demonstrieren am Samstag, den 6. und am Mittwoch, den 10. Mai gegen die weltgrösste Unterwasserwaffenmesse! Kommt nach Rostock für support!

#antimilitarism #friedenfüralle #legtdiewaffennieder #stopudt #rüstungstoppen #abolishmilitary #protestcamp #demonstration #rostock

❌ Giftmüllhalde Ostsee ❌

Gerade hier an der Ostsee sollte mensch meinen, dass hinlänglich bekannt sei welche verheerenden Folgen Kriegsmüll vor allem in marinen Ökosystemen hat… Allein vor der deutschen Ostseeküste liegen 300.000 Tonnen nicht-detonierte Kampfmittel. Diese rosten und lösen sich auf. Dabei werden TNT und andere giftige Chemikalien frei. Die Ostsee ist nicht zuletzt dadurch eines der dreckigsten Meere Europas. 🙄

Krieg bedeutet immer auch gravierende Umweltschäden und enorme Klimaschäden. Ein Krieg ist immer eine lose-lose-Situation, daher muss es unser Ziel sein, dass diese mörderischen Entgleisungen gar nicht erst entstehen!

Nein zum Krieg und Nein zum Profit auf Kosten von Menschenleben und Umwelt! Die UDT darf nicht stattfinden!

Zum Artikel ►► https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/giftmuellhalde-ostsee-wie-alte-munition-das-meerwasser-100.html

#antimilitarism #systemchange #UDTentwaffnen

+++ Kommt zum Protestcamp vom 5.-11. Mai nach Rostock +++

War is a Racket!
#antimilitarism #antiwar

#Introduction
I’m Paul, a #cybersecurity professional from #Scotland and I’ve recently moved servers from mastodon.lol.
My interests are human-centred and accessible security, and empowering marginalised communities with technology.
I’m passionate about social and economic justice, #nonviolence and #antimilitarism , and #secularism and #humanism.
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University of Michigan Career Fair Disrupted Over Military Recruiters

"On Wednesday February 9, 2023, the University of Michigan welcomed a variety of military and government recruiters into its Career Fair in Ann Arbor. ... Multiple people pushed passed the registration desk carrying banners that said “Stop Camp Grayling” and chanting “No prisons, no borders, fuck your law and order” ... Another group sprayed red food coloring on the NSA and U.S. Navy displays, and were then detained for several hours while the U of M police refused to give information about their whereabouts or status to concerned friends and supporters. They were eventually released ..."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2023/02/10/university-of-michigan-career-fair-disrupted-over-military-recruiters/

#StopCampGrayling #Michigan #AntiMilitarism #FuckTheMilitary #Anarchism

Many schools are destroyed in earthquakes, many hospitals are destroyed... Have you seen a destroyed prison? States know well what to do well...
#AntiFascist #antiracism #anticapitalism #antimilitarism #earthquaketurkey