Issues that were raised:

• solidarity and focus in movements
• positive successes of the past
• freedom & restraint in democracy
• eroding civil liberties
• Arab & Islamic culture, learning more, working together

What was not raised:

• nuclear missile defense
• ABM treaty
• Integrity of US government
• War against whom?
• Definition of terrorist

1. involve young people and seniors
2. media/war industry connection
3. need for honest Information
4. helping children in war for from poverty
5. economic sanctions
6. high risk banks and risky ventures
7. militarization of Space
8. see ourselves as others see us
9. support for a nonviolence Peace Force
10. militarism and military budget
11. movement across class
12. multiracial movement
13. ending hunger
14. support education
15. international movement
16. integrating and unifying goals
17. finding a proactive name
18. taking care of refugees
19. honest probe of 9-11
20. change global economy to save environment
21. stricter gun control

• Capitalism & Imperialism
• Need for a Vision
• Defining Patriotism
• Justice movement (police repression, brutality)
• Exposing US government falsehoods
• Legal issues: detainees
• Common ground with other movements
• Class, Race and Gender issues
• Environmental impact of war
• Patriot Act threat to civil liberties
• Getting women and mothers involved
• How do we frame for widespread acceptance?
• How do we involve working classes?
• $$$ going to military - taken from social programs
  • directly impacts quality of life
• Respecting young people

Strategies:

• possible first step: talking to people closest to you
• neighborhood study group
• mobilize mothers and women's groups
• build community
• dialogue between youth and adults
• email/internet connections
• connect more with natural world
• work on United Nations
• look at Youth

• Global nonviolent peace force
• Linking peace and economic justice - no peace without justice
• Patriot Act
• Guantanamo detainees
• Ratification of the International Criminal Court
• Child soldiers, landmines, arms sales, etc
• Weldon bill to re-institute the Draft
• Corporatization/monopolization of the media
• Inter-cultural/national understanding
• Good governance
  • challenging repressive governments that are allied to the US
• Religious freedom
• Civil liberties
• Democracy - here and abroad
• $ - military economy

Issues

• disparity between haves and have nots - gap between rich and poor growing
• narrow perspective, lack of dialogue, reactive
• violence / systemic
• desire for possessons fosters violence as means of protecting
• lacks: voice, expression that lead to violence
• world as US dumping ground (cigs, nuclear, etc) backed by military
• civil liberties
• mis-education
  • what's left out of our own history
  • lack of historical background, we don't know each other
• awareness of the consequences of how we live

Issues Not Raised

• how tos
• examples of alternative actions to violence
• ways of disseminating info of protests without relying on major media
• are problems based on capitalisn?
• ABM treaty
• Integrity of US government
• War against whom?
• Definition for terrorism

How

• non violence
• frame in the positive-stay away from "anti"
• personal consciousness raising through writing
• speaking up in all contexts
• non-violence training
• diversity training-celebrating differences - finding unity
• communication-networking between groups

Challenges

• tension over commitment to nonviolence, tactics
• jingoistic media
  • mischarizterization of peace movement
  • marginalization
• association of nonviolence with lack of patriotism
• preaching to the choir
• fear and fear of dissent
• grappling with Israel/Palestine question
  • tension with Jewish friends/colleagues

Resources

What

• create vision of peaceful alternatives
• "peace is patriotic" as a message
• school-based education for peace
• faculty education
• "the peaceable classroom" model for kids peace education
• fundamental alteration of consciousness
• non-violence training
• diversity training
• message of one human family
• developing policy stance re: Israel/Palestine that unites us

How

• take to the streets - nonviolently
• education within movement
• education outside movement
• ask whyy to take no funding from government or military if activists will provide it
• personal contact with media
• use talk radio to help cross class educational lines
• non violence=non property destruction
• forming coalitions - formally and informally
• forming coalitions across race and class
• forming coalitions across national borders
• forming coalitions across faiths
• visualize peace / peace circles
• connections with family

Issues

• need for creative responses - message people can hear
• defining vision - concrete stategies
• overcome pessimism
• connect action and spiritual life
• threat to civil liberties - need more awareness
• broaden base - reach across lines of race and class
• media control/thought control/mystification
• broaden media sources
• look for leadership outside usual places - internationalize
• military spending