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No Iran Sanctions

Published March 27, 2020 | By editor

This week, the official death toll in Iran from the coronavirus pandemic surged to 1,433 deaths and nearly 20,000 infected, with tens of thousands of confirmed cases. On top of this, researchers say that Iran’s infections will not peak until late May, at which time as many as 3.5 million Iranian lives may be lost.

China and Britain are pressing the U.S. to lift its crippling sanctions on Iran amid the coronavirus crisis. But last week, rather than coming together as a world community, the Trump administration imposed even more sanctions on Iran. “Our [new] sanctions will deprive the regime of critical income from its petrochemical industry and further Iran’s economic and diplomatic isolation,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo bragged, despite the fact that the sanctions are preventing diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of COVID-19. This is evil. This is inhumane. This is murder.

Congress and the international community need to step in immediately! Send a message now to your Senators and Representative in Congress calling on them to introduce legislation to lift the sanctions. After you send that message, you will be automatically directed to the petition asking the World Health Organization and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to issue statements calling on the U.S. to lift the sanctions.

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Travel With Codepink.

Published March 6, 2020 | By editor

CODEPINK is organizing, co-sponsoring and traveling to Bolivia, Iran, Cuba, Colombia, and Honduras this spring-summer. Join us as we engage in peace diplomacy from below to learn firsthand how U.S. foreign policy harms the most vulnerable. If you’ve ever wanted to talk to people abroad who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, this is your chance!

It’s hard to truly understand a country and its people without visiting. While being a tourist is great and enriching, taking it to the next level and joining a citizen diplomacy peace delegation is rewarding and helps impact policy here at home. Upon returning home, peace delegates can meet with their representatives in Congress to speak about what they saw. They can write articles about their experiences and talk to folks in their own communities so that those who couldn’t join can have a source of information that isn’t the mainstream media.

Apply now to travel with us, learn about and sign up for our delegations to Latin America and Iran!

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Please sign and share this letter thanking Representative Ilhan Omar for her leadership to transform US foreign policy and put us on the Path to PEACE!

Published March 6, 2020 | By editor

Dear Representative Omar,

We, the undersigned, wholeheartedly endorse your Path to PEACE, a foreign policy legislative package based on a vision that centers human rights, justice and peace as the basis of U.S. involvement with the world. PEACE, or Progressive, Equitable and Constructive Engagement, fundamentally challenges our militaristic foreign policy and offers an inspiring message for what we want U.S. interaction with the world to look like.

For too long, our government has waged war and imposed sanctions in our names, claiming that it will make us and the world safer. As we get closer to the 17th anniversary of the Iraq war, we are making it clear that we know this is just empty rhetoric. Military threats, drone strikes, bombings, troop deployments, assassinations and sanctions that impede access to food and medicine don’t make us safer, they make us less safe by causing or intensifying conflicts, spurring mass migration, contributing to climate catastrophe and making the world more chaotic and dangerous. We say no more and are now walking the path to peace.

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Golden Rule Peace Boat Is a Big Hit in Hawaii: Urgent Need for Funds for Pacific Voyage

Published March 6, 2020 | By editor

Photo by Helen Jaccard

By Ann Wright and Helen Jaccard

Sixty-one years ago in 1958 the Golden Rule and her intrepid crew sailed from Los Angeles to stop U.S. atmospheric nuclear weapons from being exploded in the Marshall Islands. Under orders from the U.S. government, the Coast Guard stopped the boat in Honolulu and arrested the captain and crew, who spent 60 days in jail.

Now, 61 years later in 2020, the Golden Rule, is back in Hawaii and is ready to sail to the Marshall Islands and beyond on her continuing mission to prevent a nuclear war. With Veterans for Peace as her sponsor, the Golden Rule and crew are planning to leave Hawai’i in late-February and sail to the Marshall Islands and then on to Hiroshima, Japan for the 75th commemoration of the horrific U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

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Glowing Magic Beauty a Review.

Published March 3, 2020 | By editor

Glowing Magic Beauty: Practical Steps To Attaining Beauty, Health, Joy & Peace by [RAMIREZ, KHALILAH]

Glowing Magic Beauty is a practical guide for developing and living a joyous life. The book describes what exactly will develop as you follow the steps and concepts as outlined. “You will find yourself glowing, radiant with joy and confidence. You will be able to tap into the exquisite magic life that lives in you and around you. Beauty will become a power you can summon at will.”

Khailah writes: “If you want to be able to summon this power of a beauty life, you need to begin with a positive image of yourself.” If your positive image is not yet int tact this book provides you with the techniques to take you on the inward journey needed to rid yourself of the negative emotional addictions that are toxic to the spirit and bring out the positive pure energy that is the creative reality of life. This energy is the Glowing Magic Beauty that is in you and waiting to lead your body and mind to a place of “comfort and ease that will facilitate beauty, grace, joy, happiness and glory before your eyes.”

The ideas in this book is something we can use in these modern times. Where life seems so hectic, judgmental, so full of burdens that our minds becomes so overloaded that we fill our lives with negative emotions. In order to be happy we need to free ourselves of these emotional “addictions” by working to make ourselves feel beautiful on the inside and that takes effort, but once we find that inner beauty we can continuous tap into it and make our life joyous. Glowing Magic Beauty is an easy guide to follow to help you get you on a path that will make your life more magical and beautiful.

You can get a copy of the book at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1656655624

Khalilah Ramirez is a performance artist, educator and author. Her work with the Dance of Peace spans well over a decade. She specializes in getting people in touch with their inner light, joy and peacefulness using a combination of music, movement, magic, dance and guided imagery. Weekly classes, Quarterly workshops, and small group intensives are available.

Khalilah initiates prolific performances of the Dance of Peace locally, nationally and globally. She has had the privilege of working with pretigious organizations such as San Jose Museum of Art, Silicon Valley De-bug, Sangham Arts, Silicon Valley Chamber Music Orchestra, San Jose State University and Santa Clara University. Khalilah is the author of two books, “The Peace Dancer” an illustrated fable about the Dance of Peace and “Glowing Magic Beauty” a practical guide to living a joyous life. Both are available through the following site.Contact: Khalilah Ramirez
Email: khalilahthepeacedancer@gmail.com