This is a protest organizing email with hyperlinked references that are worth recording here on my website.
Dear Friends,
Please join us this Saturday for our 6th monthly protest calling for a Stop to the Ukraine War, and for a Stop to the Threat of Nuclear War. We need Peace Negotiations, not More and More Escalations! We need Peace in Ukraine, Peace with Russia and China, and Peace for every nation of people from Donbass to Palestine.
As usual, the protests are on the last Saturday of the month, August 26th this month, at 11 A.M. at Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. Please share our Facebook event page & invite your friends to the event if you can.
I am going to be redundant and copy what I wrote in my previous protest announcement email because it is worth repeating, most importantly the hyperlinked references:
As far too many have forgotten, war with Russia and China could quickly become a nuclear war that could cause extinction of our species, according to the science of nuclear winter. To avoid this, we must call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and peace negotiations with Russia, and an end to all forms of warfare with Russia and China.
As you may know, our politicians and mainstream media are not telling us the truth about the causes of the Ukraine war, which makes it harder to understand that peace negotiations are the logical answer. Here are some powerful, credible references by experts like Professor Sachs, Professor Mearsheimer, peace seeking military officials, award-winning journalist Robert Parry, and award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone’s documentary Ukraine on Fire.Here, here, and here are some good books on the subject as well.
These sources help tell the story of how the war really started, not just with the 2014 U.S.-sponsored coup, which was well recorded in this leaked phone call, but also how the coup started a 9 year old civil war between ultranationalist Ukrainians in West Ukraine and ethnic Russian Ukrainians in East Ukraine. It was this civil war that became the bigger proxy war between the USA and Russia.
Additionally, these sources tell the hidden story of how USA promised not to expand NATO military forces eastward to Russian borders, but has broken that promise repeatedly, despite numerous warnings not to from Western experts and the Russian government.
At issue is not just NATO military bases and war games on Russian borders, but the movement of NATO’s nuclear weapons closer and closer to Moscow. The situation is very similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviets put missiles near our borders; Americans were not having it and we nearly entered nuclear war over it. Peace negotiations solved that crisis and peace negotiations are the only way to solve the Ukraine crisis.
Toward Peace,–
Abel Tomlinson
Arkansas Antiwar Alliance, Founder
OMNI Peace Action Committee, Chair
(479)283-5762
Abel Tomlinson 