{"id":97539,"date":"2023-07-13T00:35:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=97539"},"modified":"2023-10-08T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T03:08:09","slug":"press-release-fifth-international-peace-coalition-event-reveals-growth-and-extensive-organizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2023\/07\/13\/press-release-fifth-international-peace-coalition-event-reveals-growth-and-extensive-organizing\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE: Fifth International Peace Coalition Event Reveals Growth and Extensive Organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are interested in working with the International Peace Coalition, please contact questions@schillerinstitute.org<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The International Peace Coalition (IPC), initiated by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, held its fifth weekly international meeting today, July 7, with guests from over a dozen countries in Asia, South and Central America, Africa, Europe and the US. Presentations were mostly focused on reports of organizing activities around the world, with extensive reports on such mobilizing in the U.S., UK, Germany, South Africa, Malaysia, Argentina and Central America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anastasia Battle moderated and it was announced by Irene Mavrakakis that many new aspects of the website are now live (www.Humanityforpeace.net<\/a>) for the Aug. 6 international demonstration Humanity for Peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helga opened the call by noting that the planning for the NATO Summit to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11-12, demonstrates the extreme danger facing mankind at this moment in history. While the idea of bringing Ukraine into NATO at this event has been dropped, there is no discussion of a peace plan of any sort on the agenda, only ranting about the defeat of Russia and numerous open proposals for full scale war on Russia, even insane calls for \u201cdisarming\u201d Russia. It is clear that the war party running the NATO leaders intend a \u201clong war\u201d by continuing the massive armament of Ukraine, even establishing NATO military-industrial production capacity within Ukraine itself \u2013 a \u201cnightmare scenario of a frozen conflict\u201d if not an escalation to nuclear war and an expansion of the war policy to Asia. Our responsibility is to make this Coalition grow, to \u201creplace confrontation with cooperation\u201d to stop the momentum to global war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray McGovern, a former CIA official and a founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) noted that the NATO leaders are the classic example of insanity \u2013 doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. He said that some EU leaders appear to have convinced Zelensky not to blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as they did with the Kakhovka dam. We\u2019ll have to wait to see what NATO decides to do this week. They may decide to double down, intending to keep the war going through next year\u2019s election. If so, then what will Russia\u2019s response be? They could launch an offensive, going to the Dnieper River and beyond, or they could continue the meat grinder in the east and south. That option has a time restraint, since the arrival of F-15s and more tanks, while not winning the war, will make things more dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chandra Muzaffar, head of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), gave very impassioned remarks describing the conference sponsored by JUST and the Save Humanity and the Planet (SHAPE) centered in Malaysia on July 4-5, titled  Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War. <\/strong>The target was AUKUS, the Australia-UK-US security pact whose purpose, Chandra said, is to \u201ccontain China.\u201d Most Asians oppose this pact but the political leaders want to \u201cassure the domination of Asia by the British and the U.S.,\u201d and undermine any peace movement. The meeting was quite successful, with speakers from the U.S., Malaysia, Australia, China and South Korea, and several new organizations joined the event. They have a 20,000 strong mailing list, and will get the news on the IPC to them. He thanked Helga and the Schiller Institute for building the IPC, which he \u201chopes will grow and flourish, as it is key to our future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lively discussion took place on the nature of the Strategic Defense Initiative, if there was a technological way to stop the war and reference to the importance of JFK\u2019s American University Speech. This led Helga to present the history of Lyndon LaRouche, Ronald Reagan and the representatives of the USSR who attempted to unite to build a joint defense against nuclear weapons, making them \u201cobsolete\u201d through new technologies, which would also be the scientific driver for building the physical economies of the USSR itself and the nations of the Global South. While there was no final agreement, the discussion was welcomed and will be pursued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helga closed the meeting by expressing her happiness that the IPC was growing and calling for everyone to reach out to new organizations and individuals to join the Coalition, the \u201cbe louder\u201d than the voice of the military industrial complex and their political and media voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendance:<\/strong>
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), <\/strong>founder and leader, Schiller Institute
Ruben Dario Guzzetti (Argentina),<\/strong> Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies (IADEG)
Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey (India) <\/strong>President of the Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament and Environmental Protection
Bernie Holland (UK) <\/strong>No2NATO
Fr. Robert Cushing (US),<\/strong> Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP), Pax Christi GA, former priest
Jason Banyer (Switzerland),<\/strong> B\u00fcezer und KMU Partei
Martha Rollins<\/strong> (US\/Costa Rica) Int\u2019l Peace Delegations: Ibero America, Columbia, Cuba and Palestine
Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia)<\/strong> JUST International\/SHAPE
David MaciLwain<\/strong> (Australia) Peace Activist
Irene Mavrakakis (US)<\/strong>, Liberty Speaks, Rage Against the War Machine organizer
Jimmy Gerum (Germany), <\/strong>Lighthouse Media
Juan Carrero (Spain), <\/strong>President, S\u2019Olivar Foundation<\/strong>
Karen Ball<\/strong> (US) Pax Christi
Joyce Hall <\/strong>(US) Pax Christi
Martin Schotz, (US)<\/strong> author, \u201cHistory Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy\u201d
Mokete Meshack Maxongo<\/strong> (South Africa) South Africa LaRouche Movement
Ray McGovern (US) <\/strong>former senior analyst, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); founding member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
Darrell Nichols (US)<\/strong> Bishop, Toledo OH
President Donald Ramotar (Guyana)<\/strong> former President of Guyana
Beatriz Solorzano Leon (Guatemala)<\/strong>
Wolfgang Lieberknecht (Germany)<\/strong>
Boubacar Sidy (USA\/Guinea)<\/strong>
Dr. Bolivar Tellez (Nicaragua),<\/strong> professor, Central University of Nicaragua
Juan Carrero (Spain), <\/strong>President, S\u2019Olivar Foundation
Bernard Allen-Bey (US) <\/strong>NAACP
Mamadou Dathe Diallo (USA\/Guinea) <\/strong>Guinean American League of Friends for Freedom
Fredrick Weiss (US)<\/strong> (musician)
Dennis Small (US),<\/strong> Schiller Institute, Virginia
Dennis Speed (US),<\/strong> Schiller Institute, New Jersey
Diane Sare, (U.S.)<\/strong> Senate Candidate, New York
Jose Vega, (U.S.) <\/strong>Interventionist, Organizer Schiller Institute
Anastasia Battle (U.S.) <\/strong>Organizer, Interventionist and Editor-in-Chief, Leonore Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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