Weapons shipments should be blocked, arms fairs closed, blood profits protested, and the business of war made shameful and disreputable. World BEYOND War works to protest, disrupt, and reduce the arms trade.
World BEYOND War is a member of the War Industry Resisters Network, and works with organizations and coalitions around the world on this campaign, including Groups Against Arms Fairs (which we co-founded), CODE PINK, and many others.
Pictured: Rachel Small, World BEYOND War Canada Organizer. Photo credit: the Hamilton Spectator.
In 2023 we protested CANSEC.
In 2022 we gave a War Abolisher Award to Italian dock workers for blocking weapons shipments.
In 2022 we organized, with Groups Against Arms Fairs and other organizations, a global protest of Lockheed Martin.
In 2022 we protested CANSEC.
In 2021 our annual conference focused on opposing weapons fairs.
The latest news on efforts to end weapons dealing:
Seven Weapons Company Blockades in Three Days: Taking a Stand to Demand Canada Stop Arming Genocide
In the face of unspeakable daily horrors, people from coast-to-coast are rising up to take matters into their own hands and force the Canadian government to #StopArmingGenocide. #WorldBEYONDWar
John Pilger RIP
We’ve recently lost one of the greats in John Pilger. Here are some videos. #WorldBEYONDWar
World BEYOND War Creates Tools for Disrupting Flow of Weapons from Canada to Israel
Canada exported over $21 million in military goods to Israel in 2022, including over $3 million in bombs, torpedoes, missiles, and other explosives. Let’s put a stop to this. #WorldBEYONDWar
Merchants of Death: The U.S. Bombing of the Kunduz Hospital
This episode examines the relentless and deadly bombing by U.S. attack planes of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. #WorldBEYONDWar
Coordinated Actions by Peace Activists Across Canada Disrupt Israeli Cargo Shipping Company Zim
Zim, Israel’s largest cargo shipping company, was disrupted across Canada in order to interrupt the global transport of Israeli weapons. #WorldBEYONDWar
Not a Single Car or Truck In: a Report Back on Blocking the Morning Shift at P&W, a Weapons Company Arming Israel
A blockade of 200 workers didn’t let a single car or truck into Pratt & Whitney Canada for their entire morning shift! A report back of what we accomplished, media coverage, and how to support. #WorldBEYONDWar
Anti-War Workers Blockade Company Making Israeli Drone Engines for Its Siege on Gaza
World BEYOND War blocked the entrance of a Pratt & Whitney plant in Canada this morning. #WorldBEYONDWar
Picketers in Toronto Interrupt the Morning Shift at Pratt & Whitney, Aerospace Giant That Supplies Engines for Israel’s Drones and War Planes
Picketers demanded that the Canadian government call for an immediate ceasefire; impose an arms embargo on Israel; and end its support for Pratt & Whitney and other arms companies complicit in Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. #WorldBEYONDWar
Large Coalition Protests Weapons Fair in Colombia / Activismo en Colombia Para Rechazar una Feria de Armas
This year a new edition of the annual weapons show Expodefensa was held in the Corferias spaces in the city of Bogotá, for three days from December 5 to 7. A large coalition of groups came together in opposition. #WorldBEYONDWar
Video Contra la Expodefensa
Aquí hay un video contra la Expodefensa, con Gabriel Aguirre de #WorldBEYONDWar
Podcast Episode 54: Call to Conscience with Maria Santelli and Kathy Kelly
How does conscientious objection to war hold accountable those who conscript people and resources into attacks that kill civilians, including children? podcast – #WorldBEYONDWar
New Merchants of Death Video: Understanding the U.S. War Industry
A conversation with U.S Air Force veteran and U.S. War Industry expert Christian Sorensen on the Military-Industrial-Complex, including the media, lobbying, academia, Think Tanks, and the Revolving Door. #WorldBEYONDWar
