Book Group—Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist  Monday, May 9, 20223:00 PM  Monday, June 6, 20224:00 PM Pace e Bene Online Event Google Calendar  ICS

Jan. 28, 2022 — The Waging Peace book is now on YouTube, each chapter read by Dr. Steward Burns. (see link in story)

Waging Peace: 2014 Interview on Dedham, MA, Public Television To see video controls, hover mouse pointer over video area.

David Hartsough is a Co-Founder of World BEYOND War, a global movement to end war – making it as illegal to kill people outside countries as it is inside! He has been Waging Peace since meeting Martin Luther King at age 15 – from civil-rights sit-ins to blocking nuclear weapons plants at LIvermore Laboratory. He’s […]

By Richard Eskow — January 20, 2020 — Nation of Change Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This Monday, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. If he hadn’t been murdered, he would […]

David Hartsough knows how to get in the way! He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers […]

A guest editorial addressed to his fellow U.S. citizens by Dennis RiversJanuary 6, 2020 In the name of Jesus, who said “love your enemies,” and from the Inner Light of my own heart, I mourn the death of every person killed in war, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani of Iran included. May his children find consolation […]

LIVERMORE, CA – On August 6, 2019 a Rally, March and Nonviolent Direct Action titled, “Designing Armageddon at Livermore Lab,” will commemorate the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the site where the U.S. is designing new nuclear weapons for use today.WHAT:  Dozens of groups will mark the 74th anniversary of the U.S. […]

By David Hartsough,March 7, 2019 I went to Iran in February of this year with a peace delegation of 28 Americans organized by CODEPINK, a women-led peace activist group. The first day in Iran we had a very fruitful hour-and-half conversation with Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister of Iran. He listened to our thoughts and concerns […]

What a Black Armband Means, Forty Years LaterBy Mary Beth Tinker — 2009 — first published on DailyKos.com (Originally posted on Daily Kos.)Just before Christmas in 1965, a group of students in Des Moines, Iowa wore black armbands to school to mourn the dead in Vietnam. I was 13 and in eighth grade. The nightly TV […]

June 9 2018 — by Metta Center“We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing‐oriented” society to a “person‐oriented” society.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. David Hartsough, Executive Director of Peaceworkers, author of Waging Peace, and long-time nonviolent activist joins Nonviolence Radio to talk about the Poor […]

Some thoughts about Gene Sharp from David Hartsough, Director of Peaceworkers January 31, 2018  What a mighty contribution Gene Sharp has made to humankind’s understanding of nonviolent struggle and the power of nonviolent action.Through Gene’s work and writing people around the world have learned about the power and effectiveness of nonviolent struggle and have put […]

Robert Levering — March 7, 2017 — https://www.truth-out.org Only the Vietnam era protests match the size and breadth of the movement unleashed by the election of Donald Trump. One point of comparison: The massive march and rally against the Vietnam War in 1969 was the largest political demonstration in American history until the even more massive […]

Saturday, February 25, 2017 By Chris Moore-Backman, Truthout | Op-Ed   Across the nation, activists, organizers and newly enlivened social change onlookers are hungry for a shared, coherent sense of direction. George Lakey’s recent 10-point strategy for nonviolent resistance to the new Trump administration offers an excellent beginning to an absolutely critical conversation about comprehensive […]

Full text of Pope Francis’s message for the World Day of Peace From Vatican Radio: https://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/01/02/non-violence_at_heart_of_popes_plea_for_world_day_of_peace/1283120 “Nonviolence: A Style of Politics for Peace” 1.    At the beginning of this New Year, I offer heartfelt wishes of peace to the world’s peoples and nations, to heads of state and government, and to religious, civic and community leaders.  […]

By David and Jan Hartsough — July 2016   We have recently returned from a two week citizen’s diplomacy peace delegation to six cities in Russia under the auspices of the Center for Citizen Initiatives. Our trip included visits with journalists, political leaders, teachers and students, doctors and medical clinics, veterans of past wars, representatives […]

The US and Russian governments are pursuing dangerous policies of nuclear brinkmanship. Many people believe we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis in 1962. Thirty-one thousand troops from the US and NATO countries are engaged in military maneuvers on the Russian border in Poland – together with […]

Reviewed by Sandi Huckaby in the February, 2015, issue of the Catholic Agitator Vol. 45/No. 1 As the title suggests, David Hartsough has been a lifelong peace activist, not just on the East Coast, but all over the world—and what an adventure it has been! His iron-strong commitment to nonviolence has taken him from Castro’s Cuba to the Oval Office in the […]

SEPT 26: CULVER CITY, CA Saturday 7pm at the Peace Center 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230 (Located between Venice and washington Blvd. Parking behind building SEPT 27: PASADENA, CA Sunday 10am Orange Grove Friends Meetinghouse, 520 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA SEPT 27: RIVERSIDE, CA Sunday 7pm Universalist Unitarian Church 3657 Lemon […]

Interviewed by David Swanson, June, 2015.  

If Ammon Hennacy were around to update his 1970 posthumously published The One-Man Revolution in America, he would likely add a chapter on David Hartsough (b. 1941). For nearly sixty years, this Quaker-inspired activist has resisted war, racism, and injustice at home and literally around the world. Hennacy’s book was a veritable Profiles in Courage […]

By Curt Torrell, Quaker House, Fayetteville, North Carolina — December 2014 – www.quakerhouse.org Despite the fact that our nation is war weary after thirteen years of post-9/11 wars, we are embroiled in yet another war, this time on the so-called Islamic State (IS). And despite the fact that our bombs produced neither peace nor stability […]

New book relates ‘global adventures of lifelong activist’ by the Rev. Sharon Delgado on January 26, 2015 Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist by veteran activist David Hartsough is part autobiography, part recent history, and part call to action. This new book shows how a commitment to active nonviolence can plant the seeds and […]

By Winslow Myers WorldBeyondWar.org There were giants on the earth in those days . . . (Genesis 6:4) The fear that we citizens of the United States have been seduced into since 9/11 spreads across our benighted nation like a fog, inhibiting all policy alternatives not based in blind vengefulness. Special are those who have […]

The ordinary, extraordinary life of David Hartsough Book Review by Ken Butigan — November 12, 2014 (from https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/ordinary-extraordinary-life/)   Years ago, my friend Anne Symens-Bucher would regularly punctuate our organizing meetings with a wistful cry, “I just want to live an ordinary life!” Anne ate, drank and slept activism over the decade she headed up the […]

Annual Peace Lecture/Waging Peace Book talk given by David Hartsough in Salem, OR, on Oct 15, 2014. 2014 Salem Peace Lecture- “Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Nonviolent Activitst.” from Big Picture Productions on Vimeo.

OAW79 – Waging Peace from Dedham Television on Vimeo.

September 7, 2014 ( from Street Spirit)   During a long lifetime spent working for peace and social justice, David Hartsough has shown an uncanny instinct for being in the right place at the right time. One can almost trace the modern history of nonviolent movements in America by following the trail of his acts […]

Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist Available now.  Authors: David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday • Foreword by John Dear • Introduction by George Lakey • Afterword by Ken Butigan Publisher: PM Press  —  ISBN: 978-1-62963-034-2 Paperback  —  $20.00 Signed copies available now from Peaceworkers (postage included) for a sliding-scale price of $20 to […]

Dear Friends, Thought you might be interested in my recent radio interview on KPFK about my trip to Vietnam, the World Beyond War movement and my book, Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist. A U D I O   P L A Y E R [ca_audio url=”https://peaceworkersus.org.hudevbooks.net/media/kpfk_interview_with_david_hardsough_june_2014.mp3″ width=”500″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player”]

By Dr Hakim “Don’t you touch me!” declared Mi Ryang. South Korean police were clamping down on a villager who was resisting the construction of a Korean/U.S. naval base at her village. Mi Ryang managed to turn the police away by taking off her blouse and, clad in her bra, walking toward them with her […]

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A Journey of Peace by David Hartsough in 2014 I have recently returned from three weeks in Korea and Vietnam, countries which have in the past and are still suffering from the ravages of war. Korea – North and South are caught in the tragic cold war mentality with a divided country imposed on them […]

Peace Paradigm Radio, October 18, 2013: [ca_audio url=”https://2sa2zt2l6d6o225boe3ff2xc1247.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Gilda-peace_paradigm_2013-10-18.mp3″ width=”400″ height=”35″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player”] …

Talk by Randy Kehler at the Nipponzan Myohoji Peace Pagoda,  27th Anniversary Celebration, Leverett, Massachusetts, September 29, 2012 (PDF version) INTRODUCTION Greetings, friends.  It’s wonderful, as always, to be here with all of you, and an honor to have been invited to share some thoughts with you. The title of my talk (“Personal Reflections on the State of the […]

Palestine West Bank / Bahrain / Burma / MST / Iraq By Nicholas Sismil, Peaceworkers Intern – PeaceWorkersUS.org Palestine, West Bank In recent news, Palestinian actions in the West Bank have moved more towards constructive programme in the last month or two. Palestinians and international activists have built a total of three protest villages thus […]

by  Ken Butigan  | January 10, 2013 On Monday President Obama nominated his counterterrorism chief, John O. Brennan, to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Though some civil liberties groups and other critics have raised questions about Brennan’s involvement in the CIA’s practice of torture during the Bush administration, relatively less has been said about his […]

A U D I O   P L A Y E R [ca_audio url=”https://peaceworkersus.org.hudevbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/talknationradio_20121226.mp3″ width=”500″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player”] David Hartsough has been a peace activist since the 1950s, a conscientious objector, a civil disobedient, arrested over 100 times.  In 2002 he cofounded the Nonviolent Peace Force ( nonviolentpeaceforce.org ).  Hartsough is the executive director of Peace […]

December 12th, 2012 By International Solidarity Activists Gaza- Israeli forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at unarmed farmers and international solidarity activists working in Khuza’a, a small village outside of Khan Younis located near the Israeli border. At 10:30 AM, the farmers arrived and began to plough approximately 100 meters from the separation fence […]

 Dalu home in Gaza obliterated  On November 18, 2012, the Dalu family, huddled at home, waited for the war that surrounded them to end. Like everyone else in Gaza, they had nowhere to run. At 2:30PM, without warning, an Israeli missile flattened the entire building, killing all ten occupants and two from the building adjacent. […]

from the Positive Peace Warrior Network (PPWN) web site , November 2012 David Hartsough is a lifelong nonviolent activist, having participated in the lunch-counter sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement, and is STILL a committed activist, participating in demonstrations and risking arrest in the name of peace and justice. He has also been a major […]

Mirrored from www.mettacenter.org — July, 2012 I want to make an offer to my fellow Americans who are, like myself, reeling from the worst “random” shooting the country has ever seen.  My question: Have you had enough?  Because if you have, I can tell you how to stop this kind of madness.  I know that’s […]

December 15, 2011, 9:41 am  —  Mirrored from wagingnonviolence.org  “Building a Rainbow” is the title of an old poster I picked up somewhere along the way. The rainbow’s swath of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet layers is dazzling—and only half finished. In the picture, this symbol of peace is not an idealistic dream […]

Mirrored from Tom Atlee’s transformational thinkpad By Tom Atlee  — November 24, 2011 Something remarkable has been going on out there – especially at UC Davis. I have a hard time figuring out how to articulate it. I haven’t yet seen anyone talk about quite what I’m seeing, so I’ll give it a try. Here’s […]

by Nathan Schneider | November 13, 2011, 4:19 pm (from https://wagingnonviolence.org)         I’ve noted before that Occupy Wall Street has had trouble coming to consensus on a statement of nonviolence (as opposed to, say, the October 2011 movement in DC, which publicized one at the outset). This was an issue both in the planning process and […]

   by David Hartsough — November 7, 2011 The Occupation in Freedom Plaza in Washington DC (two blocks from the White House) and the occupations around the country and the world give me more hope than anything which I have experienced since the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960’s. Hundreds of thousands or […]

by Paul K. Chappell October 31, 2011 Mirrored from Nuclear Age Peace Foundation   I graduated from West Point in 2002, served in the army for seven years, and was deployed to Baghdad in 2006. I left active duty in 2009 as a captain, and I am currently serving as the Peace Leadership Director for […]

by Sarah van Gelder  — YES! Magazine —  Oct 14, 2011   There are many things you can do to be part of this growing movement—and only some of them involve sleeping outside.   In Westlake Park, Seattle, shortly before police removed the tent and arrested occupiers. Sign reads: 250,000 Homeless Vets Is Unacceptable. (Photo […]