An initial proposal by NoWarWithNorthKorea.org
Create your own peace proposal
Urgency of the imminence of war and a call to action
What you can do
Goals
Create your own peace proposal
Urgency of the imminence of war and a call to action
What you can do
Goals
AN INITIAL PROPOSAL BY NoWarWithNorthKorea.org:
No war with North Korea.
No disproportional retaliation.
Stop verbal provocation.
Stop military provocation.
No first use of nuclear weapons.
Stop stifling sanctions.
Make multilateral reductions of nuclear weapons.
Negotiate and sign a peace treaty.
Talk for peace and save millions of lives.
No war with North Korea.
No disproportional retaliation.
Stop verbal provocation.
Stop military provocation.
No first use of nuclear weapons.
Stop stifling sanctions.
Make multilateral reductions of nuclear weapons.
Negotiate and sign a peace treaty.
Talk for peace and save millions of lives.
CREATE YOUR OWN PEACE PROPOSAL
You are welcome to revise our initial proposal and make your own proposal. All texts and images on this website are in the public domain. You need no permission from us to use or change any texts or images, as long as you use them for opposing war and promoting positive images and messages of peace. Permission is not granted for vulgar language or directing demeaning and/or bullying images or language towards others. We offer these images and messages in the interest of creating peace, not more conflict. Thank you for abiding by our request.
Rethink rhetoric and strategies
You are welcome to revise our initial proposal and make your own proposal. All texts and images on this website are in the public domain. You need no permission from us to use or change any texts or images, as long as you use them for opposing war and promoting positive images and messages of peace. Permission is not granted for vulgar language or directing demeaning and/or bullying images or language towards others. We offer these images and messages in the interest of creating peace, not more conflict. Thank you for abiding by our request.
Rethink rhetoric and strategies
- Instead of demonizing the North Korean regime as totalitarian and warlike, think of the head of government as representing twenty-five million people who want comfort and happiness just like all other peoples.
- Instead of choking North Korea with sanctions to the point where its leaders lose their capacity for rational planning and would do anything violent to relieve themselves from the pain, help them improve their economy and living standards so that the regime can make logical decisions within a framework of peace.
- Think of North Korea as a potential future trade partner, which could benefit us and all nations.
- Instead of trying to force a proud nation to give up their nuclear weapons programs, help create a situation where they can become a respected member of the international community without a need to develop devastating weapons.
- Nuclear arms reduction should be negotiated both bilaterally with North Korea (as in the past with the former Soviet Union and now Russia) as well as multilaterally with all nine nuclear weapons nations. The ultimate goal is to secure a global reduction to zero of all nuclear weapons at the earliest possible date.
- “Everybody needs to lower the temperature and begin talking in reasonable terms about achievable goals. Something is wrong when the rhetoric from Pyongyang is no more belligerent than what we hear around Washington.” Eugene Robinson, opinion, The Washington Post, February 7, 2018.
URGENCY of the IMMINENCE of WAR and a CALL for ACTION
- Retired admiral Mike Mullen, who was Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011, stated in a November 26, 2017 interview with ABC News, “We're actually closer, in my view, to a nuclear war with North Korea and in that region than we have ever been.” (http://bitly.com/WarCloserNow)
- Mark Fitzpatrick, head of International Institute for Strategic Studies, which studies global security, gave a fifty-fifty chance of war with North Korea in the next year. (http://bit.ly/2n2hr5z)
- Retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey has given a fifty-one percent chance of an armed conflict with North Korea before summer. (http://nbcnews.to/2F0cxwj)
- President Trump, who many mental health experts believe may be mentally and/or emotionally unstable, may order a surprise attack on North Korea any day. (http://cnn.it/2G6tDds)
- If war starts, the United States will certainly try to recruit allies, and China and Russia may side with North Korea. There is a potential for World War III to break out.
- Each of us needs to do as much as we can in our capacity to prevent war with North Korea.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Call your Members of Congress
Write and send letters
Work with peace organizations
Create bumper stickers
Create billboards
Make posters, placards, banners, and T-shirts
Sign petitions
Sign the US Peoples Peace Treaty with North Korea (as proposed by Peace Action)
http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=22577&okay=true
Ploughshares Fund petition to the U.S. House of Representatives to stop Trump from attacking North Korea:
https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-stop-trump-from-attacking-north-korea
Petition to Congress — prevent Trump from starting a nuclear war:
http://act.winwithoutwar.org/sign/sign-petition-tell-congress-stop-trump-starting-nuclear-war/
Support H.R. 669, the Restricting the First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, to stop Trump from starting a nuclear war:
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/restrict_nuclear_war
Spread your message
Call your Members of Congress
- Calling your congressperson is widely thought to be more effective than writing letters to them. You can call congressional offices directly or through the congressional switchboard. If you do not have the direct number, you can reach members of the U.S. House of Representatives by calling 202-225-3121, and members of the U.S. Senate by calling 202-224-3121. Ask the operator to connect you to the individual office.
- Information about how to contact your congressional representative is here. https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Write and send letters
- Sample Letters: No War with North Korea’s Letters to the Governments of Japan and South Korea.
- Form a writing group and jointly write a letter. Or write individual letters together and help each other edit them.
- Write letters to congresspersons, the White House, and the digital and print media.
- You can send similar letters to editors; including those in charge of op-eds, newspaper, radio, and broadcast companies all over the United States and beyond.
- Select some talking points from this site, consider them, and then create your own statement.
- Here are some simple guides to writing effective letters: http://www.nea.org/home/19683.htm, https://www.ucsusa.org/action/writing-an-lte.html
- Copy and email or “snail mail” your letters to your members of Congress, the White House, and the media listed on our Outreach page.
- For emailing, address each individual with an independent cover letter and send your emails one at a time, rather than sending the same letter all at once to multiple addresses.
Work with peace organizations
- Determine a peace organization you would like to collaborate with, talk to them, work with them, and support them.
Create bumper stickers
- Create bumper stickers, which is easy to do.
- Typical size of a bumper sticker is: 2” x 6”.
- Many local print or sign shops can make bumper stickers or you can find a bumper sticker company online.
- Choose one of the samples on our website or design your own, send it to the company you chose, and make an order.
- Distribute them and ask for a small contribution to cover your costs if necessary.
Create billboards
- Create billboards, which is not as difficult or challenging as it may appear.
- Poster-style billboards are the most effective; they are commonly used for targeting audiences belonging to certain demographics and living in certain areas. They are effective for short-term campaigns and call-to-action messages.
- Putting up even one billboard can have a high news value.
- A typical billboard size is 14’ high, 48’ wide.
- Find or create a peace organization that can sponsor a billboard installation.
- Choose one of the sample designs shown in this website, or create your own design.
- Prepare a convincing written description of the project: include who, why, what, when, and where, as well as organizations and individuals involved in its creation, support, and sponsorship.
- Clear Channel Outdoor, a nationwide company, has billboards and other products in forty-three of the fifty states, as well as the District of Columbia. There are also other companies to choose from.
- Contact a company representative/manager who can make decisions, and make an appointment for presentation. Be prepared to present the written description of the project, etc.
- Ask if the company has billboard space available for public service or public art and to consider donating space(s) to your organization for one month. If so, ask if they will also donate the installation; if you need to pay for it, then ask what the cost would be.
- If the company only has spaces for sale, ask how much it will cost for one month. Raise funds for that. A single donor may be able to cover the cost. You also may want to conduct online crowdfunding for the billboard costs.
- Send the company the mockup of your design and ask the staff to enlarge one for installation.
- Call the media and send a press release about the installation of your billboard and your reasons for installing it in the public place you have chosen.
Make posters, placards, banners, and T-shirts
- Make and display posters, placards, banners, and T-shirts, using designs similar to our billboard samples to emphasize your statement.
Sign petitions
Sign the US Peoples Peace Treaty with North Korea (as proposed by Peace Action)
http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=22577&okay=true
Ploughshares Fund petition to the U.S. House of Representatives to stop Trump from attacking North Korea:
https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-stop-trump-from-attacking-north-korea
Petition to Congress — prevent Trump from starting a nuclear war:
http://act.winwithoutwar.org/sign/sign-petition-tell-congress-stop-trump-starting-nuclear-war/
Support H.R. 669, the Restricting the First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, to stop Trump from starting a nuclear war:
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/restrict_nuclear_war
Spread your message
- Send a copy of your letter to a member of Congress, the media, and your friends and urge them to do their best to stop the war.
- Share this website with your friends through emails, websites, or social media.
Goals
- Support diplomatic efforts to negotiate a Peace Treaty between North and South Korea and between North Korea and the U.S.
- Help create a public consensus in the United States and beyond that we don’t want war with North Korea.
- Educate the public to help reinforce public opinion that nuclear weapons should never be used.
- Create support for a public opinion that excessive retaliation is unlawful (unconstitutional and against international law) and that military commanders should disobey the President’s potential unlawful order for excessive retaliation.
- Get the U.S. Congress to make a resolution in favor of a U.S.–North Korea Peace Proposal and restrict the President’s capacity to start a war without explicit Congressional approval.
- Build an urgently needed social movement with others to move swiftly and effectively to prevent the imminent breakout of war!
- Support all efforts to prevent war.