{"id":537021,"date":"2022-03-02T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=283680"},"modified":"2022-03-02T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:22:36","slug":"how-can-we-fight-here-now-to-stop-war-and-avoid-nuclear-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/02\/how-can-we-fight-here-now-to-stop-war-and-avoid-nuclear-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"How can we fight\u2014here, now\u2014to stop war and avoid nuclear catastrophe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Humanity&#039;s priority: stop war and avoid nuclear catastrophe\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iofq4QhkREM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Around the world, people are watching the horrors of war unfold in real time as the Russian military continues its invasion of Ukraine. The immediate chaos unleashed on the people of Ukraine is unbearable, and the threat of nuclear war has once again forced humanity to confront the possibility of mutually assured destruction; we need to do whatever we can to stop the bloodshed now and avert worldwide catastrophe. With permission from the event organizers, The Real News is publishing this panel discussion\u2014recorded on Feb. 28 and cosponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/rootsaction.org\/index.php\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RootsAction.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pdamerica.org\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Progressive Democrats of America<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Beyond War<\/a>\u2014about the need for people to take action and fight for peace before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psr.org\/about\/people\/ira-helfand-md\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ira Helfand<\/a>, MD, co-chair of Physicians for Social Responsibility\u2019s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee and co-president of PSR\u2019s global federation, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cynthialazaroff.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cynthia Lazaroff<\/a>, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Roxahhhn\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roxane Assaf-Lynn<\/a>, writer, scholar, journalist, and social media co-coordinator for RootsAction.org; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidswanson.org\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Swanson<\/a>, author, activist, journalist, host of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\/taxonomy\/term\/41\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Talk Nation Radio<\/a>,&#8221; director of World Beyond War, and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org; <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/alanminsky\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alan Minsky<\/a>, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, lifelong activist, and longtime progressive journalist; and <a href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/greta\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greta Zarro<\/a>, organizing director for World Beyond War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Post-Production: Cameron Granadino<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-transcript\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The transcript of this video will be made available as soon as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/how-can-we-fight-here-now-to-stop-war-and-avoid-nuclear-catastrophe\">The Real News Network<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week into Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, more people are dying and humanity is creeping closer to potential nuclear devastation. We need to do whatever we can to de-escalate and stop the bloodshed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5582,44388],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541028,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537021\/revisions\/541028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}