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We Are Many

WE ARE MANY – MORE THAN EVER

Posted on February 16, 2023February 27, 2023 by TPNS

Deborah Burton and Ho-Chih Lin have co-written a blog with Amir Amirani, director of We Are Many to mark 15 February 2023 – the 20th anniversary of the unprecedented global anti-war protest against the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq.

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  • Home – Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety
    • An Introduction to Transform Defence
    • Sustainable human safety
  • The Annual $2 Trillion Spend
    • Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money
    • The Defence Industry
      • Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
      • The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
      • Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
    • Climate Collateral (2022)
    • State of Power 2021: Coercive World
  • Latest
  • The Global Military and Climate Change
    • Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto to Glasgow and Beyond
    • Indefensible: The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security
    • Global Military Spending, Conflict And Climate Change: A Snapshot
    • Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
  • Economics / GND Plus
    • Green New Deal Plus
      • GND Plus in a Post Covid-19 world
      • Military Emissions, Military Spending & GND
    • Five Percent and Universal Basic Income
    • UBI, defence spending and coronavirus
  • Briefings, submissions and reports
    • Archive
    • Submissions
    • Relevant work by others
  • Runaway Military Spending & Emissions: A Development Issue
    • The poorest are always hardest hit
      • Across the board – redirecting 5% funds
      • Debt, Tax & War on Drugs
      • SDG 16 is not good enough
    • Syria and Yemen: the human toll
    • Military Spend & Africa
    • The need for an international campaign
    • TPNS Submission to Labour Party
    • TPNS Position Paper Lab Conf 2018
  • The Global Military and the United Nations
    • Military Emissions and the UNFCCC: Report and Roadmap
    • Stockholm+50 and Global Military Emissions
    • What is Carbon Neutral Peace and Defence
    • COP Conferences
      • COP26: Global Military, Big Oil and Climate Change
      • COP27 attendance and progress
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    • Funders
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  • Film, Video, Popular Culture
    • Videos & Webinars
    • Movie: We Are Many
    • #MLKGlobal
    • Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming
  • The Five Percent Proposal
    • A short introduction
    • The 5% Formula: What is it?
    • Full Report (2013)
    • Report (2013): Executive summary
    • Factsheet
    • Reports and Briefings
    • Videos
      • It seems impossible until it’s done
      • Introduction and Issues
      • Israel’s global military and security reach

Global Military, Big Oil & Climate Change

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The 5% Proposal: Introduction and Issues

Reports and briefings

  1. How to Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety: 10 Talking Points for a Difficult Conversation
  2. Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto to Glasgow and Beyond
  3. Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Advocacy and Outreach Briefing
  4. Climate Collateral: How military spending accelerates climate breakdown
  5. Indefensible The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security
  6. Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money
  7. Military Emissions, Military Spending and Green New Deals
  8. ‘Reset for the 21st century’: The Global Military and the United Nations
  9. Carbon Neutral Peace and Defence
  10. Stockholm+50 and Global Military Emissions
  11. Degrow the Military Economy
  12. The Five Percent Campaign 2013 Report
  13. Runaway military spending and emissions: an urgent overlooked international development issue
  14. The $1 trillion yellow line that we need to return to
  15. Approaching the $2 trillion redline
  16. The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
  17. Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
  18. Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
  19. You say ‘don’t buy,’I say ‘don’t sell.’ Let’s call the arms trade off
  20. Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security And Defence Policy
  21. A brief introduction to Green New Deal Plus
  22. Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming

Latest News and Posts

  • IPCC – We need to talk about the military March 20, 2023
  • WE ARE MANY – MORE THAN EVER February 16, 2023
  • UNFCCC Global Stocktake Submission February 15, 2023
  • Talk: Military Emissions, Military Spending & the Climate Emergency February 5, 2023
  • Webinar: COP27 Reflections & COP28 Look Ahead January 20, 2023
  • COP27 IPB webinar: Observations from the Blue Zone – military emissions and spending November 28, 2022
  • COP27 attendance and progress November 25, 2022
  • Democracy Now! interview: How Military Spending Fuels Environmental Damage November 17, 2022
  • Media Release: Richest Nations Spending 30 Times as Much on Military as Climate Finance November 14, 2022

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What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. Even after the end of the Cold War, it has been envisioned mostly in military terms. Over the past few years, all we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes… The overriding goal must be human security: providing food, … Continue reading Mikhail Gorbachev

― Mikhail Gorbachev

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

― Albert Einstein


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Transform Defence has been developed by Tipping Point North South. Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety is a project comprising a number of elements including the Five Percent Proposal and the case that military spending is an urgent international development issue; the global military’s impact on climate change and human insecurity; the absence in UN processes of the global military’s emissions accounting; and Green New Deal Plus. 

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