Remote from any city: Tweetathon - Tweet for negotiation, not escalation in Ukraine.

Twitter activists, join us as we tweet for negotiations, not escalation in Ukraine. 

Click-to-tweet our sample tweets or write your own tweets telling President Biden (@POTUS), WH Chief of Staff Ron Klain (@WHCOS), Secretary of State Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken), Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (@SecDef), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) to stop pushing for a U.S-Russia war, with US intelligence targeting Russian Generals for assassination (NYT).

Instead support the following:

1) Lifting of sanctions for a Russian ceasefire and withdrawal of troops

2) Neutrality for Ukraine and no NATO expansion

3) Elections for self-governance in the Donbas (eastern Ukraine)

4) Return to the arms control agreements Trump abandoned with Russia 

There is no military solution to this conflict. The Biden administration must address the humanitarian crisis while pushing for a negotiated solution.

Below are articles that may provide talking points. We want to tweet, retweet each other, and engage on twitter threads with followers of the Biden Administration.

Interested? Tweet one (or more!) of our sample tweets or email [email protected] for an assignment or grab talking points from some of the article below:

• U.S.can’t absolve itself of responsibility for Putin’s Ukraine invasion (Andrew Bacevitch, The Boston Globe, 2/25/22)
• Daniel Ellsberg on the Existential Threat of Global Conflict (The Nation. 4/22/22. Sasha Abramsky)
• Tell us how this war in Ukraine ends (Quincy/Responsible Statecraft. Author: ​​George Beebe)
• A more progressive response to the Ukraine Crisis (In These Times. Medea Benjamin & Nicolas Davies. 3/22/22)
• How could the US help to bring peace to Ukraine (CODEPINK Blog. Nicolas J.S. Davies. (4/21)
• The horrible dangers of pushing a US proxy war in Ukraine (Anatol Lieven, Quincy, Zcom.org, (4/29/22)
• A negotiated peace is the only way to end Russia's war on Ukraine (CNN: Opinion by Jeffrey Sachs. Thu April 21, 2022)
• Wright, is there an ethical diplomat in the house? (Ann Wright, The Panama News, March 14, 2022)
• Opinion | Biden's Dangerous Call for Regime Change in Russia | Norman Solomon (commondreams.org, 3/26/22)
• Opinion | From Moscow to Washington, the Barbarism and Hypocrisy Don't Justify Each Other | Norman Solomon (commondreams.org)
• America’s hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘spheres of influence’ ( Katrina vanden Heuvel. Washington Post, 4/12/22.)
• America’s hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘spheres of influence’ ( Katrina vanden Heuvel. Washington Post, 4/12/22.)
• Opinion | Biden's Dangerous Call for Regime Change in Russia | Norman Solomon (commondreams.org, 3/26/22)
• Opinion | From Moscow to Washington, the Barbarism and Hypocrisy Don't Justify Each Other | Norman Solomon (commondreams.org, March 23, 2022)
• 40 Things We Can Do and Know for People of Ukraine (David Swanson, davidswanson.org, March 4, 2022)
• Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine? (Ralph Nader Radio Hour interview, 3/26/22, with MIT professor Theodore Postol, on the danger of a nuclear escalation in Ukraine.)
• The Ukrainian Conflict and the Imperial World System BY RICHARD RUBENSTEINhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/04/the-ukrainian-conflict-and-the-imperial-world-system/ 

WHEN

May 07, 2022 at 12:00pm - 2pm

WHERE

Remote from any city
Santa Barbara, CA 93105, United States,

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