Choose Life, Abort War! Podcast For Peace: Recent Episodes

Thad Crouch

A veteran’s peppy 1/2-hour chats with scholars & activists change peace & security conversations to either Include War as a Respect Life Issue, Promote a Just Peace Ethic, Unmask Militarism, or Create a Culture of Conscience.

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Our friend, Aimee Murphy, becomes the first "in 'studio'" guest during her Austin, Texas, stop for Rehumanize; A Vision to Secure Human Rights for All book tour. In part 1 of this 3-episode series, hear Aimee's superhero origin story as she puts herself in someone else's shoes -- even with a death threat and even at age 16 -- as we discuss Declaring War as a Life Issue in the context of a culture that promotes necessary violence.

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Part 3 of 3-- Love your enemies. Listen as movie producer and human rights activist, Jason Scott Jones, tells how his journey into solidarity with vulnerable stateless people through the Vulnerable People Project leads to an amazing, surprising, and powerful encounter with an Al-Qaeda warlord in Sudan.

Donate to Jason's Human Rights work
Vulnerable People Project
H.E.R.O.'s Movie to Movement Project and bio
The Jason Jones Show (podcast)
Jason Jones on IMDB
"Toward the Abolition of Strategic Nuclear Weapons: A Just War Analysis of Toal War", a white paper by Jason Jones, John Whitehead, and Aimee Murphy
The Race to Save Our Century: Five Core Principles to Promote Peace, Freedom, and a Culture Of Life, by Jason Scott Jones
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Part 2 of 3-- Solidarity with the Vulnerable. Movie producer and human rights activist, Jason Scott Jones, inspires us with his journey through life experience, philosophy, religion, politics, and profound human encounters which led him into solidarity with vulnerable -- beyond political stereotypes into something surprisingly counter-cultural and leading up to Part 3 where he confronts Al -Qaeda war lords to protect stateless people through the Human rights Education & Relief Organization'sVulnerable People Project.
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Donate to Jason's Human Rights work
Vulnerable People Project
H.E.R.O.'s Movie to Movement Project and bio
The Jason Jones Show (podcast)
Jason Jones on IMDB
"Toward the Abolition of Strategic Nuclear Weapons: A Just War Analysis of Toal War", a white paper by Jason Jones, John Whitehead, and
Aimee Murphy
The Race to Save Our Century: Five Core Principles to Promote Peace, Freedom, and a Culture Of Life, by Jason Scott Jones

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The Center on Conscience & War's Maria Santelli & Bill Gavin show the Selective Service registration to be an outdated, inefficient, inadequate $25M-a-year system to muster troops violates. Plus it violates the rights to freedom of conscience & religion with extra-judicial, unconstitutional penalties without due process.
We discuss the above and our nation's inconsistent policies and court rulings on freedom of conscience and religion as they pertain to war, cake art, abortion, and conception.
Learn how this opportunity came up. Click Link to Act today BEFORE 2020!
Let the commission know you think:

1) Draft registration should be ended for everyone, not extended to women;

2) All criminal, civil, federal and state penalties for failure to register must be ended and overturned to protect rights to freedom of conscience & religion for those currently living under these penalties;

3) National service should remain voluntary. Compulsory service, whether civilian or military, is in conflict with the principles of a democratic republic and free society;

4) IF the draft registration is not ended, provide a check box or mechanism to document Conscientious Objection to combat or military participation to protect rights of freedom of religion and conscience while satisfying requirements and avoiding extra-judicial civil, federal and state penalties.
Links:
Comment Form for National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
Center on Conscience & War (CCW)
Coalition Summary and Points for Ending Draft Registration
Commission email: national.commission.on.service.info@mail.mil
SUBJECT LINE IF EMAILING: Docket 05-2018-01
Extra-Judical Penalties that Violate Rights to Religion & Conscience by State
CCW Links Related to Draft & Selective Service
Yes, we know there's a House Bill. There's time for that in 2020.

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More Groups Calling for Ending the Draft Registration

Committee on Militarism and the Draft
Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild
National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy
Courage to Resist
On Earth Peace
Resisters.info
Stop Recruiting Kids
Truth in Recruitment
War Resisters League
World Beyond War
Code Pink

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Movie producer and human rights activist, Jason Scott Jones -- in 1st of 3-parts -- will inspire you with his journey through life & family experiences, philosophical, political, ideological, and faith influences that take us far beyond political stereotypes to a profound human solidarity with some of the most vulnerable people in the world leading up to Part 3 where he confronts Al -Qaeda war lords to protect them through H.E.R.O., the Human rights Education & Relief Organization'sVulnerable People Project.
Choose Life Abort War Patreon -- support our podcast's mission
Like Choose Life Abort War's Facebook Page

Donate to Jason's Human Rights work
Vulnerable People Project
H.E.R.O.'s Movie to Movement Project and bio
The Jason Jones Show (podcast)
Jason Jones on IMDB
"Toward the Abolition of Strategic Nuclear Weapons: A Just War Analysis of Toal War", a white paper by Jason Jones, John Whitehead, and
Aimee Murphy
The Race to Save Our Century: Five Core Principles to Promote Peace, Freedom, and a Culture Of Life, by Jason Scott Jones

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Five-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, prolific blogger, writer, journalist and activist, David Swanson of World Beyond War joins Thad to

  1. UnmaskMilitarism and the "phantom menace" behind WWI

  2. Discuss the inspiring forgotten 1920s mainstream peace movement which overcame diverse political ideologies and created a treaty to ban all war from David Swanson's book, When the World Outlawed War.
  3. List four priorities of Choose Life Abort War.
  4. Tell why Veterans for Peace think it's good idea to #ReclaimArmisticeDay
  5. Build a Culture of Peace in big or small ways w/ World Beyond War.
  6. Tease you with upcoming guests including an Air Force Chaplain court-martialed for applying Just War criteria, a Veteran For Peace who rehumanizes enemies and war victims through photography, two expert Conscientious Objector counselors, and a movie producer/human rights activist who faced an al-Queada warlord to negotiate peace.

Intro/ outro music: “Choose Life,” by C. Fulmer (c) 1985, used with permission.

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