Earth Day 2025: Disarm Earth Day!

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In a constantly changing political climate, now more than ever, is the time to recognize our common targets and root issues of the world. As Earth Day approaches on April 22nd, we are calling attention to the need to unite the climate justice and anti-war movements to address our inextricably linked goals. The U.S. military has waged and fueled imperialist wars, invasion, and conquest for decades for the sake of taking oil out of the ground, uranium mining for nuclear build-up, and power against so-called enemies like China (a leader in green energy). Instead of choosing to cooperate on green energy and diplomacy or respecting national sovereignty and self-determination, the U.S. has chosen death, destruction, and escalation. This build-up has contributed to the U.S. military’s status as the #1 institutional polluter in the world. 

Throughout April, our anti-war movement will be highlighting how concerns for profit and warmaking from our elected officials and the war economy have exacerbated the climate crisis and threatened every aspect of our planet's existence.

At the same time, corporations, politicians, and organizations funded by warmongers will refuse to touch many of the underlying drivers of the climate crisis. The Global North will refuse to take accountability for their role in the destruction of the Global South and those who are most vulnerable. Climat and earth science conferences will be sponsored by weapons manufacturers and firms like Blackrock. Meanwhile, the US is continuing to advance the genocide and ecocide in Palestine, imperial expansion into the Asia-Pacific, resource exploitation and destruction of the Congo, and repression within the country. This month, we are addressing the elephant in the room when it comes to climate: that war, imperialism, and militarism must be dismantled in order to save our planet from climate collapse and save lives from our environmental sacrifice zones. We will confront the many dimensions of U.S. militarism around the world: its global presence and sprawl of military bases, its impact on the land, nuclear expansion, and endless war. We'll explore how to create an anti-militarist climate movement that works to end wars, prioritizes Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, and imagines peace through liberation.