Looking Forward to Fall
September 12-14: Democrats for Life Conference
The Democrats for Life annual conference will be held in Boston.
September 21: The International Day of Peace
First celebrated in 1982, it’s recognized annually by many nations and organizations. This includes day-long pauses in wars that reveal how easy it would be to have year-long or forever-long pauses in wars. This is a good day on which to work for permanent peace and to remember the victims of war. Here from World Beyond War are events you can join, and resources you can use to support those events or to organize new ones.
October 10: The World Day Against the Death Penalty
Observed on this date every year, it unifies the global abolitionist movement and mobilizes civil society, political leaders, lawyers, public opinion, and more to support the call for the universal abolition of capital punishment.
October 24-26: World Beyond War Online Conference
Here are the questions from the main sponsor: “How do we move towards a world without wars, weapons, police, prisons, the death penalty, and borders? How can we work towards our collective liberation, recognizing that oppressions are interconnected?”
October 31–November 2: Rehumanize Conference
The 2025 conference will be held at The Leadership Institute in Washington DC.
Find out more and register here. They are also still soliciting speakers on that page.
November 21-22: Peacemaker Summit
In Philadelphia, an annual event sponsored by RAWTools and Simple Way: Peacemaker Summit - November 21-22, 2025
The Latest on the Blog
Be sure you’ve seen: Mourning the Dead and Protecting the Living: Remarks from the August 9th Peace Vigil
Jim Hewes offers: How Abortion Doesn’t Address Women’s Real Problems
Quote of the Week
Kristen Day
The Whole Life Democrat, August 20, 2025
Many industries oppose regulation and data collection because revealing adverse outcomes could lead to fewer consumers for their products.
Without accurate data, these industries can make inflated claims about the benefits of their products. Failing to report statistics on abortion and its complications may help their bottom line — but it ultimately harms women.
That is why legislators should put women’s health concerns first and embrace this new support for accurate abortion data collection, including failed abortion attempts and abortion complications from taking the abortion pill.
If abortion is healthcare, it should be treated as healthcare, which means basing our views on comprehensive, de-identified statistics rather than selectively choosing numbers that serve an agenda or boost profits.