745 - Peace & Life: Rehumanize Conference / 2025 Referendum - November 7, 2025

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Rehumanize International Annual Conference, Plus White House Vigil

This year’s conference was held at The Leadership Institute in Arlington, VA, a suburb of Washington, DC, October 31 - November 2. The program was excellent, as seen below. The pictures are from the White House vigil November 2.

Halloween Networking Mixer

Effective Persuasion Tactics - Dena Espenscheid

Disability Rights & Medical Aid in Dying - Alex Schadenberg, Beth Fox

Organizing to End the Death Penalty - Abraham Bonowitz

Addressing Racism in Pro-Life Movement - Christina Bennett

Panel: The Political Spectrum and the Consistent Life Ethic

Legal Defensibility & Amicus Advocacy 101 - Shawn Zierke, Kelsey Hazzard

Consistent Life Ethic Tech - Christopher Greeley

Grassroots Organizing for Life - Rachel MacNair, Virginia for Preborn Justice

(Rachel explains how to use our Grassroots Defunding website and the

Problems at Planned Parenthood website)

2025 Create | Encounter Release Party

Protesters hold signs reading "EXECUTE IS NOT SOLUTION" outside a building. A person speaks into a mic, another plays guitar. Mood: determined. — Left: John Whitehead speaks. Right: Rachel MacNair speaks.

Protesters outside the White House hold signs against nuclear weapons. Signs read "Swords to Plowshares" and "Nuclear-Free Future."

Person holds sign reading "YOUR CHOICE: Nuclear weapons need to be tested to ensure they work" and "abolished to ensure they never work."

The One 2025 Referendum

Even-numbered years usually have many referendums and odd-numbered years, as we have now, have few. We only

Sun with sunglasses and a smile, surrounded by rays. Text reads "Passed! Yippee!" in orange, conveying joy and celebration.

have one for this year, a red-flag gun law voted on November 4 in Maine:

Extreme Risk Protection Orders to Restrict Firearms and Weapons Access

We explain on our Maine page how preventing mass shootings relates to war, and how preventing gun suicides relates to mitigating the damage of violence for all our issues.

But 2026 is coming right up, and since that’s an even-numbered year, we should have a good number of referendums. We already know of four. See:

Peace and Life Referendums

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The Latest on the Blog

We had announced the coming of this movie, a thriller portraying fictional but depressingly plausible nuclear dangers, right before it came out. You may have seen some press coverage of it, since its theme made it of interest to public policy. Now our own John Whitehead offers his review:

Another Vital Wake-Up Call: ‘A House of Dynamite’ and the Nuclear Threat

Irfan Chowdhury looks at a current British legislative proposal and asserts:

It is Time That the UK Had a National Conversation About the Rights of the Unborn

Quote of the Week

Patricia King, law professor

Address Inequalities Before Legalizing Assisted Suicide

New York Times, April 10, 2012.

Many Americans – particularly the poor, the disabled, the elderly and members of racial and ethnic minorities – worry that if assisted suicide becomes widely available they will be viewed as “throwaway people.” They fear coercion, stigmatization and discrimination, understandably believing that the societal indifference prevalent throughout their lives will also infect their end-of-life care.