Mamdani’s Victory in the General Election for Mayor of New York City: What it Means.
by John M Repp Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City. He won the November 4th, 2025 general election in a three-way race defeating former New York Governor Mario Cuomo who ran as an independent and Republican Curis Sliwa. In the primary election held on June 24, 2025, Zohran Mamdani won the race for the Democratic nomination with 56.4% of the vote. That race was a major upset that has given progressives the idea that running on a progressive platform, with specific, concrete planks can lead to victory. NYC has ranked choice voting and some public financing of elections. Mamdani is a 33 year-old state lawmaker, who is a Muslim critical of the genocide Israel is…
October 2025 Newsletter Posted
The October 2025 issue of the WWFOR newsletter Pacific Call is now available at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Oct2025-Pacific-Call.pdf. It contains the four articles listed below plus some additional illustrations and tidbits. Great thanks as always to long time Editor, John M Repp. Enjoy! [Click the READ FULL ARTICLE box to get a version with the live link]
We Can Stop Global Warming: A Reason for Hope in the Long Term
Article author and newsletter editor, John M Repp, discusses the evidence for global warming, and the potential that solar energy holds for preventing the devastation continued use of fossil fuels would cause. Furthermore, the production of solar energy is becoming increasingly efficient, practical, and affordable. John shared information and insights from Bill McKibben’s new book “Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization”. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2025) Read the full article at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HereComesthe-Sun.pdf
Unarmed Civilian Protection in the West Bank of Palestine Needs Our Help
by David Berrian Ras al-Auja is the last Bedouin community in the West Bank of Palestine. They get by from raising sheep and goats and doing just a bit of agriculture. There had been many other Bedouin communities in the area, but because of Israeli settler harassment and violence the families in those villages have had to flee. Ras al-Auja is the only Bedouin community remaining that has been able to resist ethnic cleansing up until now. The families in Ras al-Auja are trying to stay. However, they face almost daily incidents of harassment, trespass, humiliation, theft, and assault. Israeli police protect the settlers even when settlers are clearly committing violence on the Palestinians. Women are afraid to go out…
The View from MAGA
by Jean Buskin A few months ago, I started receiving messages from email@buildingourmovement.com. As many people reading this may not have the privilege of being on the email list, I thought I would give those deprived people a taste of what they are missing. At first, most of the emails urged me to submit my “Voter Verification.” Often, they sounded desperate! “We’ve reached out multiple times.” [true] “Top Republicans have personally asked for your response. And yet, we’ve been met with silence.” [also true] Then there were threats, “If you don’t act NOW, we may have to remove you from our Republican voter database. That means you won’t be counted in critical polling, and the Democrats will gain the upper hand. “You have…
Letter to Editor: Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
Cascadia Daily News, Bellingham, WA (posted on Aug 5, 2025) Editor, In 1945, only one country in the world, the USA, had the world’s supply of two nuclear bombs. “Little Boy” (the nickname given to the bomb) was dropped on Aug. 6 in Hiroshima and “Fat Man” (the nickname given to the other bomb) was dropped on Aug. 9 on Nagasaki. Over 210,000 were killed. Thousands died from radiation poisoning later. Let’s remember this on Aug. 6. In 2025, there are nine countries with nuclear bombs and 15,000 nuclear bombs in the world. Both the U.S. and Russia have 6,000-plus each. The explosive yield of the Hiroshima bomb was 15,000 kilotons of TNT. In 2025, one nuclear warhead on a…
June 2025 newsletter issue now available.
The latest issue of our newsletter, Pacific Call, June 2025, is now available in pdf form at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/June2025PacificCall.pdf. Thanks as always to our editor and writer, John M Repp, and the other contributors.
Authoritarianism and Resistance: What the World Can Teach Us
Stephen Zunes’s Keynote Address at the May 17, 2025, Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly from an artificial intelligence (AI) transcription, edited by Cindy Cole and John Repp. Available at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SA2025Keynote.pdf. And if you’d rather see and hear Stephen’s talk, the YouTube video of Stephen’s talk and other parts of the Assembly is available; see links at https://wwfor.org/spring-assembly-2025/.
Acting Locally to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Enough’s Enough in Magic Skagit: A small little town, empowered to do the right thing. by Gene Marx. On April 22, with nuclear powers trigger-loaded for confrontation in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, La Connor, Washington became the first municipality in the state to join 86 other towns and cities in the U.S. to formally recognize the global nuclear threat and adopt a Back from the Brink resolution, endorsed and promoted by the local group No More Bombs. Read more at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/LaConnerResolution.pdf.
Bonobos and Chimpanzees, Foragers and Farmers, and the Origins of War
Newsletter Editor John M Repp starts this article with the question, ‘Why would I write an essay about our closest animal relatives and their dominance systems in a newsletter of WWFOR, a group that writes on its masthead that they want “to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, equality, peace and justice?” Good question!’ Read his article which touches on matriarchy, evolution, geology, meteorology, and more at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BobonosAndChimps.pdf.
