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PITY THE NATION

The perfectly descriptive poem, below, sent by my great friend Norma Procter, herself a poet, writer, painter, Human Rights campaigner and editor of one of my books, is a poem I’d call PITY THE NATIONS, in plural. This is because people in all countries in the world are led, like sheep, to believe that humanity needs a war industry and Armed Forces to fight – most of the time against their will – with the produce of this Business of Death and Destruction.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an American poet and co-founder of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, published “Pity the Nation” in his collection “A Coney Island of the Mind” in 1958. While Ferlinghetti did not write “Pity the Nation” himself, he included it in his collection, showcasing his admiration for Kahlil Gibran‘s work and highlighting the poem’s relevance to contemporary social and political issues. Ferlinghetti’s connection to the poem lies in its inclusion in his influential collection.

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PITY THE NATION

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,

and whose shepherds mislead them.

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,

and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice,

except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero

and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.

Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own

and no other culture but its own.

Pity the nation whose breath is money

and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.

Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode

and their freedoms to be washed away.

My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty. ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti

INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT

FOR WORLD PEACE

25th and 26 November 2023, Argentina

In view of an escalation in the number of wars, small and large, short and long, and general social violence in the world, HUFUD feels the urgent need to summon up all Peace, Human Rights, anti-war, anti-military and planet protecting organizations, worldwide, to the two-day INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT FOR WORLD PEACE at the School of the New Century in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25th and 26th November 2023

All participating organizations or Movements will be expected to actively present their Peace proposals. The event will culminate with a debate between the representatives of each organization present as well as with members of the audience. We aim to create an International Peace THINK TANK

The Summit will be live-streamed worldwide

If your organization or Movement, or you as an individual wish to be part of this unique event, please contact us as soon as possible by e-mail to info.hufud@gmail.com

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HUFUD News!

Today, the Begin´Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies informed us that in 2017, BESA Researchers Warned of Hamas Building Itself in Order to Carry Out a Large-Scale Raid Into Israel? this only means six years of Israeli and Palestinian

politicians, diplomats, businessmen, and international associates, negotiating and preparing for a big scale Game of War.

Perfectly understandable. This is why we have a WAR industry. The Peace industry is not good business for our corrupt, ambitious, greedy and immoral politicians.

Alberto Portugheis

HUFUD President

Marvellous HUFUD News!

HUFUD is very happy to announce the birth of a new African Chapter: HUFUD ETHIOPIA. the new Director is the expert Peace activist Mahlet Sebsibe. The HUFUD Family and I personally welcome Mahlet and wish her Great Success.

It is perhaps not a coincidence that Africa is the first continent to have TWO HUFUD Chapters (the first one in Uganda, in the capable hands of Bruno Ndagga), for it has always been Africa the continent I feel will save the planet, by becoming the FIRST continent to Abolish Militarism.

Small arms aremanufactured in Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan, but there are three countries – Egypt, South Africa and Sudan – with major companies and exporting capability.

However, from the messages I receive from African citizens in all African States and in all walks of life, they all had enough, more than enough of wars, violence, poverty, hunger, homelessness, levels of illiteracy, of polluted waters, of Aids and malaria. they all want an industry that will enhance – not damage or destroy human life.

Come on, Africa, lead to world! save the planet for future generations!

Alberto Portugheis

HUFUD Founder & President

Mahlet is a Peace and Youth Advocate and Trainer. She has more than three years of leadership experience, coaching, advisory, and advocacy work on several programs to make sure the voice of young people are included in global agendas.

She works with different regional and international organizations to promote peace, inclusivity, and meaningful youth engagement. She has provided training for thousands on nonviolent communication and holistic development. She has been working with Young Diplomats Organization as an Education Manager which aims to empower and equip youths with the leadership, advocacy, and policy analysis skills to contribute to global goals.

She also served as a Psycho social support consultant with The dandelion Philosophy and Board Member at Nkunzi Foundation – Model Peace Forum, and served as a Global Advisory Professional at Collier Matete Foundation. Mahlet is also:Young Global Change Leaders Fellow with Global GoodWill Ambassadors, An East African Champion Advocate Fellow with the ONE Campaign , Incomparable Service Peace Coach Awardee from World Peace Initiatives.

About HUFUD

True to its name, Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation, our message remains constant, year after year: we must achieve what we propose: live in a NON-MILITARISED planet. Let us all work together towards finding, creating alternative work for the millions of employees in military factories. They also want to live in a peaceful world, but at the moment make a living by producing killing toys, from minute bullets to large warships, We are calling upon all humanity to work together for a world free of war through the transformation of the war economy into a peace economy, through the permanent abolition of Armed Forces, UNIVERSALLY.

HUFUD is a member organisation of the International Peace Bureau and the Network for Peace.

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BIG Event at Westminster, London, from 21st to 24th April 2023

Alberto Portugheis speaking in front of the Ministry of Defence or MOD, which Alberto variously calls Ministry of Death or Ministry of Destruction.

HUFUD along with 60,000 activists from various groups. HUFUD, as always, transmitted the message that unless we abolish militarism, we will have no planet on which to live. Military activity – testing, training and fighting – not only costs us the earth financially speaking, but it also destroys lives, families, societies, buildings, Nature and the economy.

HUFUD’s banner in front of the Ministry of Defence or as Alberto Portugheis likes to call it “Ministry of Death”.

The press officer – Katarina Spisakova

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News from HUFUD Africa

Sep 1, 2022

Over the past month, Director of HUFUD Africa Bruno Ndagga has traversed Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo to meet several groups in the efforts to spread HUFUD’s message and to garner support from like-minded individuals who believe in the demilitarisation of Africa as the route to peace and a conflict free continent (Africa).

Bruno reached out to many audiences including refugee camps, schools, villages, youth groups, and elites from human rights commissions. These campaigns have yielded positive support from the public and the number of HUFUD followers is expanding at an unbelievable rate across Sub-Saharan Africa. On 26 August 2022, Bruno held a rally for HUFUD in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We look forward to his joining us at the Harrogate Peace Conference on 24 September.

‘Peace is Possible’ Conference 2019

We are tremendously grateful for all participants at the HUFUD Peace is Possible Conference which took place on 17 June 2019. If you would like to be notified about future activities, please subscribe to the HUFUD Newsletter below. We look forward to your joining us next time.

Professor Dave Webb, CND Chair, on how we CAN ban the bomb through international treaties and linking efforts with other campaigns.

John Leech OBE

Josephine Apira shares the reality about her homeland, Uganda.

Dr. Victor Olisa QPM on peace beginning at ‘home’.

HUFUD volunteer Ayessha Ghulati

Mic Dixon, director of ‘War School’ takes questions about his film.

Loussin-Torah Pilikian moderates the conference.

Alberto Portugheis, HUFUD Founder and President

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Conference ‘The game of war and a path to peace’

The Game of War and a Path to Peace will be screened at the 7th Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP) Summit‘s Film Forum between 27 Sept & 3 – 7 October in a hybrid format: live in Colombia at the Universidad Pedagogica y Technologica Colombia and online for a global audience. Visit www.gamip.org for full details about the summit: Peace in Action.

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Martha Argerich

Hon. President

Bruno Kasenge

Director of HUFUD Africa

Alberto Portugheis

Founder and President

Partnership

HUFUD was founded by Alberto Portugheis, to promote World Peace through Universal Demilitarisation. We are seeking peace practitioners, peace professors, public officials, Peace Studies students and Peace journalists, to cooperate with us, to transform our network into a strong voice and force. Contact us at info.hufud@gmail.com

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Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation

Support Us

Your donation will help us run workshops, lectures, rallies and outreach activities—disseminating our ideology to the world, in many languages—to promote PEACE, through EDUCATION, COMMUNITY BUILDING, and COOPERATING with other peace, anti-war and human rights organisations and individuals.

Contact: info.hufud@gmail.com