This #GivingTuesday, become a peacemaker for Korea

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Dear Friend,

In early October, I traveled to South Korea to attend the DMZ Border Peace School conference. There, I met a woman named Gina. She told me that when she first heard me speak in 2019, she was new to the issue of Korea peace and held views similar to those of her conservative church. But after hearing my talk, she decided to become a peacemaker, too.

I was so moved by Gina’s story. It shows that all of us, regardless of where we are in life, can be peacemakers for Korea.

On this #GivingTuesday, I hope you will consider giving to Women Cross DMZ and our vital work to build the political will for peace on the Korean Peninsula. As John Carl Baker of the Ploughshares Fund says about us, “The organization’s comprehensive approach to North Korea has already influenced the policy conversation in Washington and continues to have an impact worldwide.”

Our ability to advocate for a peace-first approach to resolve the seven decade Korean War takes hard work, courage, perseverance and new thinking. It takes many hands working together to break through the inertia that justifies the dangerous stalemate. And our ability to continue to lead, in the United States and across the world, depends on donations from people like you to keep our work going. Can we count on you to make a contribution before the end of the year? Click here to donate.

Your donation goes directly to supporting our work. For example, in the last year we:

• Organized a Korea Peace National Strategy Meeting to bring together a broad cross-section of communities impacted by the unresolved war.
• Published a series in Foreign Policy in Focus on the harms caused by the U.S.-China rivalry on frontline communities in the Pacific and Asia region.
• Organized letters to heads of state urging them to set the stage for a diplomatic solution, to end the North Korea travel ban, and to stop the U.S.-R.O.K. military exercises.
• Mobilized our grassroots network to get nearly 50 Congressional co-sponsors of H.R.3446, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act.
• Organized nationwide screenings of the documentary film Crossings by Deann Borshay Liem about our movement to end the Korean War.

Looking to the next year, Women Cross DMZ plans to:

• Garner more support in Congress and within the Biden administration for peace and normalizing relations with North Korea.
• Cultivate the next generation of Korea peace activists by establishing Korea Peace Now! Campus chapters in colleges and universities across the country.
• Release a report on the impact of the ongoing 70-year-old war on women’s lives and their vision of a genuinely de-militarized Korea, region and world.
• Organize more screenings of Crossings in the U.S., South Korea, and around the world.
• Organize a major action in 2023 on the 70th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement.

To find out more about what we’ve accomplished and what we’re planning in the year ahead, read Women Cross DMZ’s 2021-2022 Annual Report.

But donating is just one way to become a peacemaker. Here are other ways you can get involved:

• Organize a screening of Crossings in your community

• Contact your member of Congress and urge them to support H.R.3446, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act

• Join or start a Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Chapter

• Talk to your friends and family about why peace in Korea is important to you

While tensions on the Korean Peninsula continue to be dangerously high, the good news is that each one of us can take action NOW to help prevent a catastrophic war. Let’s keep walking together toward peace.

Thank you for your support,

Christine Ahn

Executive Director

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