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This is a private monthly meeting of PSTW members, this time focusing entirely on the genocide in Gaza. The video has not been edited at all. Member will come back on August 31 for a Global Town Hall Meeting, which is open to the public. Please sign in if you attend.

Tom Goreau specializes in the ecosystem of coastal oceans, especially coral reefs. He shows that the beaches around the world are eroding badly but he has a way of protecting them with electric rods that break up the incoming waves. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-702-coral-reefs-and-beaches

Marjan Ehsassi practiced law many years and then decided to focus on the relations between citizens and government, where she thinks the big problems lie. So she's been studying citizens' assemblies and whote a Ph. D. dissertation on it -- which became a book. Since Project Save the World is planning an inquiry on zoom that will resemble a citizens assembly (though we won't call it that because we...

Chad Baum is a professor in Denmark who has, with his colleagues, conducted a massive global public opinion survey about attitudes toward geoengineering. It was published in Nature. Here he describes the findings. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca .

Ivan left Russia rather than kill Ukrainians. Mikhail Elizbarashvili and Charles Tauber helo escapees and deserters such as Ivan and Konstantin Samoilov,, who escaped to Tashkent and created a breakfast club for people in his situation. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-698-russian-escapees-and-deserters .

Stephen Zunes, Jorgen Johansen, and Jill Carr-Harris area all specialists in nonviolent resistance, having worked and studied the history of such opposition movements in many different countries. They agree that it is important to build community but that short-term tctics also should be developed for meeting urgent situations. For the video and audio podcast: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-691...

Meir Amor is sociologist and an Israeli peace worker. Paul Meyer is a retired diplomat, formerly Canada's ambassador for disarmament. Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian organizer. Maryam Nayab Yazdi is a Canadian-Iranian human rights worker. For the video and audio podcast: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-690-middle-east-today

Norbert Stute is a retired Austrian hematologist who created a remarkable website directory to hundrds of thousands of organizations that are devoted to making the world better. Rachael Mellor, his assistant, writes updates on the guides to various categories. Jill Carr-Harris works with Project Save the World and Ekta Parishad in India. For the video and audio podcast: https://tosavetheworld.ca/e...

John Washington is a journalist who covers migrants, especially from Latin America. Sheila McManus is a historian at the University of Lethbridge; Petra Molnar is a lawyer at York University and Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian organizer in India. They discuss the way international migrants are now being excluded and refused entry in many countries, especially under the influence of Donald Trump. Fo...

Leonid Kosals and Matthew Light are professors of criminology at the University of Toronto. Both study corruption, especially in Russia and the post-Soviet states. Here they report on changes in that region and factors that determine the severity of corruption. For the video and audo podcast: https://tosavetheworld.ca .

Erin Hunt and Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan work for Mines Action Canada, which supports the global ban on anti-personnel mines. The Baltic states, with ther justifiable history of fearing Russia, are about to withdraw from the treaty unless NATO countries can talk them out of it. For the video and audio podcast: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-685-updating-landmines-action

Rnnald St. John is a retired epidemiologist who worked in government and the WHO to limit the impacts of pandemics. Neil Arya is a family physician in Waterloo, Ontario, who recalls his climic during the SARS epidemic, which St. John was in charge of controlling. They talk about the new Treaty that has been adopted, which is intended to ensure that health resources are distributed equitably in the...

Robert Quinn works through Scholars at Risk to protect academics whose search for truth is being constrained anywhere in the world. He helps the to migrate to safe countries. Marc Spooner is Canadian professor of education who also studies the relationship between academic freedom and democracy. For the video and audio, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-683-academic-freedom

This month we talked about our own disabilities with words in ageing; about dying and how to use our defunct bodies later, and about Gaza; AI; psychedelic drugs; DNA research; and the future of life after the transition to "stellar" civilization - the thing beyond capitalism. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-682-global-town-hall-may-2025 .

Seth Klein heads a project that is part of David Suzuki's climate work. It will offer Canadian youth opportunities to work in the climate emergency as intensely as in World War II – a time of extraordinary efficiency. Can we make such a speed-up transition again? What is the main obstacle? We discuss. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-681-seth-klein-and-...

Robia Akhtar, Tariq Rauf, and Earl Turcotte are experts on nuclear weapons negotiations. They are especially concerned these days about the recent military exchanges between two nuclear-armed states, India and Pakistan. They discuss the challenges and the extraordinary importance of achieving global and permanent nuclear disarmament. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: http://tosavetheworl...

Peter Ward is a paleontologist who has described some of the earth's previous extinction events. He's worried about the one we may be creating now – and he worries about the attack on science that is going on in the US today. At the University of Washington, people are being laid off today. We can't save the world without science. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-...

Oleksandra Romantsova, Dmitry Gurin, and Sergey Davidis talk about their new organization, People First, which seeks to protect prisoners of conscience in Russia who oppose the war against Ukraine. Their primary objective is to establish that, when a peace agreement is reached, the prisoners and Ukrainian children who had been abducted and placed in russia foster homes will be the first to be rele...

Victor Kogan Yasny joined us from Moscow and told us that the military economy was booming but not business. Also, we talked about the strange shift of young American males toward Trump. The main explanation was Rose Dyson's: the profitable business of violent video games, which trains males to kill effectively. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-675-glob...

There is one surviving branch of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly: in the south Caucasus. Arzu Abdulleyeva, Natalia Martiroosyan and Alexander Russetsky belong to it, and in the Netherlands, Marten van Harten. They discuss the Nagorno Karabakh war and the new peace agreement, yet to be signed. Jill Carr-Harris steers the conversation. For the video, audio podcast and comments: https://tosavetheworld...

Ulyana Horodyskyj Pena was recently in the Arctic and the Andes looking at glaciers, which have turned dark from falling soot and fabric particulates. She shares experiences with two senior Arctic scientists, Maria Pia Casarini and her distinguished husband Peter Wadhams. For the video, audio podcast see https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-673-black-glaciers .

Jessica Walton works with CyberPeace, an NGO based in Geneva that offers free cyber security advice to civil society organzations worldwide.to protect themselves from crooks on the Internet. W discuss the merits and disadvantages of keeping information private. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-672-cyber-peace

Qjiel Mariano is a young indigenous man from the Philippines whose studies at York University's program in global Health is supported by Pegasus, the organization that Neil Arya founded and now chairs. Here Neil interviews Qjiel about several topics, especially the indigenous medical systems that Qjiel is studying. https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-671-indigenous-healtlh-perspectives

Frances Flannery and Elizabeth Blackman are two of the three co-founders of an organization called "Bio-earth" which discusses some of the philosophical traditions that influence the kind of actions people take in the physical world, especially regarding climate. For the video, audio, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-670-religion-and-climate .

Aaron Tovish is a livelong peace organization leader. For several years his primary goal has been to promote a policy whereby the nuclear nations would all adopt a treaty promising not to be the first to attack another country with a nuclear weapon. The next step would be to disarm the existing nukes. Here he argues the case. For the video, audio podcast, and comments, https://tosavetheworld.ca .