### **A World Without War or Hunger: Our Right**

**Manifesto for a Just World: Abolish War and Hunger**

Today's world is marked by unbearable injustices. Wars continue, famine strikes millions of people, and too often, it is private interests that fuel this destructive cycle for their own profit. We must denounce these abuses and act.

### **The War Machine: An Industry of Profit**

Modern wars are not merely conflicts between nations; they are also a marketplace, a trade where some enrich themselves through the suffering of others. In 2022, global military spending reached $2.24 trillion. These staggering sums are invested in weapons that kill innocents, indirectly funded by ordinary citizens through taxes.

**The beneficiaries of this deadly trade:**

- **Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems**: These companies are not defenders of peace but arms dealers who make billions of dollars in profits by selling weapons used in wars like the one in Ukraine.

- **Energy Producing Countries**: Nations like Saudi Arabia and Russia profit from instability that they themselves perpetuate to sell their oil and gas at high prices, while conflicts plunge local populations into misery.

- **The Western Military-Industrial Complex**: In Europe and the United States, massive sums are invested in the production of weapons and military technology development, consolidating an economy that depends on the permanent existence of conflicts.

**The impact of taxes on citizens:**

The taxes we pay fund this military expenditure. A considerable portion of national budgets is dedicated to buying arms, while fundamental needs, such as education, healthcare, and the fight against poverty, are underfunded. In France, around 47 billion euros are allocated annually to the military budget, while budgets for energy transition remain paltry in comparison.

### **Famine: A Scandal Fueled by Indifference**

While these elites amass fortunes, more than 828 million people suffer from hunger every day. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimates that around $40 billion per year is needed to eradicate hunger. This amount is insignificant compared to the billions invested every year in weapons of destruction.

Yet governments always find funds for weapons, but never to save lives. Why isn't world hunger a priority? Because it doesn't bring money to the military industry or the major corporations that influence governments.

**Examples of this calculated indifference:**

- In 2022, as the war in Ukraine caused food prices to skyrocket, companies like **ExxonMobil** recorded record profits. Meanwhile, millions of people in the poorest countries saw the price of bread double.

- **Pension funds**, in which we often invest unknowingly, finance arms companies. Our own savings are used to support a system that generates death and suffering.

- **Big Tech and Cybersecurity**: Companies like Palantir and Microsoft saw their valuations soar by providing intelligence and cybersecurity solutions, capitalizing on the fear and insecurity generated by conflicts.

### **Questioning Unjust Taxes**

Our taxes are used to fund these wars and sustain this unequal system. Why should we, as citizens, accept financing violence that goes against our values? We need to challenge these unjust taxes and seek ethical alternatives.

**Building direct circuits:**

We must create direct circuits between ethical producers and conscious consumers, without channeling taxes into projects we disapprove of. By supporting local producers and farmers who do not sell to multinationals, we can begin building an economy that respects life.

### **Denouncing Manipulation: Soros, Gates, and Others**

Social movements are often infiltrated or funded by individuals and groups with hidden interests. Whether it's **George Soros**, **Bill Gates**, or others, their funding directs the masses' thoughts and diverts movements from their true goals. This is not a conspiracy theory; it's a reality of today's world: money corrupts, and elites buy influence to serve their interests.

Social media algorithms are designed to entertain us, keep us passive, and limit the spread of dissenting ideas. They do not promote movements that question the dominant economic and political system because that runs counter to the interests of those who control them.

### **What Must Be Done?**

- **Think and Act**: Stop blindly supporting this system. Ask questions about the origins of our products, the use of our taxes, and the true intentions of the movements we support.

- **Active Solidarity**: Work together to build a parallel economy that supports ethics, peace, and justice.

- **Demand Accountability**: Arms dealers must be held accountable. They are criminals against humanity, and it is time to treat them as such.

### **New Forms of Non-Violent Protest: Building the Future**

To create real change, it is essential to develop new forms of non-violent protest. Violence must never be an option, as it feeds the same system we are fighting. Here are concrete actions to consider:

**1. Repair Cafés: Repair, Reuse, Resist**

Repair Cafés are not just places where broken objects are fixed. They can become symbols of resistance against the throwaway society.

- **Community Education**: Regularly organize repair workshops where people learn to fix everyday objects (electronics, clothing, furniture). This is a way to reclaim skills, create social bonds, and demonstrate our autonomy from companies that want us to always buy new.

- **Collective Repair Challenge**: Launch community challenges to collect discarded items from the streets, repair them together, and then offer them to those in need. This shows that "trash" for some can be a valuable resource for others and reduces our dependence on large corporations.

**2. Free Expression Workshops: Create to Protest**

Free expression workshops must be spaces where everyone can express their anger, their outrage, but also their vision for a better future, creatively.

- **Creating Protest Comics**: Bring citizens together in workshops where they collaboratively create comics denouncing social injustice, political manipulation, or climate inaction. Comics are a powerful way to tell stories in an accessible and impactful manner.

- **Collaborative Posters and Murals**: Use recycled materials to create posters that can be placed in public spaces. These posters must convey clear, resolutely committed messages and attract attention in the most creative way possible.

- **Street Performances**: Organize small artistic performances in public places. These performances could symbolize algorithmic oppression, the stranglehold of big corporations on our lives, or even represent the hope of an alternative. Use theater, music, and visual art to make the public think and engage in discussion.

**3. Reclaiming Public Space: Occupy and Transform**

These actions consist of temporarily or permanently transforming public space to demonstrate that it can be used differently—that it can be a source of common good rather than profit.

- **Guerrilla Gardening**: Transform unused spaces into temporary or permanent gardens. This can be a vacant lot, a square, or a street corner. Plant flowers, vegetables, and set up benches made from recycled materials. These spaces are open to everyone, without ownership, as an invitation to imagine what a truly collective space could be.

- **Zones of Peace and Solidarity**: Create direct occupation spaces on abandoned public or private land. These places must be without owners and open to all who need them. They can serve as temporary shelters, food-sharing locations, or meeting spaces to discuss local initiatives.

- **Silent Marches**: Organize silent marches dressed in a way that illustrates the invisibility of social injustices. For example, uniform gray clothing to symbolize oppression, with placards describing algorithmic biases or the absurdity of military budgets compared to fundamental needs.

**4. Developing Citizen Technology: Rethinking Governance**

Instead of relying on traditional political systems, the idea is to develop tools that use technology to manage resources fairly, transparently, and without the corruption of elites.

- **Platforms for Collective Decision-Making**: Develop secure digital platforms where citizens can participate in votes and debates on local issues: resource allocation, ecological priorities, social needs. These platforms must not be controlled by private companies but by independent citizen groups.

- **Mechanisms for Managing Commons**: Create tools to manage natural resources (water, agricultural land, forests) as commons. These tools must include nature as an entity with rights, a "reference citizen." This would make the protection of ecosystems central to human decisions, on par with the well-being of populations.

**5. Reclaiming Food: Towards Food Autonomy**

Food is one of the most fundamental needs, yet it is often in the hands of multinationals that have no interest in ensuring food security for all.

- **Food Recovery Collectives**: Create groups that collect unsold food from markets, supermarkets, and restaurants. These collectives then organize free meals for the most vulnerable and raise awareness of the absurdity of waste.

- **Mobile Community Kitchens**: Set up mobile "kitchen parties" that move from neighborhood to neighborhood to cook and share food for free. The goal is to show that food can be a vector of solidarity rather than profit.

- **Community Gardens**: Plant community gardens in urban and rural areas, open to all. These gardens can become places of meeting, sharing harvests, and educating for food autonomy. They are spaces where not only food is cultivated, but also solidarity and community spirit.

### **A World Without War or Hunger: Our Right**

The war budget could eradicate world hunger for 50 years, but these resources are monopolized by private interests, by elites who prefer to fund bombs instead of schools or hospitals. We must rise up and say **no**. No to war. No to injustice. No to profits made on the backs of the most vulnerable.