Denver Anti-War Action Weekly Meeting

Anti-War Action Network (AWAN) is a progressive network of grassroots anti-war organizations around the United States committed to building a broad movement opposed to the greatest cause of injustice in the world today: the U.S. and its senseless, destructive wars, sanctions, and interventions.  We support the sovereignty of nations independent of U.S. imperialism.

We oppose all U.S. wars, interventions, and sanctions

AWAN is founded on the belief that the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of violence and injustice in the world today. We must build a movement to oppose these injustices in every form they take. Sanctions can be just as deadly as wars or interventions, and we recognize that there has been no situation since WWII  in which U.S. involvement was beneficial to the people.

We are action-oriented

AWAN holds that the only way to make real change in this country is by identifying a concrete issue, developing a campaign, mobilizing people, and fighting for it — not just simply talking about it. We want to build a country-wide movement of people who will fight against U.S. imperialism in the streets and in the halls of power.

We have more in common with the oppressed of the world than with the war mongers

AWAN stands with the oppressed people of the world, recognizing that we, as those without power and wealth in the U.S., have far more in common with people in the Philippines, Palestine, or Mexico than we do with Congress, the White House, and the corporate board rooms.

We are a part of the People’s Movements

AWAN stands with fellow people’s movements that are fighting for justice throughout the country and the world. We unite with the fights against deportations, police crimes, and environmental racism; and stand with the labor movement, Indigenous sovereignty,  the women’s, LGBTQIA+, disability and reproductive rights movements and many more progressive struggles. We do not believe that the anti-war movement exists in a vacuum, but is instead a crucial part of the broad people’s movements.

We support the BDS call for Divestment

AWAN stands with the international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement to divest from apartheid Israel, and fights for city, county, state, and federal divestment from war profiteers and Israel itself. We believe that the people should not be made complicit in occupation, genocide, and slaughter by paying taxes to their governments. We must use our influence in the U.S. to weaken genocidal apartheid regimes, by cutting off funds that facilitate the purchase of weapons and going after the companies that make those sales, along with other corporations that profit from Israel’s system of occupation and apartheid

We oppose the U.S. Military Industrial Complex in all its forms

AWAN opposes all parts of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex, an industry that should not exist. No one should profit off of U.S. imperialist meddling, occupation, theft, and slaughter abroad. We demand these factories be repurposed to serve humanity, not destroy it.  

(Mission statement adopted in 2025 at Founding Conference)