June 23, 2016 In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, our delegation to Russia visited the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in February of 1945, concluded negotiations ending World WarContinue reading
Month: June 2016
Weaponized Drones And The Endless “War on Terror” By Ed Kinane
Weaponized Drones And The Endless “War on Terror” Like the phony “war on drugs,” the phony “war on terrorism” promotes economic interests, serves political agendas, entrenches militarism. Neither war reduces drug use or violence.Continue reading
Women’s Draft? Sign Me Up To Abolish War by Rivera Sun
Women’s Draft? Sign Me Up To Abolish War For too long, the women of this nation have been complacent while our brothers, sons, husbands, and fathers are sent to kill, maim, brutalize, destroy andContinue reading
Why go to Russia?
B61 nuclear missiles. Photo Credit U.S. D.O.D. (SSGT Phil Schmitten) June 17, 2016 Since 1983, Sharon Tennison has worked to develop ordinary citizens’ capacities to avert international crises, focusing on relations between the U.S. andContinue reading
In the Absence of Peace
In the Absence of Peace “later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.”Continue reading
Is Afghanistan the New Old West for Claim-Jumping? By Bill Distler
Is Afghanistan the New Old West for Claim-Jumping? “Privatization of Afghanistan’s state-owned companies, which controlled many of the country’s mineral resources, was ongoing but not complete.” (From the 2011 edition of the U.S. GeologicalContinue reading
Activists Complete 150-mile March to Thomson Prison
In late May and early June, Chicago group Voices for Creative Nonviolence held a 150-mile walk against indefinite detention, solitary confinement, and the racist U.S. prison system. For two weeks, a group of 20 justiceContinue reading
De-Incarceration, a Different Drum so Needed
June 9, 2016 Along with VCNV companions, I’m part of a 150 mile walk from Chicago to Thomson, IL, a small town in Northwest IL where the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is setting up anContinue reading