This Saturday, January 4, CODEPINK, the ANSWER Coalition, Veterans for Peace, United AntiWar Coalition (UNAC), World Beyond War, Popular Resistance, and Voices for Creative Nonviolence (among others) have joined in calling for a National DayContinue reading
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Why We Persist: Activists Have Protested US Drone Base for Over a Decade
By Ed Kinane Originally published on Truthout.org “All human beings possess the basic right under international law to engage in non-violent civil resistance activities for the purpose of preventing, impeding, or terminating the ongoing commissionContinue reading
Toward A Peace Process For Afghanistan
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows is an organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11, 2001. Currently comprised of over 200 families, the group advocates nonviolence and adherence to the ruleContinue reading
Afghanistan: hidden voices from a forgotten war
A new publication by Maya Evans and Voices for Creative Non-Violence UK Stories and testimonies collected from some our visits to Afghanistan, giving a voice to women and young people, the very voices recent peaceContinue reading
Seven Arrested Mourning Children Killed By Drones
By Joy First November 12, 2019 | Wisconsin – Seven peace activists walked onto the base at Volk Field today, wearing black veils, carrying limp dolls and posters of children killed by drones, and readingContinue reading
A Doubtful Proposition
A reflection on the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 By Brian Terrell “Whether nuclear weapons are actually illegal under international or domestic law (a doubtful proposition) is not relevant or an appropriate issueContinue reading
ACTIVISTS CONFRONT CANDIDATES ON DRONE ASSASSINATIONS AND AUMF AT IOWA DEMOCRATIC EVENT
Essam Attia, an artist and activist from New York, brought his inflatable life size drone replica to Des Moines to protest outside the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration on November 1, 2019. WithContinue reading
David Swanson reviews “The Kabul Peace House”
PEACE IN AFGHANISTANby David Swansonhttp://davidswanson.org/peace-in-afghanistan/ There were whispers in the village, high up in the mountains of Afghanistan. There was a Stranger here. He had made a friend and been invited to live in aContinue reading
The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National “Black Eye”
Brian Terrell Current events concerning Turkey and the Kurds in Syria remind me of a conversation I had with a US Air Force colonel almost 17 years ago in a courtroom in Des Moines. ToContinue reading
Sarah Ball on Iran and Afghanistan – 3CR Tuesday Hometime
Voices’ Sarah Ball recently appeared on Jan Bartlett‘s Tuesday Hometime program (on Melbourne, Australia’s 3CR Community Radio) to discuss her travels this year in Iran and Afghanistan. Parts I and II of the interview, fromContinue reading