February 25, 2020 Nearly a thousand of us were gathered in Chicago beneath the alarming edifice of Chicago’s “Trump Tower.” Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani had been brutally murdered the day before in Iraq, withContinue reading
Category: Drones
Afghanistan, Drones, Guantanamo, Iraq, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Nuclear Disarmament, Syria, Yemen
Let Us End Our Complicity in War – Bishop Gumbleton
We’re grateful for Bishop Thomas Gumbleton’s call to end complicity with war: although addressed to members of his own faith, his words challenge all who long to abolish war and weapons. Bishop Gumbleton traveled withContinue reading
And We Allow This Madness to Continue – Cathy Breen
January 10, 2020 Try as I did, I found it impossible to send New Year’s greetings to friends in Iraq given the unthinkable and shameless actions of Trump and his regime in the last weeks.Continue reading
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
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
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
Afghanistan, Drones, Guantanamo, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Palestine, Syria, Torture, Yemen
Wed Jun 12 FREE TRIP TO EGYPT screenings
Voices for Creative Nonviolence is happy to help promote simultaneous screenings of the documentary FREE TRIP TO EGYPT to occur in 500 theaters nationwide at 6:30pm Central Time this Wednesday, June 12th. The film followsContinue reading
Can We Divest from Weapons Dealers? – Kathy Kelly
March 8, 2019 Impoverished people living in numerous countries today would stand a far better chance of survival, and risk far less trauma, if weapon manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and RaytheonContinue reading
What it Really Takes to Secure Peace in Afghanistan
by Kathy Kelly February 13, 2019 Constant military surveillance of Afghans yields almost no real intelligence about the problems they face each day. An unusual group of volunteers uses a far different approach. Continue reading
Ending the War in Yemen- Congressional Resolution is Not Enough!
Brian Terrell November 15, 2018 On November 14, the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked a resolution that its supporters say would end U.S. participation in the war and famine in Yemen.Continue reading