Trillions for the Military: Will That Make Us Secure? Nov 9, 2017 7:00 PM Edgewood College-Predolin Humanities Center, Anderson Auditorium 1000 Edgewood College Dr. , Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative NonviolenceContinue reading
Category: Middle East
Teaching English in Najaf
Najaf, Iraq, October 25 2017 Each day in the English conversation class we focus on a different theme. We have been going from easier topics, like greetings, directions, food shopping and cooking to more difficultContinue reading
Wrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran
October 14, 2017 Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had “an obligation to tell the people of IsraelContinue reading
The Shoe Thrower, Revisited – News from Najaf
We share one of Voices co-coordinator Cathy Breen’s “Dear Friends” letters from Najaf, in Iraq. October 15, 2017 Dear Friends, We are two weeks into the conversational English class. The participants are growing in self-confidenceContinue reading
University of New Haven and Saudi Police: Big Money Makes Strange Bedfellows
by Samayia Taylor, CODEPINK Sept. 30, 2017 In America, college students are just arriving on their campuses- some for the first time- ready to start the new academic year. They have a wide range of interestsContinue reading
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Drones, East Asia, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, U.S. - Russia Tensions
New Book: VOICES FOR PEACE- War, Resistance and America’s Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance
This timely anthology edited by T.J. Coles includes articles by Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinators Kathy Kelly and Brian Terrell, along with Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Cynthia McKinney, Bruce Gagnon and others.. It can beContinue reading
Jerry Zawada, Presente!
Fr. Jerry Zawada OFM – nuclear resister, peace and justice activist, Franciscan friar – died on the morning of July 25 at the age of 80. Jerry served his early years as a Franciscan priestContinue reading
At Every Door
July 20, 2017 “I come and stand at every door But none shall hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen” -Nazim Hikmet On July 18, 2017, at a U.S. Senate Foreign RelationsContinue reading
“Ain’t No Such Thing as A Just War” – Ben Salmon, WWI resister
July 10, 2017 Several days a week, Laurie Hasbrook arrives at the Voices office here in Chicago. She often takes off her bicycle helmet, unpins her pant leg, settles into an office chair and then leansContinue reading
“Would You Like a Drink of Water?” Please Ask a Yemeni Child
June 21, 2019 This week, in New York City, representatives from more than 100 countries will begin collaborating on an international treaty, first proposed in 2016, to ban nuclear weapons forever. It makes sense forContinue reading