by Henrietta Cullinan20th April 2020 As Kabul enters a third week of strictly-enforced lockdown, what do the restrictions mean for those living below the poverty line? The first item on everyone’s minds is food. SomeContinue reading
Category: Migration & Refugees
Love in a Dangerous Time
By Mike Ferner April 9, 2020 A profusion of anonymous axioms and memes floods social media these days but one remains my very favorite: “It’s like we’ve all been sent to our room to thinkContinue 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
Qais Al Sindy Caravan- a letter from Cathy Breen
September 18, 2019 Dear Friends, “The point is, art never stopped a war…That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed—theyContinue reading
News from Cathy Breen in New York, remembering friends in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Kurdistan and Turkey
Dear Friends, It’s been so long since I have written, that I don’t know where to begin. I pick up a binder and begin scanning through past “Dear Friends” letters. As I read, memories ofContinue reading
Where Can the Anger Go?
by Carolyn Coe Kabul, December 23, 2018–At a busy four-way intersection in the northwestern part of Kabul, traffic is stuck. There is no traffic signal, and cars are threaded through one another like a wovenContinue reading
Marching for Peace, from Helmand to Hiroshima – Maya Evans
Photo: Okinawa to Hiroshima Peace Walk. Maya Evans August 4, 2018 I have just arrived in Hiroshima with a group of Japanese “Okinawa to Hiroshima peace walkers” who had spent nearly two months walking JapaneseContinue reading
Sleepwalking Toward Disaster – Cathy Breen
Photo copyright: Cecile Massie www.cecilemassie.com July 4, 2018 New York — A few days ago I received a copy of the Plough (Quarterly Summer issue), a publication of the Bruderhof Community, cherished and known toContinue reading
Immigration Crisis
This interview with Voices for Creative Nonviolence co-coordinator Brian Terrell was aired on Press TV, Iranian international news network, on July 7. https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/07/07/567399/Immigration-crisis “If we really want to end this refugee crisis we need toContinue reading
Beyond “Opposing the Trump Agenda” 1/20/2018
By Brian Terrell On January 20, 2018, in Columbia, Missouri, more than 1600 people participated in the Solidarity Rally and March, hosted by Our Revolution: Mid-Missouri. I was one of five speakers invited to addressContinue reading