This post officially closes our website. The Voices for Creative Nonviolence campaign ended on December 31st, 2020. We are profoundly grateful for the assistance we’ve received from so many in working towards a more peacefulContinue reading
Category: Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Counter-coup unarmed community organizing resource list
An organizer and analyst we deeply respect, “Training for Change” co-founder George Lakey recently suggested Voices help maintain a list of organizations in the U.S. which are helping people prepare for the possibility of aContinue reading
Wed 9/9 Yemen Webinar with Kathy Kelly and Sarah Ball
KATHY KELLY and SARAH BALL of VCNV WISCONSIN ZOOM MEETING, WED, SEPT. 9, 2020, 7 PM In Marinette, WI, the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard is constructing four LCS Combat warships for sale to the KingdomContinue reading
Kateri Peace Conference on ZOOM – “Bending the Arc” Aug 21-22
On the 21st and 22nd of this August, our own Kathy Kelly will join Steve Breyman, John Amidon, Maureen Beillargeon Aumand, Medea Benjamin, Kristin Christman, Lawrence Davidson, Stephen Downs, James Jennings, Jim Merkel, Ed Kinane,Continue reading
This Sat. July 18 – Peacestock via ZOOM with Norman Solomon, Andrew J. Bacevich, and David Swanson – register now
Veterans for Peace in Red Wing, MN will welcome Andrew Bacevich, David Swanson, and Norman Solomon to their July 18th annual gathering. It begins at 1:00 p.m. CDT. For information about how to register forContinue reading
Weapons that Protect White Privilege Prevent Sustainable Community Change – Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly reflects on weapons and systems white people use to protect their white privilege, recalling that Dr. King called U.S. militarism “a demonic suction tube.”
Beating Swords to Plowshares
by Kathy Kelly Inscribed on a wall across from the United Nations in New York City are ancient words of incalculable yearning: “They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.Continue reading
Memorial Day Car-a-Van for Peace and Disarmament
Starting at noon on Memorial Day 2020 (Monday May 25), Voices hosted a Chicago Car-a-Van for Peace and Disarmament traveling from Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood near the Voices office down to Henry Moore’s ominous “Nuclear Energy”Continue reading
COVID-19 and the Wasting Disease of Normalcy
By Brian Terrell “But what of the price of peace?” asked Jesuit priest and war resister Daniel Berrigan, writing from federal prison in 1969, doing time for his part in the destruction of draft records.Continue reading
A Tale of Two Stockpiles
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Anniversary of his Murder in a Pandemic Year April 4, 2020 By Brian Terrell The United States Strategic National Stockpile of essential medical supplies maintained by the U.S.Continue reading