FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2017 Contact: Courtney Neale (Pocan) 202-225-2906 Bipartisan Effort: 55 U.S. Representatives Call on Trump to Come to Congress Before Taking Military Action in Yemen In light of the President’s willingness to engageContinue reading
Category: Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Drones, Middle East, Migration & Refugees, Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Angry, Desperate, Rejected
April 6, 2017 Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his boldest and perhaps most defining speech. It alienated liberal allies in the North and the Northern press, plus many in King’s own civilContinue reading
#FastingForYemen, #YemenIsStarving
Press Release For immediate release Contact: Martha Hennessy – 802-230-6328; marthahennessy@gmail.com Carmen Trotta – 347-259-8536; trottacarmen@yahoo.com Cathy Kelly – 773-619-2418; FastingForYemen@gmail.com Yemen Is Starving: Peace activists, protesting the mounting humanitarian crisis in Yemen, to beginContinue reading
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Drones, Middle East, Migration & Refugees, Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Night after Day in Afghanistan
By Dr Hakim I’m so often caught up in the daily concerns of work and the wars raging across Afghanistan and many parts of the world that I forget how remarkable it is that atContinue reading
Afghan Peace Volunteers, Drones, Middle East, Migration & Refugees, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Prisons
World Beyond War: Politics Beyond Partisianship
World Beyond War, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and DePaul University Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Dept. invite you to a panel discussion with Kathy Kelly, Mary Dean, Brian Terrell, and Metasabia Rigby, international antiwar activists,Continue reading
ALL SORTS OF AFGHAN WINTER FEELINGS: “I WAS FRIGHTENED. I CRIED.”
“I was frightened. I cried,” she seemed like both a statue and a radio, numb and alive, not shy about the horrors she had survived. “There were bombs dropping from the heavens, and firing fromContinue reading
Yemenis Endure World’s Largest, Rapidly Worsening Humanitarian Crisis While Subject to a Sea Blockade and Constant Bombing
Dear Friends, On April 10, 2017, members of the New York Catholic Worker community, Code Pink, the Upstate Coalition to End the Wars and Ground the Drones, Friends of Franz and Ben, and Voices forContinue reading
Shut Down Creech 2017!
Announcing the 3rd Annual SHUT DOWN CREECH Mobilization on April 23-29, 2017 Killer Drones- Obama’s Tragic Legacy and a Blunt and Homicidal Weapon Handed to His Successor! Join Voices for Creative Nonviolence, CODEPINK, VeteransContinue reading
BIG BOOKS DRONE RESISTERS ACQUITTED!
March 3rd, 2017 Contact: Danny Burns, Ithaca, 607-280-0369 (cell) Brian Hynes, Bronx, 718-838-2636 (cell) Ed Kinane, Syracuse, 315-478-4571 (home) James Ricks, Ithaca, 607-280-7794 (cell) Upstatedroneaction.org BIG BOOKS DRONE RESISTERS ACQUITTED! Four drone resisters,Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ed Kinane 315) 478-451 home _____ February 2017 Other defendants (see below) FIVE DEFENDANTS FACE DEWITT TOWN COURT JURY 5 PM TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28 FOR THEIR 3/19/15 “BIG BOOKS” ANTI- WEAPONIZED DRONEContinue reading