This update includes articles by Ellis Brooks and Maya Evans who have just returned from Kabul. During their trip they worked with 100 street kids, delivered conflict resolution workshops to the Afghan Peace Volunteers, collectedContinue reading
Category: Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Divest from War, Invest in People
January 28, 2017 All Trump, all the time. With a punishing, disorienting barrage of executive orders, President Trump is reversing hard fought gains made in environmental protection, health care, women’s rights, immigration policy, and nuclearContinue reading
White Silence Equals Violence: Awaiting a Verdict
January 25, 2017 This morning, here in Minneapolis, six jurors decided beyond a reasonable doubt that I am guilty as charged and my co-defendant, Dan Wilson was found innocent. The court case stems from anContinue reading
Witness Against Torture Activists Arrested
Names of those arrested: Chantal de Alcuaz Jerica Arents Beth Brockman Don Cunning Erica Ewing Ellen Graves Martha Hennessey Sherrill Hogan Kathy Kelly Joanne Lingle Joan Pleune Manijeh Saba Helen Schietinger Eve TetazContinue reading
Lakota elder Cheryl Angel and Water Protectors Talk Cancelled
Elder Cheryl, and the other water protectors are unable to make it to Chicago Thursday. Drill rigs have been spotted moving, and they are having to reconfigure their movements. Coming to Chicago has been canceled.Continue reading
Witness Against Torture 2017
Photos from Witness Against Torture’s Fast for Justice in January, 2017. Please go to WAT website to see more photos, read stories and listen to activist. For updates go to the ‘News’ tab on theContinue reading
Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
Kate Hennessy, Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, will be in the Chicago area from March 4 th through 8th, speaking at bookstores, 8th Day Center for Justice, St. Nick’s, and Su Casa House about her amazing new book.Continue reading
Portraits from Kabul
December 28, 2016 Ghulam Reza often plays at the Borderfree Centre. He’s 5 years, 3 mos. On Saturday he was filling an empty chips bag with water, tying off the top, and pushing it along,Continue reading
Christmas in Karbala
Dec. 25, 2016 Karbala, Iraq–It is Christmas day, and I am in Karbala with dear friends. We awoke to a second day of rain, and pictures of flooding, especially in Baghdad, are being shown onContinue reading
Appreciation for Buddy Bell
Laughter, songs, tears and heartfelt appreciation marked a farewell party for Buddy Bell who will move to Pasadena, CA at the end of December. In the colorful lower level of the Wellington Avenue United Church ofContinue reading