Essam Attia, an artist and activist from New York, brought his inflatable life size drone replica to Des Moines to protest outside the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration on November 1, 2019. WithContinue reading
Category: Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Trident is the Crime – Kathy Kelly
by Kathy KellyOctober 25, 2019 On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three felony counts and one misdemeanor.Continue reading
Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition – Kathy Kelly
by Kathy KellyOctober 20, 2019 My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it happened again. When she broke her hip the first time,Continue reading
The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National “Black Eye”
Brian Terrell Current events concerning Turkey and the Kurds in Syria remind me of a conversation I had with a US Air Force colonel almost 17 years ago in a courtroom in Des Moines. ToContinue reading
Sarah Ball on Iran and Afghanistan – 3CR Tuesday Hometime
Voices’ Sarah Ball recently appeared on Jan Bartlett‘s Tuesday Hometime program (on Melbourne, Australia’s 3CR Community Radio) to discuss her travels this year in Iran and Afghanistan. Parts I and II of the interview, fromContinue reading
Pathways to Peace: Mairead Maguire’s remarks at #NoWar2019
Remarks on October 4, 2019 at NoWar2019 in Limerick, Ireland I am very happy to be with you all at this conference. I would like to thank David Swanson and World Beyond War for organizingContinue reading
Hope in a Time Like Ours: remarks by Brian Terrell at #NoWar2019
Limerick, Ireland, October 5, 2019 I am honored and humbled to be addressing this gathering at this perilous moment, especially as I am here in place of Kathy Kelly, who sends her love and herContinue reading
Talk Nation Radio: Kathy Kelly on Peace, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ireland, and the United States
Kathy Kelly has traveled to war zones and lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe the U.S. should end all U.S. militaryContinue reading
Plowshares’ Motions Denied, Trial Date Set for October 21
“The Perpetual War Stops Here” Dear Friends, thank you for supporting the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. Yesterday, 509 days after their arrest, a federal judge denied all the pre-trial motions by our friends. Today, theContinue reading
The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives
by Kathy KellyJuly 23, 2019 “I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk” – Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the UnitedContinue reading