July 12, 2019 Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In KabulContinue reading
Category: Nonviolent Resistance Actions
Iran War protests in Chicago: 1) Friday July 12th rally, 2) ongoing Tuesday AM vigils, and 3) the post-attack emergency response
On Friday July 12th please join a 5:30pm rally at 190 N. State St, by the Lake St “L” near the Chicago Theater, at ABC7-TV Studios. Every Tuesday (planned) from 7am-9am, please consider dropping byContinue reading
July 19 Boeing Protest: Chicago4Gaza: Stop the Bombs, End the Blockade
Following Thursday’s 7pm panel with Jehad Abusalim and Ret. Col. Ann Wright, and leading into Saturday’s Gaza Freedom Flotilla on the Chicago River, on Friday July 19 we will gather at the Israeli consulate andContinue reading
3rd US Delegation to Join Protests against US Nuclear Weapons Now Used in Germany
JULY 5, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A delegation of 11 peace activists from the United States arrives at a German peace camp Friday July 5 to join protests against the deployment of US nuclearContinue reading
Hiroshima through Nagasaki Day, fast and vigil for the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
Announcing, to last from Hiroshima Day August 6th through Nagasaki Day August 9th in solidarity with the KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES 7 (http://www.kingsbayplowshares7.org), A FAST FOR PEACE in defense of life and against nuclear weapons. Continue reading
Afghanistan, Drones, Guantanamo, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Palestine, Syria, Torture, Yemen
Wed Jun 12 FREE TRIP TO EGYPT screenings
Voices for Creative Nonviolence is happy to help promote simultaneous screenings of the documentary FREE TRIP TO EGYPT to occur in 500 theaters nationwide at 6:30pm Central Time this Wednesday, June 12th. The film followsContinue reading
July 20 Flotilla: Gaza Freedom Flotilla on the Chicago River
After a Thursday forum with Jehad Abusalim and Ret. Col. Ann Wright, and a noon Friday protest outside Boeing, on Saturday July 20 Voices for Creative Nonviolence will join with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s USContinue reading
Judging U.S. War Crimes – Kathy Kelly
March 10, 2019 Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019, she was incarcerated in the Alexandria, VAContinue reading
“Voice Raising for Yemen!” New York City, February 22- 26
Voices for Creative Nonviolence activists returned to New York City to join with friends from the Catholic Worker, Veterans for Peace, the Granny Peace Brigade and Rise and Resist to continue our witness demanding anContinue reading
REFLECTIONS ON 16 YEARS OF RESISTANCE
By Joy First Malachy Kilbride and Joy First will be organizing nonviolent resistance with Voices for Creative Nonviolence It was March of 2003 and President Bush had been talking about attacking Iraq with “shock andContinue reading