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
Category: Prisons
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
Obama Must Bring Us a Waterfall of Pardons
The U.S. will soon be governed by a president who banked his campaign on vilifying Muslims and undocumented immigrants and on promising to maintain the devalued legal status of Black lives. The next twoContinue reading
Connections – by Frank Pauc
Dignified. That’s the adjective that first comes to mind when I remember my recent meeting with Jerome Dillard. Jerome is an African-American gentleman; self-confident and at ease in the world. He’s the kind of manContinue reading
Policies of Exclusion Challenged Across the Board and Across the Border
On the morning of Oct. 8, a group of US veterans who were deported to Mexico, in some cases after having fought in U.S. wars, congregated in Plaza Ochoa, Nogales, Sonora. They were joined byContinue reading
Surviving Solitary By Frank Pauc
Caliph Muab’El is a well-built man, muscular and fit. He has a friendly face, and a ready smile. When I met Caliph, he was wearing a black shirt and his locks hung down to hisContinue reading
Without Due Process From Mass Incarceration to Assassination by Maya Evans
Without Due Process From Mass Incarceration to Assassination VCNV organised a 150 mile peace walk between 28th May to 10th June, from downtown Chicago to Thomson Prison, a new supermax federal facility due to open nextContinue reading
Illinois Activists Protest Solitary Confinement in 150-Mile Walk
The federal government’s plan to add 1,900 new isolation cells at the Thomson Correctional Center is being opposed by some Illinois activists. (Federal Bureau of Prisons) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A group of Illinois activists isContinue reading
Activists Complete 150-mile March to Thomson Prison
In late May and early June, Chicago group Voices for Creative Nonviolence held a 150-mile walk against indefinite detention, solitary confinement, and the racist U.S. prison system. For two weeks, a group of 20 justiceContinue reading
