Chicago-area friends – please consider coming out to this noontime rally / press conference on Chicago’s spacious (social-distancing-ready) Federal Plaza on October 7, the nineteenth anniversary of the start of the U.S.’ never-ending and disastrousContinue reading
Category: Syria
Afghanistan, Drones, Guantanamo, Iraq, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Nuclear Disarmament, Syria, Yemen
Let Us End Our Complicity in War – Bishop Gumbleton
We’re grateful for Bishop Thomas Gumbleton’s call to end complicity with war: although addressed to members of his own faith, his words challenge all who long to abolish war and weapons. Bishop Gumbleton traveled withContinue reading
Being History With Iran – Sean Reynolds
We went to Iran because you have to see these places before the U.S. blows them up, and it’s very good to see you here today in downtown Chicago, that’s also precious, for a similarContinue reading
Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq – Kathy Kelly
“If he’s a good guy, you know, now he’s a bad guy because of the way we treated him.”
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
Qais Al Sindy Caravan- a letter from Cathy Breen
September 18, 2019 Dear Friends, “The point is, art never stopped a war…That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed—theyContinue 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
News from Cathy Breen in New York, remembering friends in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Kurdistan and Turkey
Dear Friends, It’s been so long since I have written, that I don’t know where to begin. I pick up a binder and begin scanning through past “Dear Friends” letters. As I read, memories ofContinue reading
Sleepwalking Toward Disaster – Cathy Breen
Photo copyright: Cecile Massie www.cecilemassie.com July 4, 2018 New York — A few days ago I received a copy of the Plough (Quarterly Summer issue), a publication of the Bruderhof Community, cherished and known toContinue reading