This article first appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, February 8th, 2017. Before making their home in Damascus, Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak had regularly visited Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. Through multiple trips andContinue reading
Message from Palestine from Cassandra Dixon
Our friend Cassandra Dixon, from the Mary House of Hospitality Catholic Worker in Oxford, Wisconsin, is in Palestine; and forwards us this report as a model of steadfast, undiscouraged resistance. She writes: Dear Friends, ItContinue reading
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
Najaf, Iraq
January 3, 2017 Najaf, Iraq “ ISIS is not just with guns, but with ideas inside our minds” I almost feel as if this trip has been a set up. Set up to give meContinue reading
DESPITE 2017 ODDS, MY AFGHAN FRIENDS AND I HOPE FOR HEALING
“One of the saddest presumptions is that war is necessary, as if Ali’s brother needed to lose his life for Afghan or U.S. or my security. Dehumanized and devalued by both ‘terrorists and anti-terrorists’ alike,Continue reading