“As a matter of fact, you have had a person attend your protests in Camp Douglas who has threatened to kill our Deputies.” This piece of startling news was revealed to me in a letterContinue reading
Veterans against War
“How vast and how merciless is the nature of power, with what unbelievable cruelty people treat each other.” James Baldwin “War has become a permanent condition,” Andrew Bacevich declared during his talk at theContinue reading
Brian Terrell on Trial in Wisconsin: Sheriff’s Dept. Associates Nonviolent Demonstrators with “Hate Groups”; Pattern of Police Harassment Alleged
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1:00 pm Juneau County District Court 200 Oak Street Mauston, WI On Friday Brian Terrell will stand trial in Juneau County District Court for his part in a February 23 protest atContinue reading
Building a Nest by Carolyn Coe
The Afghan Peace Volunteers have twenty teams in Kabul, Afghanistan, to promote the goals of an equal, nonviolent, and sustainable world. Among their efforts, they run a school that offers literacy and nonviolence classes toContinue reading
Blood Ink By Carolyn Coe
Zarghuna has inked a drawing at the mound of her thumb. I draw here when I’m in pain, she says, pressing where the ink has just dried. Her exam was scheduled for 8 a.m. But when she gotContinue reading
Don’t Move!
Don’t Move! The major news stories here in the U.S., all chilling, point out how readily U.S. authorities will murder people based on race and the slightest possibility of a threat to those in placesContinue 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
What’s at Stake
June 23, 2016 In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, our delegation to Russia visited the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in February of 1945, concluded negotiations ending World WarContinue reading
Weaponized Drones And The Endless “War on Terror” By Ed Kinane
Weaponized Drones And The Endless “War on Terror” Like the phony “war on drugs,” the phony “war on terrorism” promotes economic interests, serves political agendas, entrenches militarism. Neither war reduces drug use or violence.Continue reading