Women’s Draft? Sign Me Up To Abolish War For too long, the women of this nation have been complacent while our brothers, sons, husbands, and fathers are sent to kill, maim, brutalize, destroy andContinue reading
Why go to Russia?
B61 nuclear missiles. Photo Credit U.S. D.O.D. (SSGT Phil Schmitten) June 17, 2016 Since 1983, Sharon Tennison has worked to develop ordinary citizens’ capacities to avert international crises, focusing on relations between the U.S. andContinue reading
In the Absence of Peace
In the Absence of Peace “later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.”Continue reading
Is Afghanistan the New Old West for Claim-Jumping? By Bill Distler
Is Afghanistan the New Old West for Claim-Jumping? “Privatization of Afghanistan’s state-owned companies, which controlled many of the country’s mineral resources, was ongoing but not complete.” (From the 2011 edition of the U.S. GeologicalContinue 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
De-Incarceration, a Different Drum so Needed
June 9, 2016 Along with VCNV companions, I’m part of a 150 mile walk from Chicago to Thomson, IL, a small town in Northwest IL where the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is setting up anContinue reading
Building Trust in Afghanistan
May 30, 2016 Here in Kabul, I read a recent BBC op-ed by Ahmed Rashid, urging a “diplomatic offensive” to build or repair relationships with the varied groups representing armed extremism in Afghanistan. Rashid hasContinue reading
My Visit to a Las Vegas Jail
“What happened to us was a shakedown by gangsters wearing police uniforms and judges’ robes, not for the sake of justice, but to maintain the civic infrastructure behind the glittering façade of Las Vegas withContinue reading
Arriving in Erbil and Wondering: What Lies Ahead
Erbil, Kurdistan–Wherever I look, tall, unfinished concrete buildings, accompanied by construction cranes, loom over the city. It is somewhat eerie because I see no movement inside or around any of the buildings, none whatsoever. IContinue reading