Please pre-register here to participate in Thursday’s educational webinar on the war and accompanying famine in Yemen with Destroying Yemen author Dr. Isa Blumi. It will take place from 2pm-3pm Eastern Time (Dr. Blumi isContinue reading
Tag: The United States of America
Weapons that Protect White Privilege Prevent Sustainable Community Change – Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly reflects on weapons and systems white people use to protect their white privilege, recalling that Dr. King called U.S. militarism “a demonic suction tube.”
Listening to our Anger and Angst – Dr. Hakim Young
June 4, 2020 – COVID-19 is clarifying a significant source of global anger and angst: inequality. At the start of the COVID-19 crisis, Afghanistan had 300 ventilators, only one ventilator for every 110,000 Afghans. AsContinue reading
Our Disaster – Kathy Kelly
June 1, 2020 An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them orphaned, maimed, malnourished, or displaced. The United Nations reports a death toll of 100,000 people in that nation’s ongoingContinue reading
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
And We Allow This Madness to Continue – Cathy Breen
January 10, 2020 Try as I did, I found it impossible to send New Year’s greetings to friends in Iraq given the unthinkable and shameless actions of Trump and his regime in the last weeks.Continue reading
Work of Necessity, Work of Choice – Carolyn Coe
January 2, 2020 At age 11, Saabir Gulmadin began chopping wood to support his family. Now 18, he earns about $1.50 US (120 Afghanis) for every 56 kg of wood he splits. It takes himContinue reading
Sat Jan 4 – U.S. Out of Iraq Nat’l Day of Action – Chicago protest 12 noon Sat at Wacker/Wabash
This Saturday, January 4, CODEPINK, the ANSWER Coalition, Veterans for Peace, United AntiWar Coalition (UNAC), World Beyond War, Popular Resistance, and Voices for Creative Nonviolence (among others) have joined in calling for a National DayContinue reading