Daniel Berrigan: The times are inexpressibly evil Christians pay conscious … indeed religious tribute to Caesar and Mars by the approval of overkill tactics … by brinksmanship by nuclear liturgies … by racism … by support of genocide
Free speech and racial justice advocates are expressing outrage online under the hashtag #MOASueMeToo on Twitter.
The Sisters McDonald are siblings and Sisters in the Order of St. Joseph of Carondelet (CSJ). They began singing together at at early at at the request of their father, a Minnesota farmer. In addition their assigned duties in the order, they found time to sing and bring joy to peace rallies and to many other events. They've been on the protest lines, arrested, hassled but mostly enjoyed by their peace loving admirers. Here's a story about them today.
Levy-Pounds: Now, according to witnesses, they grabbed Jamar, one by each arm. The witnesses say that they placed him in handcuffs, and that one officer grabbed Jamar's head in a chokehold and brought him to the ground. They said the other officer then put his knee in Jamar's chest while he was on the ground. Meanwhile, the other officer stood over Jamar's body, and shot him once in the head at point-blank range.
Hedges: The gas in the AIM pipeline, bound for foreign export, will not be available to local communities along the route or provide many jobs to local residents (workers in pickup trucks blocked by the protesters at Montrose often had Texas or Oklahoma license plates). Residents, as is common along pipeline routes, have found themselves powerless to prevent the state from seizing their property under eminent domain and turning it over to the industry.
Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, Kelly's idealism is backed by real action for peace in such war-torn places as Iraq, Gaza, and Afghanistan.
Hakim: We learnt to do something small and different from 14 years of the ‘same, old’ method of war, and exploitation.
Chris Hedges and Sabah Alnasseri dissect the genesis of political revolutions in the Middle East and discuss the role of religion and the reasons for the increased prevalence of fundamentalism in this episode of teleSUR's Days of Revolt. https://youtu.be/xge5PbLy2Eo Media for the people! Click here to help Rise Up Times continue to bring you essential news More
Swanson: Let me give you an idea of how out of touch I am. I would have thought that every peace activist in the United States would oppose the new development of Russia bombing Syria. We’ve always said, and some of us have even believed, that war was immoral and illegal and unacceptable no matter who did it.
War costs us everything and resolves nothing.
Article: The relationship between movements and elections is complicated to navigate but to succeed we will need both an electoral and non-electoral movement that are independent of the corporate duopoly.
Veterans For Peace celebrates 30 years of waging peace in 2015. This slideshow was presented at the 2015 National Convention in San Diego, CA. https://youtu.be/k_rfiHcbVDo Veterans For Peace Published on Aug 24, 2015 Media for the people! Click here to help Rise Up Times continue to bring you essential news you won’t find in the More
