A Rainy Day in D.C., Marching to Close Guantanamo By Coleen Rowley Posted: 1/17/12 Huffington Post It’s hard to know what to do, as mere citizens, to try and fix things so many years after the United States government decided it did not have to follow its own laws, the Geneva Conventions or More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYV-SHU7w0&w=560&h=315] Uploaded by Keakevene Download the song for free here: http://soundcloud.com/michael-ayers/i-am-the-99 The movement has never had an anthem. That is until now. Written, performed, & produced by Michael Ayers Thank you to all of the artists, photographers and videographers for their stirring footage. You may subscribe to WAMMToday from this blog website and “Follow” us. More
Peace activists occupy nuclear sub base entrance to honor MLK By davidswanson - Posted on 16 January 2012 War is a Crime On January 14, 2012 activists from a local peace group blocked entry to the main gate at the Navy’s West coast Trident nuclear submarine base for nearly a half hour in an act of civil resistance More
Michael Bayly> Marv Davidov 1931-2012 Posted by Michael J. Bayly at 1:00 PM The Wild Reed My friend Marv died yesterday morning. He was 81 years old and had been in poor health for some time. Still, I and many others feel his loss greatly. As many of my Minnesota readers would know, Marv Davidov was an More
Chicago’s Peace Warriors By Kazu Haga Rethinking Schools Volume 26 No.2 – Winter 2011-2012 Illustration: Jordin Isip A group of students from Chicago’s North Lawndale College Preparatory High were in the middle of a weeklong summer training to become Peace Warriors—peer nonviolence leaders. Suddenly, a sophomore named Alicia got a text message alerting her that More
Continuing Protests Against NDAA Indefinite Military Detention of U.S. Citizens, Recall Efforts On by Ralph Lopez WED JAN 11, 2012 Daily Kos Revealing the failure of the coordinated campaign by defenders of the National Defense Authorization Act 2011 (NDAA) to lie about its applicability to U.S. citizens, protesters at the White House continued to More
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Longtime peace activist Marv Davidov dies at 80 RANDY FURST, Star Tribune Marv Davidov, an iconic figure of the Minnesota peace movement who founded and led the Honeywell Project in a decades-long campaign to halt the production of anti-personnel weapons by Honeywell Inc., died Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis. He was 80, and had suffered from More
Guantánamo Detainees Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Prison’s Tenth Anniversary Wednesday 11 January 2012 truthout by: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Report Detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay launched a hunger strike today marking the prison’s 10th anniversary, inspired in part by U.S. activists who have called for a national day of action. More
Arrests at White House Over NDAA Military Detention of Americans, Occupy Wall Street Joins Fight By Ralph Lopez (about the author) January 2, 2012 OpEdNews Buried by the television news media but visible on Youtube, at least three days in a row of protests over NDAA law allowing indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge More
What REALLY Happened at Zuccotti Park on New Years When We Re-Occupied and Re-Energized OWS By Bill Perry (about the author) January 2, 2012 opednews.com The November Hosni Bloomberg Scorched Earth attack on Occupy Wall Street proved that “YOU CAN’T EVICT AN IDEA.” While Mayor Bloomberg & Lady Gaga smootch at the Times Square BALL More
David Cobb - 'Citizens united' Doesn't Fly in Big Sky State [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5CuvMNFnsc&w=420&h=315] Thom Hartmann talks with David Cobb, Spokesperson-Move to Amend / Attorney / National Projects Director-Democracy Unlimited, about Montana's Supreme Court issuing a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to More
