Roger Waters: Full Speech at the UN Security Council
The time has come to speak truth to power. We demand change.
Medea Benjamin: 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put “ending war” at the top of the “must do” list.
Chris Hedges: Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism
The once unthinkable is now thinkable, such as formally annexing large sections of the West Bank, including “Area C” where up to 300,000 Palestinians live.
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, Summary of Posts, November 12, 2022
The midterm election is over, but still the federal House and Senate results are not decided. Remains to be seen. The issues, however, still stand and will loom large in the presidential campaign going forward. Many are discussed here. Share Tweet Forward DONATE TODAY Media for Justice and Peace New Posts for November 12, More
Palestine/Israel and the U.S.: Updates and the Death by Sniper of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Divestment News, Journalist Shireen Abu Aklleh, BDS Divestment Action in Minnesota, and more... Palestine/Israel and the U.S.: Updates by Lucia Wilkes Smith, WAMM Middle East Committee Volume 40 Number 4 Women Against Military Madness Summer II 2022 The Pillsbury Boycott Is Suspended There is some good news!In June the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) announced More
Chris Hedges: War with Iran
The corpses of civilians, including children, piled up by Israel and Saudi Arabia, who do much of their killing in Gaza and Yemen with U.S. weapons, don’t come close to the hundreds of thousands of dead we have left behind in the two decades of warfare we have perpetrated in the Middle East.
Chris Hedges: Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
“Whenever I come out with a book, or anything that will take me before the public, the world, I am assailed as this person I don’t recognize,” she said when I reached her by phone. “If I tried to keep track of all the attacks over the decades, I wouldn’t be able to keep working. I am happy people are standing up. It is all of us. Not just me. They are trying to shut us down, shut us up, erase us. That reality is what is important.”
Not So Much ICE, Boycott Pillsbury, Climate Crisis and Militarism, WAMM Newsletter
Boycott Pillsbury! WAMM Newsletter Volume 39 Number 5 Fall II 2021 Minnesota-based General Mills owns Pillsbury, which operates a factory illegally within an Israeli settlement on militarily-occupied Palestinian land. According to the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights, this places General Mills in violation of international law: UN Security Council Resolution 2334. A “boycott” is More
Coleen Rowley: What are the Prospects for Peace?
"The U.S. always portrays itself as the greatest force on the planet for peace, justice, human rights, racial equality, etc. Polls tell us that most other nations actually regard the U.S. as the greatest threat to stability. What in your view is the truth here?"
Peacestock Plaza: Northfielders for Justice in Palestine
Founded in 2007,, this citizen activist group in Minnesota educates and acts around the Palestine/Israel occupation issues,
GOD GIVEN LAND: Israel and the Americas, by Susu Jeffrey
"It is Difficult to Argue with God"
Women Against Military Madness Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic
"Now more than ever we recognize our solidaruty with people at home and around the world." Kristin Dooley, WAMM Director