Luke Wilcox: Report from Iraq Luke Wilcox is Development and Communications Director with the Iraq American Reconciliation Project (IARP). For the last 5 weeks, I’ve lived and worked with the Muslim Peacemaker Teams and my host, Sami Rasouli. Tomorrow I fly back to Minneapolis. It has been an eye-opening and life-changing experience. The many Iraqis More
Why Women Need to Be Part of the Peace Process by Theresa de Langis Originally published on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Waging Nonviolence. From CommonDreams.org What is wrong with this picture? After all, it looks like a typical photo of world leaders making decisions for their countries. That is precisely the problem. What’s wrong is the More
Our Afghan War: Immoral, Ilegal, Ineffective... and It Costs Too Much by Leah Bolger Published on Monday, July 4, 2011 CommonDreams.org The Afghanistan War. War itself is inherently immoral, but especially so when the fight is not between two state-sponsored militaries, but rather between a military superpower and a third-world country with 70% of More
People and Power: The Indignants Why Spain's young people took to the streets in protest at the economic crisis gripping their country. [And were joined by Spanish citizens of all ages and backgrounds.] Posted on english.aljazeera.net Demonstrations, marches, rallies. For months now hundreds of thousands of Europeans have been expressing their anger at government imposed austerity measures. Recently More
Immigration Reform: Just a Dream? by Rose Grengs WAMM Newsletter June 2011 Every first Sunday of the month a group of supporters, sponsored by the Interfaith Coalition on Immigration, gather in front of the Ramsey County Detention Center, just east of downtown St. Paul, to hold a vigil of support for the detained immigrants inside. More
Obama: Three More Years of War in Afghanistan By Matthew Rothschild, June 23, 2011 The Progressive Obama’s speech last night guaranteed three more years of war in Afghanistan. And his rhetoric was hideous . . . Our war president promised more war. While he trumpeted his big Afghanistan speech as the first step in ending More
On “Humanitarian” Military Intervention by Anne Winkler-Morey WAMM Newsletter June 2011 Based on a speech given May 4, 2011, at a forum sponsored by May Day Bookstore at the University of Minnesota. Elites who benefit from war don’t fight them, and those men and women who do, would never pick up a gun to protect More
US Routinely Violates Human Rights, Constitutional Guarantees of Undocumented Workers Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 06/17/2011 - 1:52pm. VALERIE BURCH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT truthout.org Mohammed Uddin lived in New York City for 15 out of his 41 years. Back in Bangladesh, he wouldn't be able to get the life-sustaining heart medication he takes More
AIPAC Pushes Hard for War With Iran Posted By Grant Smith On June 14, 2011 Antiwar.com Former AIPAC staffer Keith Weissman, indicted in 2005 under the Espionage Act alongside colleague Steven J. Rosen and Defense Department employee Col. Lawrence Franklin, is desperately worried. In a lengthy, rambling monologue delivered to independent reporter Robert Dreyfuss, Weissman breaks a long silence to declare he’s More
MESSAGE FROM KOJI YUKI ─ AINU NATION OF JAPAN The Ainu are the Indigenous People of Japan. In 2004, over 6000 Japanese participated in World Peace and Prayer Day at Mt Fugi. One of our staff Misa sent us this message from the Ainu, we feel the world needs to know their thoughts of what is happening More
Rise Up To The Occasion… It Could Very Well Have Been You! by Sibel Edmonds Boiling Frogs Thursday, 16. June 2011 Every Single Person, Every Voice & Every Signature Counts Have you ever pulled over your car on a highway shoulder to be a Good Samaritan and help a driver of a broken car desperately More
Kathy Kelly Huffington Post Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence Don't Look Away -- The Siege of Gaza Must End Posted: 06/16/11 07:58 PM ET In late June 2011, I'm going to be a passenger on "The Audacity of Hope," the USA boat in this summer's international flotilla to break the illegal and deadly Israeli More
