Vox Populi

A curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature with over 20,000 daily subscribers and over 8,000 archived posts.

Elena Novak: 50 years after the Vietnam War, the legacy of nonviolent resistance lives on

At the 50th anniversary celebration of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, U.S. antiwar activists drew lessons for stopping the war on Gaza. 

June 22, 2025 · 2 Comments

Madison Bannon: This activist group chat has been blocking a weapons shipment to Israel for weeks

There is an African proverb: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.

November 9, 2024 · 4 Comments

Jeff Cohen: Fired by MSNBC for Giving Voice to Iraq War Opposition, Phil Donahue (1935-2024) Was Courage Personified

The TV show host, who died Sunday at the age of 88, made his mark on our society. He fought for the underdog with style and grace and a sense of humor.

August 21, 2024 · 7 Comments

Michael Simms: Blowtorch Bob And Other Particulars Of My Politics

In 1970 I went to my first anti-war demonstration. I was sixteen and my cousin Michael Ashie (People introduced us as “This is my friend Michael and this is his … Continue reading

June 15, 2024 · 20 Comments

Mark Rudd: Columbia students are sick at heart — just as we were in ‘68

What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime?

May 8, 2024 · 7 Comments

Michael Simms: A note to our readers concerning Vox Populi’s coverage of the war on Gaza

I’ve received a number of complaints that Vox Populi’s coverage of the current conflict in Gaza is one-sided, and I have to admit it is true.

May 1, 2024 · 64 Comments

Ann Wright: Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others

In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire.

March 1, 2024 · 5 Comments

Nan Levinson: Is There a World Beyond War?

Women have been at the forefront of peace actions since Lysistrata organized the women of ancient Greece to deny men sex until they ended the Peloponnesian War.

January 20, 2023 · Leave a comment

Chris Hedges: Writing on War

And Living in a World from Hell

October 26, 2022 · 4 Comments

Khury Petersen-Smith: Binary thinking on Russia’s war on Ukraine is a losing strategy

We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.

April 11, 2022 · Leave a comment

Jessica Corbett: Over 1,000 Russians Arrested for Protesting Putin’s Ukraine Invasion

“This is an unprecedented atrocity, for which there is no and cannot be any justification,” said nearly 200 officials from cities across Russia.

February 25, 2022 · 10 Comments

Frida Berrigan: ‘I Ain’t Marching Anymore’ chronicles 260 years of war resistance and conscientious objection

From the American Revolution through the Global War on Terror, author Chris Lombardi tells the inspiring stories of people who refused to kill.

January 29, 2021 · 1 Comment

Archives