Medea Benjamin: Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist
An interview with peace activist Kathy Kelly On January 23, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, begins a three-month … Continue reading
Martin Luther King: The Key
Originally posted on Great Middle Way:
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. … I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This…
Adam Hochschild: Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers
Celebrating War Over and Over and Peace Once Go to war and every politician will thank you, and they’ll continue to do so — with monuments and statues, war museums … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Anti-Semitism or Anti-War?
Let’s distinguish between sentiment against the actions of the Israeli government and pure anti-Semitism The current wave of anti-Semitism in Western Europe is much more complicated than traditional European hatred … Continue reading
Mel Packer: Is It Time To Be Outlaws Again?
Only large-scale civil disobedience will make our leaders address economic injustice. In 1989, Bob Dylan recorded a song titled “Everything Is Broken”. That song seemed to go largely ignored, perhaps … Continue reading
Jill Jacobs: The Case for Radical Empathy.
Today, we suffer through increasingly vitriolic language from both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian partisans, and — even more frighteningly — violent protests in Europe, Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories and even the … Continue reading
Mel Packer: Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy
Now, some might say, “Radical?, King was no radical!” And, in fact, the image all too often projected in our children’s classrooms and in the mass media on MLK Day … Continue reading →