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Almost from the day he moved to Atlanta in 1968, the always dapper Lowery was one of the city’s key social, religious and civil rights figures.
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Rosa Parks: the real story | Morning Star
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When the people lead, leaders follow — lessons from the fight to impeach and remove Trump | Waging Nonviolence
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We’re grateful for Bishop Thomas Gumbleton’s call to end complicity with war | VCNV
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Grassroots Peacebuilding and Reconciliation | FOR Peace Presence
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Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security | WIRED
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Veterans For Peace endorses #PeopleOverPentagon | VFP
Environment
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Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan | The New York Times
Dominique Palmer, 20, a Fridays for Future organizer in Britain, acknowledged the challenges of protesting online.
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Wells Fargo joins megabank peers in announcing it’s ending Arctic oil investment | ADN
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End Of The Status Quo | New Haven Independent
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Over 570 Groups Endorse Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Fracking Ban Bills | Food & Water Watch
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Is the coronavirus epidemic China’s ‘Chernobyl moment’? | Global Voices
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Nuclear power and harm to animals | Beyond Nuclear International
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War Is an Enormous Threat to the Climate Movement | In These Times
Columnists
Out of the Coronavirus Crisis Can Come Efficient Historic Changes for Justice | Ralph Nader
Many of us have heard that the Chinese character for “crisis” is also the character for “opportunity.”
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Making the Pandemic Worse | Kathy Kelly via Progressive.org
By punishing vulnerable people, Trump's policy of "maximum pressure" is undermining efforts to fight COVID-19.
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Curfews and (existential) questions | Mazin Qumsiyeh
Our health and the health of the planet are at stake. This is yet another stark reminder.
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A phone call from Mexico | Melinda Tuhus
Immigration is as much a fundamental a part of what makes us U.S. Americans as was the enslavement of Africans and genocide against the indigenous first peoples.
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Twitter Removes posts by Brazil’s Bolsonaro in crackdown on information that ‘may increase risk’ of Covid-19 spread | infowars.com
Bolsonaro has become the first ever head of state to have his tweets censored by the platform.
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Escalating Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela During Pandemic a ‘Crime Against Humanity’ | Accuracy.Org
U.S. Adds Iran Sanctions, Indicts Venezuela President as Countries Fight Coronavirus.
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FOR’s coronavirus prayer petition | Fellowship of Reconciliation
In this unique moment, FOR offers up the best alternative we know to encourage hope and solidarity…prayer.
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Postcard from Milan: Life in Italy’s Lockdown | Human Rights Watch
I’ll be staying at home as much as possible, keeping my distance when I go grocery shopping, washing my hands a lot. And hanging out on Skype with friends who live around the corner.
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Promoting Enduring Peace Annual Meeting on Zoom 1 p.m. Saturday March 28
The Promoting Enduring Peace Annual Meeting is scheduled to take place online only via Zoom video conference beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday March 28. Stay tunes to this post for connection details
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Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington June 2020 | Poor People’s Campaign
A National Call for Moral Revival .... Click for more information.
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Building Pathways to a People’s Economy Free Virtual Conference | PeoplesHub
Hear how communities across the country can use policy as a tool for advancing solidarity economies
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Perspectives on the Environmental Movement on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Feb. 19 | peacenews.org
Speaker: Frances Beinecke, YC ’71, F&ES ’74, President Emerita of the Natural Resources Defense Council
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Letting the Pentagon Loose With Your Tax Dollars | TomDispatch
... When you also include war and security costs buried in the budgets of other agencies, the actual proposed new Pentagon budget comes in at more than $1.2 trillion ....
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Nuclear Chess: Strategies and Outcomes | Voice of America
Hear Hans Kristensen on "Encounter," where he discusses the status and future of nuclear arms treaties and the implications of deploying new low-yield nuclear warheads.
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Do Young People Care About Nuclear Weapons? | Inkstick
They do. They just have to be activated.
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Visualizations and Verification | armscontrolwonk.com
James Palmer of the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment joins the ACW trio to talk about the importance of 3D modelling and data visualization
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Syria’s Suffering Will Only Be Extended by Further Foreign Intervention | stopwar.org.uk
Chris Nineham: The desperate nine year war in Syria has been inflamed and prolonged by foreign interventions on all sides
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Sanders won’t attend AIPAC conference, accuses it of providing platform for ‘bigotry’ | TheHill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasted the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday in a ...
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Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is a farce with deadly consequences | Jewish Voice for Peace
"This is in no way a peace plan – it’s an apartheid plan. It’s a distraction ploy by two warmongerers who are prioritizing their personal election campaigns over any semblance of statecraft ...." ~ Rabbi Alissa Wise
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‘Artists on the Frontlines’: The Controversy Over a Pro-Palestinian Mural in Santa Fe | Palestine Chronicle
The mural by Navajo artist Remy is part of an increasingly visible counter-narrative to the Zionists’ efforts to ensure that theirs is the only legitimate story.
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Questions and Answers on the New US Landmine Policy | Human Rights Watch
Want to get a better handle on Trump's new landmine policy and why it's such a horrific step backward? Human Rights Watch has got you covered with this great Q&A!
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The DNC May Have Paved The Way For Julian Assange’s Acquittal | Shadowproof
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Yemen: Wartime Abuses Face Global Spotlight | Human Rights Watch
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Hong Kong Bars Human Rights Watch Head | Human Rights Watch
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‘City of Refuge’ series complete | Waging Nonviolence
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Remembering Jamal Khashoggi | Nonviolence International
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PODCAST: Who will Israel deport next? | +972 Magazine
Peace in the Arts
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Review of Joseph Daher’s ‘Syria After the Uprising’ | Dan Fischer and Javier Sethness
From the March-April 2020 issue of News & Letters Editor’s note: This is the print ...
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Coronavirus Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens | irresistible
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‘Artists on the Frontlines’: The Controversy Over a Pro-Palestinian Mural in Santa Fe | Palestine Chronicle
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‘Peace Plan’ a ‘Charade’ as Israeli Military Machine Proceeds | IPA
Latin America
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Twitter Removes posts by Brazil’s Bolsonaro in crackdown on information that ‘may increase risk’ of Covid-19 spread | infowars.com
Bolsonaro has become the first ever head of state to have his tweets censored by the platform.
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The Fall of Evo Morales | The New Yorker
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Grassroots Peacebuilding and Reconciliation | FOR Peace Presence
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You’ve heard about the violence in Chile. You probably haven’t heard their military learns its tactics in Israel | The Independent
Economy
Letting the Pentagon Loose With Your Tax Dollars | TomDispatch
... When you also include war and security costs buried in the budgets of other agencies, the actual proposed new Pentagon budget comes in at more than $1.2 trillion ....
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Top DNC Committee Is Packed With Fossil Fuel and Bank Lobbyists | Truthout
Despite the pivotal role the DNC is likely to play in selecting who runs against President Trump, there is little public knowledge of who runs the party and who the superdelegates are.
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Building Pathways to a People’s Economy Free Virtual Conference | PeoplesHub
Hear how communities across the country can use policy as a tool for advancing solidarity economies
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Trump administration still angling toward Yucca Mountain, Energy exec says | Beyond Nuclear
From pro-Yucca dump, to anti-Yucca dump, to pro-Yucca dump -- what a difference six days can make, in Trumpland!
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Luanda Leaks | ICIJ
How Africa's richest woman exploited family ties, shell companies and inside deals to build an empire Isabel dos Santos made a fortune at the expense of the Angolan people.
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Prospects for revolution in Africa’s 55 countries | Waging Nonviolence
An overview of the current political situation in 55 African countries shows that many movements are making gains in the struggle against authoritarianism.
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Dispatches from a world in turmoil | Nature
Writing from Syria, Bolivia, Sudan, Iran, Chile, Egypt, Ecuador, Lebanon, Venezuela, Hong Kong and Catalonia, correspondents tell of altered priorities, day-to-day challenges and hope in the dark times.
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Is DR Congo on the brink? | Al Jazeera
More than 80 people have been killed in recent weeks in continuing attacks by rebel groups in the northeast.
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Review of Joseph Daher’s ‘Syria After the Uprising’ | Dan Fischer and Javier Sethness
From the March-April 2020 issue of News & Letters Editor’s note: This is the print ...
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Syria’s Detainees Left Even More Vulnerable to Coronavirus | HRW
“If you took pictures of the detainees now, you would see people who looked like those that are in the Caesar photographs, only they would be alive … The ones who died are the lucky ones.” ~ former detainee
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Love in the time of coronavirus | Campaign Nonviolence
Now more than ever nonviolent energy is urgently required to respond to the world of hurt that the COVID-19 tsunami is leaving in its wake. ~ Ken Butigan
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Is the coronavirus epidemic China’s ‘Chernobyl moment’? | Global Voices
What could possibly link the Chinese city of Wuhan to Chernobyl, the site of one ...
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