There will be an organizing meeting next Monday, May 21 to begin working out the details of the Dixwell Peace Monument project. We will be meeting 4:30-5:30 pm at the Stetson Library on Dixwell Avenue. BACKGROUND: For International Day of Peace in September 2012 the City of New Haven Peace Commission will be installing a Peace [...]
Catholic Workers and friends gathered yesterday morning at the Prudential Building in Chicago — home to President Obama’s campaign headquarters — to say “No to NATO; Yes to Community.” “We are here today,” said Chantal de Alacuaz from Chicago, “to boldly proclaim our desire to live in a world where we say no to NATO [...]
Greg Broseus joined the Ohio National Guard in 2002 to help pay for college. He wound up spending all of 2005 in Iraq as a gunner on a convoy whose mission was to search for roadside bombs. For his service, he received 11 medals. But now he wants to give them all back. On Sunday, [...]
The summit meeting of NATO leaders next Friday in Chicago will be met with a counter summit and demonstrations. NATO projects the Pentagon’s power. European militaries buy made-in-the-USA weapons. The city of Chicago is working overtime to keep protesters and their message out. Canceling march permits and threatening police violence. Why does Rahm Emanuel act like [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C.: May 8, 2012, Washington, D.C., Summit on Military Sexual Violence http://truthandjusticesummit.org May 11, 2012, Kids Sue Government for Warming the Globe: Pack the Court http://www.facebook.com/events/202436433204186 May 19, 2012, David Swanson speaking in Rockville, Md., with Peace Action Montgomery http://peaceactionmc.org CHICAGO: May 12-13, People’s Summit http://peoplessummitchicago.org May 17-19, Voices for Creative Nonviolence events and reunion. http://vcnv.org [...]
Most people in the U.S. view NATO as a European military force to which the Pentagon is somehow attached. Few recognize that to the contrary, NATO is a U.S. creation in order to extend the power and reach of the Pentagon and U.S. foreign policy on behalf of the 1%. The invasions of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan [...]
“Crisis in the Congo” Don’t miss this excellent video that takes us from King Leopold’s private colony in 1885 to the wars to buy minerals for our electronic devices on the cheap. These wars leave communities in a shambles and women in particular violated, tortured and disfigured. Mireille Tushiminina from the Shalupe Foundation will lead [...]
Yesterday, a very important press conference was held in Chicago. At the press conference, Jesse Jackson gave his support to the May 20th demonstration and urged people to attend. Also attending the press conference were leaders of the National Nurses United union, the C hicago Teacher’s Union, Occupy Chicago, and the Iraq Veterans Against the [...]
The United Methodist Church is holding its General Conference in Tampa. One of the most important, and unfortunately controversial, resolutions to be taken up is the Palestinians’ request for the world community to help them end the 44-year Israeli occupation. We, a Jewish American, a Palestinian Muslim and a Palestinian Christian, support the Palestinians in [...]
NEW HAVEN, CONN. MARCH 30, 2012 – Promoting Enduring Peace (PEP) will hold its annual Gandhi Peace Award Ceremony beginning at 5:30 p.m Thursday, May 3, 2012, at the United Church on the Green, 323 Temple St., New Haven. 2012 Gandhi Peace Award recipient Amy Goodman will be available to sign her latest book [...]