15 Articles

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Veterans' Group to Members: Multiply Resistance by any Peaceful Means Available
Veterans' group ramps up resistance to wars and calling for increased pressure on President and Congress.

Friday, October 9, 2009
Veterans For Peace Reacts to President Obama Receiving Nobel Peace Prize: "Something is wrong with this picture"
(3 comments) Once you had to helplead one of the most important social movements in U.S. historyor minister to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Now you can promise change and international cooperation while ordering more drone bombings that kill innocent civilians -- and still get a Nobel Peace Prize. There's something wrong with this picture.

Monday, September 28, 2009
Robocops Come to Pittsburgh...and Bring the Latest Weaponry with Them
(4 comments) No longer the stuff of disturbing futuristic fantasies, an arsenal of “crowd control munitions,” including one that reportedly made its debut in the U.S., was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week's G-20 protests.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Strother Martin Nailed It: "You gotta get your mind right!"
(4 comments) In Paul Newman's 1967 classic, "Cool Hand Luke," the prison boss in the white suit, played memorably by Strother Martin, repeatedly tells Luke to "get your mind right." That turned out to be literally a grave warning for Luke, but it's exactly what we need to hear today.

Sunday, June 7, 2009
We Don't Need the General Motors Corporation
(1 comments) Times are anxious indeed, but simultaneously we are face-to-face with an extremely rare chance to replace our transportation system with something we can literally live with. To take advantage of this uncommon opportunity we will have to do something far more profound, yet less costly, than a government bailout or an act of Congress.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Veterans for Peace to President Obama: 'You will find us in the streets'
(7 comments) Veterans for Peace, drawing from experiences beyond "briefing reports," speak out in an open letter to President Obama about the practice of "death from above" in Afghanistan.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I'll Have a "Draught Dodger!"
(1 comments) For the second time in 10 months, Canada's House of Commons told Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government, including Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, to stop deporting U.S. soldiers resisting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
A Few Days in Hyde Park, a Lifetime in The Empire
Standing outside for five days in the Windy City under skies of lead and the thermometer below freezing provides an opportunity to make certain observations. Standing three blocks from the home of the next president of the United States the day he leaves for a new home in Washington, D.C....well you can't help but observe certain things.

Friday, January 2, 2009
Obama's Hometown Kicks Off "Camp Hope"
(2 comments) Sub-freezing temperatures and a brisk wind did not darken the day in Drexel Park for the kick off of Camp Hope, an 18-day vigil just down the street from Barrack Obama's home on Chicago's south side, yesterday. Organized by a coalition of social justice, religious and peace organizations from the Chicago area, Camp Hope's goal is to remind President-elect Obama of the progressive themes he sounded in his campaign.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Camp Hope Holds Obama to "Change" Pledge
(1 comments) Determined to keep President-elect Barack Obama true to his promise of change, peace and economic justice activists kick off an 18-day outdoor vigil January 1, four blocks from the Illinois Senator's home in Chicago. Camp Hope, headquartered in the Windy City's Drexel Square Park, seeks to have Obama swiftly enact eight initiatives on issues he supported during his campaign.

Monday, December 15, 2008
It's not about them...it's about us: Why we must prosecute Bush and his administration for war crimes
(10 comments) During the Nuremberg Tribunals, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson stipulated,"...Let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose it must condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment." Can there be a better reason for prosecuting the Bush administration for war crimes than those words?

Monday, December 8, 2008
With Shot and Shell or "Modular Crowd Control Munitions" - We Must Bend to Empire's Will
(5 comments) The Army Times report of September notes that the First Brigade Combat Team's commander, Col. Roger Cloutier, said his soldiers will learn how to use the first ever package of so-called "nonlethal" weapons the Army has fielded, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and weapons designed to subdue individuals without killing them. Where are these unruly American crowds. What is in the Pentagon and police arsenals?

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Let Us Shed Tears of Gratitude for This Moment of Grace. It Will Be Brief.
Many of us surely will "shed tears of gratitude for this moment of grace," no matter how brief. The best thing [Obama's] campaign and election offers is the way it has inspired millions of people to become active, to expect more, to work hard with many people towards something larger than yourself – in short, to gain a sense of purpose.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
It's Our Turn Now: Resistance as if it Really Mattered
(4 comments) "Of all the people I interviewed for my book, "Inside the Red Zone," the words of one have never left me. In a little farming village 50 miles north of Baghdad, I spoke with a local sheik who described his arrest and detention by the U.S. Army." Author, Mike Ferner, discusses civil disobedience throughout history and reminds us of Howard Zinn's counsel: "Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is obedience."

Sunday, January 14, 2007
A Vet Answers Back
(2 comments) Go to Iraq and see what life is like for people in Iraq and for the soldiers you've sent there. Stay a few days--no quick photo op and back home. Be sure you drink the water. Then go to Walter Reed Army Hospital and visit the ortho ward...THEN come back and say this war is worth one more person's life or health or family. Come back and tell us that if you can. If you can't, get the hell out of here.