Part 2 (continues from previous blog post) …So life went on at The Farm, hosting peace camps, attending public meetings about Pantex, doing lectures about nukes, planting and watering trees, hosting pilgrimages passing through like Pastors for Peace and Bike Aid, following nuclear weapons truck convoys into and out of Pantex as part of a…
I first heard of War Resisters League some time in the mid to late 1980’s as I was getting involved in protesting the Pantex nuclear warhead assembly plant, from whence comes EVERY finished U.S. warhead, located northeast of where I lived: Amarillo, TX……
Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia By Camilo Mejia The New Press, 2007 320 pages, $24.95, hardcover Camilo Mejia was the first of the now numerous and growing list of soldier resisters to the Iraq War to go public. Mejia had served all but four months of an eight-year-term in…
Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace Edited by Rosalie G. Riegle 2013, Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers 402 pages, $44 paperback “I listened to learn from people who have refused to be helpless in the face of a violent world, people who say with their bodies…
Photo: Barfield and Willson during their 1991 trip to Palestine and Iraq. Rejecting “AWOL” Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson By S. Brian Willson PM Press, 2011, 536 pages, $20 On the evening of September 1, 1987, I walked into the living room of the home I shared…
The theory and practice of nonviolent direct action—disrupting the system enough to risk arrest, to challenge war and warmaking—are living, evolving entities. Some frequent arrest-riskers have experienced a growing frustration with the inaccuracy of the still widely used term “civil disobedience” and are using the term “civil resistance” instead. Disobedience means breaking a specific…
Will War Ever End?: A Soldier’s Vision of Peace for the 21st Century By Paul K. Chappell Rvive Books, 2009, 84 pages, $14.95 The End of War: How Waging Peace Can Save Humanity, Our Planet and Our Future By Paul K. Chappell Easton Studio Press, 2010, 176 pages, $12.95 Two short books by West Point…
The Van with the Plan The Green-Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems By Van Jones with Ariane Conrad HarperOne, 2008, 256 pages, $25.99 By Ellen Barfield Van Jones knows how the United States can go from a fossil fuel-guzzling, faltering to failing economy, with incredible numbers of incarcerated and impoverished…
A Call to Conscience Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz Haymarket Books, 2008, 240 pages, $16.00 Heart-rending, shocking and awful, tear-jerking, infuriating, and guilt-inducing, Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan is difficult, even painful, to read. This compilation of some of the testimonies…
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