Conversations are a crucial component of WRL work, conversations about specific nonviolent strategies, about how racism and sexism affect our decisions (sometimes when we don’t realize it), even lively discussions about brewing beer or whether the anarchists or the socialists will win a WRL softball game. So it seemed singularly appropriate for the WRL anniversary…
Ordinary People The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI Knopf Doubleday, 2014 by Betty Medsger Reviewed by Rosalie G. Riegle Read this book! Nothing any review can say will substitute for the stunning accumulation of evidence of our government’s surveillance presented in Betty Medsger’s The Burglary. Read and then ask the questions…
Even as a kid, Shawn Peters was fascinated by the story of the Catonsville Nine, the first group of resisters to burn draft files during the Vietnam War. Growing up in Catonsville and schooled by conservative nuns who denounced the group, he learned how they awaited arrest for their action and used their trial…
“The protesters are coming! Watch out for ‘outside agitators!’” One reads it almost daily here in the Windy City. For months, everyone thought both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the G8 would convene in Chicago’s cavernous McCormick Place in May, bringing heads of state and thousands of other world leaders and their…
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