Volume: 25
Number: 4
Pilgrimage for Truth and Justice in North Carolina In late July, Jason Hurd of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and I had been on the road together for meetings with IVAW members and supporters in Fayetteville, N.C., and at Camp Lejeune, trying to do a little legwork for the IVAW Base Tour that was…
Protesters Crash USS Intrepid Homecoming While hundreds gathered to welcome the return of the USS Intrepid to its Manhattan pier on October 2, more than a dozen peace activists carried banners and leafleted along the waterfront to protest what one demonstrator called “an obscene monument to war.” The Intrepid, which deployed during World War II…
The War Resisters League recently conducted a Listening Process, asking 90 grassroots organizers from across the county to reflect on the state of antiwar organizing in the United States. The spring/summer issue of WIN was a special issue featuring their reflections and insights. Readers reacted via mail, email and on weblogs. Here’s what some…
What Does a Protester Look Like? Protest the War By Judith Joy Ross Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery 2007, 52 pages, $5.00 That’s the question that a new book by photographer Judith Joy Ross seeks to answer. Protest the War offers a series of portraits of nonviolent activists in eastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton…
with help from Melodie Younce Growing Up With Ani Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year Righteous Babe Records 2008, $16.98 One of the effects of having an enormous influence on a culture is that people will forever associate you with that moment in time. For those who came of age during the radical feminism of the…
Destination: Revolution Radical Passions: A Memoir of Revolution and Healing By Kendall Hale iUniverse, Inc., 2008, 229 pages, $18.95 In 1968, Kendall Hale watched the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on TV from her family’s living room in Indiana. Her reaction was one of anger as she paced the floor, railing against a government that…
A Radical Reference Manual Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners Edited by Matt Meyer PM Press, 2008, 912 pages, $37.95 In October, activist and (disbarred) attorney Lynne Stewart, who writes the afterword in Let Freedom Ring, spoke at the National Lawyers Guild’s annual convention in Detroit….
Voices from All Sides We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now Edited by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Basic Books, 1008, 368 pages. $16.95 In this compilation, the two editors have crossed the left-right chasm in our political and cultural landscape to compile voices from…
Life After Graduation It’s My Life!: A Guide to Alternatives After High School Edited by Janine Schwab American Friends Service Committee, 2008, 89 pages, $9.95 This book delivers post-high school jobs and internships you wished you knew about before you graduated, dropped out, or got kicked out of high school. Compiled and written by the…
On July 11, 1995, the Republika Srpska Army, or Bosnian Serb Army, massacred several thousand Bosnian men and boys in Bosnia and Herzegovina in an act that was later ruled to be genocide. Each year since then, members of Women in Black-Belgrade travel to Srebrenica on July 10 to commemorate the massacre and call for…
by Terry Rockefeller and Valerie Lucznikowska Please, spread the message: there is not only violence in Iraq, there is something more; people are building peace and seeking real change. .. Today La’Onf exists within the polarized and dangerous political environment of Iraq where if you speak about resistance you are accused of supporting terrorists…
Change is Gonna Come — From Us During his early October visit to the War Resisters League office, former War Resisters’ International chair Narayan Desai commented on the campaigns of then-presidential candidates. Both were advocating change, he said, but change was not what either wanted. Certainly, when it comes to the current wars in Iraq…
For over two decades, campaigners around the world worked for the freedom of a man who has come to symbolize human rights. At many times the struggle to free Nelson Mandela and all the people of South Africa seemed bleak. South Africans faced an unyielding apartheid government, while international campaigners dealt with intransigent governments that…
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