Rising Up
Cover art by Carlos Latuff
Volume: 28
Number: 2
WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast Reprinted from WRL Blog, Posted on March 12, 2011 From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance,…
Defending ‘Grace’ In response to the persnickety review of our documentary Grace by Judith Mahoney Pasternak (WIN, fall 2010), I leave her to her opinions, but want to correct some of her inaccuracies. First, a documentary can certainly be a tribute to someone—many, many have been. And, in turn, a tribute can be in the…
It’s been quite a spring. Some say it started in December 2010 with the self-sacrifice of Tunisian street vendor Muhammad Bouazzizi. Many have said it started long before that, with the years of multigenerational organizing, grassroots movement building, and worker strikes. But if we are to understand the sweep of pro-democracy demonstrations from Tunisia to…
From the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions By Hassan Jum’a Awad al-Asadi To: The US Labor Movement Subject: Solidarity In the name of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions representing 26,000 workers and 10 unions in the oil sector . . . It is with great sadness that we learn that workers in Education (teachers)…
U.S. Solidarity with Iran As members of a feminist collective founded in part to support the massive post-election protests in Iran in 2009 while opposing all forms of U.S. intervention, we take this opportunity to reflect on the meaning and practice of transnational solidarity between U.S.-based activists and sections of Iranian society. Both protests…
Following Egypt’s historic uprising and the people’s successful removal of President Hosni Mubarak, WagingNonViolence.org conducted interviews with several peacemakers around the world. Following is a sample of their comments. WNV: What first came into your mind when you saw the announcement that Mubarak had stepped down? Egypt’s public squares were filled by people who faced…
The TIAA-CREF Divestment Campaign In the early 1790s, English abolitionists began to boycott “slave sugar,” sugar that had been produced by African slaves. Sales of slave sugar were cut in half, and sales of sugar that had been produced by “freemen” increased 10 times. This and many other tactics eventually ended the English slave trade….
From the Grassroots to the Capitol The first time I walked into the occupied Wisconsin State Capitol building, I was moved to tears. People, noise, and positive energy were everywhere. In the center of the rotunda, several drummers pounded on everything from bass drums to plastic buckets. Every so often the crowd would break into…
Satirizing Our “Post-Racial” Society Obamistan! Land Without Racism: Your Guide to the New America By damali ayo Lawrence Hill Books, 2010, 208 pages, $14.95 “Racism is over!” was the only cry echoed on November 4, 2008, when the first black president was elected, in damali ayo’s new provocative satire. ayo, author of the infamous book How…
McReynolds, Deming Biography Celebrated It was standing room only at the annual Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence April 26. Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village was packed at the forum and book party for A Saving Remnant, Martin Duberman’s new dual biography of two important pacifist (and WRL) figures, David McReynolds and the late Barbara Deming….
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…
In the wee hours of March 18, I was glued to Al Jazeera Arabic, transfixed as bloodied body after bloodied body was carried into a masjid, or small mosque, set up as a hospital near Sana’a University in Yemen. The footage was harrowing—images of demonstrators with bullet wounds to the head from snipers surrounding the…
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