Movement Building Across Generations
Volume: 23
Number: 3
WANTED: Name: Alliant Techsystems Corporate Headquarters: Edina, Minnesota Primary Products/Services: Bullets, artillery, cluster and depleted uranium munitions, mine systems CEO: Dan Murphy Total 2006 Sales: $3.1 Billion Campaign Contributions: $175,360 (2002 – 2006) BULLETS: A CONSUMABLE PRODUCT The “Long War” needs lots of bullets. With the United States fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and training…
Protesters delay weapons shipment to Iraq More than three dozen antiwar activists in Olympia, WA were arrested during a weeklong protest over the shipment of military equipment to Iraq through the port of Olympia. The military cargo shipped out on June 1 as close to 100 protesters staged a “die-in” and chanted, “Stop that boat!”…
Remembering the Ladies Who Got Women the Vote Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement Robert P.J. Cooney Jr. 2005, American Graphic Press in collaboration with the American Women’s History Project; 479 pages, 960 illus.; $85, hardcover Remember the ladies,” wrote Abigail Adams in 1776 to her husband, the revolutionary leader…
GIs Just Say No Sir! No Sir! Directed by David Zeiger 2006, Displaced Films Running time: 84 minutes. One of the greatest achievements of the anti-Vietnam War movement was the creation of a GI coffeehouse and counseling network. The first coffeehouse opened outside Ft. Jackson, SC, in late 1967, two-and-a-half years after U.S. troops were…
Not To Be Dismissed Dorothy Day: Don’t Call Me a Saint Directed by Claudia Larson 2006, One Lucky Dog Productions Running Time: 57 minutes his thoughtful labor of love was written, directed, and produced by Claudia Larson (a first-time filmmaker) and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in April. Running at…
American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea By Ira Chernus 2004, Orbis Books; 234 pages. $20.00, paperback Ira Chernus, a professor of religious studies, has written American Nonviolence primarily from the religious perspective. While he includes material on the secular basis for nonviolence, most of his study involves individuals and groups who based their…
Revolutionary Nonviolence and the Critiquing of David Dellinger David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary By Andrew E. Hunt 2006, New York University Press; 346 pages. $34.95, hardcover As catchphrases go, “revolutionary nonviolence” has not exactly caught the imagination of many activists. Full of rhetoric and apparently contradictory meanings, those two words…
The Future Is Now Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out Edited by Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow. 2005, Nation Books; 256 pages. $14.95, paperback You’d better listen up. And quick,” write Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow in their editors’ introduction to Letters from Young Activists. Many readers-especially those…
International COs Build Lasting Alliances A room full of international conscientious objectors and antiwar activists listened intently at the Church of Brethen in Washington, DC, as Xavier León Vega told his story of conscientious objection to military service in Ecuador. Since 1999, when he declared himself a CO, León Vega has been engaged a legal…
You may wonder why 16 Americans, one German and a Puerto Rican set off for ten days in Iran at a time of increasing international hostility toward the country. Rather than a deterrent, this mounting aggression was the impetus for a delegation to the country last December, organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)….
As preparations for war against Iraq intensified in the fall of 2002, neo-conservatives in Washington were fond of remarking that “the road to Tehran runs through Baghdad.” The toppling of Saddam Hussein was to be the first step in remaking the map of the Middle East through military force. Syria and Iran were on…
Interviews with activists Joanne Sheehan, Hannah El-Silimy, Ashanti Alston, Ije Ude, and Ralph DiGia With the United States’ rich histories of struggle and the volumes of analysis written on them from multiple perspectives of politics and identity, there is an alarming lack of writing and dialogue around ageism in the movement, particularly as it relates…
WIN Through Revolutionary Nonviolence Welcome to WIN. This is the first issue of the War Resisters League’s newest expression of our oldest practice: nonviolence. Although this latest incarnation is new, WIN magazine is not. The Workshop in Nonviolence (WIN), a direct action group in New York City and an affiliate of the Committee for Nonviolent…
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