Crossing Borders
Volume: 26
Number: 3
YOUTHPEACE X For the last ten years, WRL-New England has organized a YouthPeace Experiment, an annual weekend training for high school students in Voluntown, Conn. The name, chosen by the YouthPeace Club at Norwich Free Academy, comes from a quote by Gandhi: “Those who are attracted to nonviolence should, according to their ability and opportunity,…
Building Bridges Across Borders Fences mark private property—backyards, farms, and gated communities. Fences inhibit freedom of movement. They encircle prisons, concentration camps, and military compounds. They separate people into “us” and “them,” forcing distinctions and emphasizing differences. There is a fence on the cover of this issue. People have died crossing this fence, memorialized with…
Global Resistance Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society Edited by Özgür Heval Çınar and Coşkun Üsterci Zed Books, 2009, 268 pages, $35.95 In January 2007, an international conference on conscientious objection was held at Istanbul Bilgi University. More than 300 people participated during the two days of the conference, and special attention was paid to the…
Voices from Oaxaca Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca Edited by Diana Denham and the C.A.S.A. Collective PM Press, 2008, 384 pages, $21.99 Women take to the streets with pots and pans to occupy the state-run radio station, men throw rocks in defense against police gunshots, and youth create their own community…
In 1972, a ship loaded with military supplies was bound for South Vietnam. But first it would stop at Leonardo, New Jersey, to take on more supplies. At Leonardo, canoes were tied together and temporarily prevented the ship from coming into port. When it did dock, people sat down on the train tracks that…
In Jayne Anne Phillips’ Lark and Termite, the skies over Korea in 1950 are described in this way: “The planes always come … like planets on rotation. A timed bloodletting, with different excuses.” The most recent plane to attack the Pakistani village of Khaisor (according to a Waziristan resident who asked me to withhold his…
During the Vietnam War, the 20 or so G.I. projects, which operated outside every important Army and Marine base, played an essential role in fomenting antiwar opposition among rank-and-file soldiers. This movement, along with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, arguably forced the United States to withdraw from Vietnam. As the recent military invasions of…
In one of the improvised poor neighborhoods that cling to the bare mountain slopes on the edge of Medellín, Colombia’s second largest city, the paramilitary was preparing to forcibly recruit a local youth named Alberto. Most people can’t imagine resisting such a demand. But Alberto said no, he was not interested, so the paramilitary threatened…
At 6:30 a.m. on May 20, agents from the U.S. Border Patrol and the Transportation Safety Administration descended on a trolley station near downtown San Diego. After questioning commuters about their U.S. residency status—allegedly because they were behaving suspiciously—agents detained 21 individuals, three of whom were teenagers on their way to their high school. Later…
Recently, the Donald Wyatt Center in Rhode Island lost its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house 153 immigrant prisoners after the horrific death of a detainee. Center representatives publicly bemoaned the loss of $100,000 per week and quickly began looking for a way to get more prisoners. The chairman of the…
ARMY ANTIDOTE Bryan Farrell’s article makes good points in the debate on the War Department’s bogus claim to being green. Our community has five military bases divided among the Army and Air Force. The Pentagon’s local green campaign has been in high gear for at least five years. It has had great success in “green…
In 2006, Senator Barack Obama voted for the Secure Fence Act, which mandated build a bigger wall with more police along the U.S.-Mexico border. It authorized nearly $3 billion for 670 miles of fencing stretching from California to Texas. Despite the efforts of environmentalists and other activists, more than 600 miles of walls, fences, and…
Quinto Mandamiento, es organización de jóvenes objetores y objetoras de conciencia, no violentos y antimilitaristas; que trabaja en los temas Objeción por Conciencia, Antimilitarismo, Derechos Humanos y el empoderamiento de los y las jóvenes como actores de transformación por medio de la No violencia activa como forma de lucha en pro de una sociedad más…
Translated by Christian Peacemaker Teams Colombia The Magdalena Medio is a region in northwest Colombia that contains the city of Barrancabermeja. The Fifth Commandment Youth Collective is an organization of young conscientious objectors, nonviolent activists, and antimilitarists in Barrancabermeja. It struggles for a more inclusive, just, and equal society. Its seeks alternatives to forced recruitment…
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