Grow Food
Volume: 28
Number: 3
On May 5, Field Organizer Ali Issa gave a brief presentation to about 50 people at the American Friends Service Committee Friend’s Center in Philadelphia entitled “Iraq’s Tahrir Square” about the pro-democracy movement there. Ali also got the chance to connect with delegates that had recently visited Afghanistan with Voices for Creative Nonviolence and…
Summer 2011 WRL Celebrates Release of Two Antimilitarist Resources On June 28, WRL and the Ya-Ya Network, a youth-led antimilitarist organization based in New York City, launched a new counter-recruitment leaflet, “Know Before You Go: ‘Cause There’s No Reset Button.” Written by youth organizers for people doing counter- military recruitment work, “Know Before You Go”…
A Chapter Ends…the Story Goes On “My relationship with the WRL Peace Calendar began over the 1968 Thanksgiving weekend when volunteers sat around a table stuffing the just-off-the-presses spiral-bound datebooks into envelopes,” writes former staffer Wendy Schwartz in her afterword for WRL’s 2012 Peace Calendar, Organize This! “Ralph DiGia, the most effective motivator of volunteers…
When job and educational opportunities are limited or financially out of reach, how can truth-in-recruiting activists sensitively guide youth to those alternatives to military enlistment that will be fulfilling to them and contribute to a better world? Endless wars drain economic resources that could provide education, jobs, health care, housing, and other services. Antiwar activists…
The Flavor of Freedom…and War Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War By Annia Ciezadlo Free Press, 2011, 400 pages, $26 Annia Ciezadlo is a self-described “Polish-Greek-Scotch- Irish mutt from working-class Chicago…who curses like a sailor.” She says she will “eat anything, from tongue to tripe to grilled lamb testicles…a delicacy in…
Resistance Community Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society By Andrew Cornell AK Press, 2011, 200 pages, $12 In the early 1990s, my comrade Melissa and I visited our first War Resisters League National Committee meeting. As young pacifists and anarchist communists, we felt isolated in the wider anarchist movement. WRL drew…
Gulliver’s Travels and “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift A mural on the side of a toy shop in Bremen, Germany, depicts Gulliver in Liliput. Javier Carro. The rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man’s labor, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former; … the bulk of…
Photo: Joanne Sheehan The YouthPeace Club put on its 13th annual YouthPeace Experiment April 29 through May 1 in Norwich, CT. YouthPeace is a Norwich Free Academy after-school group of youth who don’t accept war, racism, sexism, homophobia, or exploitation as facts of life. We work for nonviolent resolution of all conflicts from personal…
Photo: SORPATOMNews The town of Merauke in West Papua, Indonesia, holds a special place in Indonesian national history. The Dutch sent the first generation of Indonesian nationalists to the Tanah Merah prison camp in Merauke, where some of them died and were buried during the colonial period. Merauke’s mythic stature will make the Indonesian government…
Photo by Montana Picard. “This Straw which I hold in my hands, Wild Rice is what we call this. These I do not sell. That you may not destroy the Rice in working the Timber, Also the Rapids and Falls in the Streams I will lend you to saw your timber…. I do not make…
Matt Jones WIN’s notice (WIN, Spring 2011) about the death (and life) of Matt Jones prompts me to pass along a story he told me. I interviewed Matt in 1964 in Los Angeles while he was traveling for SNCC and the Council of Federated Organizations (conducting the Mississippi project of that year). Among the stories…
Hungry? Let’s eat! Yet for much of the world, it’s not that simple. Many people across the globe—and not a few in these United States—live with unsatisfied hunger on a daily basis. A surprising number of them live in countries that are, like our own, rich in resources and even arable land, but in which…
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