Whistle Blower
Volume: 30
Number: 4
WRL: 90 Years to No More Warby Matt Meyer, Photos by Ed Hedemann WRL started calling it a Gala, but the more we worked on it, the more it became a BASH! To conclude our 90th anniversary celebrations, we rented out the penthouse of progressive trade union 1199/SEIU—with a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline…
What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage by Normal Finkelstein Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action by Dennis Dalton Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened Indiaby Gail Omveldt Revolutionary Gandhi by Pannalal Dasgupta Reviewed by Matt Meyer It’s as simple as making social change more effective. Growing global movements are looking beyond their own borders and…
When Martin Luther King, Jr. included the above sentence in his groundbreaking 1967 anti-Vietnam War speech, he provided radical critics of U.S. foreign policy was an eloquent and pithy condemnation of a society that practiced, and continues to practice, a predatory militarism abroad while simultaneously waging a war on the poor and…
How does one connect the struggles of the American Indian Movement, the Puerto Rican Independentistas and the Black Panthers in an anti-imperialist, pro-worker, environmentally-friendly framework? For Nancy Kurshan and her peers at the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), the answer —in 1985—was clear: launch a massive attack on control unit prisons. Out…
With Towards Collective Liberation, veteran activist and writer Chris Crass has filled a number of conspicuous voids in radical literature, seeking to render the aspirations of feminist and antiracist struggle plain, practicable, and their realization imminently possible. Through autobiographical reflections on his early years as an anarchist organizer in San Francisco, a few brief…
For decades, the National Security Agency has sought to remain an elusive operation, working in the shadows of the nation’s growing surveillance apparatus. But recent revelations by whistleblowers are destabilizing its reign as one of the country’s most secretive agencies. For years, whistleblowers from within the American surveillance apparatus have exposed some of the most…
Even small liberal states like Vermont do not escape the influence of war dollars. So when the Air Force proposed stationing their boondoggle F-35 warplanes at Burlington International Airport (BIA), the community became deeply divided with politicians and the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce lined up in favor, and many residents under the flight path…
It’s been awhile. Many of you have been asking after us. We are as deeply apologetic about the delays as we are appreciative of your patience. That said, we are back and incredibly excited. Far from being dated, the issue you’re holding tackles a theme still dominating headlines everywhere: Whisteblowers, what they’ve exposed, and their…
Outside the courthouse in Knoxville, TN, where three antinuclear activists were severely sentenced on February 18, Michelle Boertje-Obed, the wife of one of the three Transform Now Plowshares members, encouraged everyone to see Judge Amul Thapar’s ruling in a positive light. Despite her husband Greg having just received over 5 years in prison for…
photo: Christopher Lucka Chelsea Manning never revealed any secrets, and the same must be said of Edward Snowden. How can massive NSA programs and footage of “Collateral Murder” be called “secrets” when hundreds, or likely thousands, of individuals possessed knowledge of them? The oxymoronic term “open secret” can hardly be applied here; “quasi-secret” seems more…
“I felt it was explosive, it really made me angry when I read it. … I genuinely hoped that the information would strengthen the people’s voice. … It could derail the entire process for war.” So said Katharine Gun recently when asked about information she leaked shortly before the invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t…
On October 13, 2007, Matt Diaz left prison penniless with no source of income. His law license was suspended, preventing him from finding work in the only profession he knew, and he had a felony-level federal conviction. He lost his military pension (over $40,000 per year) and was disbarred. His home was foreclosed, car…
by David L. Wilson Early in 2004 a lawyer at Walmart de México, Sergio Cicero Zapata, was passed over for a promotion. Upset by the slight and concerned that he might be held liable for some of the company’s activities, he resigned that September. One year later, he decided to come clean. He sent an…
Everybody wants a piece of a hero. As we saw recently with the passing of South African revolutionary Nelson Mandela, whenever a great leader dies, interest groups tend to frame that life in terms of their own agendas and talking points. We are not exempt. Those of us working to end war will share an…
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