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Congress: Support and Fund Unarmed Civilian Protection
Testimony of Mel Duncan before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs of the United States Congress (March 12, 2019). Madame Chair Lowey, Ranking Member Rogers, and Distinguished Members of the Committee,...
An American Casualty of U.S. Economic Sanctions on Iran
I went to Iran in late February with a peace delegation of 28 Americans organized by CODEPINK, a women-led peace activist group. The first day in Iran we had a very fruitful hour-and-half conversation with Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister of Iran. He listened to our...
Bayard Rustin believed in affirmative action and systemic political change
No one is perfect. That includes civil rights icon Bayard Rustin. That’s the message columnist Coleman Hughes and video producer Taige Jensen tried to send in a multimedia New York Times opinion piece titled “The Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed to Affirmative...
Following the Methodist Decision: Breathe in Suffering, Breathe out Peace
The United Methodist general conference is over and a new day has begun. People are still suffering, struggling with addiction of all sort, striving to stay in recovery, and being stopped, vilified and incarcerated at our borders. Queer folks, people of color, women...
Bayard Rustin’s views on affirmative action: A critique
On February 28, 2019, The New York Times published a 6-minute multimedia video, narrated by Times contributing opinion writer Coleman Hughes, titled "The Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed to Affirmative Action: How would Bayard Rustin be judged today?" Text...
Restoring Voting Rights for People with Felony Convictions Is Essential to Reparations
The most critical reparation issue is certainly financial, but I have been working this legislative session on the restoration of voting rights for those with felony convictions here in Washington state. Although we decided not to explicitly include restoration...