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U.N. Peacekeeping: Are There Other Avenues for Armed Conflict Resolution?

May 24, 2018 No Comments

May 29, 2018 is the 70th anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping. The first U.N. peacekeeping mission was established on May 29, 1948 when the Security Council authorized the deployment of a small number of U.N. military observers to the Middle East to form the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) to monitor the armistice agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

Honoring Mothers by Risking Arrest with the Poor People’s Campaign

May 24, 2018 No Comments

On Mother’s Day morning, 2018, I thought back on my two extraordinary grandmothers who raised me, on my own mother who followed me into the War Resisters League as together we became peace activists, on my life partner and mother of my children, and on that justice movement mother, civil rights icon Dorothy Cotton, who I had recently visited with my family and paid

Honoring Mothers by Risking Arrest with the Poor People’s Campaign

May 24, 2018 No Comments

On Mother’s Day morning, 2018, I thought back on my two extraordinary grandmothers who raised me, on my own mother who followed me into the War Resisters League as together we became peace activists, on my life partner and mother of my children, and on that justice movement mother, civil rights icon Dorothy Cotton, who I had recently visited with my family and paid

U.S. Missile Attacks on Syria Hurt American Children More Than the Assad Regime

May 4, 2018 No Comments

In response to recent missile attacks, Syrian President Bashar Assad seems as defiant and determined as ever to pursue war to preserve his regime in power. Most analysts agree that given Russian and Iranian backing and the reality that most deaths and destruction have been caused by conventional weapons, attacks on the regime’s chemical war capacity will have little effect on,

U.S. Missile Attacks on Syria Hurt American Children More Than the Assad Regime

May 4, 2018 No Comments

In response to recent missile attacks, Syrian President Bashar Assad seems as defiant and determined as ever to pursue war to preserve his regime in power. Most analysts agree that given Russian and Iranian backing and the reality that most deaths and destruction have been caused by conventional weapons, attacks on the regime’s chemical war capacity will have little effect on,

For delegation with oscar lopez rivera and rafael cancel miranda

Coverage of FOR Human Rights Delegation to Puerto Rico

May 4, 2018 No Comments

The following article (below photo) appeared in the most recent issue of La Voz del Paseo Boricua, the newspaper serving Chicago’s Puerto Rican community. We publish it here — with a special link to an album of additional exclusive photos of our trip — as a place-holder, promising a longer report soon on FOR’s recent “Human Rights, Recovery, and Decolonization” delegation to Puerto