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The NFL’s New Rule Aims to Silence Voices of Dissent

May 31, 2018 No Comments

Would women have the right to vote today if they were told by men to only protest inside their homes? Would African Americans have equal protection under the law if the civil rights movement was confined to the churches? Would farmers and migrant workers have just working conditions in the fields if they were forced to boycott only when it

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.

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,