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Ukraine: Faith Organizations Call U.S. to Support Diplomacy and Creative Nonviolent Resistance

Press Release More than 20 national and regional faith-based organizations have sent a letter to President Biden and members of Congress urging support and focus on a kind of diplomacy that is willing to compromise for the sake of saving

April 25, 2022 1 Comment

Breaking the Silence: Vietnam, Palestine, and Beyond

On April 4, 1967 – one year to the day before his assassination – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a landmark speech at The Riverside Church in New York City. “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” was

March 30, 2022 No Comments

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, thank you

March 12, 2019 No Comments

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

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

May 24, 2018 No Comments

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

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

May 24, 2018 No Comments

Self-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?

{Ed. Note: The recent death of Gene Sharp, the renowned strategist and thinker on active nonviolence, provokes us to newly consider his writings and teachings. René Wadlow revisits an essay he originally wrote during the period of the Arab Spring revolutions,

February 14, 2018 No Comments

Self-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?

{Ed. Note: The recent death of Gene Sharp, the renowned strategist and thinker on active nonviolence, provokes us to newly consider his writings and teachings. René Wadlow revisits an essay he originally wrote during the period of the Arab Spring revolutions,

February 14, 2018 No Comments

Following the Lead of Black Organizers in the Streets of St. Louis

African-American leaders vowed, days in advance of any court announcement, there would be mass protests in the St. Louis area if former cop Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murdering Anthony Lamar Smith. Thus, moments after Judge Timothy Wilson

October 25, 2017 No Comments

Following the Lead of Black Organizers in the Streets of St. Louis

African-American leaders vowed, days in advance of any court announcement, there would be mass protests in the St. Louis area if former cop Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murdering Anthony Lamar Smith. Thus, moments after Judge Timothy Wilson

October 25, 2017 No Comments

Liu Xiaobo: Democratic Vistas and the Empty Chair

Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man; Have former armies fail’d, then we send fresh armies – and fresh again — Walt Whitman, “Life” Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died on July 13, 2017, at age 61 after

July 24, 2017 No Comments

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