Posted in Iraq & Afghanistan War, Obama's First 100 Days on October 7th, 2009 Comments Off
By Howard Zinn
May 16, 2009,
The Progressive
We are citizens, and Obama is a politician. You might not like that
word. But the fact is he’s a politician. He’s other things, too – he’s a very sensitive and intelligent and thoughtful and promising person. But he’s a politician.
If you’re a citizen, you have to know the difference between [...]
Posted in Catholic Social Teaching, Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Iraq & Afghanistan War, Militarization & Globalization, Obama's First 100 Days, Peace & Gospel Nonviolence, War and Peace on January 17th, 2009 Comments Off
By Marie Dennis
Pax Christi International, July 10, 2008
The War Abroad
He’s leaning against a tree
The wood has been sold
The land leased
The water poisoned
The rain kills the birds
Somebody takes aim at him
He raises his arms against the black wood
It is not finished
(Dorothy Soelle)
For many hours I sat trying to get my head around what I might say [...]
Posted in Faith & Solidarity Reflections, Iraq & Afghanistan War, U.S. Peace & Justice, War and Peace on October 25th, 2008 Comments Off
By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
This article was reprinted from the Fall 2004 issue of The Albany Catholic Worker. Claire Schaeffer-Duffy also writes for The National Catholic Reporter.
After twenty minutes of deliberation, a military jury found staff sergeant Camilo Mejia guilty of deserting his unit. On May 21, 2004, he was sentenced to a year in military prison [...]
Posted in Guantanamo & Torture, Iraq & Afghanistan War, U.S. Peace & Justice on October 20th, 2008 Comments Off
By Aaron Glantz
Silver Spring, MD (IPS), 2008
I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without having made many decisions,” 24-year-old former Guantanamo prison guard Christopher Arent told a crowd of hundreds at last weekend’s Winter Soldier gathering outside Washington, DC.
“I was 17 years old when I joined [...]
Posted in Actions and Campaigns, Christian Peace Witness-Iraq, Iraq & Afghanistan War, U.S. Peace & Justice on October 17th, 2008 Comments Off
March 7, 2008
“Now, more than ever, America needs our moral witness. We need a surge in troops in the nonviolent army of the Lord. We need a surge in conscience and a surge in activism and a surge in truth-telling for a change.”
Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, CPWI worship, Washington National Cathedral, March 16, 2007
Dear Sisters [...]