U.S. Peace & Justice

Is It True?

October 20, 2008

Is It True? By Usama Abu Kabir (Guantanamo Prisoner) Is it true that the Grass grows again after the rain? Is it true that the Flowers will rise up in the Spring? Is it true that the Birds will migrate home again? Is it true that the Salmon swim back up the stream? It...
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Witness Against Torture: Judge, This Is an Historic Moment

October 20, 2008

Art Laffin Witness Against Torture My name is Arthur Laffin and I am representing Mane’I al Otaybi, a Saudi national who was 25 years old when he was taken into U.S. custody in Afghanistan. He died at the Guantanamo military prison on June 10, 2006 of a reported suicide. To date, there has been...
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Guantanamo Prison Put on Trial: Anti-Torture Activists Convicted

October 20, 2008

Witness Against Torture WASHINGTON, D.C., May 29, 2008 Thirty-four Americans arrested at the Supreme Court on January 11, 2008 were found guilty after a three-day trial which began on Tuesday, May 27th in D.C. Superior Court. The defendants represented themselves, mounting a spirited defense of their First Amendment rights to protest the gross injustice...
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World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions

October 20, 2008

by Fred Magdoff Monthly Review An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening today it is necessary to look at...
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Christian Peace Witness for Iraq: 2008

October 17, 2008

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...
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