Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests
Benjamin Dangl : Vermont
As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.
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A Misunderstanding on Iraq
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Presidential Election 2008
Progressives who support Barack Obama must use the primary race help shape his policies on Iraq.
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Labor's War on Global Warming
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Labor Organizing & Activism
Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
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Israeli Army Vets Speak Out
Eyal Press : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Breaking the Silence comes to America.
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Antiwar Group Collapses
Tom Hayden : Iraq War
Tom Matzzie, leader of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, has resigned his position and dissolved a major and well-funded coalition of anti-war groups.
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Gandhi's Teachings Are Alive
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Religion
Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.
2007
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The Secret Library of Hope
Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.
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How the Peace Movement Can Win
Tom Hayden : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
For war opponents, the election year is a moment of great opportunity--and peril. The challenge is to leverage antiwar sentiment into a victory for peace.
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The Nijinsky of Ambivalence
Morris Dickstein : Non-Fiction
During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.
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Watada's Double Jeopardy
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
A legal drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether an Army officer who refuses to serve in Iraq has the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.
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How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
Peace activists are reaching out to US military officials to dampen the Bush Administration's ardor for attacking Iran.
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Northern Ireland, South Africa in Secret Iraq Peace Talks
Peacemakers from countries that have moved from sectarian strife towards national reconciliation met with Iraq Sunnis and Shi'as in an effort to resolved the crisis.
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Little Disturbances, Enormous Changes
Kathy Engel : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Remembering Grace Paley and the impact she had on literature, activism and many generations of women and children.
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Why the Silence?
Arthur Waskow : Judaism & Jews
Leaders of the Jewish community who have resisted calls to voice opposition to the war can no longer justify their failure to speak out.
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Kentucky at War
Opposition to the Iraq War has created some unlikely alliances in Kentucky, much to the chagrin of Senator Mitch McConnell.
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Wanted: Unruly Activists
They're loud, lion-hearted, obnoxious and essential to democracy. And as an unjust war continues to create enormous suffering, we need people brave enough to practice extreme politics.
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The Dog Days of War
Cindy Sheehan taught us that the only way to reach those who will go to the polls is by taking to the streets.
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Israel's Intrepid Peacemakers
Their numbers are dwindling, they're low on money and face potential violence and certain prosecution. But Israeli anarchists continue to stand with embattled Palestinians.
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Support Their Troops?
Alexander Cockburn : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
If the American people are largely against the war, what's the matter with the antiwar movement? The answer lies with what has happened over the years to the American left.
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'Arthur': The Little Magazine That Could
You thought Arthur was gone for good? The indie magazine beloved for its music coverage and antiwar politics will resume publishing this summer.
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Voices in Conflict
Emily Douglas : Higher Education
When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.
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A Moratorium Wired to Stop the War
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Internet & New Media
A new Iraq Moratorium effort will leverage grassroots and online activism.
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The Spirit of June 12
Jonathan Schell : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Twenty-five years after the largest antinuclear demonstration ever, the movement has dwindled. But the threat of mass destruction grows greater.
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Bringing the War Home
Laura Hanna & Astra Taylor : Iraq War
Pointing imaginary guns and roughing up "Iraqi civilians", antiwar veterans brought the realities of the Iraq debacle to Manhattan, in a Memorial Day protest that turned Times Square into a combat zone.
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Cindy Sheehan's Farewell
Her unscripted activism was characterized by an element so often missing from politics: genuineness. But we haven't seen the last of Cindy Sheehan.
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Want Out of Iraq? Call Your Senator
Don't just get angry about the continuing Iraq debacle. Pick up the phone.
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The Revolution Will Be You-Tubed
Wes Enzinna : Internet & New Media
Antiwar activists are using the video-sharing site to reach new audiences and counter mainstream media bias.
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Swords Into Plowshares
As rural America becomes ground zero for Iraq casualties, Farms Not Arms is urging farmers to attend anti-war rallies and recruiting families to give refuge to returning vets.
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Antiwar Students Rising
Sam Graham-Felsen : Higher Education
As the student peace movement grows stronger and more sophisticated, can it ignite the silent antiwar majority on campus?
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Conscience and the War
After four years of war, complete withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to redeem our nation for the death and destruction it has imposed.
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Surge for Peace
Thanks to the efforts of the peace movement and a significant shift in public opinion, we can stop this war. But it's not going to be easy.
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Voices of Protest
Peace activists and military families in DC Saturday were less angry than than resolute that the American people sent a clear signal in November to end the US occupation in Iraq.
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Muhammad Ali: The Brand and the Man
The day The Champ turned 65 was marked by the release of a line of snack foods bearing his image. Lost in the hype was Muhammad Ali's proud history as a war resister.
2006
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Lt. Ehren Watada: Resister
Facing a showdown court-martial for refusing to serve in an illegal and unjust war, Lieut. Ehren Watada has become a flashpoint for the antiwar movement.
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About Face
In the most significant movement of dissident soldiers since Vietnam, nearly 1,000 active-duty officers and enlisted personnel have petitioned the government to withdraw from Iraq.
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About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
For the first time since Vietnam, active-duty military personnel have organized to oppose a war that they are fighting.
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No Graceful Exit
: Iraq War
The Iraq Study Group report may slow the impetus for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Those who seek genuine military disengagement must make their voices heard.
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Battleground Cinema
Video activists and independent filmmakers are on the ground in war zones from Iraq to Lebanon and Gaza, using documentaries as instruments of peacemaking.
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Soldiers of Conscience
A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.
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Microcredit, Macro Issues
Walden Bello : Ethical Economics
The Swedish Academy bestowed this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit. It's easy to believe Yunus's low-interest loans to the poor are a silver bullet against global economic injustice. But it's not that simple.
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Take Back Our Country
Fighting words from a 98-year-old activist about the power of the people to demand peace and achieve peace justice in these troubled times.
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Watada, the War and the Law
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
Bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush Administration's excessive exercise of power, Lieut. Ehren Watada's pending court-martial could help restore the rule of law and energize a popular movement to end an illegal war.
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Standing Against an Unjust War
A Quaker activist explains why the war in Iraq is not only illegal, but morally indefensible.
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Shifting Winds on Iraq
Peace sentiments are rising among the American public and even in the much-divided Democrats. What does this mean for electoral politics and for the course of a war that seems to have no end in sight?
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A Generation of Peace
Zaid Jilani : Emerging Writers
"I dream of the day that our children will turn the pages of history books and look to my generation, who said no to the horrors of war and chose nonviolence over nonexistence."
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Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Movement?
Cindy Sheehan is more a symbol of the peace movement than its leader, a unifying force who seeks to bridge divisions among those who seek an end to war.
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Status Quo Gitmo
: Iraq War
Progressives have sparked courtroom litigation and social protest to focus public attention on Guantánamo. Now the Bush Administration should shut it down.
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Hawks for Withdrawal
As centrist Democrats slowly but surely unite around a plan for military withdrawal from Iraq that is heavy with hawkish reasoning, what are the implications for the peace movement?
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Songs of Protest
: Music
As the war in Iraq causes more devastation, courageous musicians are using song to move a nation.
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When GI Joe Says No
Christian Parenti : US Military
How can the peace movement draw more Iraq War veterans into its ranks? It can begin by understanding the socioeconomic realities of the all-volunteer military.
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William Sloane Coffin Jr.
: Religion
The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was one of the antiwar movement's most prophetic voices, a man who dedicated his life to the pursuit of peace and justice.
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They Should Have Hissed Barack Obama
The war is coming home, in the form of people dreadfully wounded in body and spirit. Yet Democratic candidates aren't too worried about their hawkish stance, because the peace movement has no fire in its belly.
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In the Path of a Storm, Vets Protest a War
Veterans of Iraq and Vietnam marched from Mobile to New Orleans to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq War, and to call attention to the Bush Administratrion's culture of incompentence, inhumanity and greed that has devastated Iraq and America's Gulf Coast.
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Three Who Made a Revolution
Rebecca Solnit : Feminism & Women
Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan and Jane Jacobs opened vast new possibilities for social transformation by writing about widespread attacks on nature, women and the poor.
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Bringing the War Home
The antiwar messages most likely to be heard and acted upon by Congressional Democrats and wavering Republicans will come from their hometowns, where a growing number of activists are organizing with an eye toward communicating to Congress.
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Macho, Macho Militarism
Cynthia Enloe : Feminism & Women
On this year's International Women's Day, antiwar feminists take note of how our society has become increasingly militarized as a cult of masculinity has tightened its grip on American politics.
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Corvallis Calls the Troops Home
Simon Maxwell Apter : US Military
The Corvallis City Council approved a resolution calling for American troops to come home from Iraq.
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When Will US Women Demand Peace?
Medea Benjamin : Feminism & Women
Polls show large numbers of American women have grave doubts about the Iraq War: But where are they? A new campaign aims to mobilize American women for global protests March 8.
2005
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Language of the Heart
Cindy Sheehan : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
We need to learn a new language of peace and love that we can speak, even shout, to our leaders who only understand the language of greed and murder.
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Shoot the Moon
Elizabeth de la Vega : Iraq War
How realistic is it to stop the Bush Administration from pursuing its war agenda? Former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega offers some hard-core advice about how to challenge the status quo.
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The Wonder and Horror of 2005
In the gloom of post-election 2004 few people, if any, could have anticipated the wild surprises of 2005. Focusing on three unforeseen developments of the past year, a meditation on how life has changed in unexpected ways.
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Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures
The remaining members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Baghdad say their work will go on regardless of what happens to their four colleagues still held hostage. CPT workers were among the first to expose abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and continue to document the excesses of the US occupation.
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The Outsider
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, died 25 years ago this month. Today Catholic Workers are in Cuba, keeping vigil outside the US Naval Prison at Guantanamo Bay and keep a vigil for detainees. This Colman McCarthy meditation on Day's funeral sheds light on Catholic Workers as a political and social force.
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Pilgrimage to Guantánamo
Twenty-five members of the Catholic Worker movement are walking across Cuba to the US Naval prison at Guantánamo Bay in hopes of meeting with more than 500 detainees, the first time peace activists have brought their protests to the tropical gulag. If they are turned away, the pilgrims plan on conducting a vigil outside.
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In Praise of John Murtha
Nicholas von Hoffman : US Military
With 457 blunt-spoken words, John Murtha broke the spell that had held the country captive to the misguided adventure in Iraq. It suddenly became respectable to talk of a pullout. It was his finest moment: For the first time, there is hope this war may end.
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SOA Protests to Focus on Torture
Patrick Mulvaney : US Military
As demonstrators gather at Fort Benning, Georgia, this weekend for an annual protest against the School of the Americas, the spotlight will be on increasing dismay in Congress and among the American public over the Bush Administration's policies on torture.
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Support Our Troops
Medea Benjamin & Gayle Brandeis : Iraq War
It's easy to slap a magnet on your SUV and feel like you're supporting American soldiers fighting a brutal, far-off war. But the way to really support them is to work to extricate us from the conflict.
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Empty Boots, Ravished Hearts
Rows of plain black boots and empty pairs of baby shoes and dancing slippers are a mute testament to the American soldiers and Iraqi civilians who have perished in Iraq, as shown in a traveling exhibition sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee.
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Protest and Pushback on Campus
Student protests against the presence of military recruiters on campus are on the rise. So are angry--sometimes violent--pushbacks from conservative students and campus police.
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The Young Chickenhawks
Clarisse Profilet : Student Movements
Young Republican activists on campus love George W. Bush and zealously support the war. But are they willing to fight? Not really.
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Peaceniks Flood DC
Liza Featherstone : George W. Bush
Last week's antiwar rally in Washington sent a single, unequivocal message: At home and abroad, the Bush Administration is a complete failure.
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St. Pat's Four Not Guilty of Federal Charges
Elizabeth Bauchner : The Courts
Four peace advocates were acquitted of federal conspiracy charges in connection with a 2003 protest of the Iraq War.
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Make Levees, Not War
Liza Featherstone : George W. Bush Administration
New Orleans was top-of-mind for more than 100,000 peace advocates in Washington who delivered a clear and unified message, protesting the Bush Administration's war in Iraq and its callous indifference to the victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes.
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Readers Respond to Sharon Olds
Readers respond to poet Sharon Olds's decision to decline Laura Bush's invitation to dine at the White House.
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Open Letter to Laura Bush
Poet Sharon Olds writes an open letter to Laura Bush, explaining why she won't break bread at the White House.
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A War Over Meaning
Robert Jay Lifton & Greg Mitchell : Iraq War
Knowing what America owes its dead--be they soldiers lost in Iraq or civilians lost in the Gulf Coast storm--could prod the nation toward a decisive rejection of the Bush Administration's war policies.
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Honor Their Sacrifice
Mounting American casualties alone cannot turn us away from this ill-advised war. Democrats and anti-war advocates should let words and peaceful actions speak, instead of guns and corpses.
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Spying on the Protesters
John S. Friedman : Police & Law Enforcement
It's déjà-vu all over again: National Guard units and federal, state and local law enforcement are spying on antiwar activists.
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How to Say No
Counter-recruitment projects are mobilizing to push back on the growing militarization of America's schools. Here's a list of resources.
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Lessons of Camp Casey
There is no possible strategy to win in Iraq. Now is the time for activists to reach out to the families of soldiers in Iraq who may feel betrayed.
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The Cindy Factor
Will one woman's solitary protest become a turning point for a nation disillusioned with a President and his war?
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No More Hiroshimas
Patrick Mulvaney : Anti-Nuclear Activism
A report from the May 1 rally for peace and nuclear disarmament.
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Marla Ruzicka, Rachel Corrie and 'Credibility'
Alexander Cockburn : Media Analysis
No US Senator attended Rachel Corrie's funeral.
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Punishing the Wrong People
Patrick Mulvaney : US Military
The sentences handed down to SOA protesters are strikingly harsh and excessive, especially in a year in which the use of torture has generated headlines.
2004
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Voting for the First Time
Carolyn Crane : Presidential Election 2004
A conversation with Utah Phillips about Election 2004.
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Rocking the Youth Vote--From 1972 to 2004
Jon Wiener : Presidential Election 2004
John Lennon spoke out then, as Bruce Springsteen speaks out now.
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Letter From London
In Labour Britain there's a deep sense of pessimism and betrayal.
2003
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The People's House
Rep. Sherrod Brown : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
The people are asking for answers from the People's House.
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Warriors For Peace
Will the "unpredictable" nature of this war lead to the kind of malaise in the military that was so costly to troop morale and discipline during Vietnam?
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Bring Them On? Bring Them Home!
Jacqueline Kucinich : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Family members of military personnel serving in Iraq announce the Bring Them Home Now Campaign.
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Antiwar Students Rock the Vote
Liza Featherstone : Student Movements
Once they snubbed "Republicrats"; now they're set to oust Bush by any means.
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The Web Rewires the Movement
Andrew Boyd : Internet & New Media
From MoveOn to meetup.com, the net is facilitating a new citizen insurgency.
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Guns or Butter
Bob Muhlenkamp : Labor Organizing & Activism
"Our job is to make sure that the labor movement talks about how the militarization of US foreign policy hurts workers at home."
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Pre-empting Protest
Sasha Polakow-Suransky : US Foreign Policy
The Peace Corps is feeling the fallout from Bush Administration policies.
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Of Courage and Resistance
Susan Sontag : Occupation & Occupied Territories
At the center of our moral life are the great stories of those who have said no.
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The Oscar Wars
Anticipation over what would or would not be said about the war during the Oscars had reached near hysteria in the days before the broadcast.
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Keeping Hope Alive
The antiwar movement lost the first skirmish but can still win the larger struggle to put aggressive unilateralism back in the trash bin of history.
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Building Cities for Peace
How an antiwar initiative is turning into a way to strengthen democracy.
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Phallic Balloons Against the War
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
March 3 saw the emergence of a new kind of protest against war.
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Inspecting US Weapons
Why can't we have independent inspections of the US military's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons stocks?
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The Will of the World
Jonathan Schell : United Nations
The peoples of the earth have examined the case for war and rejected it.
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Mighty in Pink
Liza Featherstone : Feminism & Women
A clever new wave of feminist antiwar activism manages is sweeping the nation.
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Resist War and Empire
The war can be stopped, but the antiwar movement should begin planning for what it must do if it is not.
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The Smiths Go to Washington
Katha Pollitt : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Nothing beats just getting out there and making the antiwar movement visible.
2002
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Antiwar Labor Pains
Marc Cooper : Labor Organizing & Activism
Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor players.
This week: Will racism or sexism win the day? Plus: Esther Kaplan on workplace safety and Steven Greenhouse on the struggle facing younger workers. (13mb mp3)
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