Battleground Cinema 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.
Dec 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Huff-Hannon
Soldiers of Conscience 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 w...
Oct 19, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Staughton Lynd
Microcredit, Macro Issues Microcredit, Macro Issues
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 b...
Oct 15, 2006 / Editorial / Walden Bello
Take Back Our Country 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.
Jul 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Elsie Fox
Watada, the War and the Law Watada, the War and the Law
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 l...
Jul 10, 2006 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Standing Against an Unjust War Standing Against an Unjust War
A Quaker activist explains why the war in Iraq is not only illegal, but morally indefensible.
Shifting Winds on Iraq 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 h...
Jul 2, 2006 / Feature / Tom Hayden
A Generation of Peace A Generation of Peace
"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."
Jun 27, 2006 / Editorial / Zaid Jilani
Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Movement? 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.
May 25, 2006 / Feature / Karen Houppert
Status Quo Gitmo Status Quo Gitmo
Progressives have sparked courtroom litigation and social protest to focus public attention on Guantánamo. Now the Bush Administration should shut it down.
May 25, 2006 / Editorial / The Editors