Put Families First All Call Day Put Families First All Call Day
More than 1 million low-income Americans have lost or will soon lose government-subsidized healthcare, recent reports estimate, as states slash funding to contain spiraling defic...
May 7, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Join Operation Strangelove on May 14 Join Operation Strangelove on May 14
Stanley Kubrick's brilliant 1962 black comedy about politics, power and technology is one of the greatest antiwar films ever made. And, now, forty years after it was released, Dr...
May 3, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
The American Way of Death The American Way of Death
The continued use of the death penalty in the United States remains an act of racial injustice as well as an inherently cruel, unusual and degrading punishment. A report rece...
Apr 28, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Bob Scheer vs. Bill O’Reilly Bob Scheer vs. Bill O’Reilly
There are many things that one can rightly call Los Angeles Times columnist and Nation contributing editor Robert Scheer. But "anti-American" is just not one of them. A lifelong...
Apr 20, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
The Hall of Fame Snubs Peace, Dissent The Hall of Fame Snubs Peace, Dissent
In a letter written on April 7, Baseball Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey announced that he was canceling a Cooperstown celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the movie...
Apr 12, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Beyond War Beyond War
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously came out against the Vietnam War shortly before he was assassinated thirty-five years ago today. His words, eloquent then, are just as relev...
Apr 4, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
The Iraq Body Count The Iraq Body Count
A new website keeping a running tally of civilian deaths in the US war against Iraq is attracting a lot of traffic and attention, and, in the process, is emerging as an authori...
Apr 1, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Direct Action for Peace Direct Action for Peace
The Cities for Peace campaign and numerous other antiwar groups are calling on US citizens to urgently picket, protest, lobby and employ nonviolent civil disobedience at federa...
Mar 27, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Fighting for Peace–UPDATED Fighting for Peace–UPDATED
****HELP GREET BUSH IN FLORIDA**** George W. Bush is going to Florida tomorrow. Help the local progresive community give him a proper greeting. He'll be at MacDill Air Force Bas...
Mar 23, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Urgent Antiwar Activism–UPDATED Urgent Antiwar Activism–UPDATED
George W. Bush has launched war with Iraq, a war that is unnecessary, unwise and illegal. In response, a wave of angry antiwar protests began to roll across Europe and the Middle...
Mar 20, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg