3 May, 2016
Dan Berrigan, 1921 – 2016: “We haven’t lost, because we haven’t given up.”
“About the death of renowned anti-war activist, poet and writer Fr. Dan Berrigan at the age of 94, the Rev....
2 May, 2016
Changing the Conversation About “The Woman Card”
“The “woman card.” It’s so much nonsense. Donald Trump is merely the latest to accuse a woman of playing identity...
2 May, 2016
Remembering Nonviolent History: Freedom Rides
“By May 1961, federal law had already ruled that segregation on interstate, public buses was illegal. Southern states, however, maintained...
2 May, 2016
Remembering Daniel Berrigan, with Gratitude
“Daniel Berrigan has died, and so we have lost our great teacher who, flinty and generous and relentlessly persistent, taught...
2 May, 2016
Celebrating Mother Jones and Labor on May Day
“This week commemorates the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, International Workers’ Day, and the claimed birthday of Mother Mary Harris...
28 Apr, 2016
Opening the Closed Political Culture
“The headline, from the Los Angeles Times, hit me like a sucker punch: “Voters’ ‘Bernie or Bust’ efforts persist despite...
27 Apr, 2016
Can we feel the heat?
“I am travelling as a peace witness in Iraqi Kurdistan. We visited a sheikh whom I had met in Fallujah...
27 Apr, 2016
Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea
“Sanctions on North Korea have failed. North Korea has now been sanctioned five times by the United Nations Security Council...
24 Apr, 2016
Remembering Argentina’s Mothers of the Disappeared
“Campaign Nonviolence is a movement to build a culture of active nonviolence. We share the stories of nonviolent action, drawing...
21 Apr, 2016
We live or die alone and together
“Candidates! Can we focus on worthy issues? We hear about each candidate’s tax return but almost nothing about each US...
20 Apr, 2016
Chernobyl, and Cesium, at 30
“April 26 is the 30th anniversary of the reactor meltdown and radiation disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which brings to...
20 Apr, 2016
The Church’s Turn Toward Nonviolence
“For its first three centuries, Christianity required the practice of active nonviolence as taught by Jesus. The early Christians refused...
20 Apr, 2016
President Obama Should Go to Hiroshima, But Not Empty-Handed
“Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to Hiroshima’s ground zero, where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb nearly...
19 Apr, 2016
Did the Vatican Just Throw Out Its Just War Doctrine?
“Last week, the Vatican hosted a conference on the theme of “Nonviolence and Just Peace: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding...
17 Apr, 2016
From Flint’s children to nuclear weapons, funding our nations priorities
“This week our nation funds our national priorities on tax day. In this era of growing discussion about participatory democracy...