Significant violence in Afghanistan over the past two weeks included the assassination of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and an attack on the CIA office in Kabul. In Pakistan, the revelation that the Pakistani military would not go after the Haqqani network led to criticism and threats of cuts to US military aid to Pakistan. Reflections [...]
Monday, September 26, 2011
I’m standing with Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink, Ynestra King who organized the two women’s marches on the Pentagon in the early 1980ies, and the first eco-feminist conference, Women and Life on Earth, in 1980; and Ahmad and Ann Shirazi, an Iranian-Jewish couple, veterans of every antiwar, and free Palestine march of this the last twenty years. A few hundred feet away the core members of Occupy Wall St. are in the midst of their 15th General Meeting since their occupation began eight days ago. And I’m thinking of Em Jo Basshe.
Friday, September 23, 2011
This week, the White House launched their “We the People” petition site. Don’t confuse this with the National Endowment For the Humanities site. On the positive side, the White House guarantees an official response to any petition that reaches 5,000 signatures within 30 days. The site launched yesterday and I immediately put up a petition for the U.S. [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Posted by Sharon Miller, CODEPINK San Francisco intern As the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan approaches, and as the deficit-cutting debate heats up, the rich and powerful in the US have taken an opportunity to throw themselves a massive pity party. Jon Stewart of The Daily Show has documented a small fragment [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
After yesterday’s rain and violent arrests, I’m afraid of what to expect as I approach Liberty Plaza for the fifth day of Occupy Wall Street. Mainstream media report that numbers have dwindled; our own media’s livestream was shut down yesterday while people were arrested for trying to cover the equipment with tarps. I am bracing [...]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
International Peace Day was created as a way to acknowledge the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. It’s important to remember that for all its faults, the United Nations remains the best infrastructure to create a peaceful world. And yet, when President Obama takes the podium to lecture the world on creating peace, it [...]
Monday, September 26, 2011
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