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Nonviolent Activist, January – February 2006 Carrying outrage, compassion, and tourist visas, 25 U.S. activists began an 80-mile-march from Santiago, Cuba, on December 5, in the hopes reaching the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay and visiting prisoners detained there under horrific conditions. The activists, drawn largely from Catholic Worker communities across the United States,…
The War Resisters League Commemorates the 66th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
For a list of events organized by Pax Christi USA chapters and affiliates please visit: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129544250468870 Friday August 5th. 4:00PM: at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza – East 47 St between 1 & 2 Aves, NYC. Musical performances by Ray Korona, the Raging Grannies, The Peaceniks, Russell Daisey, Bruce Markow and special guest from Japan singer/songwriter,…
Massive Protest Wave in Iraq Challenges Sectarianism
Latest piece on the protest upsurge in Iraq by WRL’s Ali Issa: “Since a new wave of protest in Iraq — the largest in decades — has forced the Iraqi government to finally begin acknowledging the fundamental problems with the now 12-year-old quota system, Iraqis across sectors and at the grassroots are striving to chart…
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Join in the work of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee including WRL members across the country in organizing against taxpayer dollars spent for war and militarism! The numbers are staggering: Over $1 trillion spent so far on the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Nearly half of each tax…
Meet WRL’s New Field Organizer, Yuni Chang
Dear Community, My parents were born in Seoul in the fresh aftermath of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War. Before the U.S. split the peninsula with the creation of a border at the 38th parallel, my grandmother waded across rivers in secret, with newborns in tow, so that her family in the north would have…