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The Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 was the first major national project organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), co-sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). An interracial group of 16 rode on buses through the upper South to test the implementation of the 1946 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on interstate travel. They…
Shoe-Throwing Still Gets No Love In Iraq: An Interview with Dhurgham al-Zaidy
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Against All Odds: Press and Coverage
Praise for Against All Odds: “The thesis of Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq, should be obvious. But in fact it is revolutionary, at least for people like me, who came up in the U.S. anti-war movement in 2003 and continue to be inundated with media and political images of Iraq as solely a…
WRL at 95: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
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A Revolutionary Nonviolent Perspective on US Uprisings
July 9, 2020 Previoulsly published on Waging Nonviolence We are activists, we are practitioners of revolutionary nonviolence, and we are outraged. Outraged at the 400-year long history of violence against Black people in this country; outraged at the racist and murderous system that founded police, who kill Black people with impunity; outraged at the state-sanctioned brutality meeting…
WRL Endorses Statement of Unity by Korean Americans and Allies on the Historic Inter-Korean Summit and the U.S.-North Korea Summit
The full statement and endorsement is below and can also be found here. Since the historic April 27 summit between the leaders of North and South Korea at Panmunjom, longstanding tensions and war threats on the Korean peninsula have given way to the promise of peace and reconciliation. Soon, another historic summit, between the United…
Two Votes Against War and Other Writings on Peace by Jeannette Rankin 
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