Gloria Williams

Gloria Williams is a freelance writer and member of the War Resisters League National Committee.

Opposing Recruiting in High School: Grannies Rage—and Sing!

Raging Grannies sing against recruitment before being forced to stop by the Board of Education. Photo by Gloria Williams.

The campaign to confront military recruitment in Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) has shifted from direct confrontation to quiet negotiations with school board members, according to Mitzi Kraft of Military Families Speak Out.

“We’ve had private meetings with a couple of the school board members who are working with us,” Kraft wrote in a recent email. “And we are trying to get together with some of the other school board members, one at a time.”

Poems from Guantanamo

Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak Edited by Marc Falkoff

Humiliated Bodies, Resilient Voices

by Gloria Williams

Poems from Guantanamo:
The Detainees Speak

Edited by Marc Falkoff
University of Iowa Press, 2007
84 pages, $13.95

Imagine being 14 years old when you arrive in Pakistan to learn English and study informational technology.  Then imagine being arrested, tortured and taken to Guantanamo Bay as an “enemy combatant.”