Volume: 18
Number: 1
When nonviolence confronted the World Trade Organization in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999, nonviolence won. In the year that followed, protests against corporate-dominated globalization spread around the world from Seattle to Washington, DC, and from Vancouver, Canada, to Davos in Switzerland to Prague, focusing attention on a small group of powerful institutions…
Twenty years ago, in 1980, I ran for the presidency as the candidate of the Socialist Party USA, sharing the ticket with Sister Diane Drufenbrock. It was the first time an openly gay candidate had run for president, and certainly the first time a Catholic nun had run for vice president. I enjoyed a vigorous…
So Long But Not Good-byeby Ruth Benn In March 1987 I began my “dream job”: I joined the staff of War Resisters League to edit this very publication, the Nonviolent Activist. In March 1993 I decided it was time to do something else; that was the first time I left the WRL staff. Ruth (l.)…
by Emily Taylor On the weekend of December 1-3, 21 New England YouthPeace members came together for a conference of discussions and workshops at the Equity Trust center in Voluntown, CT. Among the topics we discussed were violence and nonviolence, racism, homophobia, the struggle to oust the U.S. Navy from Vieques, Puerto Rico, and gender…
The fourth annual International YouthPeace Week, November 24-December 1, 2000, featured mall and shopping center actions that underlined the relationships among the products people buy (consumerism), the sweatshops that make the products (globalization) and the armies that police the sweatshops (militarism). With a growing youth movement against corporate globalization, International YouthPeace Week allowed young activists…
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