Category: Anti-war and Anti-racism
Newer posts →The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians
We were like Custer. We were surrounded. -Sgt. James J. Riley explaining why he ordered surrender in an engagement in Nasiriyah, Iraq on March 23, 2003.[1] At the onset of the U.S. military invasion of Iraq, Senator Robert Byrd emotionally … Continue reading
Not Showing Up: Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement
Courtesy of the March/April 2006 issue of the Nonviolent Activist. When I was the Southern Region Coordinator for Critical Resistance I once spoke at an event in New Orleans entitled “What Now: War, Occupation, and the Peace Movement.” I was … Continue reading
Justice and Survival: A Forum on Building Movements to Stop War
At the National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington D.C. Catalyst Project brought together anti-war organizers to share their thinking on movement strategy. Max Elbaum, a former leader in Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s and a current … Continue reading
Not Showing Up: Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement
When I was the Southern Region Coordinator for Critical Resistance I once spoke at an event in New Orleans entitled “What Now: War, Occupation, and the Peace Movement.” I was asked specifically to address why more people most adversely affected … Continue reading
Justice and Survival: A Forum on Building Movements to Stop War
At the National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington D.C. Catalyst Project brought together anti-war organizers to share their thinking on movement strategy. Max Elbaum, a former leader in Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s and a current … Continue reading
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