World War III
Guest post by Francine Dempsey: In the cartoon two characters stand beside a sculpture of a dark brown boat crowded with indistinct human figures. The first character says, “Everyone just wants to get...
View ArticlePrepare for Disasters, Not for War
Last week Kate Cavanaugh’s guest post for this blog, Can This War Transform War?, made an eloquent case for redeploying our military budget — to meet domestic needs so clearly revealed by this virus,...
View ArticleWar and the Changing Environment: Guest Post by Lynda Ames
As we who can* sit in our socially distanced offices, homes, dens, gardens during the onslaught of COVID-19, it is difficult not to consider the potential end of the world, at least the end of the...
View ArticleWhat About the Children? Guest Post by Sister Francine Dempsey
Recently I returned from Christmas in Maine with my sister and brother-in-law and their family: three daughters, one son-in-law, two granddaughters, three grandsons, and hiding out somewhere, one cat....
View ArticleOpen our hearts and borders to immigrants. (guest post by Mabel Leon)
Grannies for Peace celebrated Valentines’ Day on February 14, 2020 by demonstrating a message of love and openness to immigrants. On a frigid winter day, 27 Grannies and friends carried banners and...
View ArticleThe Blessings We Want
I guess there are millions of people throughout the world who want a lot of the same basic blessings in their lives. I think these include a happy healthy family, friends, sufficient resources to be...
View ArticleTranslating International Literature as Human Rights Activism
With the end of August and the start of September Women in Translation Month has given way to a month devoted to all international literature in translation. Women in Translation Month was began in...
View ArticleLights for Liberty, July 12, 2019. Close the Concentration Camps at the border!
It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to write about a local (and in this case national and international) demonstration with the help of local photographer MABEL LEON. Here are some of the...
View ArticlePositive Holiday News! Combating Global Violence Intelligently
Here’s something I am celebrating this holiday: an unusual and to me exciting initiative coming from our too-often deadlocked US Congress! Legislation, with bi-partisan sponsors in both houses, which...
View ArticleGrannies for Peace vigil in the park on May 11, 2019, with serendipitous...
On a beautiful, sunny, just warm enough, Saturday afternoon in May, Grannies for Peace and our allies, including our lone millennial, Matt, stood vigil to support the refugee and asylum seeking...
View ArticleMother’s Day Weekend brings 2 demonstrations against family separation,...
After spending a couple of weeks working on the leaflet and media release for our upcoming Grannies for Peace vigil to be held at the Tulip Fest in Washington Park, Albany NY, on Saturday May 11th I...
View Article“Hands off Ilhan Omar” Black Women leaders rally in front of the US Capitol
Ilhan Omar was elected a Representative for the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota in the 2018 election. At the time she was one of two Muslim women, the first immigrant from Somalia and the...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Budget: A Piggybank for Greening?
Last week, Pat Hynes, a wise and thoughtful environmental engineer, spoke at Women Against War’s Annual Gathering. A retired professor from Boston University, Pat has long studied the ways that...
View ArticleDeja Vu All Over Again…Oh, No!…Haven’t I Said All This Before?
Well, I have indeed in these very pages commented on the Imperialist nature of Zionist rulers/impulses exhibited in Israel. At long last the plutocracy in our country and the media cannot suppress...
View ArticleFake Emergency! (land, money, and power grabs for a border wall) brings...
Welcome to the latest chapter of the current amoral, cruel, power hungry, scapegoating, hate spewing, racist, xenophobic, kleptocratic administration. A President and cabinet that never (well hardly...
View ArticleDeclaring WAR on migrants from the Central American Northern Triangle
This is an article to update readers on some of the most recent incidents, and threats of what are mainly illegal actions against the now more than 5,000 Central Americans waiting to seek asylum at the...
View ArticleScary “Invaders” of the Migrant Caravan, just in time for the elections.
Since I’m writing this on Halloween it seems only fair to point out that our President and many right wing anti-immigrant pundits, including some of our congresspeople, are calling the caravan of...
View ArticleAnecdotal Studies
I have been talking here and elsewhere about the need to have conversations among people of varying political/religious/ethnic persuasions and experiences. This is not an original idea, of course, but...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2018 Skipping Stones Honor Award Books!
This year the non-profit multicultural children’s magazine Skipping Stones celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. Each year, the magazine highlights the best children’s books and educational resources...
View ArticleChild Separations and the Lessons of a Duck Pond
I returned from Portugal to the news that, over the past two months, my government has snatched more than 2,300 children from their parents trying to cross the southern border or presenting themselves...
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