Grannies 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleWorld 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...
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