What can we do to counter hate and violence? Guest post by Dan Wilcox
On the Monday after the Election many of us gathered for the peace vigil in Delmar organized by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace. This was not unusual as each Monday since 2003 we have held a peace vigil...
View ArticleJewish Voice for Peace Chanukah vigil: End Racism, Islamophobia and Corporate...
On the evening of Wednesday, December 28th, the 5th night of Chanukah, Albany Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace gathered with members, friends and allies to hold our third annual Chanukah vigil for...
View ArticleTrump’s US: What’s Next for Syria, ISIS & the Middle East?
If you like me care about people who are turned into refugees by US reliance on arms sales and drone strikes over diplomacy, if you care about societies driven into conflict by the changing climate, if...
View ArticleWhy are Women Around the World Endangered by Trump?
Last Saturday I felt so excited, so empowered to be part of women marching to resist Trump’s agenda in an amazing 673 cities around the world. Women, joined by their children and by men, took to the...
View ArticleChaos, Cruelty, Corruption/Civil and human rights, Community, Continuity,...
Hello all, and welcome to the United States after just 2 weeks after the swearing in of our 45th president. This is a difficult article to write because every day brings fresh insults to the...
View ArticleGreatly expanded, but vague deportation orders lead to individual...
As with everything that has been done by the Trump administration during the past 36 days, one could write a book about the willful ignorance of how government and the rule of laws and traditions...
View ArticleHonoring a Protector of Refugees, Aristides de Sousa Mendes
As the new administration issues a second Executive Order to restrict refugee resettlement in the United States, it’s important to remember those heroes of the past who risked much to find homes for...
View ArticleReality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen, Guest post by Kathy Kelly
This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a...
View ArticleReally How to Help Syrians
Trump’s missile strikes plunged the US more deeply into the Syrian conflict last week with seemingly no follow-up strategy for achieving a political solution to end the violence — which has already...
View ArticleWhy Surround the White House?
Why am I going to Washington, DC next Saturday? Why do I want to join with others in the People’s Climate March to surround the White House? Why do I want to tell Trump to pay attention to the fires...
View ArticleCosecha. A harvest of love. Weeding out fear and hate towards refugees and...
This past Monday, May 1, 2017 there were nation-wide marches and rallies along with closure of some immigrant run businesses, and time off from work, school and shopping by others. In our country May...
View ArticleWhat is it that we remember on Memorial Day? Rally to End Endless War.
Albany March To End Endless War (through Negotiations, Justice & Democracy) Sunday, May 21, 1:00 PM. Rally at Townsend Park, Albany March to Lafayette Park (Washington Ave. near the Capitol) We...
View ArticleDACA’s End and the Republic of Cruelty
Along with the recurring natural disasters — wildfires in the West and powerful hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean — the country faces another kind of disaster. On Tuesday,...
View ArticleWhere is Our Welcome Mat for the World’s Displaced?
There are a record-breaking 65 million displaced people in the world today. War, persecution, the ravages of climate change and economic desperation have driven them into the hard choice of leaving...
View ArticleGrannies Love Dreamers/Protect DACA; Valentine’s Day Vigil. Photos by Mabel Leon
Although this Valentine’s day vigil was planned in January we were actually hoping that Congress would have already acted to protect the Dreamers [those eligible for work and education permits and...
View Article“Us” Versus “Them.” Hate and prejudice come home for a war on immigrant...
On Tuesday of this week I was one of a couple of hundred people who participated in a gathering during week 3 of the Poor People’s Campaign, held in the “War Room” on the second floor of the the NY...
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...
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 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 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...
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