International Peace Day was created as a way to acknowledge the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. It’s important to remember that for all its faults, the United Nations remains the best infrastructure to create a peaceful world. And yet, when President Obama takes the podium to lecture the world on creating peace, it [...]
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Never could I have imagined in my role as an online organizer for CODEPINK that I would land a free ticket to Burning Man and be able to connect the dots between this incredible cultural event and my anti-war activism. I entered an Antiwar Art Contest hosted by Fresh Juice Party, an action group demanding [...]
Monday, September 12, 2011
Today, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa held a town hall meeting in West LA. I attended the meeting to ask him how he’s going to use the lobbying weight of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the Los Angeles DC office to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring the money home. Think [...]
Friday, September 9, 2011
The following letter to the editor published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. I loved the poignant statement by Stephen E. Sandherr, CEO of Associated General Contractors of America — “If you want to maintain economic prosperity, you have to make investments in transportation” — describing the deep cuts in funding which have led to the [...]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Veterans of the war on Afghanistan and their families are touring the U.S. right now, bringing out some of the truth that is said to be the first casualty of war. Widow Ashley Joppa-Hagemann electrified us with the story of her husband’s suicide. Army Staff Sargeant Jared August Hagemann killed himself in June “to free [...]
Monday, August 1, 2011
The "compromise" approved by the House today and expected to pass the Senate tomorrow is an atrocity. It is a rich man's coup of our democracy. Consider this: absolutely no tax increases are included in the bill. It creates a "super Congress," with authority to slash social services when the country is still reeling from
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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