by Rosie Wong | Mar 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
As a 30-year-old Australian who had previously travelled to Guatemala and El Salvador, I decided to respond to an email listserv request for international observers in Honduras after the June 2009 coup. I felt compelled to go to the country after reading about...
by Edith Garwood | Mar 15, 2010 | War & Peace
Israel is escalating its quiet campaign to round up and detain nonviolent Palestinian protesters, from leaders to children, in nighttime raids. And although these protesters remain committed to nonviolence, the world continues to believe the Palestinian struggle is...
by John Feffer | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
This article was originally published in the Harvard International Review. When I traveled through Eastern Europe in the wake of the 1989 revolutions, I carried a computer and a portable printer. I typed up my dispatches, printed them out, and sent them back to my...
by Walden Bello | Jan 2, 2010 | Human Rights, War & Peace
At 8 a.m., on Wednesday, December 30, I took my seat on a bus in downtown Cairo that was about to head for Gaza. The evening before, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, the central organization in the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), had asked me to be titular head of a...
by Kevin Funk, Arthur Waskow | Oct 8, 2009 | Human Rights
In what some world strategists call “the arc of instability” from Pakistan to Israel and Palestine — and what others call the central pool of oil and still others call the heart of Islam — there are several sets of overlapping wars, military...
