World Can’t Wait | March 17, 2016 The film “Eye in the Sky” builds drama through excruciating minutes ticking by as politicians debate the legality and morality of sending Hellfire missiles into…
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A Message to Millennials
Margarita and Samantha, World Can’t Wait Interns | March 9, 2016 No More Endless War – Join Protest Saturday March 19 March 19 marks the 13-year anniversary of the start of the…
The Change We Need is Not on the Ballot
World Can’t Wait | March 1, 2016 You could do a lot of damage by putting your hopes, and your resources and time, behind a candidate for president in 2016. Why? There…
Changing the Zip Code is Not Closing Guantanamo
Debra Sweet | February 25, 2016 It was never about keeping people in the U.S. “safe.” It’s about, as Rubio, Trump & Cruz have been freely saying, having a place where people…
That iPhone Is Locked For A Reason
February 25, 2016
Free C. Clark Kissinger & Miles Solay — Shut Down Rikers!
C. Clark Kissinger | February 24, 2016 Last October 23, 17 protesters were arrested at a nonviolent civil disobedience demonstration of 100 people outside the entrance to New York’s infamous Rikers Island…
Waiting for Godot? Guantanamo Prisoners Don’t Have the Luxury
Curt Wechsler | February 10, 2016 “Time. We can’t get it back. When it’s gone, it’s gone,” notes Frida Berrigan, WagingNonviolence.org, on the return of Connecticut National Guard soldiers from Guantanamo. “I…
Text of the Open Letter by Drone Pilots to President Obama
January 24, 2016 We came to the realization that the innocent civilians we were killing only fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS Dear President Obama, Secretary…
Hancock Drone Resister Grandma Goes to Jail
Upstate Drone Action | January 19, 2016 DeWitt, NY, Jan 19 Following a 1/2 hour press conference, Mary Anne Grady Flores, a mother, grandmother and daughter, proprietor of a small Latino catering…
Protests in U.S., London, and Mexico City Demand: Shut Down the U.S. Torture Camp at Guantánamo
Debra Sweet | January 18, 2016 Protesters across the U.S. and at U.S. embassies in London and Mexico City last week demanded the closure of the U.S. torture camp at Guantánamo Bay…