Editor’s Note – on July 15, radical lawyer and War Criminals Watch Advisory Board member Lynne Stewart was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In February 2005, Lynne had been convicted on…
Category: Elaine Brower
Philly: Army Experience Center Protesters Acquitted
By Elaine Brower On Monday, May 24th six co-defendants (Elaine Brower, Debra Sweet, Richie Marini, Joan Pleune, Beverly Rice and Sarah Wellington, appeared in a Philadelphia courtroom in front of Judge DeLeon…
Why all the Shock over “Shock and Awe?”
By Elaine Brower This week Wikileaks – a website noted for releasing classified, hard to get and damning material about what the military and the Pentagon are up to – put up…
Elaine Brower to Army Recruiters: “We Will be Your Worst Nightmare”
Elaine Brower For the last year or so I have been watching the construction of a new "Army Career Center" located a block from my office in downtown Manhattan. Once a week…
At West Point, Anti-War Protesters Voice Their Dissent
by Elaine Brower So President Obama did what he said he was going to do, escalate the war in Afghanistan. Not only last March, when he sent 24,000 troops, but yesterday when…
Charges against 7 Anti-Recruiting Protesters Dropped
By Elaine Brower On Monday, November 2nd, seven defendants, flanked by their eye-witnesses and friends, appeared at Philadelphia Municipal Court for trial based on arrests at the “Army Experience Center” on May…
A CALL TO ALL ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS
PROTEST IN THE STREETS THE DAY AFTER AN ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE TO SEND MORE TROOPS INTO AFGHANISTAN By Elaine Brower, member of World Can’t Wait Steering Committee We in…
Kicking Some Serious Ass in the Nation’s Capital
By Elaine Brower It has been eight long years since the invasion of Afghanistan, which was somewhat ignored by protesters over the Bush years, since the attack on Iraq took center stage….
It’s Not OK!
By Elaine Brower As I sit here tonight listening to the crap about extending troop withdrawal 19 months, instead of 16 months, and keeping 50,000 troops in Iraq as so called “advisers”…
No Bailout For Wall Street Profiteers!
By Elaine Brower In New York City the downtown area was on fire yesterday. At lunchtime over 2,000 workers from various unions protested the Bush plan to bail out Wall Street, after…