Category: Jill McLaughlin

  By Jill McLaughlin   What do you do when intimidation, bullying, and harassment in our public forums has become the norm? This is a norm that is being rammed through by…

 By Jill McLaughlin  World Can’t Wait activists and other organizations such as Peace Action, Ya Ya Youth Network, Revolution Youth, and Arrest Bush protested outside the NAACP convention on Tuesday July 15th….

  By Jill McLaughlin   This essay is dedicated to my father, who two months ago on his death bed, told me two things. Being well aware of my activism and my…

 By Jill McLaughlin  I’ve done a lot of writing that has offered some analysis of the debate that has broken out about torture. This has included the emphasis on understanding that torture…

By Jill McLaughlin  Some nameless, faceless source has said that there will be no prosecutions for the authors of torture. This source, who I imagine lurking in the dark, has said that…

 By Jill McLaughlin  As a child I would always wonder what it be would be like to see a monster rising out of the waters of Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. My head…

  By Jill McLaughlin   There is much frenzy and acrimony in the media not seen in the last several years over the torture issue. This was unleashed when the memos authored…

By Jill McLaughlin   Out of the blue and into the black They give you this, but you pay for that And once you’re gone, you can never come back When you’re…

By Jill McLaughlin, World Can’t Wait Steering Committee Member I woke Tuesday morning having had seven hours of sleep the night before. I was happy I turned in early the night before….

by Jill McLaughlin Something major happened in the long and horrific tale of American hubris and imperialism”something on the scale of”no wait, bigger than the Watergate scandal which forced Richard Nixon from…