Anti-War

‘Trailblazer In The Name Of Peace’: Anti-War Hero Frances Crowe Dies At 100

September 4, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Activists, Anti-War

Longtime peace activist Frances Crowe has died at the age of 100, leaving behind seven decades of decades work towards justice and inspiration for those still working for a better world. She died last Tuesday in her home in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she lived since 1951, surrounded by her family, who wrote that her motto was "Live simply so that others can simply live." Crowe, wrote Janet and Wayne Dinelli in the online guest book for her obituary, was a "true spirit and a trailblazer in the name of peace."

A GI Rebellion: When Soldiers Said No To War

August 25, 2019 Steve Early, BeyondChron Educate! Anti-War, GI Resistance, Vietnam

As we approach the 50th anniversary of both the Moratorium and Mobilization, it’s worth recalling one critical anti-war constituency whose role was less visible then and remains little-acknowledged today. Fortunately, three Vietnam-era activists have just published Waging Peace in Vietnam (New Village Press, 2019), which gives long-overdue credit to anti-war organizing by men and women in uniform, and their civilian allies and funders.

Susan Schnall Has Been Resisting War Since Dropping Antiwar Leaflets From A Plane

August 25, 2019 Courage to Resist Educate! Anti-War, GI Resistance, Militarism and War

While on active duty, Lt. Susan Schnall dropped antiwar leaflets over five military installations and an aircraft carrier from a small plane, held a press conference, and lead a mass peace march while in uniform. She’s been resisting war ever since. “It became more and more obvious to me as I took care of these guys and physically got them better that I couldn’t heal them psychologically, and I certainly couldn’t heal their souls. And I thought, “I’ve become a part of the military. I need to do something about this, and we need to end this war. I understood that there would be repercussions."

Nuclear Weapons Ruined My Life, And I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way

April 6, 2019 Frida Berrigan, Wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Anti-War, Nuclear Weapons

I want to offer you something different than the barrage of facts and figures around nuclear weapons. But let’s establish the basics. There are nine countries that possess them: France, China, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea and — of course — Russia and the United States. Together these nine countries possess a total of 14,575 nuclear weapons, with the United States and Russia accounting for 92 percent of them.

Revisiting The Catonsville Nine’s Greatest Day

February 14, 2019 Frida Berrigan, Wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Anti-War, Class Struggle, History

It all stemmed from an action that took place on May 17, 1968, when he and eight other Catholics burned more than 300 1-A draft files in the parking lot of the Knights of Columbus building in Catonsville, Maryland. They used homemade napalm. As the files burned, they stood in a semi-circle and recited the “Our Father.” Three wore clerics collars: David Darst, Daniel Berrigan and his brother, Philip Berrigan. Darst was a Christian Brother, and Phil Berrigan was a Josephite priest, who was later excommunicated when he and Elizabeth McAlister, a Catholic sister, married.

The Anti-War Left Must Capitalise On Trump’s Withdrawal From Syria

December 26, 2018 By Lindsey German, Counterfire.org Resist! Anti-War, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Syria, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

Donald Trump’s announcement that US troops are withdrawing from Syria has caused havoc amongst the political and military establishment there. The resignation of Defence secretary James Mattis is the most public expression of this. The Financial Times’ Edward Luce describes Mattis as ‘the last grown-up in Donald Trump’s “axis of adults”’. Mattis has made it clear that his resignation is because he disagrees with Trump over the issue. The despair evidenced by Mattis’s resignation from these quarters demonstrates how much he was relied on to keep the president on a course desired by the US and its allies.

Six Recent US Antiwar Demonstrations Your Rulers Don’t Want You Talking About

November 17, 2018 Caitlin Johnstone, Medium.com Resist! Anti-War, Protest Demonstrations, Ruling Class

A friend told me yesterday that he hadn’t seen an antiwar protest in America in ten years. It was a sincere comment; he genuinely hadn’t seen any coverage on any peace activism in his country during that time. And of course he hadn’t; it is mainstream media’s job to distort public narratives in favor of the war-hungry plutocratic class which owns the media outlets. But I’ve actually been noticing a lot of antiwar activism lately which, while often far from the spotlight of mass media attention, has given me much hope for the future. It is true there was a noticeable lull in vocal demonstrations against military violence since George W Bush left office, largely due to mainstream US partisan dynamics.

Women’s March On The Pentagon Helps Rebuild Peace Movement

October 22, 2018 Staff, Sputnik News Resist! Anti-War, Media, Peace Movement

A massive antiwar rally started on Sunday in national capitals’ closest suburb, a Sputnik correspondent reported. Hundreds of people participate in Women’s March on Pentagon rally to voice their protest against aggressive US foreign policy. The march dedicated to the 51st anniversary of the big rally of 1967, when dozens of thousands of people gathered near Pentagon to protest against the war in Vietnam. The new rally was organized "In response to the ongoing US military aggression across the globe and the continuing bi-partisan increases in Pentagon funding."

The New Women’s Health: Shut Up & Breed + A Rally To Jump Start Anti-War Work

October 18, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Anti-War, Health Care, Sexism, Women

The purge is here. Facebook, Twitter and the silencing of anything that goes against the state. Next up, women's health and rights are under attack. A backwards, theocratic reworking of Title X threatens women's already dwindling rights over our bodies and our life choices. Finally, the Women's March on the Pentagon – challenging militarization at home and abroad.

The Contradictions Of Being Pro-Capitalist And Anti-War

October 13, 2018 Jason Hirthler, Dissidentvoice.org Resist! Anti-War, Capitalism, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

In his lesser known novel, A Small Town in Germany, John Le Carré skewers the diplomatic class in the old West German capital of Bonn. An investigator sent to the drizzly town on the banks of the Rhine discovers a fog of misdirection as he tries to track down a fled spy. At one point, comfortably resigned to his frustration, a glib diplomat tells the investigator, himself at wit’s end, unable to capitalize on an array of clues, “There’s always something; there’s never enough.” This is largely the story of the socialist “opportunists” that the Russian Bolsheviks themselves skewered in the revolutionary and blood-scented atmosphere of World War One Europe. As Vladimir Lenin argues in Imperialism...

Long-Time Peace And Justice Activist David McReynolds Dies

August 18, 2018 Staff, War Resisters League Educate! Anti-War, Pacifism, War Resistance

David McReynolds (1929-2018) died at 1:30 this morning, a day after being brought to Beth Israel ICU in Manhattan. David was on the WRL staff for almost 40 years (1960-1999), a long time member of the Socialist Party, who ran for Congress in 1958 and 1968, President of the United States on the SPUSA ticket in 1980 and 2000 — the first (I think) openly gay candidate for President — and for the U.S. Senate from New York in 2004 on the Green Party ticket. An internationalist and former chair of the War Resisters' International, he traveled extensively, many times to war-torn countries, once getting arrested in Red Square during an anti-nuclear protest in 1978.

Liberal Madness And The Anti-war Imperative

July 21, 2018 Staff, Blackallianceforpeace.com Organize! Anti-War, Liberals, US Imperialism, US military

The ongoing and deepening crisis of U.S. society has caused anger, fear and confusion. The precipitous decline of the standard of living for millions of people in the United States helped produce the conditions for the election of Trump. This, in turn, created the Democrats' irrational anti-Russia position. The problem, of course, is that whether it is taking aggressive, militaristic positions with either Russia or North Korea, pushing an already unstable and reckless Trump administration to be more forceful is a dangerous position that could easily pull the United States into yet another military conflict. But that is precisely what the Democrats and their liberal allies have been demanding, with potentially disastrous consequences for millions.

They Went To Jail For Justice

July 11, 2018 By DavidSwanson.org Resist! Anti-War, political prisoners

The book is a bit of a time capsule, somewhat along the lines of Daniel Ellsberg’s recent book revealing the substance of the other half of the Pentagon Papers decades later. In fact, Hinke actually found this manuscript, which he had begun in 1966 and lost a couple of years later in the process of moving to Canada. So it’s a shame that the book proceeds chronologically through the 20th century and then breaks off, more or less, in the 1970s. But what has come since may be more familiar, and what is found here is of tremendous value. Part of what the book illuminates is the role Canada has played for many decades as a haven for those fleeing all kinds of injustice, including military conscription, in the United States, but also in other countries, such as Russia.

Re-Centering Anti-War And Anti-Imperialism As Working Class Issues

May 2, 2018 Black Alliance for Peace. Organize! Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, May Day, Working Class

Today is the day that the multi-national, multi-racial working classes express solidarity with all those who labor, who have nothing but their labor power to sell in order to eke out a living for themselves and their families. Today, workers from all nations, races, genders and nationalities proclaim that – despite differences – there are common interests that bind us and can serve as a basis for a common political stance and program of liberation from the ravages of capitalist exploitation and great power domination.

America’s Growing Military Footprint Is Sparking An Anti War Resurgence

April 14, 2018 By Cameron Orr, Mintpressnews.com Organize! Anti-War, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Militarism and War, US Imperialism

Trump’s new discretionary budget will shovel 61 percent of the country’s social oxygen into the Pentagon’s fiery furnace. That’s $727 billion worth of schools, libraries, green jobs and infrastructure, housing, hospitals, nutritional support, healthcare, and other social needs that will go unmet. As if NRA-driven gun sales, white supremacist militias, anti-woman violence, armed ICE raids, and mass incarceration weren’t enough, capitalism is now giving us another reminder of its inherent violence in the form of a big new boost to spending on the military and overseas interventions. Trump’s new discretionary budget will shovel 61 percent of the country’s social oxygen into the Pentagon’s fiery furnace. That’s $727 billion worth of schools, libraries, green jobs and infrastructure, housing, hospitals, nutritional support, healthcare, and other social needs that will go unmet.

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