In today’s Easter blessing, Pope Francis evoked the manifesto of Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell pleading for the abolition of war: May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of the cruel and… Continue Reading
Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Basilica, Easter Sunday, 2022; photograph courtesy of Vatican News This weekend we are experiencing a rare convergence of Easter, Passover and Ramadan. On Good Friday, together with peace activists and clergy of many faith traditions,… Continue Reading
Photograph by Wondros This is a big week in Atlanta Georgia — the whole city is celebrating her most distinguished citizen, Andrew J. Young, on the occasion of his 90th birthday on March 12, when there will be a big… Continue Reading
Bloody Sunday by Ted Ellis, Wikimedia Commons March 7, 2022 March 7 is a sacred day in historical memory. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of Black demonstrators attempted to peacefully walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in a… Continue Reading
Protest against the Russian war in Ukraine, Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 24, 2022, © 2022 REUTERS/Anton Vaganov, Human Rights Watch Dear Andrei, May 2001. I tried to reach you at your Moscow office. Your assistant transferred me to your mobile… Continue Reading
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;… Continue Reading
Veronica Pelicaric, 1946-2022 Ken Butigan and Rivera Sun are leaders of the Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service — the extraordinary organization promoting nonviolence as a strategic and way of life for courageous people. Over the years, Pace e Bene… Continue Reading
Photo courtesy of Anth101.com and Bending the Arc We cannot build an environmental movement or movement for sustainable development that does not have the social and economic rights of the poor at its center. Paul Farmer, March 28, 2008: Dr.… Continue Reading
Anna Politkovskaya, Amnesty Finland, Creative Commons In this moment, Europe and the world stands at the precipice of the largest military invasion in Europe since 1945. If war breaks out, it will be horrific, with catastrophic humanitarian consequences. We hold our… Continue Reading
In the fall of 1971, at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility in New York, over 1,200 inmates seized the yard and took more than three dozen guards and civilian employees hostage. At the 50th anniversary of the uprising and massacre,… Continue Reading
