By Debra Sweet Starting this week, World Can’t Wait and many other groups begin a month of impressively diverse actions aimed at stopping U.S. drone war and surveillance. We hope all supporters…
Category: Reports of Demonstrations
3-13-13 Afghans rally for Bradley Manning in Kabul
By the Bradley Manning Support Network From Free Bradley Manning Network l Original The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan held a demonstration in Kabul last week for Pfc. Bradley Manning. As…
2-15-13 War on Iraq is Still Not in Our Name
By Debra Sweet 10 years ago on February 15th was the largest one-day mass outpouring of opposition to war in history, when as many as 15 million people worldwide came into the…
2-8-13 Codepink Repeatedly Disrupts Brennan Hearing Calling Out Names of Civilians Killed in Drone Strikes
From Democracy Now | Original Article Thursday’s confirmation hearing for CIA nominee John Brennan was briefly postponed to clear the room of activists from CODEPINK after they repeatedly disrupted Brennan’s testimony. One…
1-4-13 Students and Columbia residents protest possible hiring of Dr. Larry James
By Beatriz Costa-Lima From The Maneater | Original Article About 30 students and Columbia residents marched from the Islamic Center of Central Missouri to Hill Hall on Friday to protest the possible…
1-22-13 Our Problem is We are Peaceful and Believe in the People
By Debra Sweet Washington was strangely quiet yesterday, in contrast to 2009. Though hundreds of thousands came out to the Mall to celebrate another term for Barack Obama, there wasn’t bubbling, hopeful…
1-10-13 UC Berkeley Faculty Member John Yoo Subject of Protest
From Mercury News | Original Article Protesters from World Can’t Wait were on hand to protest the employment of John Yoo by UC Berkeley at an event in Boalt Hall on the…
1-5-13 Activists Collect Litter, Press for More Permanent ‘Cleanup’
By Marth Quillin From NewsObserver | Original Article (For photos see original article) SMITHFIELD — Activists who accuse Aero Contractors Ltd. of doing the federal government’s dirty work picked up trash outside…
1-4-13 ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Protesters Say It Glorifies Torture
Demonstrators Attend Opening Night of Zero Dark Thirty to Protest Torture from San Francisco Chronicle on Vimeo. From KQED | Original Article Osama bin Laden may be dead, but the controversy over…
10-26-12 Anti-Drone Protest Shuts Down Hancock Air Base, 17 Arrested, 13 Held in Jail
By The Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and Stop the Wars Forty concerned citizens created a blockade this morning of Hancock Air National Guard Base outside Syracuse, NY. MQ-9 Reaper…
10-12-12 Punishing Free Speech and Letting Murder Off the Hook, Justice Denied in Missouri
By Voices for Creative Nonviolence In US District Court in Jefferson City, Missouri, two anti-drone protestors were sentenced for trespassing at Whiteman Air Force Base, one of the stateside bases from where…
10-1-12 40-Member Delegation Now in Pakistan through October 10th
By Veterans for Peace WASHINGTON – October 1 – VFP members Leah Bolger, DaveDittemore, Bill Kelly, Jody Mackey, Rob Mulford, andAnn Wright are meeting with drone victims’ families,elected officials, tribal elders, and…