By Mansoor Adayfi, Moazzam Begg, Lakhdar Boumediane, Sami Al Hajj, Ahmed Errachidi, Mohammed Ould Slahi and Moussa Zemmouri From The New York Review | Original Article President Bush opened it. President Obama…
Category: Speeches & Public Statements
1/14/21 Writing Letters to the Plowshares 7
From KingsBayPlowshares7.org “I’m Going In There With Hope” – Patrick O’Neill Driving through Ohio, about to begin a 14-month sentence for his part in the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 disarmament action Patrick…
5/28/20 NO to German military using weaponized drones
From World Can’t Wait | Original Article The German Bundestag is set to decide soon whether its mlitary will deploy weaponized drones. It’s not a minor question, given that the whole world…
2/26/20 Launch of “Guantánamo [Un]Censored: Art from Inside the Prison” at CUNY School of Law in New York
By Andy Worthington From Andy Worthington | Original Article One of the extraordinary ships made out of recycled…
2/11/20 Stop the Prosecution of Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale
The prosecution of drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is currently scheduled to proceed in March. A former veteran of the drone assassination program who became an outspoken activist and critic of it, Hale…
1/16/20 “Close Guantanamo” with Andy Worthington & Shelby Sullivan-Bennis
Andy Worthington, British journalist and co-founder of Close Guantanamo, spoke at Revolution Books in NYC on January 16, 2020, together with Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, attorney for current and former Guantanamo prisoners. They give…
4/23/19 I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector.
By Jack Poulson From The New York Times | Original Article American companies continue to build surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights. Workers who refuse to comply deserve protections….
3/24/19 20 years later: victims of NATO-mission in the Balkans must finally be helped
From International Commission to Ban Nuclear Weapons | Original Article As part of the (not UN-mandated and thus illegal) NATO operation “Allied Forces” from March 24 to June 6, 1999, uranium ammunition…
3/7/19 Demand that Holocaust Museum Drop Elliott Abrams!
Join survivors of genocide and mass murder to demand that the Holocaust Museum drop Elliott Abrams from its Committee on Conscience. Alleged war criminal, Elliott Abrams — also convicted of lying to…
2/18/19 Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Activists Speak to Overflow NYC Crowd
By Mary Anne Grady Flores Please sign and share the Global Petition calling for dropping all charges of the Kings Bay Plowshares, joining 5 distinguished Nobel Laureates signers, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu,…
5-12-18 Stop Threats to Iran’s People
From World Can’t Wait | Original Article Trump’s threats towards Iran grow more dangerous An article published on RefuseFascism.org, “Lies from the Same Lying Liars Who Sold the Invasion of Iraq,” notes:…
1-5-18 How It Could Finally Be Possible to Prosecute War as a Crime
By David Swanson From World Beyond War | Original Article War is a crime. The International Criminal Court has just announced that it will finally treat it as a crime, sort-of, kind-of….
7-24-17 War on the World, Trump Style
Panel Presentation at the Left Forum, June 4, 2017 held at John Jay College in NYC. Donald Trump brags, stating in his inauguration speech: “We assembled here today are issuing a new…
7-22-17 Stop the Desperation of Refugees, Stop Bombing Their Countries
Panel Presentation at the Left Forum, June 3, 2017 held at John Jay College in NYC. In year three of the largest world refugee crisis since WW II, the Trump/Pence regime has…
FAQ #2: Aren’t they all fascists – Obama and Hilary too?
From World Can’t Wait They are all members of the ruling class and led or hope to lead this empire. That doesn’t make them inherently fascist. Even while Obama said the “They…