From About Face End Support for Warmongers at Yale! Yale Must: Prevent donor conditions on academic freedom. Adhere to a standard for Yale affiliation that would disqualify those involved in war crimes….
Category: Speeches & Public Statements
12/4/21 Former Guantanamo Prisoners to President Biden
From About Face About Face is working with CAGE international to have people who formally worked in Guantanamo unite with people who were formally incarcerated there to demand that it close down….
8/4/21 Open Letter to the People of Japan from Concerned Peace and Civil Society Organizations of the U.S.
World Can’t Wait is one of the signatories to the following letter which was delivered to the Japanese Consulate in NYC on Aug. 2, 2021. We, the undersigned, representing a coalition of…
1/29/21 An Open Letter to President Biden About Guantánamo
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…
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….