Undecided Progressives: Make the Difference for Obama
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
Thinking of casting a symbolic vote for Nader or some other third-party progressive? Think again.
2008
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Ahmadinejad Sees (Code) Pink
Joseph Huff-Hannon : Iran
The Iranian president encounters members of US peace groups and religious organization.
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The Problem Is Empire
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
The challenge to the peace movement is not to liberalize the empire; the task is to peacefully and steadily bring it to an end--and make democracy safe for the world.
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Peace Voters Face New Challenges
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
It was a barely good week for the antiwar movement in Denver; peace voters face huge challenges in the election season ahead.
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Warning to Obama on the New Cold War
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
McCain and the neocons are heating up a conflict in the Caucasus; it's up to the peace movement to keep Obama from signing on.
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The Defunding of the Peace Movement
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
If millions are to be spent on an anti-Iraq, anti-McCain message, the money will come from the Obama campaign or not at all.
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Dorothy Day's Day
Colman McCarthy : Religion
The movement she inspired--passionate, pacifist and siding with the scorned--is seventy-five and going strong.
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Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville
Chris Hedges : Religion
Time and age have not blunted his fierce critique of American empire and his radical interpretation of the Gospels.
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Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests
Benjamin Dangl : Vermont
As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.
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A Misunderstanding on Iraq
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Presidential Election 2008
Progressives who support Barack Obama must use the primary race help shape his policies on Iraq.
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Labor's War on Global Warming
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Labor Organizing & Activism
Together, unions can force the government to take on the issue of green-collar jobs.
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Israeli Army Vets Speak Out
Eyal Press : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Breaking the Silence comes to America.
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Antiwar Group Collapses
Tom Hayden : Iraq War
Tom Matzzie, leader of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, has resigned his position and dissolved a major and well-funded coalition of anti-war groups.
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Gandhi's Teachings Are Alive
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Religion
Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.
2007
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The Secret Library of Hope
Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.
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How the Peace Movement Can Win
Tom Hayden : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
For war opponents, the election year is a moment of great opportunity--and peril. The challenge is to leverage antiwar sentiment into a victory for peace.
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The Nijinsky of Ambivalence
Morris Dickstein : Non-Fiction
During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.
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Watada's Double Jeopardy
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
A legal drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether an Army officer who refuses to serve in Iraq has the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.
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How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
Peace activists are reaching out to US military officials to dampen the Bush Administration's ardor for attacking Iran.
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Northern Ireland, South Africa in Secret Iraq Peace Talks
Peacemakers from countries that have moved from sectarian strife towards national reconciliation met with Iraq Sunnis and Shi'as in an effort to resolved the crisis.
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Little Disturbances, Enormous Changes
Kathy Engel : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Remembering Grace Paley and the impact she had on literature, activism and many generations of women and children.
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Why the Silence?
Arthur Waskow : Judaism & Jews
Leaders of the Jewish community who have resisted calls to voice opposition to the war can no longer justify their failure to speak out.
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Kentucky at War
Opposition to the Iraq War has created some unlikely alliances in Kentucky, much to the chagrin of Senator Mitch McConnell.
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Wanted: Unruly Activists
They're loud, lion-hearted, obnoxious and essential to democracy. And as an unjust war continues to create enormous suffering, we need people brave enough to practice extreme politics.
This week: Richard Kim and Sarah Posner on the Rick Warren controversy, Ari Berman on the legacy of Howard Dean, and an interview with reporter A.C. Thompson, author of the nation's recent investigation, "Katrina's Hidden Race War." (13mb mp3)
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