5.14 pacifism and pacifist organizing

Tell New Yorker: Exploiting Prostituted Haitian Women Dying of HIV: Not Funny

Posted August 3rd, 2009 by sdiener
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Zev Borow wrote in a humor column about sunblock in the New Yorker:

"SPF 175—Ever wanted to have unprotected sex with a prostitute in Haiti? Don’t answer. Doesn’t matter. The point is with SPF 175 that’s now an option." Whoa. I think it's the pseudo-cool casualness of the misogyny and racism displayed here that outrages me most.

Cultures of Peace: Reflections on the UN Declaration's First Decade

Authors: Michael True

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Military Recruiting Abuses: On Tape

Posted June 15th, 2009 by sdiener
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Military recruiters have a quota, or what they call a "mission," specifying how many people they're expected to enlist each month. When they don't reach their quotas, they're often pressured intensely, ordered to work overtime, and threatened with career-ending consequences. Not all recruiters lie, but lies by military recruiters aren't the exception, they're common. ABC in New York, for example, sent hidden cameras into recruiting stations in 2006 and found 5 of 10 recruiters they taped lied on camera (see item 11).

Open Letter to Obama Regarding Darfur: End CIA Involvement, Increase Diplomatic Efforts

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First, cut CIA ties to Sudan's Intelligence agency.

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Don't Let those who Kill Turn Us into Killers: NH Legislator's Rejection of Vengeance Sways House

Ken Wiwa
Authors: Renny Cushing

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They took enough from me. I won't let them take away my values.

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Ingredients for Failure: NATO, Violence, and the Demonstrations in Strasbourg

The Strasbourg police tried to ban peace flags, a ban that was upheld by a local French court. If you outlaw peace, will only outlaws have peace? Strasbourg, France, April 4, 2009 Anti-NATO demonstration. PHOTO: JOS VAN ZETTEN VIA FLICKR
Authors: Diana Johnstone

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The violent factions: NATO and the members of the black block, stole the show.

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Feminist Declaration: From the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala

Woman with microphone
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A good life must be based on an equal distribution of power.

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What’s up with the Violence?

Oakland, CA, January 14, 2009. A rally protesting the killing of Oscar Grant, a young African American supermarket worker, by an officer of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police. Only after more than a week of public protests was the officer arrested. photo &
Authors: Shamara Rhodes

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I think to myself, if so many teenagers
are dying now my whole generation of
teenagers is going to be gone by the
time I turn eighteen.

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US Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan: CO Declares War "Flat-Out Murder"

Authors: Sarah Lazare

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I won't go.

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