Peace and War

Numerous peace and justice organizations, including student groups taking advantage of Spring Break, are making plans for a week of actions from March 12th to 19th to mark the end of the fifth year of U.S. occupation in Iraq. Events will culminate in a national day of actions on March 19th, the fifth anniversary of the invasion. Congress members will be home on break, and activists hope to organize nonviolent civil disobedience actions in all 435 congressional districts, as well as nonviolent read more

By David Swanson

You are beautiful. We are all Vicentini.

L’ambasciata americana ha chiesto a me ed a tutti gli americani di non venire qua in questi tre giorni. Ma il presidio permanente ci ha invitato. Tra il nazionalismo e la giustizia e’ stato molto facile sciegliere.

Voglio ringraziare il Presidio permanente e il movimento No Dal Molin per avermi incluso, insieme a Desiree Fairooz e Eve Tetaz, in questa bellissima mobilitazione. Siete un’ispirazione per tutti noi che viviamo read more

Di David Swanson

Voglio ringraziare il Presidio permanente e il movimento No Dal Molin per avermi invitato, insieme a Desiree, a Vicenza. Vicenza per me è speciale per vari motivi. 20 anni fa sono venuto qui come studente a Bassano del Grappa, ho vissuto a Marostica e venivo spesso a Vicenza. Ho fatto amicizia con persone che ora per me sono come una famiglia, sono tornato diverse volte a trovarli e sono venuti loro negli Stati uniti. E, a proposito, 20 anni fa, quando dicevi di essere statunitense, read more

By David Swanson

The people of the northern Italian city of Vicenza, with help from activists around Italy, the rest of Europe, and even in the United States, are continuing to block the proposed construction of a new U.S. military base on their soil. When a company laid underground fiber-optic cables at the site of the proposed base, activists fill a junction box with cement. When another company tried to begin the work of removing World War II era U.S. bombs from the site, activists camped out read more

By David Swanson

In the face of a new NIE that shatters his and Cheney’s lies about Iranian nukes, Bush is now claiming that just knowing how to make a bomb is a danger to the world that could justify an illegal war and even the USE of the bomb. This insanity fits perfectly with the bill now making its way through the Senate that would make the promotion of belief systems that could lead to “violence read more

By David Swanson

“A very few serve the state with their consciences, and so necessarily resist it.” -Henry David Thoreau

“We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was illegal.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

“A real cynic isn’t going to blow the whistle. And a real radical probably won’t be in a position to do it. It takes someone who believes in the system far more read more