nonviolenceUSA

NonviolenceUSA: it can happen here

  • War No More

    War No More, edited by Lawrence Rosenwald remembers three centuries of peace writing in America.

  • Gaza Freedom March

    We have archived StarHawk’s account of this profound international action: We did it! Up until the moment we did, I didn’t quite believe we would, but we did. Went to bed last night thinking, “Yeah, Starhawk, you’ve done this a hundred times, yawn, nerves of steel, sleep like a baby,” and of course I hardly…

  • Linda Biehl

    South Africa has awarded one of its highest civilian honours to a Chicago-born mother who became an international peace activist and motivational speaker following her daughter’s tragic death in Cape Town. On Monday, Linda Biehl was among the thirty-eight recipients of National Orders for exception contributiongs to the benefit of the country. President Thabo Mbeki…

  • Mike Ferner

    Ferner, who served as a Navy Hospital Corpsman during the Viet Nam war, was arrested September 20, in the the visitors’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives when he and another activist stood up and loudly addressed the members of Congress, saying: “Funding the War is Killing Our Troops!” Ferner was arrested by Capitol…

  • Frs. Steve Kelly & Louie Vitale

    On Nov. 19, 2006, Kelly and Vitale approached the Fort Huachuca gatehouse in southern Arizona, seeking entry to speak with enlisted personnel and deliver a letter denouncing torture and the Military Commissions Act of 2006. They asked to deliver the letter to Major General Barbara Fast, commander at the post and a key figure in…

  • Million Peace March Proposal

    A mobilization of one million people marching on Washington DC would be the best possible trigger for an avalanche of grassroots organizing throughout the country and among service members and their families and veterans. It is time for something bold and broad. Something that sends an unmistakable message to the powers that be that the…

  • Dedicated to Staughton and Alice Lynd

    Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History by Staughton and Alice Lynd is the proximate inspiration for this website. See a review of the book by Colman McCarthy at FindArticles.

  • Paradise – American Made

    The vision – renovating half of the motel units to be used as for-profit units. This profit, along with the profit generated by restaurant business would be turned back into the veterans’ project, making it possible to develop similar properties in other areas of the country. The remaining rooms would see several renovated to become…

  • Hinzman and Hughey

    Two U.S. Army deserters who lost a Federal Court of Appeal hearing in their bid to stay in Canada haven’t lost hope and will seek leave to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada, their lawyer says. “This is not a setback that will dissuade us,” solicitor Jeffry House said of last week’s…

  • Ehren Watada

    SEATTLE — A second court-martial is scheduled to begin July 16 for an Army lieutenant who refused to go to Iraq with his Fort Lewis-based Stryker brigade and spoke out against the Bush administration. The first military trial for 1st Lt. Ehren Watada ended in mistrial after three days when the judge said he didn’t…

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