What Christmas Owes To Abolitionists
Before Christmas emerged as a commercial success, it led a checkered social life. In the 13 American colonies and the early days of the United States, it was known as a festival of heavy drinking and brawling.
Before Christmas emerged as a commercial success, it led a checkered social life. In the 13 American colonies and the early days of the United States, it was known as a festival of heavy drinking and brawling.
South Korea announced that a rural southern county would be the site of an advanced American “missile defense” battery, which has angered China, North Korea, and local residents. #WorldBEYONDWar
Several thousand demonstrators formed a human chain along the perimeter of a U.S. Air Force Base in southwest Germany in protest against drones. #WorldBEYONDWar
Our small three person delegation from CODEPINK: Women for Peace (Leslie Harris of Dallas, TX, Barbara Briggs-Letson of Sebastopol, CA and Ann Wright of Honolulu, HI) travelled to Greece to volunteer in refugee camps.
#NoWar2016 was a series of panels and workshops, plus an awards ceremony and a protest action. The conference was sold out and universally praised in high terms.
Credit to Fabio d’Alessandro for the photo and alerting me to the story, reported in Italian at Vice and Meridionews. On the morning of Armistice
Inside the disturbing sex industry thriving around America’s bases. #WorldBEYONDWar
Landmark research proves that the US-led ‘war on terror’ has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades