Consider the Source
The Pentagon will gladly supply, on request, such information as the quantity of ordnance expended in Vietnam. From 1965 through 1969 this amounts to about 4.5 million tons by aerial bombardment. This is nine times…
Category: Activists
What You Understand Depends on Where You Stand/1
For Brent and Brett On Daniel Berrigan’s Night Flight to Hanoi Night Flight to Hanoi is an account of Jesuit Daniel Berrigan’s odyssey in late January and early February 1968, when he and historian Howard Zinn traveled…
Everyone Just as Precious
In the days ahead, everyone who loves this country enough to change it will have many opportunities both to reflect on and to practice the radical revolution in values that [Martin Luther] King projected and…
Comfort the Afflicted, Afflict the Comfortable
At this stage, we have an obligation to make those who shield Israel from criticism feel uncomfortable—not because they are Jewish, but because they are complicit in the commission of crimes against a vulnerable people…
Share the Wealth This Sunday with Ale Vázquez and Vitina Pestello
For our next Share the Wealth gathering, Ale and Vitina will share their experiences working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Program. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) Fair Food Program…
Sumud by Madeline Buthod
PSC member Madeline Buthod is on an Inter-Faith Peace Builder’s delegation and offers us the following testimony… Today we went to the Tent of Nations, a hilltop farm just outside of Bethlehem. To get there…
What It’s Going to Take
Mev: Did you suffer any threats? Ilza Mendes: Yes, they would harass me on the streets or encircle our house. Sometimes I’d come home and find 30 men standing outside my house, all with revolvers…