By Lila Li On December 31, 2024, the U.N. Human Rights Office (OHCHR) released its fourth thematic report, titled “Attacks on Hospitals During the Escalation of Hostilities in Gaza.” The 23-page document challenges prevailing Israeli narratives used to justify Israeli military operations against Gazan hospitals. Through detailed legal analysis and … Read More

by Rev Dr Doe West A Rallying Cry for Gratitude from an Indigenous woman in the US of A, 2024 Scrooge! Grinch! Stakes of holly plunging into hearts across the land! The antithesis of visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads! Arrg! The weeping, the gnashing of teeth, the rage, … Read More

by Merri Ansara On Saturday, Dec. 14, around 35 people marched a mile and a half through Holyoke to City Hall calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and the nuclear threat.  Called by residents of Holyoke, people from a number of nearby towns joined the Holyoke residents, representing … Read More

 God In Gaza? Look:   There,  on that hospital floor demolished by OUR bombs,       crowded with patients with no place to flee; Look:     in tents of the displaced masses, fire-bombed at night, children -clinging to IVs- burned alive,      (MAY IT  HAVE BEEN INSTANT!!!); At mass graves, row upon row, in their … Read More

By Merri Ansara You have an invitation to join me at the International Conference for World Balance, January 28 to 31st in Havana Cuba.  This will be an extraordinary conference for peace activists and an opportunity for them to get to know what the rest of the world is thinking … Read More

In the United States, relatively well-off people embedded in the capitalist system do not face housing insecurity, pressing financial struggles, and debt, and are able to live entire lifetimes without truly ruminating on the immense human cost of limitless industrial expansion and colonization. Maintaining comfort and wealth is generally clung … Read More