Fund the People, Not the Pentagon
Year: 2021
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
Support the Prison Moratorium – Building up People not Prisons
by Yoav Elinevsky Report on standout/canvassing event in Belchertown on November 14, 2021, 2-4 PM The campaign to pass the Moratorium bill is focusing on 5 representatives who co-chair a committee that will decide if the bill moves forward or not. They are: Judiciary House […]
Latin America
Nicaragua through My Own Eyes
by Yoav Elinevsky The country and people I saw in October 2021 were not what is presented about Nicaragua by the US government and the mainstream media. The Nicaraguans my delegation met with–from officials to workers–expressed pride in the country’s socio-economic achievements during the past […]
Middle East Wars
Armistice Day reflections
by Jim Anderson Reminiscing out loud heading towards yet another eleventh hour on the eleventh day of another eleventh month… big deal!? Yes yes Armistice Day is a big deal, and so is Veterans Day, which by the way are one and the same. Armistice […]
Nuclear Disarmament
Making Another World Possible with the Nuclear Ban Treaty
As planetary dynamics interact with the COVID-19 pandemic, social, political, economic, internal, and relational dynamics have been laid bare and found wanting. We have collectively witnessed and experienced glaring inequities and precarities in the institutions and structures that govern, shape, and claim authority over our […]
No War with China
Alternatives to the Pentagon’s China Nightmares
by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams I’m embarrassed for my friends when they make mistakes, not that I haven’t made a few myself. Recently when the Pentagon issued its terrorizing annual report on China warning that by 2030 China’s People’s Liberation Army could […]
Palestine/Israel