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Actress and UNICEF ambassador Mia Farrow was a guest speaker at the recent Millenium Summit in Montreal. She spoke about the crisis in Darfur, a region she has visited 11 times since 2004.

Pressenza speaks with Henk-Jan Brinkman – by Anne Farrell

They will hold protests around the country to show their opposition to funding war

Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko

President Obama is back in the United States after stopping in Turkey and Iraq following his European trip.

Obama was also asked about his stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict, where he has yet to make any change from the US support of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

‘In this age of the atom bomb, unadulterated nonviolence is the only force that can confound all the tricks of violence put together.’

On April 4, in honor of Dr. King and his visionary ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech in 1967, 10,000 people marched on Wall Street to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to demand a larger investment in the needs of our communities. Labor, veterans, students, immigrant rights groups, military families, faith-based people, women’s groups, and community groups joined for a lively, vibrant march.

Protest against the financial bailout and the ongoing US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan

More than 300 of the world’s top physicians have called on US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to “end the nuclear weapons era once and for all.”