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On this show, we speak with Francesco Da Vinci author of “I Refuse to Kill”, a nonviolent activist, Conscientious Objector, documentary film producer, and for more than 20 years photographer with Getty Images.  

The peace movement did a great many things right in the first decade of this millennium, some of which we’ve forgotten. It also fell short in many ways. I want to highlight the lessons I think we’ve most failed to…

This week nearly 400 human rights groups urged the Biden administration not to revive the controversial practice of migrant family detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Biden ended family detention when he took office two years ago but is now…

Five days later after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the 75th Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. On that day, filmmaker Michael Moore was honoured with the golden statuette together with Michael Donovan for…

For twenty-nine years, a poet has his birthday in prison. Ilhan Sami Çomak, who was incarcerated in 1994, had an open visitation on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. His attorney brought messages from people around the world to the…

Inception In 1968 the United States began to get a glimpse of the limitations on its apparent omnipotence. Lyndon Johnson’s attempt to simultaneously create a “New Society” without poverty, to put a man on the moon and to conduct a…

CODEPINK along with Massachusetts Peace Action, Democratic Socialists of America, the Latin America Working Group, the Chicago Religious Leadership Network, and others calls for a National Call-In to the White House to Remove Cuba from the List of State Sponsors…

Protests and Popular Sentiment growing for “Peace In Ukraine – No weapons, no money for the Ukraine War.” John V. Walsh On March 18 protesters will gather at the White House to call for an end to Joe Biden’s cruel…

Speaking before MEP Sabrina Pignedoli, Prof. Maria Cristina Marchetti, Prof. Alessandro Guerra, journalist Riccardo Iacona and a packed hall of students, Julian Assange’s partner praised initiatives around the world on behalf of the co-founder of WikiLeaks. Tina Marinari di Amnesty…

The sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is currently underway at the United Nations in NYC. Since its first meeting in 1947, this important conference provides a forum to assess the progress of international efforts to…