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Veterans Support Students Protesting Genocide in Palestine

“The students are absolutely right, and may be saving our humanity.” Veterans For Peace applauds the students who are protesting against the US/Israeli genocide in Palestine.  These courageous young students are doing the right thing at the right time. “The…

Nakba Exhibition Opens Despite Resistance from the City of Munich

On May 7, the exhibition “Nakba – Flight and Expulsion of Palestinians in 1948” will be opened at the Schwabing Citizen Center Seidl-Villa after months of negotiations, despite strong reservations from the city. The organizers are the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group…

US vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?

Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the military, torn from their families, forced to kill each…

Vietnam celebrates another anniversary of the end of the war and its reunification

On 30 April, Vietnam will celebrate the forty-ninth anniversary of the end of the war and the achievement of national reunification. The capital Hanoi and the more populous Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) were draped in red flags and…

12 and 15 May live: let’s all tune in to the Joint Ceremonies of reconciliation of the Combatants for Peace

While the world is following with bated breath the difficult negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza and in dozens of universities protests spread over the illegality of the occupations that have never stopped in the West Bank, we receive and…

Let a Global Movement for Nonviolent Social and Personal Transformation emerge from this nightmare

For over 200 days since October 7th, the brutal oppression of Palestinians in their homelands has been brought into the awareness of a previously unaware western population Western governments’ desperate attempts to support Israel’s genocidal leaders reveal their own authoritarian…

Bernie Sanders on the devastation in Palestine

We publish here the video (from X, formerly Twitter) in which US Senator Bernie Sanders addresses the Prime Minister of Israel on the Palestinian issue: Bernie Sanders: “No, Mr. Netanyahu, you are not anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas point out that in…

“This Is the Conscience of a Nation”: Columbia Faculty Back Students as Campus Movement Continues

In New York, police moved in on Fordham University protesters just hours after they set up their encampment at Fordham’s Lincoln Square campus. The Fordham raid came a day after New York police arrested nearly 300 protesters at Columbia University…

New Book About NATO By Medea Benjamin and David Swanson

NATO What You Need To Know By MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON “An indispensable primer. It can save your life — indeed all of our lives…NATO is a clear and present danger to world peace, a war machine run amok.”…

Columbia students occupy Hamilton Hall after school suspends students. New protest encampments all over the US

Students at Columbia University took over Hamilton Hall just after midnight after the school began suspending students who refused to leave the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which began almost two weeks ago. The hall was also the site of a historic…

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