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Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. Please Forward, Post and Share on Websites, Blogs, Networking Sites, etc. http://www.cpdweb.org/events/Mexico-PR.shtml FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 22, 2014 Contact: Richard Roman  droman@rogers.com Joanne Landy cpd@igc.org U.S.-BASED CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE AND…

Please Forward, Post and Share on Websites, Blogs, Networking Sites, etc. Dear Friend of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy,           We are writing at this critical moment to invite you to sign the CPD statement “End the Killing of…

In the recent conference in Nayarit, Mexico on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons, ICAN presented a six minute video arguing for the need for a ban on these terrifying weapons. “Nuclear weapons are the most destructive weapon ever invented…

Ray Acheson, Beatrice Fihn, and Katherine Harrison* “Nayarit is a point of no return,” concluded the Chair of the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, held from 13–14 February in Nayarit, Mexico. In his summary of the…

By Marta Molina for Waging Nonviolence After 13 years of unjust imprisonment, Mexican political prisoner Alberto Patishtan Gomez walked free on October 31. Over the course of his incarceration, the 42-year-old indigenous Tzotzil professor became one of Mexico’s leading voices…

On October 17, 1931, Alphonse Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Not because he was head of the Chicago underworld, Mafia capo who ran prostitution, illegal gambling and smuggling of alcohol. Not for the death of his competitors,…