Nonviolence

Why Don’t Palestinians Protest Non-Violently?

October 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Nonviolence, Occupation, Organizing, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation

Yes, what was going on in Gaza before the October 7 Hamas revolt, and “Why didn’t the Palestinians Protest Non-Violently?” Actually, a friend asked me this question today, after expressing horror at the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens. It’s an important question and the vast majority of people in the United States don’t know the answer. The short[…]

The Poor People’s Campaign Dishoners Martin Luther King

May 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cost of War, Identity Politics, Nonviolence, Poverty, Statement, Ukraine

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 4, 2022 It is disheartening to hear movement leaders say they are inspired by Martin Luther King while also supporting the U.S. proxy war against Russia. Like all wars it endangers the lives of civilian populations, enriches the military industrial complex, and robs Americans of public resources. Once King chose an[…]

Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons?

November 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Nonviolence, Nuclear Agendas, Resistance

by Sam Husseini, published on CounterPunch, November 22, 2019 Pope Francis will travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki this weekend. On Sunday, he will give a public address at the ground-zero site of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki. He is expected to give the clearest articulation yet of the Vatican’s position, since 2017, that condemns the “very possession” of nuclear weapons.[…]

Trident is the Crime

October 27, 2019 UNAC Editor Nonviolence, Nuclear Agendas, Political Prisoners, Protest, Resistance

by Kathy Kelly, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 10/25/2019 On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three felony counts and one misdemeanor. The defendants face 20 years in prison, yet they emerged from their trial seeming quite ready for next steps in[…]

On Eve of Trial Judge Limits Plowshares’ Seven Defense

October 22, 2019 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Featured, Nonviolence, Nuclear Agendas, Protest, Resistance

The Plowshares 7 are a group of peace activists have been jailed since April 4, 2018 for civil resistance to the US Nuclear Weapons program. They entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia to protest U.S. nuclear weapons on April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Armed with hammers, crime scene tape and baby[…]

Peace Activists Face 25 Years for Action at U.S. Nuclear Submarine Base

August 29, 2019 UNAC Editor Nonviolence, Nuclear Agendas, Protest

From Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Seven Catholic plowshares activists entered Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. They went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares”. The seven chose to act on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who devoted his[…]

Raising a Generation to Grow Peace in Afghanistan

March 6, 2019 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Nonviolence, Paths to Emancipation

Photo: Young people from the APV Borderfree Center on a field trip to a river on the outskirts of Kabul to study permaculture. ~Dr. Hakim by Kathy Kelly, Published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, February 13, 2019 Hossein, a member of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APV), which hosted my recent visit to Afghanistan, rolled up his sleeve to show me[…]

Altruism and Sadism in Public Policy

June 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Militarism, Nonviolence

by David Swanson, published on Let’s Try Democracy, June 24, 2018 Remarks at Peace Resource Center of San Diego, June 23, 2018. There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism. First, the military budget. The U.S. military budget, including all things military in various departments, is roughly 60% of federal discretionary spending,[…]

Nonviolence, the Poor People’s Campaign and the Work of Gene Sharp

April 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Nonviolence

Civil Resistance at Hancock Base, 2016 ~photo by Heriberto Rodriguez by Ann Tiffany and Ed Kinane, originally published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence Activist, author and scholar Gene Sharp died this past January 28. Inspired by Gandhi and deeply informed by history, Sharp (b.1928) founded the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston. Back in the 80s, Ed plowed through Sharp’s three-volume,[…]