By Miguel Villegas Ventura Ñuu Savi = People of the rain Tu’un Savi = Language of the rain Ñani = Brother Ku’va = Sister Ve’e Tu’un Savi = The Academy of the Mixtec Language I would like to [...] Continue Reading
National & International
Poison Gas and Arabian Tales: Dispatches from the Edge
By Conn Hallinan “It is not unlike Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn’t bark. It’s not just that we can’t prove a sarin attack, it is that we are not seeing what we would expect to see from a [...] Continue Reading
Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history. [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – July 2013
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING There is no WILPF meeting in July. The WILPF Retreat will happen in August - watch this space for details. WOMEN IN BLACK July 3, first Wednesday of each month at noon at [...] Continue Reading
Local Activists Travel to Cuba
By Richard Stone The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) Pastors for Peace is again preparing for its annual breech of the U.S. embargo on trade and travel to Cuba. [...] Continue Reading
Fund-Raiser for Haiti Scheduled July 26
By Cecilia Russ One Source–Haiti is a nonprofit organized by Cecilia Russ, a former longtime resident of Fresno. She has been to Haiti twice and is in contact with teachers and families from the [...] Continue Reading
Breaking Bread with the Enemy: Meeting the Viet Cong, 40 Years Later
By Gerry Bill It wasn’t exactly tea with Mussolini, but perhaps it was something like that. During a recent trip to Vietnam, my first, I was fortunate to be with a small group that got invited to [...] Continue Reading
Changes in Cuba and the Caravan: Same Old Blockade
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The 24th Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will leave the United States on July 16, bound for Cuba. This is an ongoing struggle against the illegal, immoral U.S. blockade [...] Continue Reading
Ellen Bush Reports Back from Cuba
By Richard Stone (Author’s note: In this article, I have quoted freely and with permission from a report written by one of Ellen Bush’s co-travelers who asked to be unnamed, hereafter called [...] Continue Reading
A Classic Case of Premature Capitulation
By Peter Cavanaugh In the frenzied world of political foreplay, there are few things that offer the same degree of collective embarrassment as a revival of premature capitulation. I just don’t get [...] Continue Reading
Don’t Let Feds Murder Lynne Stewart
By Maria Telesco If you were in serious trouble, maybe accused of terrorism, the best court-appointed lawyer you could hope for would be Lynne Stewart. A criminal defense attorney for more than 30 [...] Continue Reading
Drone Surveillance Wants You!
By Grant Marcus There is a current war on the American people. Corporations in California are at war with us and each other, vying over which company will get the first $22 billion drone contract in [...] Continue Reading