OKC council rejects Indigenous People’s Day proposal for second year
For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma City city council has failed to pass a popular initiative to name the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day, as has been …
An open letter to President Obama regarding Chelsea Manning
President Obama, Are you seriously going to sit back and let the Army punish Chelsea Manning with solitary for a suicide attempt that was a direct response to their inhumane treatment of her?
The many trials of Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning, facing decades of imprisonment in a military that denies her fundamental human rights, recovers from a suicide attempt.
Death Penalty opponents to fast and vigil at Supreme Court for 23rd year
My fellow abolitionist and Amnesty SDPAC Abe Bonowitz organizes this annual action — Starvin‘ for Justice: The Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty — and put out the press releases below. Wish I could be there. Maybe next year will be the last, and a big celebration to mark the end of the death penalty in the US.
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Here’s the latest episode entitled Rena’s Big Day Etc Etc Etc. Something else to take up room for testing purposes we want a new line. How many characters can I …
Photos: Press conference for Richard Glossip with Sister Helen Prejean
See all the the photos from the event in album format here. This work by peacearena.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://goo.gl/photos/X4PgnBhrzQuGyctUA
Chelsea Manning supporters gather in Oklahoma hometown to celebrate her 27th birthday and demand release from prison
NEWS RELEASE On Wednesday, December 17, for the second year, supporters of Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning) will celebrate the Oklahoma-born whistleblower’s birthday in her hometown of Crescent, which is about 40 miles north of OKC. The event is hosted by last year’s sponsor, the Center for Conscience in Action (CCA), now joined by local…
Why I wasn’t there
I missed the OKC event marking the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. I couldn’t bring myself to risk witnessing more pro-war propaganda associated with MLK.
Justin Bieber gets Anne Frank
I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I am going to defend Justin Bieber. The singer, who for some reason is immensely popular right now with girls around the age …