Peace

SAN FRANCISCO — Demonstrators around the country aimed a spotlight at one of the biggest U.S. corporations on Aug. 9, and what it revealed wasn’t a pretty sight.

Writing from Lebanon’s capital on the eve of the UN Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 1701, which calls for a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon and Israel, Judith Le Blanc, co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, told friends and co-workers, “On day 29 of the war, Beirut is a blend of many realities.

PEACE ARCH, U.S.-Canada Border — U.S. and Canadian war protesters gathered here Aug. 13 to applaud U.S. soldiers who fled to Canada to avoid duty in Iraq and to demand an end to the war and occupation.

Carolyn Eisenberg, profesora de historia en Brooklyn, Nueva York, se crió en lo que describe como una familia sionista con “un gran afecto para Israel”. La semana pasada, como co-presidenta de Padres de Brooklyn por la Paz, ella estaba organizando una “Brooklyn Camina por la Paz” el 9 de agosto, en la cual llamarán por un cese de fuego inmediato por todas las partes en la crisis Israel-Líbano-Gaza.

The people of Detroit are mourning the death of City Council President Maryann Mahaffey, who for 31 years, until illness forced her retirement from office last December, was a selfless fighter for labor’s rights, peace, equality and justice. She died July 27 at the age of 81.

I noticed that recent CPUSA statements on the Middle East put a heavy weight on Israel’s responsibility and much lighter weight on Hezbollah or Hamas. Why doesn’t the CPUSA take a more even-handed approach?

Father Carl Kabat, 72, Greg Boertje-Obed, 51, and Michael Walli, 57, sit in jail in North Dakota awaiting a federal criminal trial because of weapons of mass destruction and because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I visited them last week.

Having experienced the horrors of war firsthand, many veterans have come home to join the antiwar movement. Groups like Veterans for Peace, which holds its convention this week, play a special role in the peace movement.

TEL AVIV, Israel — The biggest Israeli demonstration against the war to date took place here Aug. 5 in the heart of the city’s downtown.