Peace

President Bush’s endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan, coupled with the Sharon government’s assassination of two leaders of the Hamas movement in Gaza, has inflamed tensions in the Middle East and jeopardized prospects for a just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace activists say.

With great ceremony, my mother threw her iron away one afternoon in June 1972. After 20 years of night classes and four children, she had proudly graduated from college that morning.

PHILADELPHIA – Over 300 people packed the hospital and health care workers District 1199C union hall here on April 17 to hear public officials, trade unionists, peace activists and others blast the Bush war policies and call for electing a new president in 2004.

Two Indian women have won a prestigious environmental prize for their battle on behalf of the survivors of the “world’s worst industrial disaster” – the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

In what many consider to be a backlash against the recent “coup d’etat” sponsored by the far-right-wing Grand National Party, in which President Roh Moo Hyun was impeached for minor electioneering violations, South Korean voters handed a stunning victory to Roh’s Uri Party...

WASHINGTON – Family members of troops deployed in Iraq walked to the gates of the White House, April 14, holding bouquets of carnations in memory of the 660 American soldiers and thousands of Iraqis who have died in the Iraq war. click here for Spanish text

The image of an administration out of touch with reality and consumed with the neo-conservative imperialist proposition to control the Middle East – rich in oil – has been indelibly burned
into the public’s eye.

WASHINGTON – The first anniversary of the Iraq war was observed with mass peace demonstrations and by peace advocates in the House and Senate demanding that U.S. troops be brought home, replaced by United Nations peacekeepers.

Prominent African American leaders representing a broad coalition of organizations are urging members of Black communities across the country to join the March for Women’s Lives April 25 in Washington, D.C. Their message: the current attack on women’s health and reproductive rights represents an attack on women’s civil rights.

The power struggle that erupted last week in northern Afghanistan illustrates the chaos ravaging the country two and a half years after U.S. troops invaded, ostensibly chasing Osama Bin Laden.