The think I like about women’s activism is that it is like a bouncy session on a trampoline. I visualize it as women standing on a web or net that overlays a map of the country or globe. As a woman here or there becomes less active and sinks to a less active level, other […]
One Nation Working Together – call to ACTION
One Nation Working Together For Jobs, Justice and Education for All Who We Are We are One Nation, born from many, determined to build a more united America – with jobs, justice and education for all. We are young people, frustrated that society seems willing to spend more locking up our bodies than educating our […]
Before and After, Citizens' Arrest, and Dangerous Ignorance
I’m so tired of whiney, ignorant people. I love my friends like Carrie Newcomer who, bless her peaceful Quaker heart, see good in everyone. And she tries really, really hard to see good even in people you absolutely know she couldn’t possibly see anything good in, but you know will never get her to utter […]
Repurposing This Blog: Build Peace
Over the last six months I have given a tremendous amount of thought to starting a new blog that better reflects my current take on “life, the universe and everything” than my build peace blog. Everytime I would find the perfect domain name for a new venture and begin to build a new whirling […]
AZ Liz found NOT Guilty!!!!
Liz Hourican of CODEPINK Phoenix -and for much of this past year a PINKer based in D.C. bringing Arizona peace messages to our elected officials in D.C. – was found NOT GUILTY today in a D.C. Court. In Liz’s own words from an email sent earlier today: “The case stemming from the Condi Rice Bloody […]
Liz Hourican, from Phoenix, roughed up and arrested by Capitol Hill police
, Liz Hourican of Phoenix was assaulted and injured by Capitol Hill Police today when the police defied the policy of the House Foreign Relations Committee to escort Citizen Protesters from the room without arrest if they are nonviolently disruptive vocally or written signs. “The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands!” yelled […]