Introduction of Abdulsattar Younus FOR Peace Banquet, October 11, 2009 by Terry K. Rockefeller

It is such a joy to have Abdulsattar Younus here with us in the United States – because it signifies the deepening of our connections with the inspiring activists from the La’Onf nonviolence network of Iraq...

True Justice and the Rule of Law

...Justice requires a system that is fair and factual; not based at all on emotion. 9-11 family members have every right to be emotional - angry, enraged, and grief stricken. I'm certain that staff who met with family members two weeks ago got a taste of that emotion. We lost people we loved dearly. But justice requires that our legal system turn a blind eye to that emotion, and try an accused individual based on evidence and factual account...

Dear President Obama: Get Us out of Afghanistan

Voices of Peaceful Tomorrows by Rita Lasar
Dear President Obama, Let's get rid of the easy part first. I voted for you joyfully. Let's get to the hard part now. You are absolutely wrong about your policy in Afghanistan. Let me tell you why...

Courage of Conscience Speaking Tour

Israeli Yaniv Rashef was a foot soldier in a sabotage unit of the Israeli Army – and chose to fight no more. Palestinian Bassam Aramin served seven years in jail for planning an attack against Israeli soldiers – and chose no more violence. Two years ago, Bassam lost his daughter to an Israeli soldier’s rubber-coated bullet. They are Combatants for Peace, now over 600 former Israeli soldiers and former Palestinian fighters, working together without revenge to build justice, peace – and playgrounds...

The War on What, Now?

In her book, The Dark Side, Jane Mayer recounts how the so-called “War on Terror” quickly became a challenge to American values. Mayer states that when it came to “fighting to liberate the world from Communism, Fascism, and Nazism, and working to ameliorate global ignorance & poverty, America had done more than any nation on Earth in the name of human rights.” She claims that, in the past seven years, the country has moved further from that sentiment than it has during any point in history.

Peaceful Tomorrows report, "Afghanistan: Ending a Failed Military Strategy" presented to Senators Kennedy and Kerry.

On Wednesday, December 17, members of a number of organizations opposed to the military strategy in Afghanistan met in the offices of Senators John Kerry and Edward Kennedy to present the Peaceful Tomorrows report, "Afghanistan: Ending a Failed Military Strategy."