By Rachel Stern at the IthacaJournal.com. Click here for the full article. “Robotic warfare is enticing because some believe it is cheaper, cleaner and risks less American lives,” Grady said. “Yet the track record shows that the majority of people killed by drones are innocent civilians.” After the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of…
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Ethical Musings on the Libyan No-Fly Zone
Acting in response to a United Nations authorizing resolution, the United States, along with some of its NATO allies and France, established a Libyan no-fly zone. The allies have succeeded in implementing the no-fly zone as well as enabling Libyan rebels to retake some of the ground they can initially captured and then lost to…
Taylor Branch Says Nonviolence: An Embarassment
March 20, 2011|By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun Nonviolence, a potent force in the 1960s fight for civil rights, has become an “embarrassment, an instrument of the weak,” lamented Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch. Seated in a wing chair Sunday afternoon in the chancel of First and Franklin Presbyterian Church in Mount Vernon, the author…
Deacon Vicki Gray on Sabeel Pilgrimage
Confronting the occupation By Vicki Gray, March 30, 2011 [Episcopal News Service] I recently returned from a two-week pilgrimage to Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories, my third trip to the area. It was emotionally devastating. I travelled in the company of some 30 Northern California members of Friends of Sabeel North America. Sabeel is…
Multi-faith Young Adult Nonviolence Internship Program
May 31 – July 28, 2011 Are you passionate about social justice? Interested in activism? Curious about other religious traditions? Muslim, Jewish or Christian? Ready to get your hands dirty – literally? Apply now to spend your summer with the Community of Living Traditions at the Stony Point Center. Join other young adults for eight…
Call for nonviolent alternatives to end the conflict in Libya
From the American Friends Service Committee Libyan refugees arriving at the Libya–Tunisia border after fleeing the 2011 Libyan conflict. Photo: Mohamed El Hedef Eight years ago, on March 19, the United States led the attack on Iraq. This year, on that same date, US forces, in conjunction with those of other countries, embarked on an aerial assault of another…
Are the Coalition strikes against Libyan targets morally justified?
Are the Coalition strikes against Libyan targets morally justified? How do we balance the U.N. obligations to the “Responsibility to Protect” with the moral criteria of Just War Theory? Just War and Libya – From Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Does the international intervention in Libya meet just war standards? Certainly the cause of protecting civilians…
In 1898, Satisfying A National Appetite For War
A Book Review from NPR.org Before writing his new book, The War Lovers, Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine, spent three years researching an event a century removed from his day job: the 1898 Spanish-American War. But he did so, he says, because of similarities he perceived between the way America entered…
Historian Taylor Branch laments downfall of nonviolence
By Jacques Kelly of the Baltimore Sun. Click here to read the rest of the article. Nonviolence, a potent force in the 1960s fight for civil rights, has become an “embarrassment, an instrument of the weak,” lamented Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch. Seated in a wing chair Sunday afternoon in the chancel of First and Franklin…
Respect for Marriage Act
Respect for Marriage Act to Repeal DOMA Introduced in U.S. House and Senate WASHINGTON – March 16 – The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force applauds the introduction of the Respect for Marriage Act, landmark legislation to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin…
