Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed, your child hit by shrapnel, because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair, it is unfair to anyone, anywhere.
We need to change the focus - to focus on public health, public education, the end of precarious work, the green shift in the economy and of course to work for peace. If the women’s movement today does not have a position on this, it is not relevant.
Writing in 1968, poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser addresses the struggle to imagine and build a more humane world.
"Our taxpayer dollars should be used to fund education, housing, and healthcare for Americans, not to support the destruction of innocent lives abroad," said one advocacy leader "deeply saddened" by the votes.
California poet Charlotte Muse digs into the open grave which is Gaza.
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South Africa’s experience with apartheid has given its foreign policy a uniquely moral frame.
A federal monitor intended to serve as a watchdog for corruption is improperly interfering in the UAW’s public opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza.
The wars, the issues, and the protests, differ in key ways.
The Woody Guthrie Museum has done a public service spotlighting Ochs’s career. Phil Ochs’s biting commentaries remain resonant in an era where the U.S. government provokes wars overseas and sends young men to fight and die on dubious grounds.
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