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Liz McAlister Gives Speech at Oct. 5th Rally
Phil Berrigan would be 86 today. He disliked celebrations of his birthday. To give him a birthday gift meant using his birthday as the excuse to get something the community might need. But he’d so welcome the gift of this witness against weapons and war and the instruments of mass murder that you enact today. [...]
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In 2002, the Iraq Pledge of Resistance was formed to prevent a war with Iraq. While we failed, we continued to engage in nonviolent direct action to end the war and the occupation. Eventually, the group, in expanding its focus, became the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance.
NCNR is a nationwide network of individuals and organizations committed to ending the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and working for the abolition of torture, utilizing the nonviolent practices and disciplines of Gandhi, King, and Day.
As a group with lots of direct action experience, NCNR has consistently encouraged organizations and individuals to recognize the difference between civil disobedience and civil resistance. We see the difference as being important in the struggle for nonviolent, positive social change.
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Features
Non-Violent Peace Demonstrators Brutalized
October 5, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kevin Martin, 301-537-8244 (mobile) Paul Kawika Martin, 951-217-7285 (mobile) NON-VIOLENT PEACE DEMONSTRATORS BRUTALIZED BY SECRET SERVICE AT WHITE ...
Secret Service Misconduct at the October 5th Day of Action at the White House
by Ed Kinane At around 12:30 p.m. Monday, October 5, 2009, about 22 of us (members of the combined Peace Action ...
Dear Senator Kerry
Sen. John F. Kerry 304 Russell Building Washington, DC 20510 Oct. 23, 2009 Dear Senator Kerry, I am unsure whether you remember me when I ...
Action Reports
DOJ Accountability Action DOJ Accountability Action Report
by Joy First
On May 11 the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) (www.iraqpledge.org) mailed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to meet with us to discuss appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the crimes of the Bush Administration. Since we did not hear back from him, we decided we [...]
Call to Action
National Stand-Down Day National Stand-Down Day
Call to Action – November 18, 2005
Young Americans sign on to go into harm’s way to defend their country if necessary, but instead they are being turned into harm’s ministers in a war that has claimed more then 100,000 Iraqi lives and nearly 2,000 Americans. The President and Congress have breached a sacred [...]
Press
“Substitute ‘Obama’ for ‘Bush’ and ‘Afghanistan’ for ‘Iraq’ … By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
It was a scene repeated countless times during the Bush years:
A few hundred people massed on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, wearing orange jumpsuits and hoods, holding photos of wounded children or carrying coffins. They chanted antiwar slogans, acted out waterboarding and pretended to die on the sidewalk. Those [...]
Posts
Reflection on “Effectiveness” When We Speak Truth to Power, Does Anyone Listen?
by Max Blumenthal
In late June Holder asked an aide for a copy of the CIA inspector general’s thick classified report on interrogation abuses. He cleared his schedule and, over two days, holed up alone in his Justice Depart ment office, immersed himself in what Dick Cheney once [...]
