Bradley's Amnesty International provides a screening of "Inside North Korea" Screening & Lecture with LINK and will be hosting "Jamnesty" at this years Earth Day at the Bradley campus.
Peorians take part in hunger strike to close Gitmo!
Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:00
PEORIA - Peorian Jack Ryan is in Day 10 of a 12-day hunger strike in Washington, D.C., organized by Witness Against Torture, a human rights group advocating for the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
Ryan, 71, left Peoria nearly two weeks ago with Razia Ahmed, 66, who also is participating in the protest.
Letter to the Peoria Journal Star newspaper, by Tonya Sneed.
Americans are not speaking out against the bombings in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen because it hasn't stopped them from driving to the mall, hasn't interfered with their ability to get their nails done, hasn't kept them from watching their favorite sports team on their big-screen TV.
We have killed countless people, have caused millions to flee their homes, have injured untold numbers, have created orphans, and it's all OK because there was a sale on curtains this week, and they match the sofa perfectly.
Perfectly.
Charles Micheletti died Nov. 2, 2009, one day after his 90th birthday.
Issues of peace, justice and civil liberties were close to his heart. He was member of the Peoria Area Peace Network and a longtime board member of the Peoria Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Read more in the Pekin Daily Times.
Counters - Effects of War
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Veterans for Peace
Thursday, 09 April 2009 06:06
PAPN member Paul Appell is looking to start a chapter of Veterans For Peace in Central Illinois. Interested? See Page 5 of the 2009 Spring Vol. XXII No.1 newsletter.
Paul's Vigil
On Wednesday, I was able to come within a day of getting the seemingly never ending harvest finished. This means I can get some of my normal life back which includes what the following article talks about. On my facebook photo I am holding my new minutes old granddaughter and looking her in the eye and promising her that I will do what I can to make the world a better place for her. As long as I am physically able, that is a promise that I will keep. ~ Paul
President Obama's 12-1-09 Speech: A New Level of Disconnect Between Rhetoric and Reality
Letter to the Galesburg newspaper, by Paul Appell.
After watching the Obama speech last night, I felt that I had just witnessed a new level of disconnect between rhetoric and reality. Masking war escalation as a withdrawal plan was just one of many Orwellian modes of speech. The reality is that when one includes the contractors, which outnumber the troops, the total US paid forces in Iraq and Afghanistan under Obama exceeds the highest levels of the Bush administration.
"Tom Edwards has been fighting for the Illinois River for more than 40 years"
Tom Edwards is a long-standing member of the PAPN. Read more about him in the full length article of the Peoria Journal Star.
From Peoria to Pakistan
Written by JTKeck
Saturday, 23 May 2009 16:54
Razia, a proud member of the Peoria Area Peace Network, has recently left Peoria to travel to an area of the world once known as the “Switzerland of Pakistan” – Swat Valley. Now, Swat Valley is engulfed in the maelstrom of violent conflict. US supported Pakistani paramilitary and army soldiers are battling militant Islamic insurgents led by the Taliban.
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