Photo: Injured Child in Iraq
Oct 27 Mobilization:
Bring Someone New!
The Home Stretch,
Seven Days to Go…
Now is the time for all peace and justice activists to get into high gear: outreach, organize and mobilize.
The watchwords of the day: EVERYONE BRING SOMEONE NEW, someone who has never marched before. The 49th Ward, for example, met a few days […]

‘Do You Want a Coup
to Stop the War?’

At Army Base, Officers
Are Split Over War
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The New York Times
October 13, 2007
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Here in this Western outpost that serves as the intellectual center of the United States Army, two elite officers were deep in debate at lunch on a recent day over who […]

US Military sees Big Decline
in Black Enlistees since 2000
‘We Got Our Own War Here,
Just Stayin’ Alive…’
By Joseph Williams and Kevin Baron
Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent
October 7, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2z2ynj
WASHINGTON - African-Americans, whose longstanding relationship with the US military helped them prove their abilities and offered a way to get ahead, have turned away from the armed forces […]

Photo: Katz at Oct 2, 2000 Rally
CAWI’s Start, Oct 27
and Obama’s Future
By Marilyn Katz

October 2, 2002 - perhaps best known now as the day that presidential candidate Barack Obama came out at a rally in Chicago in opposition to the impending invasion of Iraq. Came out against the impending war at a moment when […]