Thursday, December 9th @ 6:30 pm @ Walker Library Large Meeting room, 2880 Hennepin Avenue (Hennepin & Lagoon) Minneapolis Video
Read MoreThursday, December 9th @ 6:30 pm @ Walker Library Large Meeting room, 2880 Hennepin Avenue (Hennepin & Lagoon) Minneapolis Video
Read MoreThursday, December 9th @ 6:30 pm @ Walker Library Large Meeting room, 2880 Hennepin Avenue (Hennepin & Lagoon) Minneapolis Video
Read MoreTerrorist plots are suddenly everywhere. In Baltimore last week, a 21-year-old construction worker tried to blow up a military recruitment center. In late November, federal law enforcement officials arrested a Somalia-born teenager for plotting to bomb a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. In October, a jury found the Newburgh Four guilty of planning to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx.
Read MoreThe U.S. government uses the term “terrorist” as a political weapon against anyone who opposes its policy. In reality, funding mass killings of trade unionists, activists and innocent civilians abroad makes the U.S. government the real terrorist organization, under any definition.
Read MoreThursday, December 16 7:00 pm At WALKER CHURCH (31st St & 16th Ave) NOTE: Last week I sent an email
Read MoreThursday, December 16 7:00 pm At WALKER CHURCH (31st St & 16th Ave) NOTE: Last week I sent an email
Read MoreThursday, December 16 7:00 pm At WALKER CHURCH (31st St & 16th Ave) NOTE: Last week I sent an email
Read MoreSeptember 24 began like any other Friday for Joe Iosbaker and Stephanie Weiner. Then, at 7 a.m., FBI agents knocked on the door of the Chicago couple’s house in the city’s North Side.
Armed with a search warrant, more than 20 agents examined the couple’s home, photographing every room and combing through notebooks, family videos and books, even their children’s drawings. Some items were connected to their decades of anti-war and international solidarity activism, but others were not. “Folders were opened, letters were pulled out of envelopes,” says Weiner, an adult education professor at Wilbur Wright College. “They had rubber gloves and they went through every aspect of our home.”
Read MoreWe are living in a time in which things are increasingly upside down.
On June 21, the Supreme Court ruled in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Centerthat promoting nonviolent political activity and the rule of international law could get you jailed for “giving material aid to terrorism.”
Yet it is U.S. Government policy to pay warlords and Taliban warriors as “subcontractors for security” in Afghanistan. The court said nothing about that policy. Rather, it voted to restrict the activities of people seeking roads to peace.
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