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Peacemakers honored for lifetimes of work
Tue, 09/15/2009 - 11:50am | xoff
Two Madison college professors with religious backgrounds, who have worked tirelessly to change the world, will be honored for their lifetimes of activism on Oct. 3 by the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ), a statewide network of 170 organizations working for social change.
Joe Elder, a Quaker peace activist who is a University of Wisconsin professor of sociology and Asian studies, and Esther Heffernan, O. P., a Dominican nun who is emerita professor of social science at Edgewood College, and a widely respected leader on prison reform and criminal justice issues, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at a reception following WNPJ’s annual fall assembly at the Goodman Community Center in Madison.
Seven others will be honored with Peacemakers of the Year awards. Two veterans, Iraq veteran Jason Moon, of Milwaukee, and Vietnam veteran Will Williams, of DeForest, won in the adult category. Senior citizen winners are Elaine Kinch of the Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice and Don Hoffman of Rapids Citizens for Peace in Wisconsin Rapids.
Tags: Peace Movement Is Right, Tom Friedman Is Wrong
Wed, 07/16/2008 - 10:00am | GlobalGirl
A woman just needs love and reassurance sometimes; that’s why I read Glenn Greenwald at Salon.
That's not a commercial advertisement for Salon, just a statement of appreciation of Greenwald’s article this morning chiding Tom Friedman (and Fred Hiatt, Charles Krauthammer) and other Iraq war cheerleaders.
Chickenhawks seem incapable of realizing that American foreign policy under Bush-Cheney (including that Iraq War thing) is more serious than mere “mistakes,” deserving of a "thumbs-down," as Friedman writes this morning.
From Greenwald’s column this morning on the “befuddled” Tom Friedman:
Berkeley Finds a New Way to Make War Politics Local
Fri, 02/01/2008 - 9:28am | mal contends
Check out this NYT piece on how Berkeley is opposing the Iraq War.
It's past time for municipalities to ramp up war resistance in as many creative ways as possible.
It's past time for municipalities to ramp up war resistance in as many creative ways as possible.
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