On March 30th, 2008 the Granny Peace Brigade held the second in its series of Teach-Ins offering a careful look at the ever expanding empire of foreign military bases that the Pentagon maintains in 130 countries. Entitled Say "No" to AFRICOM the event was held in observance of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of … Continue reading Teach-In AFRICOM
APRIL 10 PHONATHON NEWS
FROM THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE, CODEPINK, AND RAGING GRANNIES Coats are off, the day is warm, people are sailing by in Union Square. Ten of us today, from Granny Peace Brigade, Code Pink, Raging Grannies and their Daughters and a new recruit, Carla from Chelsea United for Peace and Justice. We're all seizing the occasion … Continue reading APRIL 10 PHONATHON NEWS
Reflections on the Knit-Ins
What is the opposite of violence? Weeks before taking action the Granny Peace Brigade met to discuss how to mark the first day of the 6th year of the occupation of Iraq. Someone mentioned the possibility of knitting stump socks for the returning amputee vets. We knew a women who did exactly that at the … Continue reading Reflections on the Knit-Ins
Figure Macabre
On the day that the 4,000th soldier was killed in Iraq, a roiling of activists took to the streets all over the country. It struck me that the “No Blood for Oil†has been valid since WWI but no one has ever calculated this way: If a barrel of oil holds 42 Gallons and If … Continue reading Figure Macabre
Maintaining Privacy for High School Students Requires Action
Five stalwart members and friends of the Granny Peace Brigade and CodePink gathered at Washington Irving High School on Thursday April 3, 2009, the evening of Citywide High School Parents' Open School night, to help parents who want to keep their children from being recruited into the military. Pat, Leigh, Joe, Eva-Lee and Edith told … Continue reading Maintaining Privacy for High School Students Requires Action
A Positive Reception for Counter-Recruitment Volunteers
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - Parent Teacher Conference night in New York The No Child Left Behind Act requires high schools to provide students’ names, addresses and telephone numbers to military recruiters to be included in a military database. Unless a student files a signed Opt-Out form in the high school office, his/her privacy is … Continue reading A Positive Reception for Counter-Recruitment Volunteers
March of the Dead
On March 19th 2008, about 75 people from various and no organizations came together at Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC to begin a March of the Dead, in commemoration of the million plus Iraqis, Afghanis and military killed in the United States War of Terror on civilian populations. After pausing to read names of the … Continue reading March of the Dead
Voters Help America
To the tune of "God Help America" this song was originally reworded by Kay Sather, of the Raging Grannies of Tucson, AZ for the time they got arrested at the recruiting office in Arizona. Mercy Van Vlack of the NYC Raging Grannies adapted it for Granny Peace Brigade. She sings it at Phone-A-Thons where we … Continue reading Voters Help America
i wake myself to recollect and reflect with others
i wake myself to recollect and reflect with others this time of endless war is it 4 years we endured aground in their Baghdad - Waterloo - Gallipoli - Dunkirk - emptying too many boots; filling so many coffins War's bloated and sour hourglass counts the finite and the endless i wake myself against the … Continue reading i wake myself to recollect and reflect with others
The Death Toll Reaches 4,000
The news we were dreading came. The death toll had reached 4,000. We were drawn to vigils on Monday and Tuesday evenings to call attention to this, the most horrible cost of war - the numbered deaths of U.S. troops and the countless deaths of Iraqis. On Monday Grandmothers Against the War held a vigil … Continue reading The Death Toll Reaches 4,000
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