Category Building Justice/Peace
The Belmarsh Tribunal: Exposing the crimes of the so-called War on Terror
“Since armies can reach each other regardless of the thousands of miles which lie between them friends have to show that they are just as independent from spatial distances as enemies so let’s continue shooting our long-distance missiles of friendship to each other in order to show that those who are inventive only in order to destroy that we are just as able to nullify space as they are.” Gunter Anders
The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion
A list of nonviolent tactics (from Gene Sharp,,”The Methods of Nonviolent Action,” Boston 1973)
A Conversation with Mairead McGuire, Irish Nobel Prize Winner
Don’t give in to the fear-mongering; stand up and tell the truth to end militarism.
International Emergency Online Rally: No War in Ukraine – No to NATO
“This is URGENT! We are horrified at the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. We must come together across borders to demand a diplomatic solution to the present crisis.”
Henry Giroux: Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible
“The underlying message of CRT is to dismantle forms of structural racism in order to create a more fair and just society.”
“Banning instruction on ‘critical race theory’ has become the new McCarthyism.”
The Future of the Left, with Noam Chomsky
People power, education, persuasion, organization, persistent, action, leads to change.
Celebrating Fifty Years of an Individual’s Courage in an Era of Apathy, by Danny Sjursen
“Still, there stands Daniel Ellsberg – and others like him; living and breathing correctives to any temptation towards apathy.”
Nonviolence and the New Humanity: A Training Course in 5 Animations
“Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities.”
Remembering Father Daniel Berrigan, a Prophet of Peace
Advice to parents, teachers, priests, ministers, et al: The young people will be different if you are different. They are moved by example, as I have been.
End This Endless War…this Endless Militarism
“We’re all part of a culture that continues to esteem war, embrace militarism, and devote more than half of federal discretionary spending to wars, weaponry, and the militarization of American culture. “
Community Control of the Police, Peacestock TCC4j
Giving people more information and self-determining power where the police are concerned.
How the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Impacts the United States, and Why the United States Must Embrace its Entry into Force
“President-elect Biden faces many nuclear weapons policy challenges as he takes office. Under the Trump administration, the United States withdrew from [several key treaties around nuclear weapons issues] and did not extend New START, all while urging other countries to not join, or even to withdraw their ratifications to, the TPNW. The United States has a chance to return to the table on multilateral nuclear negotiations and build back better.”
Violent Right-Wing Forces Have Been Activated. It Requires Strategic Action to Stop Them
“Finally, we must recognize that our struggle is global. What the United States government has done to its people by denying them what they need to live a life of dignity is what the United States has imposed upon people around the world…”
Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday and a very Happy New Year
Rise Up Times is admittedly and consciously eclectic with a focus on media analysis and antiwar, propeace activities but inclusive of many movements that coalesce and weave in and out of each other.
Support the Philippine Human Rights Act
“On July 3, Philippine President Duterte signed the Anti-Terrorism Act—a law that Amnesty International has called “yet another setback for human rights.” The law appears to be a pretext to target perceived political opponents.”
Cornel West: We Must Fight the Commodification of Everybody and Everything
[Trump] is pushing the country toward genuine fascism: wholesale disregard of the law, the rule of big military, the rule of big money, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley. He is crushing workers, marginalizing women, scapegoating Mexicans, and Muslims, and Jews, and Black, brown, and indigenous people.”
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