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"Peace at home, support for war abroad"

by Colin Bryce and Jim Keys | News | June - August 2001

In Northern Ireland, Derry's political parties must find the backbone to publicly state their position on the development of an arms industry in the city, according to Patricia McKenna, Ire ...

Trial and truth in a Georgia courtroom

by Claire Hanrahan | News | September - November 2001

For three days in May in a US courtroom, 26 citizens attempted to break through government deceit to speak the truth: that the US Army School of the Americas – renamed the Western Hemisphere Instit ...

Did the G8 deliver in Genoa?

by Alison Marshall | News | September - November 2001

“Ultimately these Summits must be judged by the benefits they deliver to the world's poor. ...

Active opposition to the Bourget arms show

by Francois Maliet | News | September - November 2001

The Bourget air show is generally presented as being a fair for big kids, with aeroplanes, and parachutists performing impressive technical feats. ...

F-16s kill

by Scott Mathern-Jacobson | News | September - November 2001

In July, activists gathered in Duluth, USA, with the message “F-16s Kill,” in a nonviolent response to the Air National Guard 148th Fighter Wing's F-16 Fighting Falcon, which was on displa ...

More Israeli Conscientious Objectors

News in Brief | September - November 2001

Several young Israeli men are refusing to participate in military service and a number continue to be imprisoned for their principled stance. ...

For peace in Chechnya

by Elena Vilenskaya and Ella Polyakova | News | December 2001 - February 2002

For two years, with a small break of a couple of months, our human rights organisation “Soldiers Mothers of St Petersburg has held a picket every Thursday on Nevskij Prospekt, where member ...

Peaceniks win prizes (again!)

by Paul Hodkinson | News | December 2001 - February 2002

Usually referred to as Alternative Nobel Prizes , the Right Livelihood Awards started in 1980 and are presented annually in the Swedish Parliament. ...

Israeli COs: refusing to kill

by Ippy D | News | March - June 2002

Between December 2001 and PN going to press, at least 11 Israeli and Druse men spent time in military prisons for refusing to serve in the Israeli Defence Force. ...

Civilian intervention: latest Marques marked

by Melanie Jarman | News | March - June 2002

On 3 February, dozens of foreign civilians marched in Ramallah to deliver a message to the Israeli occupation forces. ...

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