03/23/2006: CPTers Released:
Our hearts are filled with joy today as we heard that Harmeet Singh Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember have been safely released in Baghdad.... 12/07/2005: vitw.org:
The Voices in the Wilderness website is no longer maintained. VitW.org will be available indefinately for archival and research purposes. 12/07/2005: Four CPT members missing in Iraq:
For updates about the four members of the [Christian Peacemaker Teams](http://cpt.org) who were abducted in Iraq on November 26th see **[cpt.org](http://cpt.org)** and **[Electronic Iraq](http://electroniciraq.net/news/)**. For... 12/02/2005: URGENT: Sign the Petition to call for the release of 4 CPT members missing in Iraq (English & Arabic):
### [Sign the petition now!](http://freethecpt.org) **An Urgent Appeal: Please Release Our Friends in Iraq** Four members of Christian Peacemaker Teams were abducted this past Saturday, November 26... 11/29/2005: Our Friends in Christian Peacemaker Teams:
Please see Voices for Creative Nonviolence’s website for our statement and further information about the four members of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) working in Baghdad... 10/26/2005: For Whom They Toll:
Today, in cities and towns throughout the U.S. and beyond, activists will gather to grieve and protest the carnage wrought by the unlawful and immoral... 10/26/2005: 100,000 Bell Rings Will Toll:
Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Justice Not Vengeance call for bell ringing ceremonies to grieve and protest the deaths of Iraqis in the US/UK war... 10/25/2005: Chicago Press Release — 100,000 Ringss:
100,000 RINGS: In Remembrance of the Iraqi Dead FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2005 Contacts: Kathy Kelly or Joel Gulledge 773-878-3815 or 773-619-2418 (cell) CHICAGO - On... 10/18/2005: A Fearful Asymmetry:
Deliberate destruction of Iraqi civilian infrastructure by US bombing in the First Gulf War, along with US-backed economic sanctions, caused hundreds of thousands to die... 09/26/2005: Bringing the war home to the Pentagon:
Washington, D.C. - In a pre-dawn civil disobedience action Monday morning, 41 War Resisters League members and others sat down and were arrested at a... 09/22/2005: War Resisters Charged with Contempt:
St. Patrick’s Four Trial - The Only Federal Conspiracy Trial of Civilian Resisters to the Iraq War JUDGE CENSORS TESTIMONY, CHARGES ST. PATRICK’S FOUR MEMBERS WITH CONTEMPT ... 09/22/2005: Report from Binghamton: Trial of St. Patrick’s Four:
Mary Anne Grady the sister of two of the St. Patrick’s Four defendants on trial this week in Binghamton, NY asked me to write some... 09/20/2005: Will we use the power we have on September 24?:
If nonviolent direct action is the most powerful tool we have to stop this war, what is the best time to exercise it? When a... 09/16/2005: Chicago City Council Votes 29-to-9 for Iraq Pullout:
Chicago is now the largest U.S city to take this stand. The only other major US city to pass a similar resolution is San Francisco.... 09/13/2005: D.C. Fast Calls for Economic Justice and Cancellation of Debt in Iraq:
CHICAGO, IL and WASHINGTON DC, September 13–For the next sixteen days, advocates for economic justice in Iraq will fast outside the headquarters of the International... 09/04/2005: Donations: Hurricane Katrina Relief:
For those of you looking to donate time, money, food, etc., for victims in the Gulf region please consider the following webpage as a ... 09/01/2005: Waiting for the outside world:
In the “old days” of the U.S. peace movement, when many people focused on the threat of a global nuclear “exchange” an organization called Physicians... 08/27/2005: Where is Peace?:
It’s not about one side winning and the other side losing. Not to Sgt. Benderman. It’s about having knowledge. We all have the right to... 08/27/2005: Two Poems for Mostafa and Um Haider:
Our friend Vicki Johnson has sent Voices the following 2 poems about our other friends Um Haider and her son Mostafa who live in Basra,... 08/25/2005: Vigil at Ft. Sill - Lawton, OK - Sunday, Aug 28th:
Vigil on behalf of 3 “prisoners of conscience” to be held in Lawton, OK — Event is planned to show support for soldiers being jailed... 08/22/2005: Iraq Health and Infrastructure Digest #13:
This latest Iraq Health and Infrastructure Digest #13 is a compilation of 7 articles covering a wide range of issues facing people in Iraq. Summaries... 08/19/2005: Film Review: A Letter to the Prime Minister: Jo Wilding’s Diary from Iraq:
Year Zero Films has created a powerful new documentary about Jo Wilding’s journey in Iraq. 08/16/2005: Kathy Kelly Interview on Democracy Now!:
A federal judge has ordered the human rights group Voices in the Wilderness to pay $20,000 for violating the sanctions against Iraq. A decade ago,... 08/14/2005: Federal Judge Orders Fine Against U.S. Citizens for Bringing Medicine to Iraq:
Chicago-On August 12, 2005 U.S. Federal District Judge John Bates ordered payment of a $20,000 fine imposed against Voices in the Wilderness. Voices was fined... 08/13/2005: How can the US ever win, when Iraqi children die like this?:
“It was three-thirty in the morning and they were all asleep, Yassin and his friends Fahed and Walid Khaled. There was an American patrol outside... 08/12/2005: Ten minutes on a trip to the supermarket can mean the difference between life and death:
It was the same lunatic corkscrew landing in the same little Lebanese plane, barrelling down into the sandstorm of Baghdad airport. Piloting his 20-passenger twin-prop... 08/11/2005: Mother Charges Crawford:
I’m holding a newspaper clipping from 1996. The creases are torn, the page yellowed. The headline reads “Mother bear charges trains.” Trains had killed her... 08/09/2005: Iraq Health and Infrastructure Digest #12:
This latest Iraq Health and Infrastructure Digest #12 is a compilation of 8 articles covering a wide range of issues facing people in Iraq. Summaries... 08/09/2005: What One Mom Has to Say to George Bush:
By Mike Ferner “That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war,” Cindy Sheehan told 200 cheering members of Veterans For... 08/08/2005: On a Break, at 78, From Aiding the Desperate in Iraq:
In a place where everything seems broken, she has been a fixer. At a time when most other American civilians were leaving the country, she...