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Inspiring Participatory Democracy: Student Movements from Port Huron to Today
Tom Hayden speaks in Port Huron, MI, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement.
Guantanamo's Death Row
The Threat of an Imperial Presidency
Earth Night
Charges Dropped Against Alex Sanchez
End the Guantanamo hunger strike and restart the stalled peace talks with the Taliban. Continue reading...
Hearings to reform of the 2001 AUMF and the 1973 WPR could not be more urgent. Continue reading...
After 43 years of Earth Days, it is past time to contemplate the possible coming of Earth Night. Continue reading...
Prosecutors knowingly fed false evidence to the grand jury, and failed to admit that their case was wrong on the facts. Continue reading...
Published by Tom Hayden, The Peace Exchange Bulletin is a reader-supported journal, critically following the Pentagon's Long War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, as well as the failed U.S. wars on drugs and gangs, and U.S. military responses to nationalism and poverty around the world.
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The right-wing Republicans who dominate Congressional Cuban policy are charging Beyonce and Jay-Z with violating the US travel embargo by spending a three-day wedding anniversary on the island last week. Spending any tourist dollars in Cuba props up the Castro government, according to Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, both of Florida, who represent the far-right Cuba Lobby in Miami and Washington.
The Salvadoran gang peace process, launched 13 months ago in El Salvador’s overcrowded prison system, continues to result in dramatic reductions of homicides. According to The Economist, 2,000 lives already have been saved. Since this past January, five communities have been declared as “peace zones” where gangs are attempting to end murders and extortion while government agencies create jobs.
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Republicans have prevented the release of an American soldier held by the Taliban, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in exchange for five Taliban detainees in Guantanamo, and thus are continuing to block the launch of diplomacy meant to bring about a political settlement of the stalemated conflict. Leaving the US client regime in Kabul without a negotiated settlement as US troops continue their departure creates a hazardous endgame, which could end with any of three “unthinkable” scenarios: an implosion of the Karzai regime, a renewed civil war, or a stalling of US withdrawals next year.
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Peace advocates will have a new opportunity to rein in US drone attacks if the Pentagon takes over from the CIA, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
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Remember how bad things were. Al Gore won the vote but the thieves won the 2000 election. After the terror of 9/11, the peace forces hadn’t been so marginal since the 1950s.
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Civil libertarians, human rights and peace advocates should insist on a renewed Congressional assertion of its power under the Constitution, Article 1, Sec. 8, to take part in declaring war. Among the many reasons for this reassertion is that social movements typically have greater influence over elected Congressional representatives than over the more remote and secretive executive branch.
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At a time when the CIA is still hiding the details of its extrajuridical drone strike assassination program from congressional watchdogs and the media, one would think it an awkward moment for Hollywood to confer Academy Awards on films that celebrate its secret agents.
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The peace movement, human rights and civil liberties groups, Congressional progressives and even officials in the Obama administration can work on diverse pathways to prevent the consolidation of another Imperial Presidency.
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The Senate hearings on the CIA this week were a turning point in rethinking US drone policies, the first official ripping away of the official veil of secrecy after a decade of congressional silence and administrative cover up.
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Yesterday was momentous in my UCLA class on democracy and social movements. While President Barack Obama was announcing his immigration reform agenda, we were studying the case of the Dreamers, the student movement for immigrant rights, which won historic recognition from Obama in June 2012. Lecturing yesterday were Professor Kent Wong, director of UCLA’s labor studies center, and Betsy Estudillo, an undocumented graduate student now examining ways to sustain the morale of the movement while also organizing car wash workers.
Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 12:39PM