Phyllis Bennis discussed her analysis of President Obama’s Afghanistan escalation speech in a conference call with community activists Thursday afternoon. Links to her published analysis of the speech was included in another entry here earlier this morning. The one-hour conference call, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, discussed the new Obama Administration strategy in [...]
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On June 28, 1982, a small group from the Honolulu Friends Meeting (Quakers), the local American Friends Service Committee (the Quaker-based social service organization), and catholic Action of Hawaii, an indpendent peace group, peacefully picketed outside the Oahu Community Correctional Center in support of prisoner rights. Prisoners were locked down, all privileges revoked, and had [...]
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