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Submissions, preferably in the 200 to 1,000 word range, are invited from all interested readers. We encourage essays that are substantive explorations of different perspectives related to the peace and climate issues that are the primary focus of CAPA’s work. Sharp, controversial arguments expressing original and unorthodox views are welcome. Rants, attacks or ridicule of the views of individuals or groups are not. Respectful comments and responses to essays published on Viewpoints are also encouraged.
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An American educator, writer, and Buddhist priest in the Sōtō Zen sect, Brian Andre Victoria has been a peace activist since the 1960s. This essay, published originally in CounterCurrents, is used with permission. Victoria lives in Kyoto, Japan. CounterCurrents readers
Jim Huffman, a CAPA board member, is a scholar of Japanese history and imperialism. The brutality of ICE agents in Chicago the last few months has brought to mind repeatedly lessons we should have learned decades ago when respectable, peace-loving
This response to Diesen’s and Wilkerson’s interview (listenable here) is by Sean Reynolds, an activist in CAPA’s Foreign Policy Working Group. Years ago, before the Soleimani assassination and before COVID, I got to tour Iran’s capital of Tehran, and Isfahan,
Here, a U.S. citizen from Chicago shares the story of what happened to his relatives as immigrants from Latin America. Although the essay exceeds the usual Viewpoints word limit, we are running it in full because it has such important
A member of the CAPA board, Orion Meadows is an award winning, published poet who teaches at the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago and works for prison reform and higher education for the incarcerated. He composed and performed this rap for
by Sean Reynolds, activist with CAPA and No Iran War Once again I’ve been honored to appear in a segment on Iran’s PressTV, interviewed by journalist Ramin Mazaheri, all three of whose brilliant and vexing books I’d actually read before
Dr. Cortez is Professor of Literacy, Leadership, and Development at Northeastern Illinois University. After the 2019 El Paso TX Wal-Mart Massacre against Mexicans, Texas politician, Joaquin Castro, finally put into words, what many of us have felt and that is
David Borris is former CAPA president. Good morning – Thank you all so much for coming out on this quite warm midday to mourn and commemorate the only use of nuclear weapons in combat in the history of the world.
Sean Reynolds works with CAPA’s Foreign Policy Working Group and facilitates Chicago’s No Iran War Coalition. In his final year, we told my dad we were fighting his cancer so he could have that heart attack instead. He made his
Neal Resnikoff is a long-time Chicago peace activist and spoke on behalf of the Chicago Antiwar Coalition. The U.S. government is continuing its imperialist war against Russia. It is doing so with the President heavily using the power of that
Jack Lawlor is a member of CAPA’s Foreign Policy Working Group and the Chicago Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Within a few months after the atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 31 year old war correspondent John Hersey
Walt Zlotow blogs at heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com/ and serves as president of Chicagoland’s West Suburban Peace Coalition. CAPA is grateful to him for permission to repost his essay. Most esteemed observers put Ukraine’s dead and wounded at north of a half million
Catherine Buntin is CAPA’s President. From an American Nurse We have done everything possible to protest our government sending weapons to Israel to no avail. The only hope for stopping this genocidal war sits in your hands, the people of
Charles Johnson is CAPA’s Organizing Director. We the masses in the U.S. are enabling a deadly illness. This illness originates from those in power, who actively spread it to the masses. Rampant throughout U.S. policies and narratives, this illness is
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