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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
(Many of us at CAPA were glad to recieve this correction from our friend Nicolas Davies, who asked us, on behalf of antiwar allies “World BEYOND War” and “CODEPINK,” to publish this note due to its great timeliness and urgency.
James Huffman, a CAPA activist and Board and Executive Committee member, is the Hirt professor of history emeritus at Wittenberg University and has published nine books, including “Japan in World History.” The following piece appeared as an Op-Ed in the
On October 17 of last year, CAPA was honored to award local activist Lesley Williams our “Robert Cleland Pursuit of Peace Award.” Lesley is a community advocate and activist for racial justice both locally and globally. In her hometown of
by Sean Reynolds, CAPA activist This past Saturday I was pleased to appear, flatteringly labeled as a “Political Analyst” (are any of us not political analysts?), in a segment on Iran’s PressTV, interviewed by journalist Ramin Mazaheri whose three brilliant,
This Letter to the Editor, published March 3, is from the CAPA Climate Change Working Group’s own Carter Cleland. The editorial about the puppet at the Chicago Cultural Center opens up a new, and dangerous, conflation (“Antisemitic fears in Chicago
By Kerry Hall and Marcia Bernsten, CAPA Board Members February 14, 2025 Ready, aim, fire! This is the new mantra from the White House. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed at the pace of major actions coming from our capital. Information
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