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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
by CAPA Climate Change Working Group member Carter Cleland,published February 8th in the Chicago Sun-Times. I’ve got blood on my hands, just as the “protest puppet” at the Chicago Cultural Center. Why? Because my tax dollars, and yours, and those
Stansfield Smith: [Stansfield Smith, a member of CAPA’s Foreign Policy Working Group, is a writer and organizer with Chicago ALBA Solidarity.] Here are a few articles on USAID supporting US coup operations in a couple countries. I could take any country
Here’s a Gaza poem from our friend Kos Kostmayer. It is sent “with love and desperate hope for better news and happier times.”_________________________________________________________________ HOW SHALL BEAUTY CLAIM A PLACE When sorrow bears witnessTo unspeakable violence Time withersWeather stopsLaughter tooThe wind departs The
By Kos Kostmayer, poet, novelist, screenplay writerOctober 8, 2024 I don’t know where we are We are not allowed to see Lights are made to blind us We are driven out of sleep – ridden down by beasts – banished
Annette Braden-Rozier, The Chicago Tribune, Oct 11, 2024. Jews and Palestinians are suffering, but the dominant narrative is that Israel is the rightful home of the Jews and needs defending against its enemies. But there is another narrative. The cruel
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