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Atomic Mirror launches Valentines for a Nuclear Free World Campaign

11 Apr 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

On February 14, 2007, at the 40th anniversary of the creation of the first nuclear free zone, Atomic Mirror launched “Valentines to Tlatelolco: The Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Path to a Nuclear Free World,” a campaign to promote awareness about the importance of nuclear free zones on a journey towards a nonviolent, non-nuclear world. Read [...]

Rainforest Action Network Begins Investor Education Campaign

11 Apr 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

Common Dreams, Progressive Newswire
MARCH 29, 2007
CONTACT: The Rainforest Action Network
415 398 4404 | 415 398 2732 fax | answers@ran.org
Investors Warned About Weyerhaeuser’s Environmental and Human Rights Problems
Rainforest Action Network Begins Investor Education Campaign in Advance of Lumber Giant’s April Shareholder Meeting
San Francisco – This week, hundreds of responsible investors in Canada and the United States [...]

More Americans than Muslims would Accept Bombing Civilians

21 Mar 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

The myth of Muslim support for terror
February 23, 2007 edition – The Christian Science Monitor
The common enemy is violence and terrorism, not Muslims any more than Christians or Jews.
By Kenneth Ballen
WASHINGTON
Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks [...]

Iraq War Anniversary Vigil

19 Mar 2007 in Events

MoveOn.org invites you this week to come be a “witness for peace” in a Berkeley gathering to meditate on peace in this time of violence in Iraq Click here for more information.

Journalists and feminist activists begin hunger strike after three days in jail

17 Mar 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

Reporters Without Borders
Iran | 7.03.2007
Reporters Without Borders today called for the immediate release of 25 women journalists and feminist activists held in Tehran’s Evin prison, who, on the eve of International Women’s Day, began a hunger strike to protest against their continued detention.
Thirty-three women were arrested on 4 March while demonstrating outside the Revolutionary Islamic [...]