Tag: AntiWar
Barbara Lee’s Antiwar Campaign for the Senate
Los Angeles’s Kingdom Day Parade is billed as one of the oldest and largest celebrations of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s birthday in the country, held each year in the morning on Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard in Leimert Park, a neighborhood in South L.A. This year, it was chilly but sunny along the parade route; families had set up camping chairs and picnic blankets, meat smokers had been rolled out onto front lawns, and the piano notes of Mary J.
How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt
In 1942, answering a pacifist opponent of British involvement in the Second World War, George Orwell replied that “pacifism is objectively pro-fascist.” There have of course been many times in human history when opposition to war has been morally justified, intellectually coherent, and, in the end, vindicated. But the war to defeat fascism during the middle part of the past century was simply not one of them. “This is elementary common sense,” Orwell wrote at the time. “If you hamper
Anti-War Activists Are Facing a Moral Dilemma
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We Still Need an Anti-War Movement
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Watch An Anti-War Activist Couple Who Shaped History | The New Yorker Documentary
[bright tonal music]
[wind whooshing]
[Eleanora] We wanted a little cottage
that we could work on, so we thought we’d get a fixer upper.
The broker, she said, I have perfect cottage for you.
She took us around and couldn’t see a thing.
It was empty, freezing cold, windy, fog.
We pulled in the driveway and in the mist,
I could see this beautiful house and I said,
Wuthering Heights.
And Michael said, We’ll have a look.
The ceilings were
