The antiwar and queer liberation movements are natural allies. Yet the focus on “don’t ask don’t tell” threatens to turn the queer liberation movement pro-militarism. The two perhaps most important specific LGBT-related issues in recent times — gay marriage, and
Why international law?
When debating a matter of international law with people (say, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict) they will often say “Well, international law is illegitamate / doesn’t matter / no one follows it / US law supersedes it / etc. so your appeals
US Anti-war and Israel-Palestine divestment movements
(Disclaimer: I understand that the substitutes are poor here, and the whole exercise may well be taken as trivialising racism, rape and rape culture, which are very serious concerns. If it is taken that way, I apologise in advance. I
Savaging the Tapestry of the Law
Getting off the bus at Berkeley, my stop is right next to the law building. I know that is where John Yoo, the torture lawyer, is a professor. There are over a thousand students and faculty in the law school,
The antiwar movement in the large, and measuring it
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/measurenonprofit I read this article and thought it was interesting. I had some comments on it, which pertain to the antiwar movement at large, so I thought I would share them. Make of them what you will. 1. Measuring is
Jeremy and Reyna on CBS!
Stanford Student Speaks Out On Confronting Rice http://cbs5.com/politics/condoleezza.rice.confronted.2.999686.html A follow up to their story from Thursday Stanford Student Confronts Rice On Interrogationshttp://cbs5.com/politics/condoleezza.rice.confronted.2.998771.html
This is your pizza. Go eat it.
I think this is amazingly good — at least to my own aesthetics. Just the right mix of seriousness and hilariousness, gravity and spirit, light and heavy, yin and yang. http://www.stanford.edu/group/antiwar/cgi-bin/mediawiki/images/d/da/NoMoreTorture.png This is your pizza. Go eat it. Are you
War Criminals of Tomorrow
An awesome video by a friend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2KeDPTh3o “Condoleezza Rice is back at Stanford University. What does it mean for the Stanford community to accept an alleged war criminal on their campus? What does the pipeline of war criminals to universities
On dinner parties and war criminals
“Oh, your prudery; oh, your squeamish respectability; all the abominations are allowed to *happen*, but no one may mention them. Delicate women must not know anything or say anything about blood and filth… There is nothing indecent about death and
Relevant articles & videos
Some articles and videos of relevance for those interested in peace and justice. 1. San Francisco — your tax dollars at work. Footage of police violence at SF antiwar rally last weekend. About 2:50 in.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWlSbdCmPcU “The State is authority, it