Afghanistan Challenges for the Corruption Cup by Paul Graham Competition for the coveted Corruption Cup is intense, but Afghanistan is proving itself to be a real competitor. And what, pray tell, is the Corruption Cup? Mainly a figment of my…
Secret society campaigns for female rights
A RAWA class. Photo: Anja Niedringhaus / AP by Chris Sands, Foreign Correspondent The National, September 22, 2008 KABUL // They often stay in safehouses and they do not give their names to the media. Sometimes even their relatives have…
Talking the politics of peace with Americans
Photo: The Minnesota Independent by Marianne Cerilli As a lead up to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I was asked by Stephan Peter, politics professor and Democratic Socialists of America member, to speak to students and activists. The…
Last minute reprieve for Iraq War resister Jeremy Hinzman
Judge grants U.S. deserter’s last-ditch effort to stave off deportation The Canadian Press, September 22, 2008 TORONTO — A high-profile American war dodger won a desperate bid to stay in Canada on Monday as a judge refused to allow Canada…
Why Canada should give sanctuary to U.S. war resisters
by Rev. Jack Risk Winnipeg Free Press, September 21, 2008 Why should Canada allow American war resisters to stay in our country? We have a clear memory, which disturbs us to this day, of watching a live Reuters feed of…
Peace activists occupy Tory candidate’s office to protest planned deportation of American Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman and his family
Peace activists occupy Tory election campaign office in Winnipeg, Sept. 20, 2008 to focus attention on deportation of American war resister Jeremy Hinzman. Photo: Paul Graham (Winnipeg, Sept. 20, 2008) Anti-war activists peacefully occupied the campaign office of federal Conservative…