NEWS | Gandhi TODAY

While the United States Threatens War, in Afghanistan the Work of Peace Continues

by Kathy Kelly April 20, 2017 Three former United Nations officials with many decades of experience as diplomats recently wrote a blunt appraisal of the U.S. role in [...]
Where To Turn

Photo Credit: Hakim Young by Kathy Kelly (Voices for Creative Nonviolence) In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as [...]
Why We Need To Revisit Rumi And Gandhiji

(SpeakingTree, Sept 29,2016) Standing at this juncture of sub-continental history, when two neighbouring countries, India and Pakistan, are looking at each other with daggers [...]
Arun Gandhi: “Paying lip-service or Act, on Gandhi Jayanti?

A message from Arun Gandhi, Grandson of ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi on the occasion of ‘Gandhi Day’ – The United Nations International Day of Nonviolence [...]
Gandhi and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution (Speech in Stockholm, 1996)

by Jan Viklund Speech held at The Nonviolence Project 1:st Youth Conference 21 – 23 March 1996 in Stockholm, Sweden. Gandhi JAYANTI October 2 – UN International Day [...]
Blood Ink

Illustration by Sonja Wimmer By Carolyn Coe (Voices for Creative Nonviolence) ZARGHUNA has inked a drawing at the mound of her thumb. I draw here when I’m in pain, she [...]
For Russians with Love (A Photo Journal)

By Hakim Young With a holiday smile, and a tease in her eyes, Yalta School Twelve’s ex-principal, Valentina, ( on the right in the above photo)persuaded us, “Let us [...]
What’s at Stake

By Kathy Kelly In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, we visited the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in February of 1945, concluded [...]
Why go to Russia?

by Kathy Kelly Since 1983, Sharon Tennison has worked to develop ordinary citizens’ capacities to avert international crises, focusing on relations between the U.S. and [...]
Turning Backs on Despair, Richest Nations Doing Least for World’s Refugees

“We must stand as one with the millions of people who have been forced to flee as they need our help.” (Photo: Tilman Köneke/flickr/cc) [...]
Is Afghanistan the New Old West for Claim-Jumping?

The Claim-Jumping of the Old West By Bill Distler “Privatization of Afghanistan’s state-owned companies, which controlled many of the [...]
Hiroshima 70. Let’s Try to Change the World.

70 Years since we entered the Nuclear Age. Let’s Try to Change the World. HIROSHIMA – NAGASAKI EVENTS 6 – 9 August, [...]
Bikinians evacuated ‘for good of mankind’ endure lengthy nuclear fallout

An advance team of Bikini men board a landing craft to assist U.S. Navy Seabees in building new homes for the islanders on Rongerik. The Bikinians had to evacuate their [...]
Before the Dawn

Mohamedou Slahi photo: International Committee of the Red Cross By Kathy Kelly Voices for Creative Nonviolence June 30, 2015 EACH YEAR, throughout the Muslim world, believers [...]
TPP: Thanks to ‘Weak-Kneed’ Dems, Fast Track Heads Back to Senate Floor

Following what some called a “humiliating defeat” on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) reached a [...]
TPP: Victory for Grassroots as Fast Track Goes Down in Crucial Senate Vote

CommonDreams, May 12, 2015 ‘We know the forces pushing the job-killing TPP won’t stop here, and they should know, neither will we,’ says Democracy for [...]
The Faces of Afghan Refugee Mothers

TIME – May 8, 2015 In honor of Mother’s Day, LightBox asked photographer Muhammed Muheisen to photograph Afghan refugee mothers in Pakistan, and to find out what [...]
Mum’s risking life to bring music to Afghan children

by Stuart Cumming (Sunshine Coast Daily, May 8, 2015) Gail Malone is heading off to Afghanistan on a humanitarian mission. This is Gail, left, on a previous mission with [...]
Believing in Afghanistan

by Mina Sharif Executive Producer, Afghan Scouts Radio and Television (Huffington Post Blog, May 5, 2015) Last week I went to a new restaurant. On my way home, I stopped and [...]
Mother Earth is Weeping for her Children: The US Military Must Stop Environmental Ecocide

by Joy First National Campaign for Nonviolence Resistance As I traveled to DC to risk arrest in an action organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) [...]