29 Standing Rock Water Protectors Arrested During Indigenous People’s Day Protest
STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, North Dakota — Indigenous People’s Day in Oceta Sakowin began before dawn with a loudspeaker…
The Indypendent
Ellen Davidson
An Island off Korea Takes on the U.S. Military Machine
A daily ritual begins early in Gangjeong Village on Jeju Island, South Korea, site of a joint U.S.-South Korean…
Thousands Turn Out For Ferguson October
Photos by Ellen Davidson Text by Alina Mogilyanskaya “Hands up, don’t shoot!” “Black lives matter!” These have become the clarion…
Climate Activists Launch 30-Foot Inflatable Bomb Near West Point
Canoers from SeaChange 2014, activists from Veterans For Peace, and inflatable art creators Tools for Action launched a 30-foot…
1st Person: This Jew Can’t Support Israel
Growing up in my Jewish family, it was a given that Jews supported civil rights, opposed the Vietnam War…
Veterans Denied Justice – Again
Five U.S. military veterans were found guilty March 12 of disorderly conduct, failure to obey a park sign,…
Veterans Arrested at Their Own Memorial on 12th Anniversary of Afghanistan War
Nineteen military veterans and their allies were arrested Oct. 7 at New York City’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza for…
The hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay prison passed the six-month mark in early August, with more than 50 prisoners…
Veterans’ Free Speech Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict, Followed by Dismissal of Charges
Judge Robert Mandelbaum covered all his bases with his verdict July 12 in the case of 12veterans and their…
Defendants Testify at Veterans’ Trial for Peaceable Assembly
Defendants took the stand July 10 at the third day of a trial of veterans and their allies arrested…