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April 2021, What's Happening In the Movement

‘Oi Barclays, Clean Your Act Up!’ – Extinction Rebellion Dirty Scrubbers Pay a Visit to Barclays HQ

by Oregon PeaceWorks • April 19, 2021 • 0 Comments

EXTINCTION REBELLION – [On March 30] Extinction Rebellion Dirty Scrubbers took their theatrical protest to Barclays Bank headquarters in Canary Wharf with a letter to the bank demanding it ‘clean its act up!’ The scrubbers were armed with a ‘wobbly washing machine’ and a bubble machine. They washed the blood, oil, and greenwash out of Barclays’ dirty money and cleaned the black carbon out of Barclays’ arctic exploration in a theatrical performance designed to highlight the role of banks in the climate and ecological emergency.

Analysis, April 2021

Contrary to What Biden Said, U.S. Warfare in Afghanistan Is Set to Continue

by Oregon PeaceWorks • April 17, 2021 • 0 Comments

NORMAN SOLOMON – The U.S. war in Afghanistan won’t end just because President Biden and U.S. news media tell us so. As countless Afghan people have experienced, troops on the ground aren’t the only measure of horrific warfare.

Analysis, April 2021

Again, Washington Jumps to Conclusions over Ukraine-Russia Skirmish

by Oregon PeaceWorks • April 15, 2021 • 0 Comments

ANATOL LIEVEN – The initial reaction of Biden administration officials to the latest clash between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian militia (or Russian soldiers serving as militia) in eastern Ukraine exemplifies a very dangerous pattern in U.S. and Western behavior: to believe whatever “our” side in a given crisis tells us, automatically, and without checking facts.

Analysis, April 2021

There’s Another Pandemic under Our Noses, and It Kills 8.7m People a Year

by Oregon PeaceWorks • April 13, 2021 • 0 Comments

REBECCA SOLNIT – While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus.

Analysis, April 2021

Trapped at the Border: Their Fate is our Fate – The Immigration Issue is Complex

by Oregon PeaceWorks • April 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

ROBERT KOEHLER – It’s far too easy to envision the chaos of emigration getting worse, with the world’s poorest (and most deserving) people trapped in ever-intensifying violence and desperation, increasingly walled off from hope by racist ignorance. Something else becomes possible when we begin to realize that unless we change the world, their fate is our fate.

Analysis, April 2021

Selective Service Registration Deserves a Full Hearing in Congress

by Oregon PeaceWorks • April 9, 2021 • 0 Comments

EDWARD HASBROUCK – The real choice Congress faces regarding draft registration is whether to expand registration to women or to end it entirely. Bills for each of those options were introduced in the last session of Congress, and are likely to be reintroduced within the next few months as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act. This is a choice about militarism, not a choice about gender equality.