Recently added articles from Sojourners Magazine:
Hawks against the bomb: consummate Cold Warrior George Shultz explains why abolishing nuclear weapons is an idea whose time has come.
Nov 01, 2009; ... WHAT ON EARTH happened to George Shultz? So wondered Republicans and Democrats alike when, in 2007, President Reagan's former secretary of state emerged as one of the leading champions of the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Their confusion was forgivable. Whether or not ...
Killer robots: attack drones take a heavy civilian toll.(Commentary)
Aug 01, 2009; ... WHEN I REFLECT on the drone aircraft now being used by the U.S. military to kill suspected "extremists"--and large numbers of innocent bystanders--in Afghanistan and Pakistan, an episode of the original Star Trek comes to mind. In it, Captain Kirk accidently transports into a parallel ...
More than a game: black athletes have shown the way for sports activism.(SPORTS and Human Rights)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DURING THE 1960S, sports sociologist Harry Edwards helped found the Olympic Project for Human Rights which called for, among other things, a boycott of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics to protest racism in sports and society. The boycott was called off, but ...
Death of an activist: an interview with Israeli filmmaker Simone Bitton.(Culture Watch: BOOKS ART MUSIC FILM)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2009 ... Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist, was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, while trying to stop the destruction of Palestinian homes in the Gaze Strip. Israeli military police concluded that her death was accidental, though eyewitnesses claimed she was ...
Overheard.(COMMENTARY)
Jun 01, 2009; ... "This presidency will be dedicated to Monsenor Oscar Romero." ...