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A brief catalog of actions up to 2007
Below
is a brief catalog of some actions we’ve helped organize or
assisted in, where web pages are available – arrayed
randomly, as a background of what we’ve been up to over the
years.
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Actions against depleted uranium weapons, including
the filming of a documentary, 2007
- International Peace Day Vigil, 2006
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El Salvador presidential election observers 2004
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Chattanooga homeless
documentary 2006
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Palestinian nonviolent activist’s 2003
Michigan tour, with mp3 files of his talks
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Associates’ building of two ferries after
a dam blocked Hondurans access
– late 1990s trips reviewed
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The first of two human-rights journeys to Palestine
and Israel, 2001 and
photos of the second
- Holland Peacemakers
“Peace Now Rally” and
Wednesday peace vigils – photos-2003
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2003 journeys to Mexican base communities, including
photos – as Strategic Pastoral Action –
there are other links at Nonviolence Ways Project’s web
directory to delegations we organized to the base communities
since 1992
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Action and vigil at Michigan
congressman’s office – late 2002
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Christmas delegation organized to Chiapas and
Hidalgo, Mexico - 1996
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Radical Philosophy Association’s journey
to Chiapas and Hidalgo
– 1997
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Mexico Solidarity Network 1st
Chiapas “friendship” journey – 1998 – with Eileen's
compiled analysis “Seeds of Genocide”
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Human-rights delegation to Hondurans living under
death threat - 1998
– plus help in construction of second women’s
safe-house in country
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Accompaniment of survivors of Acteal, Chiapas,
massacre to 1st annual commemoration – also 1998 – a busy year
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Reflections as a result of two trips to Cuba and
and two to Nicaragua
between 1991-1995 – on the first trip to Cuba, a nonviolent
direct action organized by Global Exchange in 1993, Wes was detained by
federal agents upon return to the U.S. and his passport seized
– it took many months to get a new one.
- A second anniversary Iraq war protest (see video),
a vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan (see
video), and a sample of 1990 Binghamton, NY, protests (see
video).
- Other protests, television appearances, one
congressional office direct-action occupation, the first Los Angeles
protest against Vietnam conflict escalation in 1965, the Chicago
“Days of Rage” in 1968, a draft-board sit-in,
Washington and local demonstrations in the ‘60s and since the
Iraq wars, presentations at various conferences in the U.S. and Mexico
as well as one at the University of Havana, our first solidarity trip
to Chiapas in March 1994, right after the EZLN uprising
… Wes also guided or helped guide several
nonviolent training workshops and participated in a four-day intensive
Training for Change workshop -
Third Party Nonviolent Intervention Training for Advanced Trainers.
After
2001, our delegation work was curtailed because of Wes' cancer surgery,
chemo and radiation treatments, over a span of two years.
We’ve also lost three other activist-organizer friends to
cancer since 1994.
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