A FEW DAYS IN HYDE PARK, A LIFETIME IN THE EMPIRE

"by Mike Ferner January 5, 2009 Chicago -- Standing outside for five days with Camp Hope in the Windy City, under skies of lead and the thermometer below freezing provides an opportunity to make certain observations. Standing three blocks from the home of the next president...

FOR THE HEALTH OF ALL: CAMP HOPE

FOR THE HEALTH OF ALL: CAMP HOPEby Mike FernerJanuary 3, 2009A steady stream of reporters from corporate news media outlets warmed things up at a frigid Camp Hope in Chicago yesterday, when CNN and the local affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS all called at Drexel Park on...

CAMP HOPE HOLDS OBAMA TO “CHANGE” PLEDGE

“From the people who put you in office” by Mike Ferner December 30, 2009 Determined to keep President-elect Barack Obama true to his promise of change, peace and economic justice activists kick off an 18-day outdoor vigil January 1, four blocks from the Illinois...

WITH SHOT AND SHELL, OR “MODULAR CROWD CONTROL MUNITIONS”… WE MUST BEND...

December 8, 2008by Mike Ferner "Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov   The Army Times reported on September 30 that a combat brigade, about 4,000 troops, which could be called on for “civil unrest and crowd control,” had been assigned...

War, Inc.

By Mike Ferner Revised June 7, 2008   Note to the revised version: This article was first written for publication in December, 2001, weeks after the U.S. started bombing Afghanistan.  It appeared in the April 2002 issue of “Wild Matters,” a...

INSIDE AMERICAN ROYALTY’S SECURITY BUBBLE

    by Mike Ferner  April 28, 2008   Washington, D.C. – The First Family Security Bubble was nearly pried open for a moment last Friday; but in the end Disneyland remained blessedly undisturbed.   On a particularly warm spring evening, Laura...

SICK OF IT DAY Campaign Begins

February 14, 2008 Veterans For Peace today kicked off its March 19, 2008 “Sick Of It Day” www.sickofitday.org campaign to end the war in Iraq. March 19 is the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and the campaign is designed to give every person sick of...

CLINTON CAMPAIGN OFFICE RE-OCCUPIED BY PEACE ACTIVISTS ON DAY OF IOWA VOTING

Action caps four days of Iowa primary protests against war in Iraq  by Mike Ferner January 3, 2008  Des Moines – Hours before voting begins in the nation’s first presidential poll, peace activists placed the Iraq war front and center again this afternoon as...

OBAMA AND ROMNEY IOWA CAMPAIGN OFFICES OCCUPIED BY PEACE ACTIVISTS

Third day of nonviolent resistance to Iraq occupation during Iowa presidential primary   January 2, 2008 by Mike Ferner  Des Moines – Opponents of the occupation of Iraq today occupied the Iowa campaign headquarters of presidential candidates U.S. Senator...

God Bless the Senate Republicans

God Bless the Senate Republicans by Mike Ferner  November 17, 2007  Into every tragically depressing world situation some light must shine if you wait long enough and the planets align just right.   That glimmer of light came yesterday from, of all...

They met the resistance

THEY MET THE RESISTANCE  by Mike Ferner  November 1, 2007    On one of those beautiful, fall Sunday mornings that can make you feel all is right with the world, filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors discussed their new documentary about Iraqis...

They met the resistance

THEY MET THE RESISTANCE  by Mike Ferner  November 1, 2007    On one of those beautiful, fall Sunday mornings that can make you feel all is right with the world, filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors discussed their new documentary about Iraqis...