Blog Posts by Category: Beyond War and Militarism Committee
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SPC Turns 78 with Cold Case Justice
Join the Peace Council for our annual birthday celebration on Saturday, November 1 at Bellevue Heights United Methodist Church (2112 S. Geddes St., Syracuse). We will host SU Law professors Paula Johnson and Janis McDonald, co-founders of the school’s Cold Case Justice Initiative, which works to bring long-lost justice to the families of victims of racially and politically motivated murders related to the Civil Rights movement (see page 9).
Who Won Iraq?
The following is excerpted from an original article published on July 3 on the Al-Ahram Weekly website.
You can find the full article at http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/6683/31/Who-won-Iraq-.aspx
Not Another Preventable War!
Last month, we solemnly marked the 10 year anniversary of the preventable war with Iraq. Around the world, millions of people protested this war, a war based on lies and fabricated intelligence. An agonizing decade followed. Over 4,000 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis died. The effects of the war continue for Iraqis who lost loved ones, who’ve been displaced by chaos, and who suffer from lack of electricity, clean water and jobs. The effects of the war continue for US soldiers who are injured and suffer from PTSD.
No Military Intervention in Syria
Those of us inspired by the cry for democracy and human rights that has reverberated from Tunisia to Egypt to Syria are saddened and horrified to see that same movement being attacked wholesale by the Syrian state. At the Syracuse Peace Council, we are also disturbed by the international community’s response to the conflict, including the response of our own government.
SPC Statement on September 11th
Revenge Will Not
Heal Our Grief
Printed by the Syracuse Post-Standard on Sunday, September 11, 2011
SPC Statement on the US Withdrawal from Iraq
SPC Statement on the US Withdrawal from Iraq
Printed Monday, December 19 in the Syracuse Post-Standard
The Syracuse Peace Council eagerly anticipates the return of U.S. service members from the war in Iraq. As an organization that opposed the Iraq War before it was launched, we feel it is long overdue.