By Molly Rush Once dismissed as that “little storefront on Southside whose goal, no less, is peace and justice in the world,” nearly 50 years later that continues to be our mission. […]
NewPeople Newspaper
NewPeople is the peace and justice newspaper of Pittsburgh and the Tri-state area, and is published 11 times a year. It fills the voids left by the mainstream media reflecting the reality of progressive, alternative politics locally, nationally and globally.
As a publication of the Thomas Merton Center, the paper reports on the issues of war, poverty, racism and oppression, raising the moral questions involved in the non-violent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. The NewPeople acts as an organizing tool and communiqué for Thomas Merton Center members and the activist community at large.
One Democratic State
By Ken Boas The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), was founded in Jerusalem in 2003. Its mission – to resist the illegal demolition of Palestinian homes. ICAHD, with its Palestinian, Israeli, […]
Post-Gazette Drama Continues
By Neil Cosgrove Twenty-two months into so-far fruitless contract negotiations, the drama at Pittsburgh’s only daily newspaper continues to unfold. Post-Gazette journalists sought to present their side of the story by distributing […]
Meet The New Technology And Operations Coordinator
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sheryland Neal has a background in performance, theatre, and broadcast journalism. She holds a MFA in Film and Digital Technology from Chatham University and Bachelor’s degree […]
By MARIANNE NOVY Since at least the early 1980s, anti-war activists, such as the Merton Center’s own Molly Rush and Sister Megan Rice, who visited Pittsburgh last summer, have tried to […]
In it for the long term
By BETTE MCDEVITT If you stop in or call the Merton Center on a Friday morning, you’ll meet or speak with Lois Goldstein, a long time member and volunteer. Lois came to […]
I can’t hear
By PETER ORESICK I can’t hear when I am sleeping. I fear the stalker, the tomb robber, the contractor who measures my sleeping soul. His hatred, my tomb. Let […]
What is my responsibility here?
By ELISA OGOT Leading up to the 2016 Presidential Election, the advice many people gave to liberals who come from conservative families or have close relationships with conservatives was to talk to […]
The new sanctuary movement and others help immigrants
By MARIANNE NOVY With the increased threats of deportation beginning in 2006, the Sanctuary Movement, active in the 1980s, has mobilized again as the New Sanctuary Movement. The director of New Sanctuary […]
Housing summit confronts market failures
By NEIL COSGROVE If participants in the Pittsburgh Housing Summit were certain of anything by the Summit’s conclusion on November 10th, it was that America’s market-based approach to providing its citizens with […]
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