BY JIM RAY Several years after graduating from McCormick Theological Seminary I began a career in Campus Ministry at the University of Illinois in ChampaignUrbana. This was in January 1963. Three weeks […]
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.
Bombing James Comey and Stormy Daniels
BY MICHAEL DROHAN On Saturday, April 7, 2018 a gas attack on the city of Douma in Syria, was reported. Douma is a suburb of Damascus formerly controlled by two jihadist factions, […]
Stop Banking The Bomb Teach-In
BY Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign Four members from the Stop Banking the Bomb campaign presented at a teach-in at the University of Pittsburgh’s Barco Law Building on March 25. The educational […]
2018 New Person of The Year: Monica Ruiz
BY MONICA RUIZ Editor’s Note: Monica Ruiz is Community Organizer for Casa San Jose, an organization dedicated to assisting immigrants in the Pittsburgh region and a former project of the Thomas Merton […]
Fighting For Journalistic Integrity At The Post-Gazette
BY NEIL COSGROVE At this moment, the journalists of the Pittsburgh PostGazette and the Denver Post have a lot in common. Both groups work for the only daily newspapers in their mid-size […]
2018 New Person of the Year: Monica Ruiz
By Monica Ruiz Editor’s Note: Monica Ruiz is Community Organizer for Casa San Jose, an organization dedicated to assisting immigrants in the Pittsburgh region and a former project of the Thomas Merton […]
Fighting for Journalistic Integrity at the Post-Gazette
By Neil Cosgrove At this moment, the journalists of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Denver Post have a lot in common. Both groups work for the only daily newspapers in their mid-size […]
March and April in Pictures
(Photo Caption: Protesting wage theft in O’Hara Township. More on Page 7. (Photo: Matthew Bauer) Young opponents of gun violence pack Pittsburgh’s Fifth Avenue on March 24th for the March For Our […]
Letter from the Director
By Gabriel McMorland This month, I want to invite friends and members of the Thomas Merton Center to get involved in an activist research collective we’re beginning this summer. Philadelphia, Buffalo, Washington […]
Stop Banking the Bomb Teach-in
By Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign Four members from the Stop Banking the Bomb campaign presented at a teach-in at the University of Pittsburgh’s Barco Law Building on March 25. The educational […]
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