(Photo Caption: Workers and organizers held up signs opposing wage theft at Chapel Harbor. (Photo: Matthew Bauer) A large banner was held up at the demonstration (Photo: Matthew Bauer) By Krystle M. Knight […]
By Will Lawbaugh They whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are. –St. John Chrysostom Thomas Merton’s journals, from 1939 to his […]
By Joyce Rothermel Seven Catholic Plowshares activists were detained early Thursday morning, April 5, at the Kings Bay Naval Base, St. Mary’s, Georgia. They entered the base on Wednesday night, April 4. […]
By Joyce Rothermel A wonderful opportunity is afforded to people in the Pittsburgh area June 1-3, 2018. That weekend, Pittsburgh Area Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace and the Thomas Merton Center are […]
By Lois Goldstein Think globally, act locally is a phrase that could have been written with Caryl Beal in mind. Caryl, who died on April 7, had strong beliefs that she linked […]
(Photo Caption: Photo provided by Kate Daher) By Kate Daher On April 11, Pittsburgh Jewish Voice for Peace co-founder, Dani Klein, artist and professor Hyla Willis, Bret Grote from the Abolitionist Law Center, […]
By Neil Cosgrove Confronted with an unfavorable National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that Block Communication, Inc. has violated labor law by refusing to pay a 5% increase in health insurance premiums […]
By Bette McDevitt You may have seen us over the years. Raging Grannies, wearing hats salvaged from attics, shiny beads reminiscent of Mardi Gras, and buttons with slogans that catalog past causes […]
(Photo Caption: The Raging Grannies (Photo: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) By Bette McDevitt Sorry, folks, it’s not you. It’s Lockheed. In the recent 1.3 trillion dollar budget, the defense contractors will share a large […]
By Cheryl Bauer The election of Donald Trump in 2016 is not only evidence of the power held by self-identified white, evangelical Christian voters, but of an enormous shift in principle of […]
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