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 hunk of our tax money; $700 billion dollars, […]
And The Winner Is…
Off Our Rockers And Into The Streets
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 […]
Block Decides To Keep Gouging P-G Journalists
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 […]
Support HR 4391 & The Release of Ahed Tamimi
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, and this writer delivered a letter […]
We Remember: Caryl Conry Beal
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 […]
What Thomas Merton Means To Me, A Priest And Writer
BY WILL LAWBAUGH They whom we love and lose a re no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are. –St. John Chrysostom Thomas Merton’s journals, from 1939 to […]
Latest Plowshares Witness On Anniversary Of Killing Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. […]
O’Hara Rally Calls On Chapel Harbor Luxury Developers To Stop Wage Theft
BY KRYSTLE M. KNIGHT Pittsburgh, PA – At 11:00 AM on Saturday, April 14th, immigrant workers and their supporters held a demonstration outside of Chapel Harbor at the Water in O’Hara Township […]
School Integration
BY MAGGIE WEAVER “We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” — Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954 On May 17, 1954, the […]
Faith in Action
BY BETTE MCDEVITT Rev. Dordal is a member of the Thomas Merton Center and a coordinator of the Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign, which is targeting PNC Bank’s investments in nuclear weapons […]
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