November 5, 2007: This
website is an archive of the former website, traprockpeace.org,
which was created 10 years ago by Charles Jenks. It became the
most popular grassroots peace center site in the US with about 10,000 visitors a day by July, 2007. Its content remains
an important resource on the grassroots peace movement, student activism,
'depleted' uranium and other topics. Jenks authored all of its web pages and virtually all multimedia content (photographs, audio and video). As the author and registered owner of that site, Jenks's purpose
here is to preserve an important slice of grassroots
peace history over the past decade. He is maintaining this
historical archive as a service to the greater peace movement, and
for Traprock's many friends. He is grateful for having worked with the Traprock community, and particularly with Sunny Miller. Without her supreme organizing, and her collaborations with Scott Ritter, Doug Rokke, Jeremy Corbyn, Kathy Kelly, Bishop Gumbleton, and a host of local and national organizers and groups, that site would not have reached the heights that it achieved.THIS SITE DOES NOT REFLECT THE CURRENT WORK OF TRAPROCK CENTER FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE. Traprock reorganized its board and changed its name and mission, starting in late 2007. To contact Traprock
Center for Peace and Justice, call 413-522-8892 or visit its site.
Charles Jenks may be reached at charles@peacejournal*org.
Aimee Allison, Gulf War objector
and community organizer, and David Solnit, Courage to Resist
organizer - co-authors of "Army of None" - go to
the Amherst, MA vigil on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at noon (Amherst
Common). On Monday, October 15th join them with the Campus
Antiwar Network, Traprock Peace Center and other area groups
on strategies to counter recruitment, end war and build a better
world in Room 803, Campus Center, UMASS Amherst, 3-5 PM.
“The Bomb Drop was reported to have Good Effects by the U.S. Air Force:Bombing a Village Market in Baghran, Helmand on August 2, 2007 by Marc Herold WARNING: grahpic photos of war maimings
24 high school peace makers were honored at the 8th Annual Peace
Maker Awards, co-sponsored by the Interfaith Council of Franklin
County and Traprock Peace Center.
More video coming
May 13: Frances
Crowe tells story of Mother's Day protest 25 years ago
See video of Martín Espada, Lynne
Stewart, Aimee Allison, Ahmed Shawki, Anja Daniel, Cindy Sheehan,
Scott Ritter, Joel Geier, Holly Near, Mixed Nuts, Ricky Clousing,
Martín Sanchez - with many more coming. New videos plus
video from archives of historic events.
The Stuggle
for Self-Determination
and Resisting Empire
Midwest Socialism Conference - Chicago
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Our point is not that these Marines
are evil; rather, that it is a war against the Iraqi people.
Join Traprock Peace Center for a potluck
dinner
and an evening with:
Kathy Kelly, two time Nobel Peace Prize nominee
and author of "Other lands Have Dreams:From Baghdad
to Pekin Prison" and
David Smith-Ferri, activist and poet and author of "Battle
Field without Borders: Iraqis in Crisis."
Sunday,
October 28, 2007 -
5:30 Potluck
6:30 Kathy and David, followed by Q & A and discussion
United methodist Church (corner of Franklin & Church, 1
block from Federal on Church St.)
Greenfield
Sponsored by Traprock Peace Center, 10 Park St., Greenfield
(new location!) (413) 773-7427
GI Resister Ricky Clousing
now faces court martial. He worked in interrogations
in Iraq for the Marines. On the street he witnessed US-initiated
brutlaities.
Hear
Ricky speak (mp3 audio)*
1:09:54 length with Q&A; 64 kbps mono
He spoke in D.C. Sept. 16, 2006 (introduced by David Swanson).
Clousing says the US is "creating the insurgency...It's
this crazy mindless cycle of violence and death and killing
and wasted money and nobody seems to understand the big picture."
"[A]fter all, and this is a very important
thing to understand, the power of governments and the power
of all large entities like corporations, rests and depends upon
the obedience of people. The government and the military, as
powerful as they are, cannot carry out a war."
US 'Precision' bombing more lethal to Afghan civilians
than suicide bombings
Activists and neighbors gathered at Traprock
on July 4th to skip fireworks and nationalism in favor of the
simple beauty of song, dance and community. We are posting this
late due to our organizing for Camp
Democracy and our coverage of Middle
East war events.
Darfur - Should West intervene?
Or is this US imperialism again?
US
May 22 massacre of civilians
at Afghan village of Hajiyan provides case study in US manipulation
of public opinion. Read this new analysis (pdf download with
photos) by Marc Herold.
*Horrifying
photo
report on US massacre of Iraqi civilians (pdf) - caution:
extremely graphic - from
Association of Victims of American Occupation Prisons (Iraq) *Health
Consequences of the War in Iraq - Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H.
A wonderful time--the War:
when money rolled in
and blood rolled out.
But blood
was far away
from here--
Money was near.
- Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1902-1967)
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“The Bomb Drop was reported to have Good Effects by the U.S. Air Force:
Bombing a Village Market in Baghran, Helmand on August 2, 2007 by Marc Herold
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