In the wake of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, Ann Wright recalls other suicides committed in protest against U.S. policies, including by five Americans opposed to the U.S. war in Vietnam.
Killing Oneself to Try to Stop a War
Category: Protest
Caitlin Johnstone: He Burned Himself Alive to Turn Eyes to Gaza
We each have own our personal response to Israel’s incineration of Gaza. This was Aaron Bushnell’s.
Long Retrial Wait for UK’s ‘Elbit Six’
Members of Palestine Action, a group targeting an Israeli arms maker’s U.K. operations, will take the stand once again in June 2025, Anita Mureithi reports.
US Supreme Court Defends Free Speech on Palestine
The dismissal marks the third consecutive time a federal court has dismissed the Jewish National Fund’s case against the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
WATCH: Anti-Genocide Protestors Arrested at US Capitol
U.S. Capitol police arrested demonstrators calling for the end of U.S. support for Israel’s genocide on Monday.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Banality of Propaganda
The annals of the awful art — Hitler’s, Mussolini’s, Japan’s and America’s during World War II — show that it does not have to be sophisticated. The Israeli president’s display of Mein Kampf just proved that again.
Chris Hedges: Why Mass Movements Fail
The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished, meaning new tactics and strategies are required, as Vincent Bevins explains in his book If We Burn.
Reviving the 1970s Hope of Youth
A global “disengagement” rate of over 70 percent among young people will not be fixed by “skills training” or “social entrepreneurship,” writes Vijay Prashad.
Patrick Lawrence: Ellsberg & ‘The Process of Awakening’
Ellsberg could never have gotten the Pentagon Papers published had he not first done something far larger, if he had not changed his life — the way he lived it and what he did with it.
WATCH: DOJ Rally on 4th Anniversary of Assange’s Arrest
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was arrested in London on April 11, 2019. He has been in Belmarsh prison ever since. A rally took place at the DOJ on Tuesday. Watch it here.