Anti-War Dad Comes to Austin

Bob Watada, father of Lt. Ehren Watada – who refused to go to Iraq and who has publicly denounced the war repeatedly – comes to Austin as part of national speaking tour

"...first commissioned officer to refuse to be deployed to Iraq, because the war is illegal and immoral," Bob Watada..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Blood-Spilling Anti-War Protesters Not Guilty

Only lesser charges stick to St. Pat's Four

"...and on a flag in a protest against the Iraq war, which officially began the next day...."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Body of War

Filmmakers Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro show the story of a young veteran, crippled after five days of service in Iraq, and his evolution from gung-ho enlistee to passionate anti-war activist.

"...intimate of the cinematic arguments against the war in Iraq yet made, this documentary from former talk-show host Donahue..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Endless War

One, two, three, four – what are we fighting for?

"..."All our knowledge of the war in Iraq has to be viewed as lacking the sweep and..."

July 27, 2007 News Column by Michael King

War Stories

Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro collaborate to document one wounded soldier's transformation into 'anti-warrior'

"...the modern daytime TV talk show, would make an anti-war film. This war, that president, that bunch of rubber-stamping..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Fighting the War: Wilkerson sentenced, activists press Congress

Soldier faces seven months in prison for refusing Iraq service

"...bad-conduct discharge, for going absent without leave from the Iraq war. He will join more than 25 other soldiers..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Patriots for Peace: Doggett on Congress and the War

Rep. Lloyd Doggett responds to anti-war critics on congressional action against the Iraq war

"...about congressional action in opposition to continued war in Iraq. Here are his full responses...."

March 2, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

War Made Easy

New echoes of Vietnam: 'Withdrawal would cripple U.S. credibility'

"...credibility, doom reform in the Arab world and turn Iraq into a playground for terrorists and the armies of..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Norman Solomon

Bringing the War Home

No More Victims works for peace, one wounded child at a time

"...2,157 Americans have died since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The number of Iraqis dead and..."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Point Austin: Congress' War

The Texas congressmen look for a way out

"...continuing refusal to begin winding down its war on Iraq should begin with the highly contradictory attitudes of the..."

June 8, 2007 News Column by Michael King

War Watch

Cindy Sheehan and others who have lost loved ones in Iraq come to Austin

"...us have willed ourselves to forget, the war in Iraq is still very much happening. An update: The U.S...."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Point Austin: Act Against the War

Doggett:"We have to do everything we can"

"...knows what the Bush regime is up to in Iraq, least of all itself...."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Time to Think Back to Objections to Iraq Invasion

"...With so many new facts about the war on Iraq coming out in recent months, I keep thinking back..."

June 15, 2004 Postmarks

War Drums

"...Current U.S. plans for the pending war in Iraq call for an attack on Baghdad as immediately devastating..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Oh, What a Lovely War Protest!

The Accidental Activist tells how the Lysistrata Project became a global anti-war phenomenon, from the perspective of Kathryn Blume, who co-founded and lived it

"...largest theatre event ever: 1,029 simultaneous readings of the anti-war comedy Lysistrata in 59 countries and all 50 states...."

April 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

No Difference Between Democrats and Republicans on War

"...seems to think that the Democratic Party is an anti-war party. Where would he get that notion? Every Democrat..."

June 6, 2011 Postmarks

Differences Between Vietnam and Iraq Protests

"...the fall of the USSR that many of the "anti-war" groups (including Sen. Kerry's) were started, supported, or financed..."

July 30, 2004 Postmarks

Austin City Council Iraq Resolution

"...multilateral action to eliminate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and world wide; and..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature

War Drums: Rumblings on the Home Front

As an Iraq war becomes inevitable, local responses range from the stupid to the sublime.

"...of Texans for Peace, spent most of January in Iraq as part of a Christian peace-building delegation. Now he..."

March 21, 2003 News Feature

Naked City

The anti-war movement has flagged, but some Texans still hard at work

"...Monday, April 25, Margorie Wood, a grandmother and an anti-war activist for Texans for Peace, slowly made her way..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Jeff Tonn

Sir! No Sir!

The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.

"...Vietnam war experience, our country’s popular imagery of the anti-war movement remains robust due to the peaceniks’ overall absorption..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

G.I. Jesus

Jesus Feliciano is a Mexican national who joins the Marines to gain U.S. citizenship and returns home from Iraq with a nasty case of post-traumatic stress disorder.

"...returns home to Los Angeles on a furlough from Iraq with a nasty case of post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Naked City

Get Your Anti-War On

"...direct effects of sanctions on the daily lives of Iraqi people. She will also speak about effects that the..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature

Page Two

Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics -- the consequences of Bush's successes.

"...Any simplistic attitude about the Iraq situation does it a disservice. Regardless of personal convictions,..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Stop the Loss

Austin veterans turn away from Iraq and war

"...contract. Now Porter is eight months into his second Iraq deployment, engaged in a war that he, like many..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Get Your Warblog On

As conventional media stumble, the Web's armchair war reporters rise to the occasion, to questionable effect.

"...and a working knowledge of the intricacies of the Iraqi capital city? So far none of these questions has..."

May 16, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: One Step Forward

To leave Iraq is a political journey

"...as requiring the end of the U.S. war on Iraq...."

March 30, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...at a Students for a Democratic Society meeting, an anti-war movement event, or a combination of the two. The..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Naked City

War Fever

"...the cost of printing 1,000 T-shirts bearing the aforementioned anti-war slogan -- to be worn by like-minded runners in..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

In the Iraq war, there is no course to stay

"...truly outrageous aspect of the whole, almost clinically insane, Iraq misadventure is that our country invaded without any plans..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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