Expanding the ‘our’ in the march for our lives

March 30th, 20180 By Mary Turfah   On March 24, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets of Washington D.C., New York, Detroit and elsewhere to protest gun violence—or at least part of it. The Parkland school shooting victims — around whose misfortune these protests arose— have demonstrated their readiness to use their...

From Kent State to Parkland: Will America ever learn?

February 23rd, 20180 By Laurel Krause My sister Allison was shot and killed in a domestic U.S. military massacre during a lunch time antiwar protest at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Allison was 19-years old when she was targeted for assassination. Her spirit reminds us the most heinous of all massacres is when those killed are defenseless...