Colman McCarthy directs the Center for Teaching Peace, a Washington non-profit.
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Why I don't vote
It's Happening: I've never voted in any election, going back to when Kennedy and Nixon were offering their services to the country. Why? Because I'm a pacifist — and on my better days, a pacifist-anarchist.
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This college semester will be different, but there is more than one kind of remoteness
It's Happening: For the first time in 38 years, I won't have the privilege of sharing time and ideas in a classroom with college students at American University and Georgetown University in courses about peace and social justice.
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Samantha Power's memoir sheds light on foreign policy in the Obama years
It's Happening: How many lives around the world would have been saved had Ambassador Power's anti-war and pro-diplomacy views prevailed on President Obama's National Security Council?
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What do we want? We want to live
It's Happening: Amid triple crises (racism, coronavirus, economic duress), religion was used twice in two days by a president who did not offer prayers and whose proposed budget cuts say "get lost" to the struggling, poor and sick.
