Peace and Security

Keep Your Eye on What’s Important: Ending Police Brutality
We don’t know who’s carried out violence and vandalism or why. We do know police keep killing unarmed black Americans.

Racism Is a Public Health Crisis
African Americans were already reeling from COVID-19 when a new wave of police violence hit us.

I’m Outraged By Trump’s Church Photo-Op
As a Catholic sister, I think Trump should read his Bible, not pose with it.

I Remember the Lynchings of the 1960s. They’re Still Happening.
My civil rights movement colleagues were murdered in the 1960s, when lynching was common. Sadly, it remains so today.

A Tale of Two Americas
Gun-toting quarantine protesters are called “very good people,” while unarmed people protesting police violence are “thugs.”

I Can’t Breathe
Call it political brutality.

Reopening the Economy is a Death Sentence for Workers
The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

I’m a Frontline Nurse in Arizona. We Need Masks, Not a Border Wall.
Wall construction threatens to put our rural hospital systems in the borderlands at a much higher risk.

Cruel Immigration Policies Make the Pandemic Worse
Warehousing people in unsanitary conditions and then deporting them to poor countries is a recipe for contagion.

Communist Virus
We’re all socialists in a pandemic.