Category: Witness/AIDË

Why Is My Enemy Suffering?

Why Is My Enemy Suffering? by Brayton Shanley Recently, I was speaking to a good friend who challenged me with a question: How is this situation in Israel-Palestine to be

February 12, 2024

The National Day of Mourning: A Necessary Call to Action

Brayton and I joined well over 1000 people gathered in Plymouth, MA on November 25, 2021 to participate in the National Day of Mourning. The day was filled with impassioned

January 20, 2022

Climate Change and Covid Are Telling Us: Go Vegan – By Katya Renée Freitas

Like many people, Covid has drastically changed both my internal and external world. I was only about a month and a half into my last semester of college at Hofstra

January 1, 2021

Wronging Each Other in the Name of God and Ideology: Reflections on and from Mosul by Ahmad al Hadidi

I have been living in the United States for almost fourteen years but I never imagined that I would be witnessing from my comfort zone here the destruction of my

August 17, 2017

How Boycotts Can Stop Pipelines by Hattie Nestel

In the dead of winter or sweltering summer heat, several of us hold signs reading Boycott TD Bank–Support Standing Rock. Have stood like this this twice weekly for more than