2014
A friend in Baltimore, a writer, poet and activist wrote me with his wish list for 2014 or as he called it his “progressive agenda for 2014″:
Abolish All Nuclear and Conventional Weapons Now!
Halt All Research on Nuclear Weapons Now!
End the U.S. Wars in Afghanistan Now!
Stop All U.S. Drone Attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan,Yemen, Somalia,
and Elsewhere Now!
Repent for 22 Years of U.S. Warmaking in in Iraq and Make Reparations
to the Iraqi people Now!
End the Israeli Occupation of Palestine Now!
Stop Global Warming—Climate Justice Now!
Close Guantanamo, Bagram, SOA and All Military Torture Centers Now!
Free All Political Prisoners Now!
Save the World’s Children Dying From Poverty Now!
Demand Universal Health Care Now!
Live, Practice, and Teach Nonviolence Now!
Tear Down the Border Wall and Welcome the Immigrant Now!
Stop the U.S. Militarization of Space Now!
Money For Human Needs Not for Wall Street and the Pentagon Now!
Abolish The Death Penalty Now!
Money for Schools Not the Prison Industrial Complex Now!
Stop Construction of the U.S. backed Naval Base on Jeju Island Now!
My own wish list or political agenda is much more modest:
Close down the three DoD military departments at Marquette teaching war and killing.
Have the Catholic Church to listen to cry of the poor in North Central Milwaukee.
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