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Mo August 23rd 2010
Englisch

Blockade at Fort Hood: All five participants in the blockade action. From left to right are Iraq Veterans Bobby Whittenberg-James and Crystal Colon, Jeff Grant, Military Spouse Cynthia Thomas and Afghanistan Veteran Matthis Chiroux.Blockade at Fort Hood: All five participants in the blockade action. From left to right are Iraq Veterans Bobby Whittenberg-James and Crystal Colon, Jeff Grant, Military Spouse Cynthia Thomas and Afghanistan Veteran Matthis Chiroux.Aug. 23, 2010 (KILLEEN, TX) - Five peace activists successfully blockaded six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood’s Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While the activists took the width of Clarke Rd.

Mi Juli 14th 2010
Englisch
Phyllis HigginsPhyllis Higgins

Phyllis Higgins, a pacifist and a volunteer with the WRI (and other pacifist organisations), has died on June 10th, 2010. She will be remembered with kindness by the many WRI activists to whom she had extended her hospitality while they were staying in London. Below are several personal accounts and messages written in her memory.

Mo Mai 31st 2010
Englisch

GALZ (Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe) staff Ellen Chadamena and Ignatius Muhambia were bailed on Thursday, 27 May, and will have a "remand" hearing on 10 June, before appearing in the high court on 18 June. They face charges of ‘insulting the office of the President’ and allegedly possessing ‘pornographic material’. Their lawyer told press that they would be medically examined "so that we can pursue an action against the people who were responsible for the beatings and torture.”

Do Mai 27th 2010
Englisch

ZLHR Press Release – 26 May: Two Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) employees on Wednesday 26 May 2010 alleged that police severely tortured them in their holding cells.

David Hofisi and Dzimbabwe Chimbga, the lawyers representing the two employees Ellen Chademana and Ignatius Mhambi told Harare Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi that their clients were tortured during their
detention in police cells and asked for an investigation into the alleged torture.

Do Mai 27th 2010
Englisch

Subsequent to the arrest of Ellen Chademana and Ignatius Muhambi, employees of the WRI's affiliate Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) on charges of “possessing dangerous drugs and pornographic material” on the 21st May 2010, the police have gone further to search the house of Chesterfield Samba, former WRI Council member and the Director of GALZ. The raid took place this morning (26 May 2010) at 0600hrs.

Mi Mai 26th 2010
Deutsch

Am Montag, 24. Mai 2010 stellte die Polizei Strafanzeigen gegen zwei Angestellte der WRI-Mitgliedsgruppe Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), die in der vergangenen Woche verhaftet wurden, nachdem die die Polizei ihre Büros in der Hauptstadt durchsucht hatte.

Am Montag beschuldigte die Polizei Ellen Chademana, die im Januar an der WRI-Konferenz in Indien teilgenommen hatte, und Ignatius Muhambi des Verstoßes gegen Abs. 33 des Kriminalgesetzes wegen angeblicher Unterminierung der Autorität von Präsident Robert Mugabe.

Mi Mai 26th 2010
Englisch

Early this morning police raided the home of the director of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, Chesterfield Samba. Chesterfield - a former member of the WRI Council - was not there, but they confiscated his passport, birth certificate and various other belongings.

Zimbabwean Lawyers for Human Rights issued the following press release:

Mi Februar 17th 2010
Deutsch

Internationale TeilnehmerInnen blockieren AWE AldermastonInternationale TeilnehmerInnen blockieren AWE AldermastonBis zu achthundert Anti-Atomwaffen-AktivistInnen aus England, Nordirland, Schottland, Wales, und einer Reihe europäischer Länder beteiligten sich an einer Blockade des Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston in Berkshire, beginned kurz vor 7Uhr morgens. Im Verlauf des Vormittags wurden alle Tore von AktivistInnen blockiert.

Fr Januar 8th 2010
Englisch

George Willoughby, 2002George Willoughby, 2002George Willoughby died on 5 January 2010. He was 95. His death came just short of the one year anniversary of the passing of his wife and partner in peace, Lillian, who died on January 15, 2009, just a few feet from where George spent his last minutes.

George and Lil were always there for peace, and it seemed would always, like rocks, be there for us. They were our touchstones and our teachers. Now, both are gone.

Mi Januar 6th 2010
Englisch

Bill Sutherland (left)Bill Sutherland (left)Bill Sutherland, unofficial ambassador between the peoples of Africa and the Americas for over fifty years, died peacefully on the evening of January 2, 2010. He was 91.