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Austin Chronicle
April 26, 2018
First Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30pm 512/472-8303. Free. www.AustinLRS.org. ANN WRIGHT: THE 2018 GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA Ann Wright, a retired U.S. Army colonel and diplomat who resigned from the State Department in 2003 in opposition to the war in Iraq, gives a presentation on Gaza. 7-9pm.
Sputnik International
April 24, 2018
Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel and former US State Department official in Afghanistan, who resigned in protest of the invasion of Iraq and became an anti-war activist, joins the show. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign was cut short 50 years ago with his assassination, butÃâà...
FinalCall.com News
April 24, 2018
During five hours of testimony before the committee, Mr. Pompeo faced protests from CODEPINK Women for Peace demonstrators who objected to his long history of ... CODEPINK member, former U.S. Army colonel and retired State Department official Ann Wright shouted, disrupting the hearings April 12.
Sputnik International
April 24, 2018
... State Department, which we are definitely going to need on the issue of North Korea, the pending issue on whether the Trump administration is going to deep-six the Iran nuclear deal," anti-war activist Ann Wright, a retired colonel from the US Army, told Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear program on Monday.
The Canary
April 19, 2018
Ann Wright being arrested at the Pompeo hearing. She was ... But in the end, Democratic senators will have to ask themselves whether their jobs are more important than peace. Unfortunately for lovers of peace everywhere, it's unclear how committed those same senators are to peace in the first place.
The Recorder
April 17, 2018
Central Connecticut's Department of Peace Studies presented the event “Israel's Devastating Siege of Gaza” that focused on what can be done about the ... Ann Wright, who served 29 years in the United States Army, retired as a colonel, and served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years before resigning from theÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
April 17, 2018
South Auckland man Roger Fowler has been campaigning for the rights of the people of Gaza for almost a decade. ... recently to help organise the 2018 international 'Freedom Flotilla' to Gaza, Roger Fowler, left, visited one of the flotilla's four boats with veteran United States peace activist Ann Wright.
Common Dreams
April 13, 2018
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President. FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. SUBJECT: Evidence Required for Military Decision on Syria. Mr. President,. We the undersigned Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity join a number of other credible experts including former UK AmbassadorÃâà...
NPR
April 12, 2018
KELEMEN: Just minutes into the hearing, a former State Department official-turned-activist, Ann Wright, was dragged out of the room, shouting in protest. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). ANN WRIGHT: This man is no diplomat. War... UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Please... KELEMEN: PompeoÃâà...
An-Nahar
April 12, 2018
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ann Wright, center, protests the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo, front right, for secretary of state, as he waits to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of State, Thursday, April 12, 2018 onÃâà...
Consortium News
March 24, 2018
Ann Wright was in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves for 29 years and retired as a Colonel. She was also a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and served in U.S. Embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the U.S.Ãâà...
Consortium News
March 21, 2018
By Ann Wright. On March 16, 2018, the same day I was with a delegation from Veterans for Peace at the 50th annual ceremonies commemorating the deaths of 504 civilians who were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers ... Ann Wright was in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves for 29 years and retired as a Colonel.
Center for Research on Globalization
March 18, 2018
We next hear from peace activist Ann Wright. The U.S. Army veteran has been travelling through Vietnam in recent days and was present in modern day My Lai for a special ceremony. She brings back her report on what she experienced at the site. Finally, we hear from prominent Canadian foreign policyÃâà...
Chico Enterprise-Record
February 19, 2018
Speaker: Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel and former U.S. diplomat will speak 5:30-7 p.m. Blackbird Books Gallery & Cafe, 1431 Park Ave., on deteriorating conditions in Gaza and the challenges to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Light refreshments. Donations $10-$20. Affiliated withÃâà...
Chico Enterprise-Record
February 15, 2018
Ann Wright, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former U.S. diplomat turned peace activist, will speak at two Chico venues Tuesday. Wright is a hero of anti-war activists and the movement for justice for Palestinians. She will speak about the 2018 Gaza Freedom Flotilla challenging the Israeli naval blockage ofÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
February 14, 2018
“Breaking the Siege of Gaza: A Fundraiser for the 2018 Gaza Freedom Flotilla” will take place 6-9 p.m. Feb. 23 at Peace United Church, 900 High St. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.. Ann Wright, a former Army Colonel and US Diplomat who resigned her post to protest the Iraq war, will present an update on theÃâà...
iPolitics.ca
February 9, 2018
Over at Rabble, meanwhile, U.S. army reserve veteran turned peace activist Ann Wright – who, during her tenure as a State Department official, was one of three staffers who publicly resigned “in direct protest of the 2003 invasion of Iraq” — offers her thoughts on the progress, or lack thereof, towards peaceÃâà...
rabble.ca
February 8, 2018
The YMCA South Korea conference organizers have called for a second International Peace Conference of civil society to be held in Pyongyang, North Korea, in July. Ann Wright is a 29-year U.S. army/army Reserves veteran, a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official,Ãâà...
Albany Times Union (blog)
February 7, 2018
Christine Ahn organized the 2015 Women's March across the Korean DMZ, including Nobel Peace Laureates, women from North and South Korea and peace activists from across the world – including Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright from the US. Participants continue to advocate with global policyÃâà...
Consortium News
February 3, 2018
A recent false alarm in Hawaii had citizens in a state of panic over an impending nuclear attack, which, as Ann Wright speculates, may have been the point. ... By Ann Wright. Are you ready for nuclear attack warning sirens in your community? I live in the State of Hawaii, which decided in December 2107 toÃâà...
Vancouver Courier
January 15, 2018
A delegation of women "peace builders" will host a candlelight march from the Vancouver Art Gallery to the convention centre where foreign ministers are gathered to talk about the North Korea crisis on Jan. ... Ann Wright is a retired U.S. army colonel who resigned in protest of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Monterey County Herald
August 22, 2017
Monterey >> As a new crew member of the Golden Rule Peace Boat and its educational crusade against nuclear weapons, Col. Ann Wright spent her first day aboard sailing out of Monterey Bay amidst a bevy of whales and dolphins. Twenty miles south of Monterey, the retired United States Army ColonelÃâà...
Jezebel
January 31, 2017
Col. Ann Wright, a 70-year-old retired United States Army colonel and former U.S. State Department official, briefly disrupted the hearing Tuesday where ... Wright, now an activist with the group Code Pink, stood up after Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy finished a long tirade about the many ways thatÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
... Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Mark Sleboda, an international Affairs and Security Analyst, and Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel and former US State Department official in Afghanistan, who resigned in protest of the invasion of Iraq and became an anti-war activist.
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
Richard H. Black, Senator of Virginia, 13th District; Colonel US Army (ret.); Former Chief, Criminal Law Division, Office of ... Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., US Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the ... Ann Wright, Colonel, US Army (ret.); also Foreign Service Officer who resigned inÃâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
Former U.S. Army colonel and retired State Department official Ann Wright briefly disrupted the hearings. .... In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man Thursday as he joined a mass protest near Israel's heavily militarized border wall near the town of Khan Younis. He was at least theÃâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man Thursday as he joined a mass protest near Israel's heavily militarized border wall near the town of Khan Younis. He was at least the ... Former U.S. Army colonel and retired State Department official Ann Wright briefly disrupted the hearings.
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army/Army Reserves and retired as a Colonel. She was also a US diplomat and was in US Embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the US government in MarchÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel and former U.S. State Department official in Afghanistan who resigned in protest of the invasion of Iraq is in Vietnam on an 18-day trip with Veterans For Peace and joins the show. Reports of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster's imminent departure-andÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
Ann Wright, a retired colonel who served in the United States Army as well as at the State Department, spoke with Sputnik Radio's Loud & Clear program on Friday. Wright resigned from government work in 2003 in protest of US forces invading Iraq and is now an activist with Veterans For Peace.
KPFA
December 31, 1999
In the first half hour, we welcome the indefatigable, intrepid agent of dynamic Peace (retired Col) Ann Wright, Code Pink ally, just returned from International Peace Conference in South Korea, held in the DMZ border city of Cheorwon. Ann writes, “We climbed a nearby hill to look into North Korea… At theÃâà...
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