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By Col. Ann Wright The South Korean Navy wants to continue construction of a naval base for 18 ships and two submarines in an area that will destroy a pristine shoreline and endanger marine life. Local villagers and activists from the mainland of South Korea have struggled for five years to prevent the construction of the base.
Posted on Aug 25, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Just this year the Israelis intercepted, boarded and impounded the French ship Dignite as it participated in Freedom Flotilla 2. That was done in international waters well clear of the coordinates provided by the Israelis for their blockade of Gaza and very near to the coordinates of the attack on the USS Liberty.
Posted on Aug 16, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright A small flotilla carrying human rights and peace activists to Israel-blockaded Gaza was itself blockaded in Greece after intense diplomatic pressure from Washington and Tel Aviv. But the Israeli news media continues to heap ridicule on the passengers.
Posted on Aug 2, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Four female Nobel Peace laureates—Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi and Rigoberta Menchú Tum—have sent an open letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, asking him to reconsider his position and to “call on all governments to support the safe passage of the Freedom Flotilla II.”
Posted on Jun 17, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Force is not the way to stop worldwide condemnation of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. The way to stop the flotilla is to end the naval blockade of Gaza. Until the blockade ends, Flotillas filled with citizens from around the world will continue to challenge Israeli’s brutal policies and the United States complicity in them.
Posted on Jun 9, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright We will continue to challenge Israel’s impunity of acting beyond international law and will sail to Gaza until Israel ends its naval blockade of Gaza. We on the US Boat to Gaza have the audacity to hope that the United States will finally use its substantial economic leverage to convince Israel it is in its own security interest, as well as the security interest of the United States, to end the blockade of Gaza.
Posted on Jun 3, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright It is not too late for countries to put massive international pressure on Israel to end the blockade and determine how to address Israel’s security concerns about ships entering the Gaza port. European Union inspectors were placed in the Rafah border crossing in 2006. A similar structure could be suggested for the port of Gaza.
Posted on May 29, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright There are strong historical parallels between the Freedom Riders of the 1960s in the South and the Freedom Flotillas protesting Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians in the 21st Century.
Posted on May 15, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright The challenges to President and Commander-in-Chief Obama and his administration on the treatment of Bradley Manning continue, particularly on Obama’s pre-trial statement of guilt that Manning “broke the law.”
Posted on Apr 28, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Pilots stationed at Hancock now fly Reaper drones remotely over Afghanistan. The drones are armed with Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs. Far more civilians, including many women and children, are killed than are “targeted” insurgents. Although the use of drones has enraged the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Obama administration has dramatically increased their use.
Posted on Apr 26, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright The second Gaza Freedom Flotilla is scheduled to sail in late May with more ships and more passengers than the May, 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla that the Israelis attacked killing 9 passengers and wounding 50. Twenty-two countries have national campaigns to join the second flotilla.
Posted on Apr 14, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright The 2009 report also acknowledged that retaliation against those who report rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment is widespread and that military personnel do not report rape and sexual assault because doing so is perceived as having “lasting career and security clearance repercussions.”
Posted on Feb 20, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright The U.S. military’s treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning is tragically consistent with its treatment of persons detained in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. America’s military uses harsh conditions and torture to break the person to provide whatever information the military wants to receive.
Posted on Jan 6, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Several diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks depict possibly illegal actions by the U.S. government, but the chances of anyone being held accountable for these actions are slim, says Col. Wright.
Posted on Nov 29, 2010
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By Col. Ann Wright A perfect storm is developing against the American military in the Afghan/Pak theater as floods, drones, ongoing revelations of war crimes by exhausted and jaded troops as well as American trained death squads, hatred for Blackwater and its clones, Pashtun ambitions for a Pashtunistan and an America teetering on the edge of economic depression all continue to intensify the coming storm’s ferocity.
Posted on Sep 29, 2010
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By Col. Ann Wright Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, Andy David, described the “Irene’s” mission as “a provocative joke that isn’t funny.” We say to Mr. David and the Israeli and US governments that these international citizen initiatives are not jokes and the only “provocative” issue, and it’s not a joke, is the collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians by Israel and the international community.
Posted on Sep 27, 2010
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By Col. Ann Wright Retired Colonel Ann Wright, US Army, who was in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, gives a detailed account of the Israeli assault on the flotilla, drawing upon her military and international diplomatic expertise.
Posted on Jun 17, 2010
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By Col. Ann Wright Col. Wright discusses what she and her fellow activists experienced on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
Posted on Jun 9, 2010
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By Col. Ann Wright There is nothing easy about planning or conducting an international action, especially with moving parts called ships! Yet, activists on board keep their spirits afloat! After delays caused by damaged propellers and broken steering mechanisms, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla now reduced to seven ships is heading for Gaza.
Posted on May 30, 2010
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By Col. Ann Wright Congressman Brian Baird challenges Congressional resolution on UN report on Gaza.
Posted on Nov 3, 2009
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By Col. Ann Wright Journalists Pascale Bourgaux and Mercedes Gallego in their trips to Iraq as war correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape. When they left Iraq they decided to investigate the issue of rape in the U.S. military. In 2007, they filmed the stories of four military women who had been raped and made a documentary,
Posted on Oct 27, 2009
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By Col. Ann Wright Upon seeing the destruction of the American International School (one of seven schools completely destroyed in Gaza and 87 other schools severely damaged), Carter said “I have to hold back tears when I see the deliberate destruction that has been wreaked against your people,” adding that he felt partly responsible because the school had been “deliberately destroyed by bombs from F-16s made in my country.”
Posted on Jun 21, 2009
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By Col. Ann Wright Heavy handed police treatment of the CODEPINK: Women for Peace delegation began immediately after members of the group unfurled several pink banners that read “Free Gaza” and “End the Occupation.” CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin and New York activist Zool Zulkowitz were physically dragged across the street from their original protest site next to the entrance gate to Bar Ilan University where audience members and press…
Posted on Jun 16, 2009
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By Col. Ann Wright As a Bush administration political appointee Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice, Jay Bybee, a Mormon, wrote one of four torture memos released last month. In September 2003, another Mormon, a woman soldier, US Army Spc. Alyssa Peterson, said she refused to use the interrogation techniques that Bybee had authorized on Iraqi prisoners.
Posted on May 2, 2009
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By Col. Ann Wright Ann Wright attending international meeting in Guantanamo. Ann Wright speaks at an international meeting calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. The former US Army colonel and career diplomat resigned in opposition to the invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration six years ago.
Posted on Mar 21, 2009
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