Rob's Blog

Voting for the Lesser of Evils
Since I’ve been old enough to vote – 50 years now – I’ve felt, except maybe once or twice, that I was voting for the

17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong
While many of us forget, David Swanson urges us to remember. And to do something about it. Swanson reminds us that the war in Afghanistan

The Museum of Liberation
This morning I was listening to a podcast by Bryan Stevenson, a recent AWTT portrait. Many of you know that he and his organization, the

The Million Women’s March – January 21, 2017
What happened? This was not a protest. It was a clarification. A realignment. It was not an aggrieved victim struggling to have her lonely voice

Rob’s Report from Bozeman
Robert Shetterly was invited to Bozeman, Montana for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2015. He spent four days there, visiting schools, working with students at

Torture: A modest (satirical) proposal
Advice to readers: Read all the way to the end! I have expended a lot of energy condemning torture. Not because of the efficacy argument

Commercializing the Christmas Truce: Spinning Hay into Dollars
Artist Robert Shetterly reflects on the commercialization of the Christmas Truce of 1914.

The Myth of Accountability and the Death of Michael Brown
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”— Henry David Thoreau I remember the hilarity

A Symphony of Courageous Action
AWTT education director Connie Carter reflects on her afternoon at the symphony.