Steve Clemens

About me

I'm a resident of Minneapolis and a peace and social justice activist. I'm a member of the Community of St. Martin and serve on the Boards of Pax Christi Twin Cities Area and the Iraqi/American Reconciliation Project (IARP). I also served as a member of the MN Peace Team during the RNC in 2008. I was part of the Iraq Peace Team in December 2002 and traveled to Afghanistan in March 2011 to plant trees for peace with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers.

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Punished for exercising our constitutional rights?

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

The contrast between the two Judges couldn’t have been starker. Judge Peter Cahill and Judge Ronald Abrams both serve on the Hennepin County’s Fourth District Bench. Both Judges were assigned criminal trespass cases for nonviolent protest at the entrance to the corporate headquarters of Minnesota’s largest war profiteer, Alliant Techsystems (ATK).MORE »

Going to jail for peacemaking

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

Choosing jail is my offering to my new (and future) friends in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a statement to them that I take seriously my desire to stand in solidarity with them in denouncing the scourge of depleted uranium and depleted consciences.MORE »

Letter to Bradley Manning

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

Commander, HHC USAG
Attn: PFC Manning
239 Sheridan Ave, Bldg 417
JBM-HH, VA 22211

Dear Brad Manning,MORE »

Passing on the torch from the geriatric generation

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

In one week in early January 2012, the Twin Cities peace community lost Dr. Gene Ott, age 82, and Marv Davidov, age 80 after months and years of failing health.MORE »

Remembering Marv

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

I moved to the Twin Cities after the Honeywell Project years so it took me a few years before my path crossed with Marv Davidov. It seemed to me that everyone involved in peace and justice protest in the area had worked with Marv at some time or other.MORE »

Remembering Marv Davidov

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

I moved to the Twin Cities after the Honeywell Project years so it took me a few years before my path crossed with Marv Davidov. It seemed to me that everyone involved in peace and justice protest in the area had worked with Marv at some time or other.MORE »

Holy Innocents talk at St. Joan of Arc

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

The President announced two weeks ago that the war in Iraq is over. The TV cameras showed the convoy of military trucks driving out of Iraq into Kuwait. All US Troops are now out of Iraq – well, except for several hundred which remain in the Kurdish north who will continue to train Iraqi military and police.MORE »

Reaping the whirlwind: The shadow side of imperial bullying

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

It was in conversation with the Iraqi doctors visiting from Najaf that I inquired about Muqtada al-Sadr and the role he and his militias might play in Iraq after the U.S. uniformed troops leave by the end of this year. [Note: we leave behind close to 6,000 mercenary “contractors” – mostly ex-military personnel hired at enormous cost to provide “security” for U.S.MORE »

Reaping the Whirlwind: The Shadow Side of Imperial Bullying

By Steve Clemens

It was in conversation with the Iraqi doctors visiting from Najaf that I inquired about Muqtada al-Sadr and the role he and his militias might play in Iraq after the U.S. uniformed troops leave by the end of this year. [Note: we leave behind close to 6,000 mercenary “contractors” – mostly ex-military personnel hired at enormous cost to provide “security” for U.S.MORE »

A warning to Secretary Clinton: Economic sanctions kill the innocent

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

I sat across the table from my new friend, Dr. Ali, an Iraqi Radiologist who was visiting Minneapolis as part of the Sister City delegation from Najaf, Iraq.MORE »