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• "This Is My Church."

  
  Isak — Authority: 431
  In an energetic and thoughtful short film made by Detroit MC Invincible, " The Revival " tells a story of groundbreaking women in hip-hop. She particularly features a personal conversation between pioneers of the art, Roxanne Shante and Bahamadia, during the " We-B Girlz " independent tour through Europe. Spliced with ...
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• Speaking of Spiritual and Communal Evolution

  
  Isak — Authority: 431
  In the most recent edition of " Speaking of Faith ," Kirsta Tippett speaks with Jean Vanier, a Canadian philosopher and Catholic social innovator who founded the LArche movement , or what is now a worldwide set of intentional communities of people centered around those with mental disabilities. Their conversation ...
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• New Year 2010: The message of non-violence, tolerance, universal peace and respect for mankind

  
  Indus Asia Online Journal (iaoj) — Authority: 142
  Suddenly it is the end of December and the beginning of the New Year. I hope the New Year 2010 marks the start of peace, non-violence, tolerance, multi-culturalism and a better world. Sindh is a part of the political boundaries of the state of Pakistan, and we Sindhis, the custodians of Indus Civilization, are ...
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• Has Rosa Parks Reincarnated As A Jewish Settler?

  
  Roi Word — Authority: 112
  In a recent op-ed in Haaretz, Karni Eldad, settler daughter of MK Aryeh Eldad, argues that those who are resisting the settlement freeze in the West Bank are akin to African Americans struggling against racial segregation during the Jim Crow era. She writes: Once upon a time there was a black woman; her [...]
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• An Activism that Loves its Enemies

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 637
  Sad news from Sydney as a headline for the ABC read, “ Abusive letter suspect ‘a peace activist’ ”. The article went on to say the man was in court to face charges of harassment after sending “letters to the families of…
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• Captive in Cairo: A hunger strike, embassy protests ... and prayer

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 422
  The young Egyptian soldiers who arrive by buses to whatever site where we convene, bear no guns or batons and are quick to smile, though their superiors try to keep them somber and reserved. Passing out yellow pens labeled in English and Arabic with the logo of the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), and greeting them with ...
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• Open Letter to President of Egypt from the Gaza Freedom March

  
  The Metta Center — Authority: 116
  26 December 2009 Dear President Mubarak, We, representing 1,362 individuals from 43 countries arriving in Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, are pleading to the Egyptians and your reputation for hospitality. We are peacemakers. We have not come to Egypt to create trouble or cause conflict. On the ...
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• Time to make big changes with air travel

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  It is amazing, the narrow box which elected officials, security officials, and the media use to evaluate what should be the response to a terrorist nearly blowing up another airplane. It is mystifying that when such a big, dangerous, longstanding problem exists, they all still return to the most simple problem solving ...
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• Kids Campaign to Keep Local Bookstore Open

  
  Isak — Authority: 431
  B. Dalton is the only bookstore in Laredo, Texas (pop. 230,000)... and its scheduled to close in a couple weeks as part of owner Barnes & Noble shuts down the entire chain. Kids in town are having none of it. They have joined with other residents and community leaders to persuade Barnes & Noble to save the ...
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• The Legacy of Violence and Why It Must Be Stopped!

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Our world has known violence for many millenia.  Humans, with all our intelligence, have used it to gain power over one another. One would think over these thousands among thousands of years, we would have outgrown it and have found better ways to resolve issues.  However,  during this first decade of the 21st ...
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• Bringing the world not to its knees, but to its senses

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 422
  Crossing into Bethlehem the second time was considerably easier because President Abbas was not using the checkpoint on Saturday; his entourage had tied up traffic throughout the district on Friday much as an American President’s cavalcade would in New York or Chicago. And we were only crossing the wall to sit in ...
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• Rest in Peace, Dennis Brutus (1924 - 2009):

  
  Isak — Authority: 431
  Poet Dennis Brutus passed away two days ago at age 85. The South African writer, once a political prisoner jailed at Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, dedicated his life and words to battling apartheid in his native country. Writer Olu Oguibe doesnt mince words about Brutus legacy: "Brutus was arguably ...
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• Gandhi, Guevara Fifty-Fifty By Satya Sagar

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 146
  ”How do we make non-violent activism sexy?” asked a friend in a letter to me recently. His question was posed in the context of the ongoing debate in the national media and elsewhere about the supposed threat to national security from Maoists who are mobilising tribals in central and eastern India for a protracted ...
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• Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama is wrong in saying that nonviolence is a passive move of doing nothing

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 571
  US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of ...
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• The betrayal of Gaza

  
  The Heathlander — Authority: 115
  In a report [.pdf] published this week, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Christian Aid and other leading aid agencies decried Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza. The siege amounts, they concluded, to the illegal “collective punishment” of a civilian population, and its effect is to “systematically … [destroy] ...
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• Breaking Palestine’s peaceful protest

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 560
  Neve Gordon | The Guardian 23 December 2009 Palestinians have a long history of nonviolent resistance but Israel has continuously deployed methods to destroy it “Why,” I have often been asked, “haven’t the Palestinians established a peace movement like the Israeli Peace Now?” The question itself is ...
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• Danger: Popular struggle

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 560
  Amira Hass | Haaretz 23 December 2009 There is an internal document that has not been leaked, or perhaps has not even been written, but all the forces are acting according to its inspiration: the Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces, Border Police, police, and civil and military judges. They have found the true enemy ...
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• Non-violence in action:

  
  Thoughts From the Press Box — Authority: 119
  This is a perfect example of non-violence. I was talking with my Senior pastor about the concept today, and he showed me this video. I love it! Best line: " You dont have to kill me! " [When I first heard that, I about when nuts! Its so good!] To quote Martin Luther King Jr. " We will win you over with our ...
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• A Bottom-Up Perspective on Obama’s Nobel Speech

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 637
  I didn’t get a chance to watch Barack Obama’s Nobel speech live, but I’ve read the transcript and found very little in the speech that couldn’t have been given by any number of past presidents—including George W. Bush. Granted, absent…
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• The Candy

  
  Authspot — Authority: 548
  This story was narrated by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi……. “When I was six years old, we were invited to visit grandfather on an ashram he founded where people live together in nonviolence,” said Arun. “A young couple lived there with their 6-year-old boy. This boy had a tremendous sweet ...
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