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• President Abbas– Intifada, A Detour In Road To Peace

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 444
  President Mahmoud Abbas representing the Palestinian Authority made clear his government will not support another Intifada which he believes will only lead to further destruction of Palestine and fail to accomplish the goal of an independent nation. He promised there would not be a third intifada for the simple ...
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• Green Party calls for moratorium on Tasers in Suffolk

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 483
  “The Green Party of Suffolk is outraged to discover that Suffolk County has been using Tasers against its residents,” said its chair Roger Snyder. “It is inconceivable that Suffolk has continued to use Tasers after residents have died after being tasered.”Snyder outlined the Green Party’s plan to protect the ...
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• Sermon: Christ the King, John 18:33-37

  
  A Wee Blether — Authority: 120
  Adam J. Copeland FPC Hallock Nov 22, 2009   Christ the King John 18:33-37   Today I begin with a confession: I love the HBO television series The Wire . It is extremely violent, offensive, glorifies drug culture; it has more than its fair share of drunken shenanigans, dead bodies, and police brutality. ...
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• Cynthia McKinney: My Letter to the President and a Note about Lynne Stewart

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 483
  This morning, I sent this letter to President Obama:“Mr. President:I are writing to urge you to announce an immediate cease-fire followed by a withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan in the fastest way consistent with the safety of our forces.I urge you to end the use of Predator drones that kill ...
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• Georgia Green Party Challenges Congressional Delegation To Shut Down Terrorist Training Camp in Georgia

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 483
  Give us some Change Worth Believing InThis weekend, Green Party members from Georgia and far beyond will again gather with nearly 25,000 justice-loving individuals of all persuasions for an annual vigil at the gates of Ft. Benning. Led by School of the Americas Watch (http://www.soaw.org), the yearly ritual has become ...
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• Fascinating Interview with Aziz Abu Sarah

  
  Roi Word — Authority: 104
  The Jerusalem Post has just published a fascinating in-depth interview with Aziz Abu Sarah , Palestinian writer and peace activist. In it, Abu Sarah speaks candidly about the painful journey he has undergone from a boy consumed by hatred and revenge to a man guided by empathy, compassion and justice. Abu ...
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• Dinesh D’Souza, the New Atheism, and Constantinian Christianity

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 660
  Last week at the Innovative Evangelism Conference, I got a chance to hear Dinesh D’Souza speak to a standing room only crowd. Many in the crowd were fellow evangelists, but there were a few seekers and skeptics present as well. Dinesh D’Souza…
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• Sticks and Stones - 2

  
  Mercy Not Sacrifice — Authority: 127
  And Adam Hamilton has this to say: How can we actually avoid speaking ill of others?  Heres what I do when I am at my best and exercising restraint: First, I remember the call of Christ to avoid judging and to avoid calling names (Matthew 5:21-22)  My aim is to do Christs will.  Speaking ill of ...
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• More Compassionate, Nonviolent, And Just Than Alternatives

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 483
  Mary Martin has a great post up right now about the concepts of compassion, nonviolence, and justice. I invite you to read her blog post >> Some of my off-the-cuff thoughts, in no specific order: Animal agriculture is not compassionate, nonviolent, or just. Breeding, mutilating, confining, fattening, and ...
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• Sticks and Stones...

  
  Mercy Not Sacrifice — Authority: 127
  The other day, following a link on my AOL welcome page...which is sometimes very similar to a rumor mill/gossip rag...I came across a video of Sharon Osbourne, along with a couple Sirius radio announcers, trashing Susan Boyle.  It was all good fun...in the tradition of Howard Stern. They all had a big laugh...thought ...
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• The Saharawi non-violent activist Aminetou Haidar, confined in the Lanzarote airport in Spain on hunger strike

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 119
  View larger image Nacho Martín, Spain Photos: Man Chagaf The Saharawi non-violent activist Aminatou Haidar, who is also known as the Saharawi peoples Gandhi and recognized with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 2008, remains since last Sunday on a hunger strike confined to the Lanzarote ...
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• Superficial As All Get-Out (So Get Out)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 140
  "Is Buddhism pacifist? One would think so, to hear the Declarations of the Dalai Lama and those who claim there has never been Buddhist war. So has Zen Buddhisms drift to militarism been only an aberration, after the timeless message of Gautama, the warrior-prince who, once he became the Buddha, preached nonviolence? ...
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• Compassion can change the world

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 119
  The Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation uses a variety of media to get out the word about their efforts for justice, peace, and nonviolence. Examples include a monthly television show broadcast on local public-access TV, a film series, and a partnership with the local newspaper, The Olympian , to provide op-ed ...
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• Nonviolence: 25 lessons from the history of a dangerous idea

  
  Tad DeLay — Authority: 412
  Mark Kurlansky’s magnum opus Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea has been on my reading list for two years now, but Barnes and Noble has continually thwarted me. In other news, I applied for my first real library card the other day.  Put those two things together, and I finally ...
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• Call of the Conch-3-Not for Human Consumption

  
  Luthar.Com: HarshaSatsangh — Authority: 126
  Dairy products in our current industry, worldwide, foster the very same adverse effects as meat production and consumption, and even worse, torture the dairy cow and her offspring repeatedly over time prior to the final slaughter.     For years, I drank milk and consumed milk products, never realizing that I ...
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• Time Management – Yoga Style

  
  Holistic Health — Authority: 115
  “Which brings me to a mini-law that has goverened my life for many years.  In Sanskrit these mini-laws known as sutras , short , pithy sentences that embody the essence of a universal law.  Here is how this one was presented to me: “Step by step, at every step, there is that which is conducive [...]
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• New Adventures for Anna: Writing and Community

  
  Isak — Authority: 560
  Im pleased to say that, after too long of a drought, Im finally engaging again with writing as a shared experience, in community, through two fantastic programs. I traveled two hours north this afternoon to meet an eighteen-year-old girl who Im mentoring through the Linkage program of the Prison Creative Arts ...
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• Theology as Poetry: Karen Armstrong

  
  Isak — Authority: 560
  I am a little in love with Karen Armstrong after hearing her conversation with Krista Tippett on "Speaking of Faith," the public radio show about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Armstrong simply brims with passion as she tells of her changing understanding of faith. The author of more than twenty books and a ...
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• Practicing Jesus’ Third Way in the Public Square

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 660
  In the midst of the hate speech that’s surfacing in the public square these days, I’ve been asking myself how I can respond to such speech nonviolently.  How can I engage with compassion those who sling word-arrows, inviting the slingers…
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• Uwem Akpan’s Double Calling as Priest and Writer

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 660
  While we’d love to think we inspired Oprah to choose Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them as her current book club pick, we are glad his collection of stories is getting lots of new readers. Last year we asked Sojourners contributing…
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