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• in Politics
  Dodging Bullets: The Consequences of Ignoring Nonviolence
  It is time again, to remind ourselves of the senselessness of violence. In this particular case at this particular time in history, we are burdened with the responsibility to end the violence with the Muslim world.
  by kalespress / on May 8, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nonviolence”

 

• Nonviolent Justice and the Rule of Law Win the Day, Better Than Revolution and Endless Killing

  
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                                A Guatemalan court on Friday found former dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country’s 36-year civil war. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison on the genocide charge and ...
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• Technology for All: From Gandhi to TED - Part 1

  
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  Technology has the potential to improve the lives of millions across the world. Unfortunately, most companies won’t pursue projects without the promise of big profits and the people who need tech tools the most often can’t afford them. In this two-part series I explore the concept of “Technology for All” and ...
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• Feeding our minds nourishing media- Francis Moore Lappe

  
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  We have been recommending to people who want to dedicate themselves to finding nonviolent solutions to begin by boycotting the mass media. We say this because we believe what we put into our minds matters. Images that degrade the human image and suggest that fulfillment comes from corporate capitalist consumption ...
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• A Mother’s Day for Peace in our Cities

  
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  Julia Ward Howe, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1862, began working to heal the wounds of the Civil War once the war ended. By 1870 Howe had become convinced that working for peace was just as important as her efforts working for equality as an abolitionist and suffragette. In that year ...
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• Moral behavior in animals–Frans de Waal

  
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  At the Metta Center one of our favorite scientists is, without a doubt, Prof. Frans de Waal. In the short video in this post, he offers some preliminary evidence to make the case for “morality from below,” that is, human beings have not “invented” justice, fairness, cooperation and forgiveness as ideas and ...
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• The Science of Love

  
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  In the following article from the Aeon Magazine, Barbara Frederickson explores some of evidence maintaining that love benefits us as a species and that we can increase our capacity for love through meditation. Of interest is what she terms ‘calm and connect,’ a response sometimes also heard referred to as ‘tend ...
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• Chicago Chapter Chair booking dates for Summer 2013 speaking tour

  
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    Chicago Chapter Chair Rev. Sam Smith Has a Dream: “ I Have A Dream to Carry the Message of the Gospel of PEACE … to Youth as well as Adults Everywhere I Go.  And I NEED UR HELP 2 MAKE THIS ALL POSSIBLE .”  (Rev. Sam Smith) Romans 10:15:  “How beautiful are the feet of those who ...
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• All in favor of putting an 83 year old nonviolent peace activist nun in prison for 20 years, say aye. Okay thanks, Obama Administration, way to do your job keeping us safe. Anyone else? Anyone?

  
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  Last year, three nonviolent peace activist senior citizens armed with bread, candles and bottles of human blood breached “security” at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee nuclear weapons facility in order to protest the insanity of nuclear weapons. The government, in its infinite stupidity, is charging them not only with ...
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• Upcoming nonviolence workshops nationwide

  
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  Nonviolent social change is needed now more than ever. Yet we know that nonviolent social change movements aren’t spontaneous. They require midwives and mentors, and preparation of strong spirits, strong skills and solidarity. Historians and the media often ignore the intense preparation and training that precede ...
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• Stay out of Syria, says Green Shadow Cabinet Foreign Affairs branch

  
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  Statement of Leah Bolger, Secretary of Defense and David Swanson, Secretary of Peace, of the Foreign Affairs Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet: The Obama administration has seemingly painted itself into yet another military corner by announcing that use of chemical weapons by Syria would constitute a red line that ...
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• A letter to Morgan Freeman

  
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  A letter to Morgan Freeman from the Dorothy Cotton Institute 2012 Civil And Human Rights Delegation to the West Bank Dear Mr. Freeman, We are writing to you as members of a historic delegation of 23 leaders from the nonviolent U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, younger civil rights and human ...
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• nd Obi Wan withdrew, for a long time, until change became Possible. Loving

  
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  nd Obi Wan withdrew, for a long time, until change became Possible. Loving
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• ***** [How fast can any population of adicts be Saved?] Ive been wrong. I am sorry. Hopefully Im learning: [added to the "Resurrecting..." book]: 119. I stop making the mistake of fantasizing that everyone, all, most… any but a Miniscule minority ca

  
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  ***** [How fast can any population of adicts be Saved?]Ive been wrong. I am sorry. Hopefully Im learning:  [added to the "Resurrecting..." book]: 119.  I stop making the mistake of fantasizing that everyone, all, most… any but a Miniscule minority can be saved.  Jesus has hardly Saved anyone, in 2000 years, and ...
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• Commitment #8: Assumption of Innocence

  
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  A headnote from us:   These days we are locating the people and projects we come across on our  Roadmap .  These contributions from Miki Kashtan are easily, and centrally located: she is speaking to point four, “Practice personhood” in the inner circle of the map — a ringside seat! ———– by Miki ...
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• the Iconocast: Vincent Harding (episode 46)

  
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  In this interview, Joanna and Jarrod interview Vincent Harding. Vincent Harding  is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is chairperson of the Veterans of Hope Project, which he founded in 1997 with his late wife, Rosemarie Freeney Harding. ...
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• ***** nd WITH THE POOR IS WHERE THE BLEST ARE - Blest are we poor. It is a hard life. But so is, well, pretty much every life. And by being poor, and working for the global neediest, guess what? I meet 98% more, I encounter more, I inspire more, of t

  
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  nd WITH THE POOR IS WHERE THE BLEST ARE - Blest are we poor.  It is a hard life.  But so is, well, pretty much every life.  And by being poor, and working for the global neediest, guess what?  I meet 98% more, I encounter more, I inspire more, of the Truly Good, in 1 week, than otherwise I might in a decade., Now, ...
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• Altar-ations: A Brief Story in the Salt Mine (Part I)

  
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  Preface to a Brief Story in the Salt Mine: All that I have posted so far, this 9-link chain each consisting of parts I-II-III (see here ), can be read altogether as a brief story from inthesaltmine .  I should like to tell that narrative of my experience as I experienced it first-hand. Though I had neither ...
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• Literary & Media Indulgences: 5/5/2013

  
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    -- George Packer writes about Depression literature and journalism, comparing the 1930s to our era now. Above, an unemployment line in Kansas City -- the kind of jarring manifestation of hard times that is less present in our public space these days, despite similar economic hardship; Packer discusses how this ...
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• ***** (!!!!!) nd The root of all evil is conditional, tribal, selective, loving, conditional family. If I love any one I must stop for getting this. We have so little time. If I love any one, I must keep my focus here. I must stop being confused and

  
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  ***** (!!!!!) nd The root of all evil is conditional, tribal, selective, loving, conditional family.  If I love any one I must stop for getting this.  We have so little time.  If I love any one, I must keep my focus here.  I must stop being confused and distracted.    There is no time left for Error. Loving
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• Occupy Opposes LA Foreclosures

  
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  Occupiers Keep Fighting for LA Homeowners (via www.laprogressive.com )   Upset with Wells Fargo’s foreclosure practices, protesters held a demonstration on May Day that briefly shut down one of the bank’s branches in downtown Los Angeles. The action was organized by Occupy Fights Foreclosures, an Occupy Los ...
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