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• James Hansen Newsweek interview by Sharon Begley: It’s Not the Kind of Thing Where You Can Compromise

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 485
  ‘It’s Not the Kind of Thing Where You Can Compromise’ Climate scientist James Hansen talks about global warming, Copenhagen, and his new book by Sharon Begley, Newsweek Web Exclusive, November 24, 2009 On Nov. 25th, 2009, this article was updated with new responses from Dr. Hansen regarding ...
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• Chris Hedges: Refuse allegiance to coal, practice non-violent protests to shut down coal-fired power plants

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 485
  Chris Hedges Columns Refuse Allegiance to Coal by Chris Hedges , Truthdig, November 23, 2009 There are some 614 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down. No one in the White House will do it. No one in Congress will do it. And no one at the coming U.N. climate change ...
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• Encore post: Rosa Parks, December 1, 1955

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 563
  Rosa Parks: “Why do you push us around?” Officer: “I don’t know but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.” From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), page 23. Photo: Mrs. Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama; ...
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• FOR & 30+ organizations tell Pres. Obama: "Folly" to send more troops to Afghanistan

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 124
  The Fellowship of Reconciliation today joined with 33 other national peace and anti-war groups to issue an open letter to President Obama that strongly opposes his anticipated decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan with the commitment of tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops. The document calls ...
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• Parenting Unplugged: Dr. Laura Kastner

  
  Milagros Boutique — Authority: 129
  Listen to Parenting Unplugged live weekdays at 11am, Pacific time, or download later (always free).  Milagros is proud to be a community partner with Parenting Unplugged Radio. Tomorrow on Parenting Unplugged Radio, Todd and Laura chat with Dr. Laura Kastner, author of  Getting to Calm. Dr. Kastner is an ...
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• In Gold We Bust

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 488
  Brisbane General Strike, 1912 Our old friend the essayist Jeff Snyder, author of the famous polemic on behalf of individual self-defense by handguns “ Nation of Cowards ” from 1993, and a contractarian ethicist much indebted to early republican thought, as well as such mid-to-late-19th century thinkers as ...
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• The Palestinian Prisoners’ Plight

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 503
  Bianca Zammit and Fadi Skaik 29 November 2009 There are currently approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners being held captive in Israeli jails across Israel. Whilst their imprisonment is of itself in direct contravention of international law, the whole arrest, judiciary and imprisonment process compromises ...
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• Talk Nation Radio: Medea Benjamin on the Gaza Freedom March

  
  PalCast — Authority: 129
  Medea Benjamin, founder of Global Exchange and co-founder of CODEPINK, discusses the US and Middle East climate for war vs peace. She also talks about the Gaza Freedom March planned for December 31st of this year. Hundreds of international citizens are set to pour across the Egyptian border carrying a message of hope ...
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• Dozens of activists from around the world join Bili’n’s weekly protest on the International Day for Solidarity with the Palestinian People

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 503
  Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements 27 November 2009 Under the slogan, “Towards a Palestine free from settlements, the Wall, Apartheid roads, checkpoints and roadblocks, and for one united Palestine with no islands and cantons”, the residents of Bil’in, joined by international ...
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• IMEMC: This Week in Palestine, November 27, 2009

  
  PalCast — Authority: 129
  Israel announced this week it would halt construction works in illegal settlements for a period of 10 months, while military attacks on Gaza and the West Bank left four dead and six injured. These stories and more in this week’s update. This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for ...
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• Israeli mother Addresses European Parliament

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 133
  Dear Friends, Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit’s speech made on International Women’s Day in Strasbourg earlier this month. Please listen to the words of a bereaved mother, whose daughter fell ...
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• Human Rights Defender Mohammad Othman Receives his First Administrative Detention Order

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 133
  See previous posts about Mohammad Othman here and here . Sixty Days after his Arrest, Human Rights Defender Mohammad Othman Receives his First Administrative Detention Order [ Ramallah, 24 November 2009 ] On 23 November 2009, after 61 days of detention for the purpose of interrogation by Israeli ...
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• More Grace

  
  Mama-Om — Authority: 120
  This is the second post in two-part series on mealtime (or other time) rituals. Yesterday, I wrote about saying our blessing , and today I wanted to share something else we do at the dinner table. [Well, to be honest, there are a lot of things we do at the dinner table, but Ill have to share in another post ...
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• Green Party Calls for Moratorium on Tasers in Suffolk

  
  Green Party New York — Authority: 116
  [From Green Party of Suffolk]Green Party Calls for Moratorium on Tasers in Suffolk“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 ...
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• THE STORY ON RACIST RABBI YITZHAK SHAPIRA CONTINUES

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 129
  I was immediately compelled by the Holy Spirit to reinforce the calls for peace made by an atheist on Facebook in her argument with a fellow atheist of hers. This may strike some who call themselves Christian as an anti-Christ activity, but I assure you that it is not. The female (Alex) is an Iranian. The other one is ...
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• Demonstrators call for the end of settlement expansion and arrest campaign on Bil’in residents

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 503
  20 November 2009 Residents of Bil’in gathered in a demonstration today, commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and condemning the ongoing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements. After the Friday midday prayers, about 150 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists raised ...
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• Democracy and Activism Explored in Indian Filmmaker’s Work

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 141
  By Liz Cohen-Scheer On Monday, November 9, Haverford College welcomed distinguished Indian filmmaker Sanjay Kak to a screening and discussion of his documentary film, “Words on Water.” The film, released in 2002, chronicles the struggle of Indians from the Narmada Valley, whose lands are destroyed by a large ...
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• Berlin Wall: Where Barriers Come Down

  
  PEACE PROBE by Gene Stoltzfus — Authority: 400
  Last week some people in the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall twenty years ago.   The timing of its fall was unexpected but the energy leading to its end had been building from its beginning.  On August 12, 1961 the East German government signed the order to build the [...]
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• Peace Education and Fort Hood

  
  MarcGopin.com — Authority: 123
  By Cheryl Duckworth, PhD Could peace education have done anything to prevent the shooting at Fort Hood? Can peace education help to prevent the violent loss of life, such as we all witnessed recently at Ft. Hood? I believe that it is an essential piece of the puzzle. People offer various explanations ...
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• People Power and Unarmed Resistance (New book)

  
  Resistance Studies — Authority: 108
  “People Power - Unarmed Reistance and Global Solidarity”: A book by activists and researchers edited by Howard Clark Transnational solidarity can be crucial for movements of nonviolent struggle – in helping them emerge, in accessing contacts and resources, and in applying leverage on a regime or corporation. ...
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