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MLK on Meet The Press - April 17, 1960.
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Here is the reason so many conservatives are anti-intellectuals: Gene Sharp. This unassuming scholar has, as it were, written the books on how to put together a non-violent protest movement. At 83, his work is as important now as it ever was, as one group after another turns to his wise advice on how to get rid of autocrats. His simple rules and insights have been translated into sixty languages, and many of the revolutions we have seen lately have used his advice. Yet he is not a radical. He uses his head to see through the fog of ideology in order to clearly determine the process. That is why his recommendations work!Here is the reason so many conservatives are anti-intellectuals: Gene Sharp. This... more
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in January overturned previous corporate spending limits on political campaigns by allowing corporations and labor unions to spend an unlimited amount of money on sponsoring or opposing political candidates. While the money cannot be given directly to the political candidate, this allows for corporations and labor unions to spend their own money in terms of sponsoring a candidate. While the Supreme Court decision does impact the nation, the American voters still have a chance to fight against potential political corruption. Here are some steps that you can take in order to fight the injustice of the Supreme Court corporate spending decision.A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in January overturned previous corporate spending limits... more
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You can make a visit to the Gandhi Tour network for Peace and nonviolence
to make a diference...
a lot of great blogs about culture and nonviolence
We need a Future we need changeYou can make a visit to the Gandhi Tour network for Peace and nonviolence
to make a... more
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The Gandhi Tour combines the power of music, art and media to call for Peace with featured local artists and well known International stars around the globe.
Beta version is lunched for International Day of Peace 2009.
www.gandhitour.orgThe Gandhi Tour combines the power of music, art and media to call for Peace with... more
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In the early morning of Oct. 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England. While other activists cut electricity on the plant's grounds, they prepared to climb the interior of the structure to its top, rappel down its outside, and paint in block letters a demand that Prime Minister Gordon Brown put an end to plants like the Kingsnorth facility, which releases nearly 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day.
The activists, most of them in their 30s and 40s, expected the climb to the top of the smokestack would take less than three hours. Instead, scaling a narrow metal ladder inside took nine. "It was the most physically exhausting thing I have ever done," 35-year-old Ben Stewart said later. "It was like climbing through a huge radiator -- the hottest, dirtiest place you could imagine."
In the end, the fatigued, soot-covered climbers were only able to paint the word "Gordon" on the chimney before, facing dizzying heights, police helicopters, and a high court injunction, they were compelled to abandon the attempt and submit to arrest. They could hardly have known then that their botched attempt at signage would help transform British debate about fossil-fuel power plants -- and that it would send tremors through an emerging global movement determined to use direct action to combat the depredations of climate change.
The case took on historic weight only after the Kingsnorth Six went to court, where they presented to a jury what is known in the United States as a "necessity" defense. This defense applies to situations in which a person violates a law to prevent a greater, imminent harm from occurring: for example, when someone breaks down a door to put out a fire in a burning building.
In the Kingsnorth case, world-renowned climate scientist James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, flew to England to testify. According to the Guardian, he presented evidence that the Kingsnorth plant alone could be expected to cause sufficient global warming to prompt "the extinction of 400 species over its lifetime." Citing a British government study showing that each ton of released carbon dioxide incurs $85 in future climate-change costs, the activists contended that shutting the plant down for the day had prevented $1.6 million in damages -- a far greater harm to society than any rendered by their paint -- and that their transgressions should therefore be excused.In the early morning of Oct. 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists... more
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On April 9, 2008 thousands of pro-Tibet protesters and supporters of the Beijing Games gathering at Justin Herman Plaza to celebrate and protest. All expecting the torch relay only to finally realize it was never coming...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puoHWuqmBho
On April 9, 2008 thousands of pro-Tibet protesters and supporters of the Beijing Games... more
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When I was a teenager, I became a born-again Christian and an avid reader of the "Late Great Planet Earth" the endtimes book that preceded the "Left Behind" series popular today among those who think the end is near. One of the signs of the second coming of Christ, according to interpreters of the Revelations (like the authors of books above) is the creation of the State of Israel.
When the Yom Kippur War hit, I was on the phone with my born again girlfriends, all of us excited that this was it.... the Rapture was surely going to happen soon.
When it didn't, I wasn't worried, no problem, I'll just go live in Israel and volunteer on a kibbutz and help my Jewish brothers and sisters make the desert bloom.
As I grew up, reality kicked in and the fervor of adolescence faded. What remained was a fondness for Israel - and the belief that it was besieged on all sides. The Palestinians? Nothing but irrational terrorists who raised their children to hate and kill Jews.
Then, my husband was offered a short term assignment through his groundwater engineering job in Gaza, and we, my four-year old daughter and I went along too.
And thus began my permanent detour off my own Road Map.
The detour involved for awhile a profound internal struggle as I tried to reconcile my previous bias with the reality of occupation and oppression I was witnessing. Everyday I saw the result of the fear when the once fearful become the powerful. Someday, if Israel doesn't change its policies in time (and many Israelis I know are concerned that it is too late now) the backlash will be devastating.
Now we are back in the US and I work hard at my second job - to raise awareness among Americans in general, my Presbyterians co-congregants in particular that the key to Israel's survival is the United States, but not in the way most commonly thought. Rather, we must hold Israel accountable (as we do the Palestinians) to the international code of conduct accepted by all nation-states. That attacks on civilians is illegal, that an occupying state may not establish civilian settlements on occupied land, that separation barrier ("security fence") must be on the Green Line, not within the Palestinian Territories..... all these violations (and more), must stop.
But when the US restricts its admonitions to a mere slap on the wrist, the Israelis know they can keep on keeping on.
My church, the Presbyterians will be considering a resolution this summer calling the US government to enforce our nation's own Arms Export and Foreign Assistance laws that prohibit US aid be used in violations of international human rights law. It's a beginning. And our church is not the only one. Across the country, individuals and groups small and large are joining voices in opposition to continued, uninterrupted flow of our tax dollars to Israel. Even a temporary suspension can have an impact.
At the very least, we should consider that nothing our country has done to date has ended the conflict. Time for something new. When I was a teenager, I became a born-again Christian and an avid reader of the... more
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Imagine life where your entire country is prevented from importing the food, fuel, medicine it needed. That all that you and your neighbors needed was in the town on the other side of the border, but that the border had a 7 mile long fence/wall/barrier built not by you, not by that country on the other side of the border, but by a third nation. That the third nation told your nation’s leaders and the leaders of the neighboring nation that the border must remain shut.
Now, watch the slide show.
Imagine life where your entire country is prevented from importing the food, fuel,... more
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Inspiring film.... saw it two weeks ago. Look for the full film and share it..... more Americans need to see this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynTOY04Ac8
Inspiring film.... saw it two weeks ago. Look for the full film and share it........ more
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Tell Bush our soldiers aren't toys!
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Headlines for October 22, 2007
- Kurdish Militants Kill 17 Turkish Soldiers in Ambush
- Cheney: Iran Faces "Serious Consequences"
- Report: U.S. Wants to Build Military Bases in Lebanon
- Seven Protesters Arrested At Blackwater Headquarters
- Verizon, AT&T Executives Give Over $40,000 to Sen. Rockefeller
- South African Reggae Star Lucky Dube, 43, MurderedHeadlines for October 22, 2007
- Kurdish Militants Kill 17 Turkish Soldiers in... more
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