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Alice Walker: “Go to the Places That Scare You”
by Valerie Schloredtposted Oct 02, 2012 - Why a life worth living is a life worth fighting for.
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New NYC Subway Ads: “Love Your Muslim Neighbors”
by Beau Underwoodposted Sep 28, 2012 - After hateful ads implying that Muslims are “savages” were posted in New York subway stations, a Christian group launched its own campaign.
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Standing with Troy Davis in His Final Days
by Jen Marloweposted Sep 21, 2012 - A year ago today, the state of Georgia executed a man whose guilt was widely contested. Jen Marlowe, friend and journalist, on what it was like to stand with the Davis family on the last day.
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A Mothers’ Movement for Future Generations
by Heidi Hutnerposted Sep 18, 2012 - Cancer survivor Heidi Hutner worried about how to raise a baby girl in an increasingly toxic world. Why she, and others, are convening the Women’s Congress for Future Generations to make the earth safe again for our children.
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Libyan People to Americans: “This Is Not the Behavior of Our Islam”
posted Sep 13, 2012 - Photo Essay: Amid the noise of escalating violence, Benghazi citizens speak for themselves: “This does not represent us.”
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RNC Demonstrators Defy Expectations of Violence
by Amos Miersposted Aug 30, 2012 - While Republicans spent the RNC attending corporate-sponsored parties and listening to scripted speeches, protesters’ commitment to nonviolence built alliances that went beyond the usual suspects.
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Photo Essay: Mexican Caravan Goes 5,600 Miles for Peace
by Erin Siegalposted Aug 30, 2012 - We share more than a border with the 116,000 Mexicans killed and disappeared in the War on Drugs. Take a ride across the U.S. with poet Javier Sicilia and their families on the Caravan for Peace.
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Mexico’s Burgeoning Peace Movement Heads North
by Paul Imisonposted Aug 10, 2012 - What would happen if Mexican survivors of the “War on Drugs” reached out to work with Americans who have weathered its violence, too? Poet Javier Sicilia and his U.S.-bound Peace Caravan are about to find out.
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The Radical Dissent of Helen Keller
by Peter Dreierposted Jul 12, 2012 - Here’s what they don’t teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today.
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A Pastor, a Rabbi, and an Imam Walk Into a Book ...
by Jenn Carretoposted Jul 04, 2012 - In "Religion Gone Astray," three leaders—and friends—from different religions take on violence, exclusivity, gender inequality, and homophobia in some of their scriptures' most controversial verses. What they discovered surprised them.
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Radical Religion, an American Tradition
by Rev. Wendy Bellposted Jul 02, 2012 - Book Review: “Prophetic Encounters” reminds us that we are part of a long and rich tradition that is more than simply a series of isolated movements for social change.
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The Real Reason the Military is Going Green
by Natalie Pompilioposted Jun 04, 2012 - Big Oil is a big risk for national security. Can our military—the world's No. 1 oil guzzler—change the politics of climate change?
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Ending Our Nuclear Nightmare
by David Kriegerposted Apr 19, 2012 - David Krieger: The abolition of nuclear weapons is our responsibility, not a burden to pass on to our children and grandchildren.
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Practical Compassion: An Interview with Karen Armstrong
by Heidi Bruceposted Apr 12, 2012 - The historian has helped world religions unite behind a single principle. But can a worldwide charter for compassion become more than just a nice idea?
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Israelis and Iranians Feel the Love
posted Apr 11, 2012 - As their leaders talk violence, some residents of Israel and Iran are reaching out to each other directly with a promise of peace.
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