Carry Me Away
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that
generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating
the world that we might share without trauma, without hard
lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to
live.
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Opinion
The Time For Nonviolence Has Come
International Solidarity Movement and the power of nonviolence
Fearlessness: Finding Peace in Activism
I do not feel particularly brave when I speak. I am simply propelled by the force of what I want to say.
Dismantling the Fortresses of Fear
Rachel Corrie. A story about Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions.
Time To Be, Time To Love
Time to Be, Time to Love by Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, shabbat shabbaton,
Mushroom Power
bioremediation using mushrooms, How fungi can
cleanse water and toxic spills
Women, Citizenship, and the End of Poverty
Nordic welfare society, Finland, Martha
Organization,
Let the Sun Shine In
about corporate abuse, Stakeholder Alliance,
corporate stakeholder rights, corporate responsibility as a
solution
Building a New Force
Nonviolent intervenors transform our response
to conflict. Building a new force by Michael n. Nagler, an
article on the Nonviolent Peaceforce. YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures,
Economies For Life
While the ruling elites occupy themselves with
seeking to restore faith in the pathological institutions on
which their power and privilege were built, the rest of us can
embrace this moment of economic failure as an historic
opportunity. Through our individual and collective choices, we
can grow into being the economic institutions, relationships,
and culture of a just, sustainable, and compassionate world of
living economies that work for all.
Journey To a New America
Grace Boggs writes a Journey to a New America,
who are "we the people?"
It Shall Be a Jubilee Unto You
redistribution of wealth, jubilee, cancelling
debt by edict, Clean-slate tradition
The (sometimes) Beautiful American
Throughout its history the United States has
shown two faces: one that’s peaceful, promoting justice and
self-determination, and one that’s selfish, defining its
national interests in ways that promote suffering and brutality
abroad.
Wendell Berry: The Failure of War
Why do we always think we can put an end to killing by waging war? It never works, for reasons that should be obvious.
Danny Glover: The Death Penalty in This Great Nation of Ours
Speech given at Princeton considers the fallibility of our justice system and the finality of death.
Ordinary Heroes
Sociologist and Holocaust survivor Samuel P. Oliner writes about what motivates altruists and heroes who put the welfare of others alongside their own. Reaching out to others has been the force behind much that is good in the world.
Tom Goldtooth: In the Native Way
For a sundancer and bundle-keeper in the Dakota tradition, the world and the spirit are identical.
Heart of a Muslim
heart of a muslim by Jamal
Rahman,
Genesee Peacemakers
Involving victims in the criminal justice system can lead to healing, community empowerment, and fewer repeated offenses.
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