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Afghanistan

Afghanistan: What Would a Real Policy Look Like?
Michael N. Nagler
At a Washington meeting some years back Rep. Jim Moran of VA said to a group of us who had come to discuss Mideast policy, “All foreign policy is domestic politics.” The recently announced ‘surge’ of 30,000 additional troops for
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Tag(s): war; nonviolence; Alternatives to militarism

Added by Michael Nagler on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (1) Post Reply

Eyeless in Gaza

I just finished reading Aldous Huxley's "Eyeless in Gaza" (1936) and found it to be a powerful and historically significant statement about nonviolence. I posted about it in my Class of Nonviolence blog -- if you haven't read this book -- highly recommended. Next on the list is Ape and
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Tag(s): nonviolence; book review; pacifism; Huxley

Added by Susan Ives on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Nobel Speech? C-

If, a week ago, one of my Intro to Peace Studies students had handed in the very speech given by President Obama in Norway, I would have given that student a C-.
What? He is charismatic, eloquent, measured, brilliant-how can a peace studies professor be so cynical, so arrogant, so hyperbolic?
Because.
Because
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Tag(s): Nobel speech; war; peace studies; civil resistance; nonviolence

Added by Tom H. Hastings on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (2) Post Reply

A Ripple of Hope: RFK and MLK

I rented A Ripple of Hope from Blockbuster online -- and you should do the same. This just-released 54-minute documentary is about Robert Kennedy's April 4, 1968 campaign speech in Indianapolis, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. It is one of the most profound and important speeches
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Tag(s): history; nonviolence; film

Added by Susan Ives on 2010-05-13 09:48:15 View Replies (0) Post Reply

A Lesson on Nonviolence for the President

(Fairly basic but a good overview for a mainstream publication....)
A Lesson on Nonviolence for the President
by Eric Stoner
In Oslo last week, President Barack Obama ironically used his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize to deliver a lengthy defense of the "just war" theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence
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Tag(s): nonviolence; Nobel speech; pacifism; Alternatives to militarism; Obama

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Emergency Nonviolence

Just to add a few complementary ideas to your thoughtful analysis Randall ...
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/01/emergency-nonviolence/
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Tag(s): Haiti; nonviolence

Added by Dustin Howes on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Student occupations at UC

BERKELEY, CA (11/20/09) -- Students occupied Wheeler Hall on the University of California campus in Berkeley, protesting a decision by university regents to raise fees (the equivalent of tuition) by 32%, bringing them to $10,302 per year for undergraduates. At the beginning of the occupation the students made
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Tag(s): nonviolence; demonstration; education

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Haitian Nonviolence

Building on the thesis from Dustin's last post on "Emergency Nonviolence," in this essay (posted by our friends at Waging Nonviolence -- please check them out) I explore nonviolence in Haiti's past, present, and (hopefully) future. Here's the gist:
"If Haitians are to surmount this time of profound crisis and
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Tag(s): Haiti; grassroots; humanitarianism; nonviolence; disasters

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (1) Post Reply

Remembering Howard Zinn

Like many in the fields of peace, justice, nonviolence, and social change, we are saddened by the passing of Howard Zinn. We are also thankful for the legacy of inspiration that he leaves behind and for his re-reading of a shared people's history that will inform our collective future.
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Tag(s): nonviolence; history; Howard Zinn; in memoriam; awards