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from my notes on Gandhi's Economic Thought by Ajit K. Dasgupta NY: Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-11430-6 http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/gandhis-economic-thought.html [All notes from my readings in Gandhian or nonviolent economics can be...
by gmoke
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 08:21 PM PDT
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“Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.....It would have aroused the world and the...
by gmoke
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 08:53 PM PST
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Ha'aretz - 22 January 2024 by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib “Opinion |I Grew Up in Gaza. This Is What I Hope for Its Future” The senseless killing of 30 of my own relatives in Gaza forces me to seek a fundamentally different future. Palestinians must...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
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There’s a story famous among the USAmericans who practice the martial art of aikido [合氣道 the way of meeting/harmonizing energy]. It may be apt today as it is about an incident of violence on public transit, something like the situation on the train...
by gmoke
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on Sat May 20, 2023 at 01:18 PM PDT
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In December 2022, Time Magazine ran a story, “ The Making of the U.S. Military's New Stealth Bomber ,” on the development of the U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 bomber.
Unfortunately, the reporter,
by samdiener
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on Wed Jan 18, 2023 at 12:00 PM PST
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We all know the name Martin Luther King Jr., but who exactly was he and what impact did he have? Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister known worldwide as a key player in ...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Mon Jan 16, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-fiona-hill.html?showTranscript=1 Fiona Hill: "Ukraine’s the breadbasket of Europe. And in many respects, kind of Ukraine has become the global breadbasket now over time. And every time...
by gmoke
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on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 01:39 PM PDT
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I don’t know if anyone else caught this, but NPR did an interview with Masha Gessen, a Russian-American reporter for primarily The New Yorker. They had a lot to say about the war in Ukraine and about Putin in particular. I had turned to NPR for just...
by stilltilting
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on Thu Mar 10, 2022 at 07:12 PM PST
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The Glove is Now On the Right Hand (You Always Become What You Hate) 6/19/2021 ©Scientific Morality It was 1969 and the only media available (aside from human intercourse)was the telephone, U.S. Mail, television, radio, newspapers, photocopiers, all of...
by Koch Ebola
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on Thu Jun 24, 2021 at 05:25 PM PDT
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Updates beyond these will go in the comments thread. 200+ arrests, ongoing blockade at pump station and resistance camp launched at Mississippi river crossing of controversial tar sands pipeline… Washington Post: Pipeline protesters seize Minnesota...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Jun 08, 2021 at 05:01 PM PDT
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Trust me….when I see Americans playing Nazis my blood boils. I want nothing more than to slowly torture each and every one of them.
But then I realize somethings.
1. We are better than them, ...
by CameronProf
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on Wed Jan 06, 2021 at 05:00 PM PST
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I've been interested in Dr Gary Slutkin's epidemiological approach to preventing violence for a few years now (Updated link to 2015 diary on the topic: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/1/9/1356773/-Intertribal-Problems-Stuck-on-Stupid)....
by gmoke
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on Mon Nov 23, 2020 at 07:44 PM PST
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As one who attempts (imperfectly) to be committed to and live the ideal of non-violence as preached and practiced by Gandhi, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Romero, Dorothy Day, etc. it may seem counter-intuitive to readers that I deeply honor the service...
by Jim Keady
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on Wed Nov 11, 2020 at 07:22 AM PST
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Hello everybody, I just now posted this as a comment to one of Mark Sumner’s front-page articles, but then I felt that I should probably post it as its own diary. I compiled the list below about a week ago when the Hold the Line Guide first came...
by hahne
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on Wed Sep 23, 2020 at 02:59 PM PDT
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A friend who watches live feeds for hours every night has been keeping me posted about the anti-racism protests in Portland, Oregon, which have been taking place daily since the police killing of ...
by AliceT4
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on Thu Sep 17, 2020 at 05:22 PM PDT
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In my view, there needs to be a debate on exactly how the protests function with regard to appearance. The Navy veteran who simply walked up to the feds and got beaten without attacking back is an excellent example of the public face of how the...
by Sophia1
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on Tue Aug 11, 2020 at 09:32 AM PDT
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"Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change." (Source:...
by gmoke
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on Wed Aug 05, 2020 at 07:44 PM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. “[T]here’s a reason we’re...
by dratler
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on Sat Aug 01, 2020 at 08:38 AM PDT
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We all know what it’s like to be mad as hell. And how hard it is to keep that anger inside and not let it explode against those jerks who have messed up this country and the world, and who keep doing it. But here’s another thing that everyone needs to...
by dpbarash
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on Tue Jul 28, 2020 at 02:02 PM PDT
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Both Rep. John Lewis (1940-2020) and Rev. C. T. Vivian (1925-2020) were heroes of mine. But I only met Rep. Lewis once—and that was at a conference in the early 2000s where I got him to sign my copy of his autobiography, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir...
by SouthernLeveller
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