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19/09/2024

Thank you BlackStar News of Harlem:

By Dr. Tom H. Hastings Photos: Wikimedia Commons In my town, I am periodically confronted by activists who wreck stuff, throw things at cops, smash windows, and claim to be strategic and effective. Yeah, no. What they cite as evidence is, “Well, here we are, months later, and we are still talking ...

17/09/2024

Mustering all of us. This can be turned around, community by community, state by state, nation by nation, and it will be. Humankind just says no to dictators or humankind becomes a slave species. Our choice. Start by defeating Trump and go from there.

An organization promoting democracy says last year had the worst decline in credible elections and parliamentary oversight in almost a half-century.

14/09/2024

The depth and threat of the stupid-ass pet-eating claims by Trump and Vance are profoundly examined by Heather Cox Richardson:

After bomb threats today, officials had to evacuate two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio, and move the students to a different location.

24/08/2024

Love Nonviolent News, which is the most widespread generalized in-gathering of nonivolent action I've ever seen. Subscribe for free. I especially enjoy the weekly catalog of which nonviolent campaigns have won someplace on Earth. That list is of course far larger than the nonexistant list of violent campaigns that have won each week. To paraphrase and alter the meaning of a statement once made by that old racist imperialist Winston Churchill (he was talking about democracy), "Nonviolence is the worst form of conflict management and social struggle except for all the other methods that have been tried."

South Africans Mourn Coal Mines, France’s Water Village, UK Imam Counters Hate With Empathy Posted on August 24, 2024August 24, 2024 Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun One of the powers of nonviolence action is its ability to embody the full range of human emotion. Beyond the expression of justifiabl...

20/08/2024

So, I'm always interested in how to try to understand my field of conflict transformation as it might apply to my passion of nonviolent activism. I wrote a piece the other day on some of that possible intersectionality and it got published in Harlem by Blackstar News: https://blackstarnews.com/americas-gun-violence-crisis-gun-control-or-second-amendment-repeal/

which of course led to an enraged riposte from a gun "enthusiast" in Georgia. Life online is one thing. The bloody results of unchecked guns is another. Le sigh...

By Tom H. Hastings Photos: Wikimedia Commons Guns.  Does any country on Earth have a Second Amendment, a constitutional protection for those who want to own a gun? Just US. And so even though we slaughter scores of innocent civilians, including so many children that it is the number one cause of d...

30/06/2024

brilliant new book by Daniel Hunter and friends...

30/06/2024

Thanks to the Junction City Union (Clay Center KS):

The three most likely methods by which the human species can self-inflict harm, even extinction: 1. Failure to stem anthropogenic climate chaos.2. Inadequate preparation for the next pandemic, possibly worse

27/06/2024

Lost another great one...

10/06/2024

Rev James Lawson passed on today.

He was a hero to me and many many more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson_(activist)

A celebration of his life and legacy TBD in Portland.

03/06/2024

Thank you, Waynesboro, Virginia Augusta Free Press.

In 2016, Donald Trump ran as an outsider, as someone who was able to criticize the political record of his primary opponents.

25/05/2024

A decent conversation with a decent man.

Yascha Mounk and Daryl Davis discuss his lifetime of convincing Ku Klux Klan members to renounce racism.

12/05/2024

Here comes MDay:

If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity ...

09/05/2024

I always encourage all of us who write--students, essayists, even those who post on social media--to proofread. Here is the title of a story on the website of a prominent local mainstream media outlet today: "N. Porltand police operation ends with several arrests"
Le Sigh...

05/05/2024

Never forget. 21 years ago today, 21-year-old single Mom of two little boys, Kendra James was murdered by Portland police. Unarmed, shot in a traffic stop, cuffed and left on the street to bleed out. No indictments.

28/04/2024

Thank you, LA Progressive.

Let them work it out. Stop sending arms. Stop cheering for one side. Cheer for the third side, for peace.

22/04/2024

It was 54 years ago today that we celebrated the first Earth Day. It was 28 years ago today that the late Donna Howard and I offered a Plowshares action in the name of Earth Day--we used hand tools to shut down and partially dismantle a thermonuclear command base. There is no quicker anthropogenic catastrophic act of destruction of nature than nuclear war and each step preparing for such a disaster hurts the Earth. We wanted to call attention to it all. Our time in prison was a small price in the ongoing struggle by humankind to end this threat of self-inflicted apocalypse. On this Earth Day 2024 may we all offer whatever efforts we can toward living as if our grandchildren deserve a beautiful world.

30/03/2024

Thank you, Augusta Free Press:

Joe Biden is ruining America. We know this because Ron Johnson said so on Fox News. Let's count the ways:

01/03/2024

Shirley Chisholm, Ingrid Bettancourt, Leymah Gbowee, Barbara Deming, Elise Boulding, Rigoberta Menchu, Rosa Parks, Dolores Huerta, Barbara Lee, Diane Nash, Winona LaDuke...so many more to celebrate and emulate in Women's History Month--some of them are still making it!