recruiting
Posted in recruiting, war on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
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Soul force
Posted in Mel Duncan, culture of peace, nonviolence, peace, peacekeeping, soul force, war on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Gandhiji told us in I forget which session, “There is a soul force in the universe which if we permit it will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”
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“…we have an audacious idea that says nonviolent peacekeeping is effective and infectious.”
Mel Duncan
http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/en/summaryia2007
“Arguments Against the Bombing”
Posted in peace, poetry, war on November 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
consider the infinite fragility of an infant’s skull
how the bones lie soft and open
only time knitting them shut
consider a delicate porcelain bowl
how it crushes under a single blow
-in one moment whole years disappear
consider that beneath the din of explosions
no song can be heard
no cry
consider your own sky on fire
your name erased
your children’s lives ‘a price [...]
“Whose Wars?
Posted in culture of peace, peace, teaching, war on November 12, 2007 | No Comments »
“As the death count rises for Iraqis and Afghanis, it is apparent that at its most basic level, these are their wars. It’s essential that our curriculum confronts this fact truthfully. War is not Hollywood, war is not a macho presidential boast that we’ll ’smoke ‘em out.’
War is life left empty and twisted and brutalized. [...]
When the rich wage war
Posted in Sartre, peace, war on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
When the rich wage war
it is the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
“a certain way of life”
Posted in A.J. Muste, culture of peace, peace, war on January 22, 2007 | No Comments »
“War is not an accident.
It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
A. J. Muste
The Essays of A. J. Muste edited by Nat Hentoff
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