Martin Luther King, Jr. said that nonviolence is the most powerful weapon on earth. Gene Sharp agrees. Sharp (who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize) developed a list of 198 Methods of non-violent resistance and wrote books describing how to deploy them successfully. As you’ll see in the video below, Sharp’s proven …
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"THE LAST BARRIER" - Reshad Feild "THE JOY OF LIVING" - Mingyur Rinpoche "A LAMP IN THE DARKNESS" - Jack Kornfield "AFTER THE ECSTASY, THE LAUNDRY" - Jack Kornfield "THE FIRE NEXT TIME" - James Baldwin "THE PRICE OF THE TICKET" - James Baldwin "ANOTHER COUNTRY" - James Baldwin …
1st - Click on title above to see photos. 2nd - click on any photo to enlarge. This will allow you to view one at a time on a black background and easily scroll through. WE CAN DEFINITELY TURN THIS THING AROUND. We actually have far more power than we …
Hey #resistance ! It's happening. A judge gave the go ahead for construction and the bulldozers are warming up to destroy a chapel on land owned by nuns. A giant oil company is about to attempt to plow through Lancaster County to continue building the controversial Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline. The pipeline won't help Pennsylvanians. It …
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Below are 11 items that will brighten your outlook and arm us to turn this thing around. First, though, a few brief paragraphs by way of introduction: Republican and Democratic political leaders in the U.S. (as well as leaders around the globe) have championed a policy of neoliberalism for more than 20 years. That policy …
In this passage from his masterful “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King, Jr. describes **a positive form of tension** that it is necessary to cultivate in order to bring real change: “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to …
Yet another white officer was just acquitted in the killing of a black man. This time the killing occurred in St. Louis, Missouri. The incident happened near the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson where, in 2014, another black man was killed by a white policeman. (That officer was also acquitted). I have a question. Before …
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You know, in Iceland, when their elected representatives ignored their calls and letters and pursued an agenda favoring corporations and the wealthy, citizens surrounded their parliament and here's what happened: "Protesters were calling for the resignation of government officials and for new elections to be held. The protests stopped for the most part with the …
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