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Uncommon Sense
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience."
- While researching the German White Rose resistance movement, I see today commemorates a small but nonetheless significant anniversary: Alexander Schmorell and Kurt Huber were executed on 13 July 1943, 65 years ago today.
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GIP
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand. - Joan Baez ( Read more... ) -
Conflict resolution vs. teaching kids how to kill
At depressing times like this I find myself reverting to the admittedly rather simplistic notion that 'weapons will find a way of being used', and most especially this might apply to guns. It may not be accurate in the strictest sense, but if the global arms trade ever needed a motto this would suffice more than adequately, and it's the kind of ( Read more... )
