Metta Center: Roadmap To Personal Empowerment (to help create unstoppable movements)

... because it is not an easy task, we must join our hands together. The “Roadmap” is Metta Center’s attempt to offer three things to help create an unstoppable movement of movements: unity, strategy, and nonviolent power.  By Staff  Metta Center for Nonviolence   www.mettacenter.org  PopularResistance.org  June 5th, 2014 Translations of this article are available on the More

▶ Sunday Song: "Some People Do What Must Be Done," Pat Wictor, Joe Jencks, and Greg Greenway:

[youtube=http://youtu.be/-P6r1fgiUcU]   Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Uploaded on May 20, 2010 Singing Greg's Song "What Must Be Done". Part of More

▶ Sunday Song: “Some People Do What Must Be Done,” Pat Wictor, Joe Jencks, and Greg Greenway:

[youtube=http://youtu.be/-P6r1fgiUcU]   Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Uploaded on May 20, 2010 Singing Greg's Song "What Must Be Done". Part of More

▶ Democracy Now! We Shall Overcome: Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger in His Own Words Parts 1, 2, 3

Part 1 [youtube=http://youtu.be/wKoyau8khaw] Part 2 [youtube=http://youtu.be/LYRuJTRMxtY] Part 3 [youtube=http://youtu.be/XErnzfLQrww]  democracynow Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on TWITTER at Rise Up Times(@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Pete Seeger (Photo More

Eugene Robinson: Nelson Mandela, the Conscience of the World

South Africa’s apartheid government had been brutally repressive for nearly five decades, and the country’s black majority was justifiably full of anger. Mandela led his people in channeling that anger—not suppressing it but using it in constructive ways. By Eugene Robinson  Posted on Dec 6, 2013  Washington Post via Truthdig.com AP/Theana Calitz-Bilt, Pool “Our nation has lost More

David Carr> The Other Snowden Drama: Impugning the Messenger

As a pure story, it’s tough to beat the Snowden saga. Man of intrigue? Roger. Crusading reporter? Check. A powerful government in hot pursuit? Yessir. Unclear agendas by foreign countries? Most certainly. By DAVID CARR  Published: June 24, 2013  New York Times And as Edward J. Snowden made his way across the globe with a disintegrating passport More

David Carr> The Other Snowden Drama: Impugning the Messenger

As a pure story, it’s tough to beat the Snowden saga. Man of intrigue? Roger. Crusading reporter? Check. A powerful government in hot pursuit? Yessir. Unclear agendas by foreign countries? Most certainly. By DAVID CARR  Published: June 24, 2013  New York Times And as Edward J. Snowden made his way across the globe with a disintegrating passport More

Hope: The Care and Feeding Of, by Rebecca Solnit

WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Hope Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 5:28pm, July 31, 2011     TomDispatch.com If someone asked you, last July, to lay odds on the possibility that in 365 days, popular protests in the Middle More

The Power of Protest Tactics: ‘Just Do It’

Published on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Share The World's Resource (STWR) The Power of Protest Tactics: ‘Just Do It’ by Adam Parsons  from CommonDreams.org Non-violent direct action is not the most glamorous occupation in the world. Unpaid overtime, long hours, maligned by a biased mainstream media, widely misunderstood by the middle classes and opposed by a More

WikiLeaks: The motives of Bradley Manning by Glenn Greenwald

WikiLeaks:  The motives of Bradley Manning Monday, July 4, 2011  Salon.com BY GLENN GREENWALD In  New York Magazine, Steven Fishman has a lengthy profile of Bradley Manning that purports to shed new light on the accused WikiLeaks leaker.  The only aspect of Fishman's article that's meaningfully new is a series of chat logs and other online communicationsManning More

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