How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel divestment campaign By melding theory and practice, Philadelphia’s Vanguard S.O.S. are building skills and collective power. Ray Bailey Metta Center for Nonviolence May 25, 2023 On a cool, clear April morning just past 8 a.m., the sprawling corporate campus of the world’s second largest asset More
"It is not until people are reintegrated into the society, not until corporate and oligarchic control over our educational, political and media systems are removed, not until we recover the ethic of the common good, that we have any hope of rebuilding the positive social bonds that foster a healthy society."
These bits of fractured history are examples to me of the fact that what we accomplish is the result of not just what one or two persons do but rather the result of community action through time.
Greenpeace hangs Resist banner above the White House.
Greenpeace hangs Resist banner above the White House.
Free speech and racial justice advocates are expressing outrage online under the hashtag #MOASueMeToo on Twitter.
The Sisters McDonald are siblings and Sisters in the Order of St. Joseph of Carondelet (CSJ). They began singing together at at early at at the request of their father, a Minnesota farmer. In addition their assigned duties in the order, they found time to sing and bring joy to peace rallies and to many other events. They've been on the protest lines, arrested, hassled but mostly enjoyed by their peace loving admirers. Here's a story about them today.
van Gelder: It seems like there are so many issues besetting the native communities all across the country. How does a group that is so embattled take on this big question for the whole of humanity?
The late historian, who studied injustice and action through the centuries, offers this wonderful insight: http://youtu.be/0gQoZhnkidw 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. Rise Up Times is also on Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Click here to More
Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements Posted by Nafeez Ahmed 12 June 2014 theguardian.com Editor's Note: They have the whole thing backward. Instead of preparing for "mass civil breakdown" (revolution), they should be studying the sociopaths who have taken over the government of America, the people More
Nobody who reads this book could ever accuse Kathy Kelly of being “too big for her britches.” Time and time again, she confronts “unspeakable evil,” and manages to maintain her quiet dignity and never loses sight of the humanity that may be touched–even in the tormentors who confront her and others. “What does the Lord More
The FBI affidavit paints a far more sinister picture, with testimony from “Karen” alleging that members of the FRSO—teachers and trade unionists with long-standing ties to their communities; people whose homes she visited and whose newborn children she cradled in her arms—were actively plotting to take over government buildings in an armed revolution, all while More
