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Wise: War is Naive

The Tim Wise 2001 essay Who’s Being Naive? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass is the penultimate chapter in The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace. This essay continues the...

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TWL: Things We Love

Happy Valentine’s Day! The idea of this site is to help bring a little more love into the world. We have been working to create a community space to share the way to a more peaceful life. Our...

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Nobel Laureates: End Afghan War

The final chapter in The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace is the  2001 International Appeal of Nobel Prize Laureates, Poets, Philosophers, Intellectuals and Human Rights Defenders...

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RIP Tony Benn, Lifelong War Critic

Remembering British MP Tony Benn, a Lifelong Critic of War and Capitalism + Never be afraid of getting old | Dandelion Salad. Tony Benn about to join the March 2005 anti-war demonstration in London...

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Erasmus the Pacifist| War Is A Crime .org

One of our goals on this site is to catalog the hidden history of pacifists.  This article does so beautifully. The Genius of Erasmus | War Is A Crime .org. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, who lived...

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RIP Jonathan Schell, anti-war anti-nuke, pro-Occupy activist

In December 2013 post entitled Schell: Complete Disarmament is the only Sane Path, we wrote about an excerpt from Jonathan Schell‘s 1982 book The Fate of the Earth which forms the nineteenth chapter of...

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20 ways to be an empowered citizen, empowered consumer

I was sitting in a class on how to build support for making social change, and one of the discussions we had is a comparison of the differences between the civil rights era environment and today’s...

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Peace Index Update: July 2015 PAXi

Peace Indicator Updates. July 1, 2015: PAXi Daily Peace Indicator equals: 701 Since July of 2012, Peace Couple has checked daily statistics about the level of discussion about peace and nonviolence in...

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Happy 4th of July: PAXi Peace Index is 850

Peace, justice, and nonviolence are being discussed this 4th of July holiday. The PAXi Peace Index for today, July 4, 2015 is: 850. You can learn more about the PAXi Peace Index in our original post:...

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Ringo: #PEACEANDLOVE at Noon 7/7 for my Birthday

  from http://www.ringostarr.com/ July 7th, 2015 is Ringo Starr’s Birthday and he’d like for you to celebrate Peace and Love right along with him! At noon, your-time, wherever you are, Ringo invites...

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Nonviolent movements are the most Successful Way to overthrow a Dictator

In 2008, Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Maria J. Stephan did a landmark study, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict  in 2008 showing that nonviolent movements are more...

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Happy Martin Luther King Day!

Happy MLK Day! Poetry fills me with hope and inspiration. So, I was very happy to have stumbled across this poem while sorting through a National Geogrpahic Society anthology of world poems. The poem...

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Remembering Fr. Daniel Berrigan

From Democracy Now!: Legendary antiwar priest Father Daniel Berrigan has died just short of his 95th birthday. Berrigan was a poet, pacifist, educator, social activist, playwright and lifelong...

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