Force of Peace
Wangari Maathai, the first enviromentalist and African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, passed away on September 25, 2011 from ovarian cancer at age 71.
Peace Education
The main challenge for
peace educators is to become genuine examples to the children. When we have cultivated the art of being at peace, we will be able to
meet the children without judgment, without fear. Teaching thus becomes a spiritual issue, a process of
alchemy.
The People’s Wall Street
Hundreds of people have been occupying Liberty Plaza, a park at the heart of Wall Street, NYC, since 9/17 in order to build, "the world that we want to see, based on human need and sustainability, not corporate greed." [Video]
Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks
While one can look at WikiLeaks as a political
project, it can also be seen as the
"pilot" phase in an evolution towards a far more generalized culture
of anarchic exposure, beyond the traditional politics of openness and
transparency.
Exile Nation: “No Stolen Elections & Other Exercises in Futility”
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The author is invited to join a progressive coalition to monitor the 2004 election, and finds himself in the middle of the third stolen election in four years.
Free Taita Juan
Indigenous Colombian healer Juan Agreda Chindoy was arrested for possession of his traditional medicine and is now facing up to 20 years in federal prison. Read more to see how you can help.
Exile Nation: “Green is the New Black”
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Indignant over the discovery that his magazine was under government surveillance, the author decides to get politically active and joins the Green Party.
Savage Moderns: Avatar-Style Ecocide in the Real World
The most lucrative movie of all time depicts the genocidal plight of an indigenous race that gets in the way of a mining operation. But we don't have to look to sci-fi for examples of this — up to 300,000 West Papua natives have been killed to put gold in the chips of the computer you're looking at now.
Passing of a “Happy Warrior”
Activist and historian Howard Zinn dies at 87.
The Secessionist Option: Why Now?
In the end, we Americans have been burned. Now it's time to waken. Our dream has ended. It's time to make a new story to guide us forward. In Vermont, many think that secession is the birth channel for that new narrative.
