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First they ignore you then they laugh at you, Oakland’s got no further than that.
The brutality of the Oakland Police against #OccupyOakland and Iraq vet Scott Olsen is prompting many to measure their eminent victory with ol’ Gandhi’s hopeful adage: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then … Continue reading
Posted in Semantics
Tagged America, brutality, Gandhi, IRA, Iraq, IRS, KLA, Klan, Mahatma Gandhi, Nonviolence, Oakland, Occupy, Occupy Oakland, occupywallstreet, police, police brutality, Police State
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Not-Violence: Pie Any Means Necessary
From Pie Any Means Necessary by the Bionic Baking Brigade: “…our weapons of choice hurt nothing more than the image and ego of our targets. Although we don’t claim to be nonviolent in the proactive Gandhian sense, we do … Continue reading
Which was more awesome: power of nonviolence, or right of self-defense?
Give praise to Allah where praise is due As the Freedom Flotilla made its slow approach last week, a popular Huffpo article pronounced the convoy a testament to the awesome power of nonviolence. That sentiment went about as viral … Continue reading
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Arguments for and against Anarchism
by Albert Meltzer Introduction The Historical Background to Anarchism It is not without interest that what might be called the anarchist approach goes back into antiquity; nor that there is an anarchism of sorts in the peasant movements that struggled … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Che Guevara, Fascism, France, genocide, Great Britain, Islam, Israel, Mahatma Gandhi, Media, Militarism, Nazi, Propaganda, Revolution, Terrorism
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Direct Action
Reprinted from the Ruckus Society: actions speak louder than words. Three arguments for Direct Action Nonviolent direct action is often misunderstood and just as often criticized. You hear it called ineffective, un-American, or illegal. That the effectiveness of direct action … Continue reading
Gandhi possessions safe from defilement
The iconic personal possessions of Mahatma Gandhi were auctioned this week, and will remain in India. Gandhi’s poverty may have been largely symbolic, but his bowl and sandals remain unimpeachable representations of his ideals. If there’s an upside to the … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Info Virus
Tagged Banking, Collapse, DIA, financial crisis, Gandhi, Impeach, India, London, Mahatma Gandhi, Poverty, Sessions, Wall Street
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Zionism is Nazism with a yarmulke
Israel plans propaganda offensive, to convince the world that they were the victims of the Gaza genocide! Visualize Nuremberg. Israel warns top military officers not to travel abroad, as they might be subject to arrest for war crimes and crimes … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines
Tagged America, American, ARN, Arrest, Bill Clinton, Bush, Bush Administration, Clinton, Crime, Crimes against Humanity, Gandhi, Gaza, genocide, George, George W, George W Bush, Germany, GOP, Humanity, Israel, Mahatma Gandhi, Military, Mussolini, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, Nuremberg, NYC, Obama, Pagan, Politics, Propaganda, Rally, reason, spin, Travel, Truth, Video, War, War Crime, War Crimes, Zionism
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American death squads and torture in Somalia
Why are Americans so uninterested in what their government does in their name in Somalia? We certainly have shit loads of good liberal folk running around in circles demanding that the US government intervene militarily in Sudan, do we not? … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, America, American, Americans, Antiwar Movement, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Death, death squads, Ethiopia, Gandhi, Government, Homeland, Interest, Interrogation, Justice, liberal, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Mali, Mercenaries, Money, Nature, Nonviolence, Peace, Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, Somalia, Sudan, terror, troops, US death squads, US government, US torture, US war, Violence, War, War on Terror
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Lack of democracy in the PPJPC should not hide behind religiosity
Two PPJPC board members, Genie Durland and Dorothy Schlaeger, wrote to The Colorado Springs Independent trying to explain why the group’s officers locked some of its membership out of the PPJPC building where we had tried to hold a meeting. … Continue reading
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Gandhi and India’s ‘untouchables’
America’s Christian liberal pacifists have canonized Gandhi into being one of their Holy Trinity of Christian pacifist Gods. #1 Jesus, #2 Gandhi, #3 Martin Luther King… Almost all of these American pacifists, though, know little to nothing about Gandhi, the … Continue reading
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European troops in North Africa are regionalizing Darfur conflict, not ending it
French imperialist troops in Chad, backed by the US and UN, are helping regionalize and spread the Darfur fighting, rather than helping stop it. Since the entrance of these troops into the region, we have seen attacks on both the … Continue reading
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Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today?
I have this sign that I pull out at times when we have our little protests, and it always seems to cause consternation among some ‘Peace’ people! Their faces get all grim and often times they ask me to put … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
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The Rosa Parks Lone Rider Theory
Urban mythologists would have us believe that Rosa Parks launched the Civil Rights Movement all on her lonesome. Why? Because that’s exactly how it’s not done. And the corporate tale spinners have no interest in educating the public about how societal reform is accomplished. Continue reading
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Stokely Carmichael on liberal pitfalls
Most liberals are naive to other thinking or to the insightful speeches of the socialist black activists of the 60’s. Stokely Carmichael saw the powerlessness of the liberal that other moderate Negro leaders wouldn’t attempt or couldn’t see. The Black … Continue reading
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Fidel Castro’s US public relations problem
Aww, it’s positively time to tune out the radio. Fidel Castro is stepping down and the Cuban malcontents, the would be scouts for capitalism, the agents of our banks and special interests, the progeny of corrupt Batistas run out in … Continue reading
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War decides who is left
I’m learning of a vulnerable schism among pacifists. There are pacifists like Gandhi and MLK, known as pragmatic pacifists, and principled pacifists emerged from the socialist school. Pacifists up against the usual suspects need to ally, but their ideological … Continue reading
The Naval Academy at Annapolis
It turns out that the Air Force Academy here in Colorado Springs was not chosen to bring ‘PEACE’ to the Middle East, nor was the Army Academy at West Point. The site for The Cheney Empire to force more of … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Force, Air Force Academy, America, American, Army, Art, Bombers, Cheney, CIA, Colorado, Colorado Springs, DIA, Empire, Etzel, Gandhi, Headlines, IRA, Iran, Mahatma Gandhi, Maryland, Media, Middle East, Palestinians, Peace, Representatives, Troy, Zoos
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Masked crusader of illiterary legend
All Pikes Peak Reads has chosen this year’s library recommendation: ZORRO! Did you know that was a work of literature? Dumas, you think? R.L.S.? This choice follows To Kill a Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, and Alice in Wonderland. All accessible … Continue reading
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Undeclared pacifism: No War On Bush
Bush counts on the Democrats to toe the line. He counts on the peace movement to take his actions lying down. They’re passivists but won’t admit it. And the smirking chimp rolls on. Into Iran, Africa, Asia. While the … Continue reading
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Tagged actions, Africa, Asia, Beast, BOA, Bush, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Democrats, Gandhi, IRA, Iran, Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, Meditation, Pacifism, Peace, Peace Movement, Rock, Science, Slaughter, The Beast, Violence, War
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Dishonest scholarship and street justice
Somebody’s written a new biography of Che Guevara, painting him as the father of modern terrorism. How silly. Did Boeing father 9/11? It seems a perverse sacrilege I don’t want to abide. Shall we say Gandhi was the father of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged 9/11, academia, Art, Boeing, Buck, Bush, Che Guevara, deception, Defense, delay, Fire, fires, Fraud, Gandhi, George, George H.W. Bush, Global War on Terror, Justice, Mahatma Gandhi, Media, Mephisto, MIA, Murder, Painting, Peace, pets, Pot, Rally, Rap, Revolution, Robespierre, terror, Terrorism, Traitor, Traitors, Transit, Voice, War
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Hateful Hamas and Friendless Fatah
Hamas and Fatah. Do you know which is which? I try to keep abreast of the people’s struggle, so I find it strange and disappointing that in the news I so often cannot differentiate the two. I blame a slanderous … Continue reading
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Indian elephants fail to apply Gandhi’s theories of peaceful resistance
OK, this is a gratuitous commentary but don’t blame me for it, since I’ve merely overdosed on the religion from the Colorado Springs Justice and Peace Commission, a group supposedly dedicated to fighting US war making and not just for … Continue reading →