Tag Archives: Pacifism

350.ORG disowns Paris sans-culottes, opts for boot-counting passivist shtick, figures to storm the Bastille shoeless.

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Eric Verlo

HOLY CRAP, Bill McKibben sells out the activists again, agreeing not only to cancel planned protests at the Paris Climate Conference, but distancing 350.ORG and its collaborator NGOs from real demonstrators upset at the protest ban. After leading hundreds of … Continue reading →

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Gun Control for weapons makers not users, for war mongers not hillbillies

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Eric Verlo

I’m really not big on this call for gun control, mostly because it means to further restrict individual liberties, and especially because the outcry is a media induced hysteria of disreputable provenance, aimed at America’s violence junkies instead of its … Continue reading →

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Gandhi as Jesus? A critique of this pacifist nonsense by a marxist historian is now getting published

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Tony Logan

In the US amongst pacifist Christian liberals, Gandhi is considered to be the son of Jesus almost. The following is a brief look at this mindset which is brewed in India itself by the Hindu Right Wing politicians governing there. … Continue reading →

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Occupiers can learn from Anarchists

Posted on November 22, 2011 by NMT

Here’s one of the more popular pamphlets distributed at Occupy Colorado Springs, courtesy of the DABC. DEAR OCCUPIERS: A LETTER FROM ANARCHISTS Support and solidarity! We’re inspired by the occupations on Wall Street and elsewhere around the country. Finally, … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday MLK Jr, human rights leader, now a ninnied corporate brand

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Eric Verlo

Does this need repeating every Martin Luther King Day? It’s all I can do to resist meeting my compatriots at the MLK breakfast this morning with signs to decry their tomfoolery. MLK was a man of action not sleep walking. … Continue reading →

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PPJPC pair returns from GFM. NBD?

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Eric Verlo

The Colorado Springs peace envoys to the 2009 Gaza Freedom March in Palestine flew back to town last week with absolutely no fanfare, no media reception, no press releases, no coordination by organizers to make an event of their attempted … Continue reading →

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Obama confuses Nobel for Iron Cross

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Eric Verlo

We can only conjecture that the Nobel Peace Prize fashioned for President Obama features military motifs of the Knight’s Cross and the Prussian Pour Le Merite. The cheeky new War Czar invoked, and completely contradicted 1964 peace laureate Martin Luther … Continue reading →

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Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Even the most violent totalitarian system hasn’t enough weapons to outnumber the masses. For fascists to rule with an iron glove requires well deluded pacifist theologians to tamp the populace spirit. By example they can martyr themselves silly for all … Continue reading →

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Do we have a soft spot for mercenaries

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Eric Verlo

It’s damning photograph. I sought it out after hearing the story of the two Norwegian mercenaries condemned to death in the Congo for the murder of their Congolese driver. Was their black companion killed in an attempt to rob the … Continue reading →

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American pacifist Kathy Kelly reports from Gaza

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Tony Logan

“Yet, all the world helps after an earthquake,” said a doctor at the Shifaa hospital in Gaza. “We feel very frustrated,” he continued. “The West, Europe and the U.S., watched this killing go on for 22 days, as though they … Continue reading →

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When you don’t pay ‘war taxes,’ is it ‘peaceful nonviolence’ or more like smug self-righteous religious complacency?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Tony Logan

Monday night I got asked out of the clear blue sky at a meeting of self described ‘Peace’ advocates if I paid taxes? I was kind of drowsy from shift work I had just finished doing, and didn’t really consider … Continue reading →

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Indian elephants fail to apply Gandhi’s theories of peaceful resistance

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Tony Logan

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 →

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Pacifism versus Resistance, facing death

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Who can begrudge Palestinians for resisting annihilation ? Our PC ideal would be to resist with nonviolence, bare your chest and dare the IDF soldiers to kill you. But they will, and as Israel has forbidden foreign cameras, who will … Continue reading →

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US and Britain are starving Zimbabwe to death

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Tony Logan

The so-called US government’s ZIMBABWE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT passed in 2001, began the US/ British efforts to starve Zimbabwe to death in a form of war called “Economic Sanctions.” This was a process similar to how the Clinton … Continue reading →

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US corporations foist religious pacifism on Palestinians and not on Israelis

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Tony Logan

The US corporate community does big business annually with the Jewish Israeli military-industrial armaments crew to the tune of billions per year, but then turns around and funds religious pacifist values off onto the oppressed Palestinians! U.S. steers young Palestinians … Continue reading →

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PPJPC exits stage left, lily-livered left

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Eric Verlo

COLORADO SPRINGS- Oh How Sad! After a long and storied legacy, the Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission is closing its doors. Why now –a time of rising injustice and vanishing peace on every continent?! Technically they’ve only announced divestment … Continue reading →

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IVAW betrays their youthful marchers and capitulates to the Democratic Party

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Eric Verlo

DENVER- I have friends in Iraq Veterans Against the War, but their much anticipated action today was totally FUBAR. Given latitude by the other protest organizers to be the feature action on the last day of the DNC, the IVAW … Continue reading →

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Gandhi and India’s ‘untouchables’

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Tony Logan

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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Join international fast Sunday 22 JUNE

Posted on June 17, 2008 by NMT

Global Network activist Jan Tamas began a hunger strike against the plans to put NATO missiles in the Czech Republic. His action has precipitated an international day of fasting on June 22. Join us. (Diet for one day!) Notify Space … Continue reading →

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To Recreate 68 at the Denver DNC is not a call to incite a Rumble in the Jungle

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Eric Verlo

I hope we can recreate 68. Let’s break through the media moratorium on the social issues important to us. Let’s remind the TV populace that we want to hold at least our Democratic Party politicians accountable to listen to our needs. Official channels do not permit people to raise their voices above a silent consent. The DNC in August, in Denver, is opportunity knocking in the streets. Continue reading →

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The PPJPC and the old firehouse

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Eric Verlo

When firehouses begin to rely on bake sales to make ends meet between fires, is it any wonder that when there is a fire, most of the crew is still best at baking cookies? So much so that interrupting the baking in order to address the fire becomes a fiscally objectionable idea. Continue reading →

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January 20 march for Martin Luther King

Posted on January 9, 2008 by NMT

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -MLK On Sunday, January 20, please join the PPJPC, and other local organizations, in the downtown march to commemorate … Continue reading →

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The war on war

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Marie Walden

This is your president. This is your president on drugs. Any questions? Brought to you by the Partnership for a War-free America

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Make orgasm, not wargasm

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Marie Walden

Orgasm and the sense of well-being it brings – how would the planet be if it felt that good? Couldn’t that be one definition of Peace? Practice visualizing the planet experiencing the afterglow of a rousing orgasm and taking a … Continue reading →

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Illogical claptrap, I mean really

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Eric Verlo

I am simply offended by the Non-violent Communications adherents who will pout in tearful defensiveness at the abruptness of a verbal confrontation. How dare they, really? Theirs is an attack, literally itself, a violence upon integrity. It is a classic … Continue reading →

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