Much is heard of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the story of the determined, long-term nonviolent resistance of many Palestinian villagers to the loss of their lands, striking as it may be, is seldom told. Here’s my report from just one village on the West Bank.
There are some 614 coal-fired power plants
in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down. No one in
the White House will do it. No one in Congress will do it. And no one
at the coming U.N.
On the outskirts of a desert town in the Moroccan-occupied territory
of Western Sahara, about a dozen young activists are gathered. They are
involved in their country's long struggle for freedom. A group of
foreigners-veterans of protracted resistance movements-is conducting a
training session in the optimal use of a "weapons system" that is
increasingly deployed in struggles for freedom around the world.
Inez Tenenbaum was unanimously approved by US Senators to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission on June 19. She vowed to ban or toughen standards testing for several consumer products from China, including toys with lead paint.
Inez's top priority should be banning war toys. War toys are products threatening the safety of people everywhere with or without lead paint.
Four daring protestors
accomplished something today that no high ranking member in the Obama
administration involved in the recent mountaintop removal mining policy
decisions has ever bothered to do: These four American patriots made an
actual visit to a mountaintop removal site.
They also went beyond the call of duty.
When
one speaks of or advocates non-violence, does he promote such an idea
because he believes that historically it has been a more effective
means of liberation, or is it purely because he thinks that it is a
more self-respecting means of struggle?
