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People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: People-Power, Nonviolence, Berlin Wall, Germany, Eastern Europe, Mikhail Gorbachev, Triumph, World News
Sarah van Gelder

Some argue that the Cold War was just too costly for the Soviet empire to maintain. But the wall couldn't have come down without a nonviolent people power uprising.

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A Discussion with a Nobel Laureate: Shirin Ebadi and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran, Part I

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: People Power, Shirin Ebadi, Islam, Nonviolent Conflict, Colorado, Obama, Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize, Nonviolent Struggle, Power, Barack Obama, Peace Studies, Iran, Nonviolence, Islamic Republic of Iran, Human Rights, Muslims, Middle East, Boulder, Buddhism, Naropa, World News
Cynthia Boaz

Ebadi told me that part of her job is to help women interpret Islam "correctly" in order to assert their claim to equal rights. If she is any indication, the Iranian Women's Movement is in extremely capable hands.

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The Radical Philosopher: Reflections on Gandhi's 140th Birthday

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Greed, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Consumerism, Nuclear Weapons, Global Economy, War, Violence, India, World News
Mira Kamdar

Were he alive today, I have no doubt Gandhi would be utterly appalled at the direction the world and his own country India have taken.

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Snake Eyes in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Mubashar Jawed Akbar, Al-Qaida, Just War Theory, Pakistan, Nir Rosen, Robert Greene, Mullah Omar, Just War Criteria, Balochistan, Drones, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, P.W. Singer, Augustine, Geoff Morrell, Nonviolence, Ambrose, Fallujah, Rethink Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, The 33 Strategies of War, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Wired for War, Quetta, World News
Derrick Crowe

None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.

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Obama's Gandhi Mojo

Catherine Ingram | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Gandhi, Nonviolence, Obama Mojo, Hillary Clinton, Mad Max, Barack Obama, Health Care, Living News
Catherine Ingram

As a longtime student of Gandhian principles, I know that history has plenty of cases wherein intelligence, education, and kindness prevail over ignorance, fear, and cruelty. Whither Barack Obama?

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An Inglourious Basterdization of History

Bryan Farrell | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Melanie Laurent, Nonviolence, Brad Pitt, Roger Ebert, Nazis, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Tom Cruise, Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, World War II, Valkyrie, Entertainment News
Bryan Farrell

There is a surprising truth about WWII: nonviolence, of the kind Gandhi practiced, was used successfully against the Nazis.

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Art of Attention: Can Toxic Encounters Be Nourishing?

Elena Brower | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Universal, Art of Attention, Harmony, Nonviolence, Deepak Chopra, Laughter, Love, Peace, Breathing, Virayoga, Michael Nagler, Heart Sutras, Heart Math Solution, Elen, A Brower, Yogaanodea-Judith, Living News
Elena Brower

When we hold resentment and hostility, our heart rhythm shifts the actual shape of the heart muscle. The most efficient thing you can do is simply breathe.

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What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

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An Insider's View of Chino Prison

Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Violence, Chino, Crystal Meth, Nonviolence, California, Prison, Prison Gangs, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

I've served nine-and-a-half months, including four months at the California Institute for Men at Chino -- the very prison torn apart by rioting last weekend.

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Shannon's Story: Health Care and Our Desperate Need for Cultural Healing

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Lifestyle, Holistic Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Health, Healing, American Culture, Diet, Western Medicine, Leukemia, Aml, Health, Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Health Care Reform, Cancer, Health Care, Sleep, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Integrative Power, Living News
Cynthia Boaz

We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.

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The Iranian Crackdown: Who's Really Afraid of Whom?

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Mir Hossein Mousavi, South Africa, Nonviolence, World, Repression, Middle East, Violence, Serbia, Nonviolent Action, People-Power, Iran, Hannah Arendt, Philippines, Iranian Election, World News, World News
Cynthia Boaz

Every time the regime represses, it further undermines its own power while simultaneously helping to recruit new members to the resistance.

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The Beloved Community and the Holy Land

Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Koran, Palestine, Jews, West Bank, Gaza, America, World Council or Religions for Peace, Martin Luther King Jr., Hebrew, Talmud, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Religion, Nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Middle East, Arab, Palestinian-Americans, Israel, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Gaza, Israel Gaza Operation, Israel Palestine, Politics News
Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta

The harming of civilians -- whether they play in school yards in Southern Israel or seek refuge in schools in Gaza -- constitutes a crime against humanity by any international standard.

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Will Barack Obama Embrace Nonviolence?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Brutality, Nonviolence, Augustine. Calvin, Prychological Evolution, Obama, Evolution, Global Nonviolence, Barack Obama, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

The pragmatic test of this millennium is whether nonviolence makes more sense than the use of military power. And, if it does, whether we can evolve toward that stage.

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Israel's "Auschwitz Borders" Revisited

Ali Abunimah | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, Auschwitz, Abba Eban, Nonviolence, Lessons of the Holocaust, Gaza, Bbc, Shoah, World News
Ali Abunimah

Gazans are resisting, and not primarily through armed struggle. The campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions is underway.

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The Power of Protest in the Maldives

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Protests, South Asia, Nonviolent Action, Nonviolence, Democracy, Maldives, Maldive Islands, Civil Disobedience, Mahmoud Gayoom, Political Protests, Non-Violence Resistance, Gayoom Regime, Political Activism, Ukraine, World News
Stephen Zunes

The triumph of democracy in the Maldive Islands should be counted as yet another example of the power of civil resistance to create a government by the people, for the people.

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Cesar Chavez at the Root of Obama's Campaign: Grassroots Latino Voter Outreach

Randy Shaw | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Yes We Can, Obama National Latino Advisory Council, California Primary, Strategy, California, Miguel Contreras, "Camp Obamas, Primary, Outreach, Los Angeles, " Eliseo Medina, 2008 Election, Obama Campaign, Obama Supporters, Cesar Chavez, Nonviolence, Marshall Ganz, Latino Voters, 1968, Organizing Drives, Fast for Our Future, Sharon Delugach, Door-to-Door Campaigning, UFW, Si Se Puede, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, On the Ground, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Randy Shaw

If Barack Obama's campaign wins on November 4th, LA should be identified as the birthplace of the grassroots voter outreach strategy that dramatically changed the political course of the US.

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Open Letter to Pastor Rick Warren on Evil

Diane Perlman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pastor Rick Warren, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Nonviolence, Evil, National Security, Terrorism, Politics News
Diane Perlman

I am reaching out to you to open a new line of communication about evil, as tensions are escalating in various conflicts.

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Reflecting on Our Response to 9/11

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Nonviolence, Human Rights, Terrorism, Sept. 11, War, September 11, 9/11, Diplomacy, 9-11, Faith, Peacemaking, Torture, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Seven years later, as we remember that day, it is appropriate to reflect on the statement and to wonder how the world would be different if its counsel had been heeded.

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