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I did get confused! For I thought the forum on CT was what you wanted or would want. I am delighted to have you join this forum on PREVENTING WARS.....through CRITICAL THINKING. I'll make the correction at once, and will advertise again. Lisa hadn't chosen her book yet, nor had I, waiting for Lisa.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Dick Bennett
NEWS RELEASE
DECEMBER 23, 20008
CONTACT: DICK BENNETT, 442-4600
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: OMNI CENTER FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND ECOLOGY
OMNI PREVENTING WARS BOOK FORUM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2009, 6:30 PM at NIGHTBIRD BOOKS
OMNI BOOK FORUMS bring together people from all backgrounds to explore subjects of urgent importance to the people of the United States and of the world. The forums are another expression of OMNI's civic engagement in the creation of a living democracy. We do not accept the false idea that democracy can meet today's challenges without us. Rather we understand that freedom is most realized when practiced, both with each individual and as a body politic.
PREVENTING WARS (along with preventing further rise of CO2 and reducing it) will determine whether species will have a future. We have left the 20th century of slaughter from wars but the same causes of wars and the same horrendous weapons for mass killing remain and are being improved, and new weapons are being developed. One of the most urgent opportunities calling to us as citizens today is opposition to wars, particularly learning how to prevent them. One purpose of this Forum is to remind people of the numerous excellent human thought and practice that have preceded us. We need not reinvent the wheel while we are seeking new methods of resistance. A list of ways to prevent wars accompanied by illustrative books will be available.
Specifically EACH PANELIST will present one or more books, and then discussion will be opened to the audience of other citizens engaged in practicing living democracy.
PANELISTS
CLIFF MIKKELSON, author of Gospel of One, Letters of Aul
GLADYS TIFFANY, Co-President of OMNI
LISA SHARP, Proprietor of Nightbird Books:
EDRENE MCKAY, History Instructor, NWACC:
Moderator: Dick Bennett
Video: Jim Bemis
Camera: Paul Johnson
Refreshments: Paul Johnson
Nightbird Books is located on the NW corner of S. School/71B and 5th St./Highway 62 in the Mill Building.
Among Books to be Discussed:
Gospel of One, Letters of Paul by Cliff Mikkelson
The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp
The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex by Henry A. Giroux.
The Following is not part of the News Release, but offers additional ways to prevent wars for those of you interested:
PREVENTING WARS, A SELECTIVE, CLASSIFED LIST
(A small sample of the categories of resistance, and an extremely small sample of the books. )
Asterisk * indicates book has a panelist.
HOPE FOR PEACE BECAUSE WAR NOT INEVITABLE
The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence by Douglas Fry
CELEBRATE THE ONENESS OF ALL CREATION
*Gospel of One, Letters of Paul by Cliff Mikkelson (Cliff)
The Art of Non-War by Kim Michaels
Coon, Carl. One Planet, One People, Beyond "Us vs. Them." Humanist P, 2007. Identifies a trend toward increased inclusiveness and world community.
ALTER AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
Changing the Bully Who Rules the World by Carol Bly
EXPLODE THE ILLUSIONS THAT LEAD TO WARS
American Wars: Illusions and Realities, ed. Paul Buchheit
ELIMINATE POVERTY AND OTHER ECONOMIC ORIGINS OF WARS
(countless books)
STOP KILLING
Consistently Opposing Killing ed. MacNair and Zunes
CHOOSE NONVIOLENCE
Non-Violence in an Aggressive World by A. J. Muste
*The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp (in 2 books) (Gladys)
JOIN THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941-1960 by Lawrence Wittner
Peace Movement Directory (North America) by James Richard Bennett
EDUCATE FOR TOLERATION
Teaching Tolerance: Raising Open-Minded, Empathetic Children by Sara Bullard
SPREAD INCLUSIVENESS AND COMMUNITY
One Planet, One People, Beyond "Us vs. Them" by Carl Coon
FREE EDUCATION FROM INDOCTRINATION FOR WAR
The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex by Henry A. Giroux (EDRENE)
STUDY THE HISTORY OF US MILITARISM
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power by James Carroll
INSIST UPON ECONOMIC CONVERSION FROM MILITARIZED TO CIVILIAN ECONOMY
CHAMPION CRITICAL THINKING
Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas by Ronald Lindsay
Trilogy by Coralie Koonce, 2nd and 3rd vols. forthcoming.
ACKNOWLEDGE US IMPERIALISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
EXPOSE THE HARM DONE BY RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
RECOGNIZE THE GOOD IN RELIGIOUS PEACEMAKING
New Testament Basis of Peacemaking by Richard McSorley
Christian Pacifism by Daniel Dombrowski
REDUCE THE COST OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS AND CONTROL OF POLITICIANS BY THOSE WHO SEEK WARS.
(instant runoff elections)
PROMOTE PEACE STUDIES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROGRAMS
Global Directory of Peace Studies and conflict Resolution Prgrams (7th ed.) ed. Ian Harris and Amy Shuster
UNDERSTAND AND REFUSE THE PATRIOTISM THAT LEADS TO WAR AND EMBRACE THE PATRIOTISM THAT LEADS TO PEACE
DECRY THE HUBRISTIC DOCTRINE OF US EXCEPTIONALISM
COUNTER MILITARY RECRUITING, CUT OFF THE SUPPLY OF WARRIORS
REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN WARS
We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now ed. Murray Polner and Thomas Woods, Jr.
Dissent: Voices of Conscienc, Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq by Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon
CONFRONT THE CONSEQUENCES OF WARS
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
EXPRESS YOUR REVULSION OVER THE EXPENSE AND WASTE OF WAR
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes,
PROSECUTE MASS MURDERERS AND WAR CRIMINALS
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney by Loo and Phillips
.The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld : A Prosecution by Book by Michael Ratner
REVERE NONVIOLENT PEACEMAKERS, NOT WARRIORS
Great Peacemakers by Ken Beller and Heather Chase
Waging Peace II: Vision and Hope for the 21st Century, An Anthology of Essays ed. David Krieger and Frank Kelly
STRENGTHEN HUMAN RIGHTS
Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations Since 9/11 ed. Anne Fagan Ginger
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Is the Law: A Guide to U.D.H.R. Articles in Treaties Ratified by the U.S. From the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
GIVE YOUR MONEY FOR PEACE
Peace Is Everybody's Business: Half a Century of Peace Education with Elizabeth Evans Baker by Mara Daniels
REALIZE AND RESIST MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM
The End of America by Naomi Wolf
Killing Hope, Rogue State by William Blum
KNOW HOW TO RESIST
Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism ed. Benjamin and Evans (Code Pink)
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries by Naomi Wolf
Peace First-- a New Model to End War by Uri Savir
Lessons From Iraq: Avoiding the Next War ed. by Miriam Pemberton
.Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement by Scott Ritter
Knowledge of nonviolent war prevention (alternatives to violence and threats of violence and armed force) is extensive, but little reported by mainstream media, which is why you and I must speak up! Send Dick your suggestions of additional categories (corporate profits, bureaucratic inertia, militaristic conditioning of youth, etc.) and books. Arrange the categories as you consider best. And buy the books as you are able: we will not have them if we do not buy them. These are concrete actions. And then do more. We are not helpless and will not be silent. For a CULTURE OF PEACE inside the US War System.)
Additional topics:
ignorance and fear
bigotry
religious intolerance
economics, desire for resources
economics, pursuit of profit
military-industrial complex
Corporation-Pentagon-White House-Congress-Mainstream Media System
ideas, ideologies
nationalism
masculinity
territory
lack of empathy and compassion
alienation from our true being and unity
--
Dick Bennett
jbennet@uark.edu
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