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Contents Activism Newsletter #8
Reich, Where are
the Ruckus Muckrakers?
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Political Action
Join Hands and
Tongue With One of the Thousands
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Organizations
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Capitol Hill Lobby
Ganz, Farm
Workers’ Movement
Individual
Activists
Notable US
Dick, Hank Kaminsky’s “Peace Rock”
Moyers: Dreier ,
US
Dreier, The 100 Greatest. . .Social Justice Hall of
Fame (BillMoyers.com)
Reverend Billy (a
Billy in every town?)
WORLD
Dick, Paul Collier: Intergovernmental
Cooperation Declining, Citizen Cooperation Rising
“Three Figures of
Hope”: Nazi Germany ,
Papacy , USA
West Bank and Gaza
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Robert Reich's Blog ,Reader Supported News, 26 January 14.
Robert Reich's Blog ,Reader Supported News, 26 January 14.
Reich
writes: "Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of the poor are swelling,
almost all the economic gains are going to the top, and big money is corrupting
our democracy. So why isn’t there more of a ruckus?"
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Preamble
Part 1: We Seek a World
Free of War and the Threat of War
Part 2: We Seek a Society
with Equity and Justice for All
Part 3: We Seek a
Community Where Every Person's Potential May Be Fulfilled
Part 4: We Seek an Earth
Restored
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Overview
Why
David Sometimes Wins:
Leadership, Organization,
and Strategy in the California
Marshall Ganz. Oxford
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UFW, is unusually well placed as an insider, organizer, and later as a scholar,
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HANK
KAMINSKY’S “PEACE ROCK”
By Dick
Bennett
Hank Kaminsky's "Peace Rock'' (1998)
adorns the hillside back yard of the residence of James Richard (Dick)
Bennett, who commissioned the sculpture in 1997. The sculpture names thirty
The oval sculpture --17 inches wide, 40
inches long, and 19 inches tall-is eloquent in its function. In bold raised
letters at the top the sculpture spells out PEACE, while the names of the
peacemakers, also in raised letters, surround the sides.
Three features of the sculpture deserve
special comment. First. it is shaped and colored dark brown to appear from a
distance as a large stone, to suggest a connection between peace and the
evolving earth and humankind. Second, the letters of PEACE are designed to
contain soil for growing moss and ferns. to suggest the connection between
the ideal of peace and the tranquility of plants, in contrast to the machines
of death machine guns, planes, nuclear bombs. The quest is for peace not only
among humans but between the human-made techno-sphere and the natural
ecosphere. Among the planet's greatest problems perpetual wars, nationalism
imperialism, hunger and malnutrition, the global war between the rich and the
poor, nuclear holocaust--ecological destruction surely ranks high in urgency.
Third, the name\ of the peacemakers are not always immediately discernible
because, in contrast to the Vietnam Memorial Wall's incised clarity for quick
identification, the sculptor wished to involve viewers in the peacemakers
search for peace. The incompleteness of the names Thoreau and Rukeyser share
the subsidence of the letter E, to suggest the perpetual danger of the
collapse of peace into war.
All of the names are inscribed
horizontally to suggest time and the equality of these peacemakers in time.
who are placed in random order up and down, left and right. The sculpture
rests in a setting of flowers. shrubs, and trees. It can be seen on eye-level
from the residence's deck at a distance of 30 feet.
The
Many methods exist for diminishing
nationalistic, conditioned aggression. One is to increase the ethos of peace
and of peacemaker models for our youth by building memorials to peacemakers
in peaceful and beautiful landscapes. Our children know the names of our
warriors, who are celebrated in countless ways. They do not know the names of
our peacemakers. So we must begin at our homes to instill the values of
beauty, peace, and just law by celebrating the peacemakers by naming them.
Just as citizens have always expressed their patriotism by erecting a flag in
their yard, or by setting aside a place in their home to remember loved ones
who served or were killed in war--the home as a war memorial, privately
reinforcing the legitimacy of the war-making nation---, we can also transform
our homes into peace memorials.to honor those who sacrificed for peace and
imagined a peacemaking nation.
John Ruskin in The Seven Lamps of
Architecture argued that architecture, as the art of edifices that
contributes to our "mental health, power, and pleasure." is an
index of a nation’s values. Throughout our history, warriors have
appropriated this domain of public good. But a counter-movement is rising of
beautiful monuments dedicated to peace, especially in landscaped places. We
must know and remember peacemakers, not warmakers and killers, if we are to
have peace. The plastic arts and literature provide us with memory. Ruskin: "it is well to have, not only
what men have thought and felt, but what their hands have handled, and their
strength wrought, and their eyes beheld, all the days of their life.”
This sculpture is a measure of our
culture's struggle with violence. In
conception, design, and execution. it offers "health, power, and
pleasure.' And it benefits from the
spiritual and sensory power of the landscape, both of` which are to be
discovered by the inquiring visitor. In contrast to the immensely successful
conditioning of` soldiers to kill by the U. S. Army, and the apparently
successful conditioning of the population to be violent by our culture---in
films, television, computer games--. sculpture and place invite non-violent
reflection and behavior.
It is hoped that this private place for
peace will inspire the creation of more private peace memorials. and Iead
outward to more public peace memorials. We should strive to create not only
private places of peace. but also to create peace parks and gardens and
sculptures in our towns, cities and countryside, if we are ever to evolve
into a nation and world dedicated to peaceful rather than Pentagon values.
Biographies of all of the peacemakers
named on Kaminsky's sculpture (except for one) may be found in books by Michael
True: Justice-Seekers, Peacemakers: 32 Portraits in Courage (1985) and
To Construct Peace. 30 More Justice Seekers and Peacemakers (1990).
True has also written An Energy Field More Intense Than War: the
Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature (l995).
A note on heroes. Our genuine heroes are
less well known than the false heroes used to sell products. Our society is
saturated with meretricious celebrities pushing commodities. Celebrity names
sell; celebrity makes money. What kind of person the celebrity is or what
relation the celebrity has to the product sold matters little. But the heroes
listed on Hank Kaminsky's engrossing “Peace Rock” possess authentic identity
as seekers for a peaceful world.
Hank Kaminsky was born April 3, 1939. He is
married to Jo Ann Burton Kaminsky and has two sons. Jesse and Daniel. He was
educated at
The Peacemakers celebrated on
the sculpture, all from the
Jane Addams(1860-1935),
co-founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
opposed
Joan Baez(194I-), human rights
activist, jailed twice for demonstrating against the Vietnam War and
Adin Ballou(l803- 1890).
founded the Hopedale Community utopian experiment. significant adherent of
Christian non-resistance and nonviolence, influenced Tolstoy and Gandhi.
Daniel (1921) and Philip
(1923-) Berrigan. leaders of the Catholic non-violent anti-war and
anti-nuclear movement, both often
imprisoned. Philip and his wife, Elizabeth McAlister. founded the resistance
center, Jonah House, and the publication, Year One, and have been active in
Plowshares actions. Daniel has won
many literary prizes for his poetry and play, The Trial of the Catonsville
Nine.
Elise (1920-) and Kenneth
(1910- 1993) Boulding, founders of the International PEACE Research
Association (PRA) and its North American Affiliate, the Consortium on Peace
Research, Education, and
Development (COPRED) he
authored Stable Peace, she Building a Global Civil Culture Randolph Bourne (
I 886-1918), socialist, fervent opponent of
Elihu Burritt (I8I0-I879).
founded the first International Peace Society (1854). edited the Advocate of
Peace and Universal Brotherhood for the American Peace Society which
anticipated the
Cesar Chavez(1917-I923), with
Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers, both committed to
nonviolence.
Noam Chomsky (1928-),
anarchist and socialist opponent of
military/ndustria/media/university complex
of war-making
Maura (:larke ( 1 ')3 1 -
1980), member of the Maryknoll order, friend to victims of repressive
governments.
murdered by the El Salvadoran military.
Frances Crowe (1919-), Quaker,
anti-war (
Dorothy Day (1897-1980),
Catholic, war-resister, defender of the poor. civil-disobedient. writer,
founder (1933) of The Catholic Worker, "the most remarkable person in
the history of American Catholicism
Eugene Debs (1855-1926), five
times the Socialist Party's nominee for president of the
David Dellinger (lS,IS-). imprisoned
for conscientious objection during WWII. edited Liberation after the war, a
journal of radical pacifism, co-chair of the New Mobilization committee to
end the war in
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-
1964), communist, chair of International Labor Defense, co-founder of
the ACLU, victim of Red Scares of
1919 and McCarthyism, imprisoned 1955-57: she was the "rebel girl of Joe
Hill's song.
Allen Ginsberg (l925-l 997),
poet, opposed the Vietnam War (the only person on the sculpture not in either
of True's books; a favorite peacemaker of the sculptor).
Martin Luther King, Jr. ( I
929-1968), Baptist minister, advocate of non-violence. writer, orator; leader
of Civil Rights Movement I950s- 1960s, opponent of Vietnam War, prisoner.
Kathy Knight ( 1938-), a
leader of Catholic non-violent peace movement against the Vietnam War.
Meridel LeSueur ( 1900- 1997),
writer, socialist, blacklisted during McCarthy era. opponent of nuclear weapons, feminist.
Denise Levertov (1923- 1997)
opposed the Vietnam War and wrote numerous poems on war and violence.
Mennonites, one of the three
historic peace churches (with Quakers and Brethren), oppose war and killing
as contrary to the gospel.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968),
Trappist monk, urged nonviolent social change among Catholics, edited Breakthrough to Peace and Thomas
Merton on Peace.
Quakers, the Society of
Friends, one of the three historic peace churches, helped develop principle
of conscientious objection, committed to nonviolence.
Muriel Rukeyser (l9l3-1980).
prize-winning poet, imprisoned for opposing Vietnam War draft and nuclear
arms, as president of PEN (international organization of poets, essays, and
novelists) traveled the world to protect imprisoned writers.
Mulford Sibley (1912-1989),
teacher, writer (The Ouiet Battle, 1968, The Obligation to Disobey.
1970). war resister, pacifist.
William Stafford (1914- 1993),
imprisoned in
Lucy Stone (l818-1893),
abolitionist and women's rights activist.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862), jailed for "civil disobedient" tax resistance against
the
Annabel WoIfson (1915-I983)
opposed war, conscription, imperialism.
Howard Zinn (1902-),
historian: SNCC: The New
Abolitionists (1964), A People`s History of the United States
(198O), war protester.
True discusses many other
peacemakers in his two books. For example, he says of Ammon Hennacy
(I893-1970): “the one man revolution." draft resister who served many
years in prison during WWI, arrested 32 times for civil disobedience against
nuclear weapons, war, and capital punishment.
Recommended reading:
Ackerman, Peter, and Jack
Duvall. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict.
Adolf,
Commoner, Barry. Making
Peace with the Planet.
Gay, Peter. The Cultivation
of Hatred. Vol. III of The Bourgeois Experience:
Grossman, Dave, Lt. Col. On
Killing The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society.
Hanh, Thich Nhat. Peace Is
Every Step, the Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life.
McKean, John. Places for
Peace,
McSorley, Richard. New
Testament Basis of Peacemaking. Herald, 1985.
Mosse, George, Fallen
Soldiers. Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars,
Polner, Murray and Thomas
Woods, Jr., eds. We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to
Now. Basic Books, 2008.
Sharp, Gene. The
Politics of Nonviolent Action. Porter
Sargent, 1973.
Smith-Christopher, Daniel,
ed. Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious
Traditions.
Winter, Jay. Sites of
memory, sites of mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History.
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October 25, 2013
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In his interview
with Bill this week, historian Peter Dreier shares why he’s optimistic about
America’s future, shining a spotlight on grass-roots initiatives around the
country that remind us of our collective capacity to make a real difference.
Dreier, author of The 100 Greatest Americans of the
20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, also explains
why the radical politics of Dr. Seuss, the late children’s book author and
illustrator, is a source of inspiration.
“The message that
Dr. Seuss is sending in his books to young people is to stand up to arbitrary
authority and take back your own life and be a fighter for justice and for
your own integrity,” Dreier tells Bill. “I think that Dr. Seuss would be very
pleased with a lot of the movements today because these are people standing
up to authority and big power and trying to take the country back.”
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Saturday, 01 March 2014 07:53
Why Are the Advocates Trying
to Save the Planet Prosecuted While the Plunderers Walk Free?
REV.
BILLY TALEN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Anti-Fracking
activist Vera Scroggins is under virtual house arrest in PA. (Photo: James Pitarresi)
It
seems every week or so you can hear language borrowed from the War On Terror,
the Salem Witch Hunts and the McCarthy hearings. Some prosecutor is
hurling invective at fossil fuel resisters, who sit in the courtroom with their
pro bono lawyers, staring with the disbelief of newcomers to the evils of the
plunderers of our Earth -- and the collusion of our government with them.
We
know that there are heroes like the Sea Shepherd sailors, the Arctic 30, and
Tim "Bidder 70" DeChristopher. Although some of these activists are
young, we tend to think of them as veterans who are making a stand for the rest
of us. But an increasing movement seems to be building, in which the heroes are
people who might be described as local activists. These are volunteer
citizens who oppose fossil fuel projects near where they live - who resist with
their bodies because they don't have the money to pull the strings in
government like the fossil fuel industry. Something about these under-equipped
protesters is making Big Oil go crazy.
Three
Michigan women - Lisa Leggio, Barbara Carter, and Vicci
Hamlin - chained
themselves to an excavator in the little town of Mason
Here
we have a signature tactic of fossil fuel injustice. Call it
"overcharging," accusing nonviolent defendants of felonious crimes
that will later be dropped, but meanwhile holding them in prison because the
bail is too high. In this way, the personal turmoil in the families of the
accused is maximized. Also,
this is how the government and its partner corporations cast a pall of guilt on
the innocent, making them look dark and dangerous on the local evening news.
Over-charging
can quickly slide into creative charges that re-write the law. Our American
alphabet soup of security, the DHS, NSA, FBI and TSA - is using a new charge on
banner-droppers in Oklahoma City
Over-kill
is easy when you're Enbridge and Devon Energy,
companies whose assets are in the $30 to $45 billion range. Behind the front
line of fossil companies are the banks that finance them, such as Bank of
America and Chase, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland Elm Street
Even
with the corrupting consultation of Big Oil, much happens in these courtrooms
that seems unintended. The efforts to cast these home-made activists as dark
assassins often backfires.
Vera
Scroggins lives in a heavily hydrofractured area near the town of Montrose , in northeastern Pennsylvania
The
more innocent the protesters, the more terrified the billionaire's men.
Grandmother Scroggins was given 24 hours to appear in court, and she came
without a lawyer to represent her. Cabot was ready to lay their trap,
with three lawyers. They exiled her from her own Main Street
Do
they really believe that will be enough? Doesn't Vera Scroggins
resemble the citizen volunteers who showed up early in the civil rights, the
peace and gender rights movements? Isn't this entrenched power's historical
nightmare - returning again to haunt them? The willingness to risk injury, jail
or worse have made "ordinary people" into legendary figures. And
these folks have kids and grandkids. What if these citizens really listen to
what the scientists are saying, and realize that they nothing to lose but their
loved ones - won't this make them the fiercest warriors of all?
You
can't stop Vera Scroggins, or the Enbridge Three, or the Oklahoma City West
Sussex . You can't stop Bo Webb, the ex-marine in the coal-blasted
mountains of West Virginia Canada
and Utah UK
You
can't stop Drew Hutton and the Lock the Gate ranchers in Queensland
and New South Wales Alberta
The
efforts to save planet Earth are on the rise locally and globally.
There
are too many Vera Scrogginses to chase down, and too many to publicly defame,
and too many to lock up. In the coming years, the irresistible force of the
changing Earth and the supposedly immoveable object of the fossil fuel industry
will have a fight to the death.
Whatever
sort of apocalypse we're in for, the Earth will survive, and in the end I bet
that Vera walks whereever she wants to.
Rev. Billy Talen preaches at the
church of "Stop Shopping" online and on the streets of New York and throughout the US
WORLD
PAUL COLLIER, THE PLUNDERED PLANET.
“Yet while the ability of governments to cooperate has declined, the
ability of citizens to coordinate action. . .has increased” (especially via
Internet 234). “It may be that
cooperation at the level of civil society can be a substitute for that between
governments in introducing common responses to global problems” (239).
THREE CHRISTIAN FIGURES OF HOPE:
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER,POPE JOHN XXIII, MURIEL MOORE
Thomas Cahill ends Heretics and
Heroes with three brief profiles of three Christians—a
German Lutheran Protestant, an Italian Catholic, and a U.S. Episcopalian--who
represent some of the best in Christianity.
“Christians must not only ‘bandage the victims under the
wheel, but jam the spoke in the wheel itself.’”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, qtd. By
Thomas Cahill, Heretics and Heroes (307,
referring to Hitler’s Nazis).
Pope John XXIII
believed that “Jesus came to break down barriers [between people]; he died to
proclaim universal brotherhood; the central point of his teaching is
charity—that is, the love that binds all human beings to him. . . .” (308).
Muriel Moore
organized free meals for the poor and treated all the same. “’We are all the same.’ That was Muriel’s credo.” (310).
WEST BANK AND GAZA
COMMON MORALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS by Mazin Qumsiyeh. Sept. 23, 2013
It is very hard sometimes to go on “having joyful
participation in the
sorrows of this world” (The Buddhist motto) when we witness so much
injustice, so much poverty, so many deaths, and so much hypocrisy.
The key word and the most difficult is “participation”. How do we
participate in a meaningful moral way in such a world? How do we know
if we are doing something to make a difference, or we are unable to
make a difference? “God grant me the courage to change the things I
can, patience for those I can’t change, and wisdom to know the
difference.” How can we find this wisdom to know. We struggle with
these questions daily because we see so much destruction, death,
hypocrisy, and stupidity. ….
sorrows of this world” (The Buddhist motto) when we witness so much
injustice, so much poverty, so many deaths, and so much hypocrisy.
The key word and the most difficult is “participation”. How do we
participate in a meaningful moral way in such a world? How do we know
if we are doing something to make a difference, or we are unable to
make a difference? “God grant me the courage to change the things I
can, patience for those I can’t change, and wisdom to know the
difference.” How can we find this wisdom to know. We struggle with
these questions daily because we see so much destruction, death,
hypocrisy, and stupidity. ….
More text including actions to take by going to this link
http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/09/common-morality.html
http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/09/common-morality.html
HumanRights newsletter
http://lists.qumsiyeh.org/mailman/listinfo/humanrights
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Contents of #3
Sending a Petition
Z Magazine January
2012
Yes! Fifteen
Activists
New Book:
Becoming the Leaders We Need
New Book: Save the
Humans?
New Book: Dream of a
Nation
New Documentary on Effects on People of US Capitalism and
Remedies
Occupy Wall Street
Justice for Tomato Field Laborers
Global Rallies for Renewable Energy
Journalistic Dilemma in Reporting Protest
Looking Back
Contents of #4 April 9, 2012
The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World
Civic
Resistance
Strike
Book: Dream
of a Nation
Book: Mobilizing
Book: Collaboration
Mark Ruffalo
John Graham,
Giraffe Project
Nonviolent
Method: Shame
3 Dissenters:
Press, Joya, Jacob George
How to Organize
an Event
Contents of #5 (in roughly chronological order of
subjects)
Franklin
Bollinger and Tran, From Tecumseh to Harvey Milk
Folsom, Peace
March 1986
Film about Brian Willson
Thich Nhat Hanh, Love in Action
Berlowe,
Compassionate Rebel 2002, Anger and Love
Berlowe,
Compassionate Rebel 2
Zinn, Collected
Speeches
Goodman and
Moynihan, Resisters Today
Post-Nov. 6, 2012
Election Movement Building
Amy Goodman
Dreier and Cohen
Contents #6
Anti-War Film
Protest, Social
Change Film: Let Fury Have the Hour
Rights of Disabled
Campaign: Learning Hardball
Critical Thinking
ThisCantBeHappening
Mann, Progressive
Organizing
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
RESIST: Funding
for Change
Dick’s Recent
Newsletters
Contents #7
September 15, 2013
Tomgram, Solnit: Occupy Anniversary
Dick: Moyers and Co., Successful
Organizing
Sandra Steingraber vs. Epidemic Toxic
Trespass in US
Marshall Ganz, Madeline Janis, and Rachel Laforest—
Marshall Ganz, Madeline Janis, and Rachel Laforest—
Mindful
Occupation Booklet, Successful Organizing
Levine: Get Up, Stand Up Against the Corporations
Levine: Get Up, Stand Up Against the Corporations
YES! Magazine. A news magazine of notes
and short articles about pje changers.
Andrew Boyd, A Toolbox for Revolution
Adam Kahane, Power and Love…for Social Change
Alperovitz, What Do? Long-range Organizing for Change.
Michelle Deakin.
UU Social Action Heroes
Salsa: Guide for
Nonprofits
Recent Newsletters Relating to
Activism
3-2 US
3-1 Liberal/Progressive
3-1 Nuclear Free Pacific and Marshall Islands
2-26 US Westward Imperialism (China
2-18 US
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