Obama’s Nobel Speech, Violence, and Nonviolence
by Brian McLaren 12-17-2009
The president’s campaign speech in Philadelphia on race and his speech earlier this year to the Muslim world from Egypt were, in my mind, two of the most important presidential speeches of my lifetime. I had tears streaming down my face as I watched the former, and [...]

What is the meaning of the Nobel Peace Prize? Alfred Nobel, Stockholm native and the inventor of dynamite and other explosives, was chagrined that his inventions were used in cruel ways. In the late 1800s towards end of his life, he dedicated his considerable fortune to those who had made the greatest contribution to humankind. [...]

A Good Global Deal for the Poor
Over 80,000 people around Australia took part in the Walk Against Warming on Saturday 12th December to raise their voices about climate justice and to call for a good global deal at the Copenhagen Climate Change meetings happening right now. TEAR’s Phil Ireland has been tracking the meetings in [...]

By NOAM CHOMSKY
Silence is often more eloquent than loud clamor, so let us attend to what is unspoken.
The hopes and prospects for peace aren’t well aligned—not even close. The task is to bring them nearer. Presumably that was the intent of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in choosing President Barack Obama.
The prize “seemed a kind [...]

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This interview with Howard Zinn opens with a discussion of a group of Israeli refusers known as the Sministim (high school seniors).  For some years now, a number of high school seniors get together and write a letter in which they declare their refusal to serve in an occupying army.  Some are pacifists who won’t [...]

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient [...]

Four nonviolent Christian activists have entered the Shoalwater Bay Training Area this morning to stop the Talisman Saber exercises.  Calling themselves the “Bonhoeffer 4” after Kevin Rudd’s favourite theologian, Margaret Pestorius (44, Social Worker, Cairns), Jarrod McKenna (28, School Peace Educator, Perth) Jessica Morrison (33, University lecturer, Melbourne) and Rev. Simon Moyle (32, Baptist Minister, [...]

Jarrod McKenna
Around the world tonight 900 million of God’s children will go to bed hungry.
We are facing an unprecedented ecological crisis with dire consequences for future generations. Yet conservative estimates say $64 million of Australian tax payers’ money goes into military spending… EVERY DAY.
[wait. Take a deep breath. Now, slowly read this reality again--]
$64,000,000 [...]

Ethnically and linguistically completely different from the other Indonesian populations, West Papua was granted independence but, in breach of an agreement with the Netherlands, the previous colonial master, Indonesia illegally invaded in the early 60s, an invasion, supposedly legitimised by a vote of 1000 or so tribal leaders under the gun. Indonesia has maintained a [...]

     Master, how long will it take for me to reach enlightenment?” the eager student asked. “Perhaps ten years,” the teacher answered. “But what if I try extra hard?” the student asked. “How long will it take then?” The teacher thought for a moment and smiled. “Then,” he said, “it will take twenty years.”
     Anyone [...]