Juliano Mer-Khamis Palestinian-Israeli actor, activist and theatre director with a global reputation Juliano Mer-Khamis at the Freedom theatre in the Jenin refugee camp. Its productions have resonated around the world. Photograph: Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images The Palestinian-Israeli actor Juliano Mer-Khamis, who has been shot dead at the age of 52, was a successful stage and screen performer, [...]

by Claudia Kawczynska Recent events in Northern Africa have turned the spotlight on Gene Sharp, PhD, a scholar and social scientist anointed by the Daily Beast as “the 83-year-old who toppled Egypt.” For decades, Sharp — through his manuals and books, including From Dictatorship to Democracy, The Politics of Nonviolent Action and 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action— has [...]

Dave Andrews – On The Beatitudes And The Blessed Revolution - 7 min - 27 Jan 2011 - Uploaded by greenbeltfestival Dave and Ange Andrews have lived and worked with marginalised people in Asia and Australia for over forty years. They started Aashiana … www.youtube.com/watch?v=luGRdGB2T3s

New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life — and talks about how humor can empower women to change the rules. http://www.ted.com/talks/liza_donnelly_drawing_upon_humor_for_change.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-02 01&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

An inspiring short documentary about the peace activism of “Old Radicals “Art and Peggy Gish released by Phil Storer and the folks at Noonday Films http://erb.kingdomnow.org/multimedia-tuesday-old-radicals-or-rip-art-gish/

30 years ago Dorothy Day died peacefully in New York City leaving a legacy of 180 radical Catholic Worker communities practising the acts of mercy to the poor and nonviolent resistance to the war making state. 10 days later in New York City John Lennon, a voice of a generation was slain and silenced. 20 [...]

Jesus embodies a lot of what we want to embody ourselves. by Ted Grimsrud Jesus is pretty amazing. He’s an ancient character in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire. He barely made it to his 30s and then joined countless other expendable people the Empire considered worth executing. Yet, in his afterlife, he became [...]

A Parable about Power And Working For Change I spend a lot of time around organizers and activists in my life. These days I am often approached by younger people (I can’t believe that I am considered mature now) who want to talk to me about social justice. They ask me a lot of questions [...]

Reading Gandhi in Budrus A new documentary illuminates the power of nonviolent protest in a Palestinian village opposing the West Bank barrier. By Michael Atkinson November 8, 2010 The Israeli-Palestinian problem has been unfurling for so many decades now, with a steady undulation between periods of tense face-off and outbreaks of violence, that any observer [...]

Revised, Rewritten and Sung By Josh Spier May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you [...]

Angie Andrews The thing I have held most dear through the years is a vision of hospitality as a way of life. It is a vision I have nurtured in my self, in my nuclear family and in my extended family. I believe it is the legacy of Jesus, which I want to pass on [...]

‘Who of you will join me?’ Angie Andrews ‘There is precious little acceptance in our society of the changes in our bodies, brought about by sacrifice, by the giving of life to others. People want us to look unscathed, unscarred. Without the sagging in our breasts, the stretchmarks on our stomach, the lines of strain [...]