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Submitted by The Rambling Taoist on Fri, 01/27/2006 - 8:10pm.
Over the past few weeks I've encountered quite a number of people who seem to think that passive and nonviolence are one in the same word. When discussing strategies and tactics to oppose neo-Nazis or timber companies or whoever, someone always seems to say something like, "We've got to do something. We just can't sit around nonviolently waiting for things to get worse."
» Though often not explicitly stated, the inference is that nonviolent resistence both is passive and a way to wimp out of confrontations. As both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi illustrated time and again, such thinking couldn't be further from the truth. More...
Submitted by The Rambling Taoist on Tue, 01/24/2006 - 4:12am.
When it was learned that members of the Nazi Party planned a rally and march in Olympia, the peace and justice community flew into action. Notices were sent out left and right in an attempt to get this information out before the most people possible.
» The number one question on most people's minds was: Should we respond and, if so, how? Read more...  |
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