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Why We Fight...Conservatism: A META, Meta-article

*SEPTEMBER 8TH UPDATED DISCLAIMER & WARNING* "Why We Fight" in the title of this article refers to a series of propaganda films made by Frank Capra during the Second World War, which you can link to via my Recommendations.

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Four Deaths and a Birth

One two three four five. Count your fingers. Count your toes. One two three four five. The rhythm of life is deceptively regular sometimes.

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Is Every One In Tune? An Analogy of Conversation

First things first! Tune your instrument...

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Toward a Worldwide Culture of Love

The practice of love, says bell hooks, is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. She traces her thirty-year meditation on love, power, and Buddhism, and concludes it is only love that transforms our personal relationships and heals the wounds of oppression.

Pride and Prejudice

Yesterday was the annual Pride Parade here in New York City. Not too long ago it was Gay Pride, but even that has been challenged by exclusionary views and opened to all lifestyles.

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Hope

I have always loved you as I always will there are many things I know not about surely I know this sweet love of my life you lift my spirit it goes up in flames over the blue sky free to dance standing still

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Lamp Post

Something sparked inside me, the first time I caught your glance. It was like a dim light at the end of a very long dirt road. The dust was blinding, but, the light was surely there. steadily burning...

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See What the Young Are Saying...and Be Moved

In my peacemaking class I challenged my 20-year-old college students to approach global issues by studying the conflicts they engender and then to seek the ways of peace and nonviolence by starting with themselves to "be the change they wish to see in the world."

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Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Doesn't Mince Words About War and Justice

Shirin Ebadi wants Americans to do what they can to stop the Bush administration's threats to bomb Iran as punishment for presumably making nuclear weapons.

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How Societies Regress to Become Pathocracies -- Signs of the Times News

If you've ever found yourself wondering *what the heck is going on?*, then this article on how a society becomes pathocratic is a MUST READ.

'Adults are idiots'

During a recent Boston performance of Laurie Anderson's new show, Homeland, a rather extraordinary thing happened.

The Practice of Nonviolence: Day 50 of 64: Choice

March 20 – Choice Be aware today of any jokes or remarks that show disrespect toward ethnic groups, women or men, classes of people, religious groups, gays or lesbians. Be considerate of every person's dignity and choose not to participate in disrespectful conversation.

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Practicing Nonviolence: Day 20 of 64: Self Forgiveness

FEBRUARY 18 — Self—Forgiveness When you judge yourself, you tend to believe that who you are is what you have done or not done, what you have or don't have.

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The Damnation of Homosexuals and People of Other Religions

As I was leaving class today, I witnessed the most offensive and repugnant thing I have ever seen or heard. I saw a priest, dressed in a very fancy and fitted suit, preaching in the middle of the lawn on campus.

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Freedom key to relationship

Freedom is at the heart of love. "If your love deprives you and the other of freedom, that is not true love," according to Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk and author of "Teachings on Love." The wisdom of that observation can be applied to romantic relationships, friend …

Elections and death squads in El Salvador

A friend came to visit me recently. Here he said, this bandanna is a present for you.

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Register to Vote!

I've been thinking a lot lately about voting, with all this political crap going on around me it's hard not to. The thing that I've really been thinking about, though, is the fact that most people I know aren't even registered to vote. I think that is a shame.

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64 days of Nonviolence: Practice Begins Today

Wikipedia: "Season for Nonviolence was established by Arun Gandhi as a yearly event celebrating the philosophies and lives of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

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A Barn Social

DISCLAIMER: Since I have been away for awhile and with the important changes that have occurred recently with Newsvine, I felt it only proper to issue this disclaimer: This is not a news article.

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A Calumniatory Clownfish

An ocean liner floated by While below a naughty fish Hid behind a clump of kelp And made a secret wish Suddenly the waves came up And tossed the ship around All the passengers fell off And tried to swim to ground

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Department store burns down in central Hobart

The Myer department store in Hobart is currently on fire. They've sealed off most of the CBD from the looks of things, but don't seem to have it under control. There's a lot of smoke and flames -- it's clear even from here that there's little hope of saving the building.

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Sharkey's Tale

I always figured 38 to be the magic number. Figured that by then, I'd have enough of tripping the light fantastic, and…..bam! There I'd be, in the framed family photo with a good woman (face slightly blurred), 2 happy kids, and 2 smiling dogs.

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SOUR CEREAL, and MORE (Complete with Recipe)

Some years back (don't ask, won't tell), I was sent by a magazine to cover the opening of a new Ashram in Oakland, California.

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India Rising: Rural Indian children's photoblog

Children at a rural school in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are running a photoblog about daily life in their village, Kalleda. The school gives children from poor families a free education.

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I live in Tasmania, the southernmost state of Australia with my partner and 3 kids. The connections I make with other people enrich my life and, I hop …