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| You Can't Evict an Idea Whose Time has Come From New York City - "We are not deterred. Our spirits our high, our resolve indomitable. - This burgeoning movement is more than a protest, more than an occupation, and more than any tactic. The "us" in this movement is far broader than those who are able to participate in physical occupations. The movement is everyone who sends supplies, everyone who talks to their friends and families about the underlying issues, everyone who takes some form of action to get involved in this civic process. This moment is nothing short of America rediscovering the strength we hold when we come together as citizens to take action to address crises that impact us all. -- Such a movement cannot be evicted. Some politicians may physically remove us from public spaces – our spaces – and, physically, they may succeed. But we are engaged in a battle over ideas." Read More |
Event Reminders:ASD Fundraiser with Journalist Greg PalastThursday, 11/17/2011 ASD Fundraiser with investigative journalist Greg Palast! In his new book, Vulture's Picnic,Greg Palast, the New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse, offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. Filner, a candidate who deeply cares about vets List of Democratic events in San Diego County To read the best progressive newsletter west of the Mississippi, click on Jellison's EZINE here Restoration Work at the Buena Vista Creek Reserve Native Plant Gardening Workshop at Anstine Reserve This 'N ThatWar does not determine who is right - only who is left- Bertrand Russell Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. You can no more win a war than win an earthquake. It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little better." Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on? We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours. When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly. The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.... The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists. Do you want long life and happiness? Strive for peace with all your heart. War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS! They make a desert and call it peace. Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun. We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. A bad peace is even worse than war. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. The story of the human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation, not aggression. In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength. In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world. If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. Do it big or stay in bed. Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you." If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars. If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength. Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. War is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood-feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity...a daily crucifixion of Christ. We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children. In all things it is better to hope than to despair. We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born. The two kinds of people who exist in this world [at any one time] are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into the faces of other decent people and see only one thing -- God's image smiling back. | Articles & News: Ron Paul salutes WikiLeaks Article Rep. Ron Paul says that patriots such as Manning are essential for the country. In his lecture, Paul, a current candidate for the GOP nomination for president in 2012, also touched on Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst that leaked the Pentagon Papers and exposed the Vietnam War, says Paul, as "all rigged." Gay rights in DADT victory to vanish On Nov. 17: Unions to weigh in heavy for Occupy Arrested SD Occupiers forced to defecate on bus NY Police destroy Zucotti OCCUPY encampment Britain turns into police state Detroit pentecostal Christians target Muslims Regional Homeless Task Force Needs Your Vote! Cartoons of the Week This is the answer for Occupy: ICELAND ! This woman should be the next president Why Is Everyone Afraid of Elizabeth Warren? Prophetic words from Chalmers Johnson Easy way to occupy the Banks from home The Collapse Is Coming - Goldman Rules The World World Economy Collapse explained in 3 minutes Late-breaking news: This just in ... Pearl Harbor attack 60 years ago - Dec. 11, 1941 Ted Olson Interview With Fox News Chris Wallace Late-breaking news: This just in ... Manning Video:American troops slaughter civilians This is the answer for Occupy: ICELAND ! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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