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Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined Steven Pinkerton Viking 2011 This book by Steven Pinker (The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate) is truly a tome. I’ve been reduced to actually having to buy a copy – I’m racking up library fines as I write,  there’s a long waiting list for this through [...]

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Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition

Recently I realized that I should pull together what I could from a ad hoc grass roots group I worked with in 2006-2009 called the Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition. the group did a week of events for Genocide Awareness for several years, and put together and sponsored a number of other events throughout that time. [...]

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UNHATE

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A Must-See edgy  video from an advertising campaign from United Colors of Benetton inviting the leaders and citizens of the world to combat the “culture of hatred” and creating the UNHATE Foundation. I have to admit, I never heard of United Color before, but and surprised and happy to see their advertising campaign and Foundation. This is the kind of stuff I [...]

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World Memory Project

I learned about the World Memory Project from a video report by Athena Jones on  CNN . I was intrigued, to put it lightly. One of the existential themes  in my life as been “genocide”. Another theme is media and stories. (Trans-media – is what they call it now… ). And a third theme is my belief [...]

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Viva Mexico

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Waging Nonviolence – a peace resource

As I begin to branch back out into “peace work”, I find I have an appreciation for non-violence. An interesting outlook on this is the website / newsletter Waging Nonviolence. I occasionally recieve their newsletter through the Peace and Justice email list, but figured I should list it here also.

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Happy World

I’m afraid this video brings to mind the “Happiness Police from an episode of Dr. Who I saw a long, long time ago. But this is not science fiction – it is Burma today. I haven’t watched the entire episode yet – and am waiting to talk to the Burmese friends about what they think. Letting [...]

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Egypt and nonviolence

Tte fall of  Mubarak in  Egypt on Feb. 11 got me motivated to do my part. By the evening of the 11th  I’d scrounged a studio from PCM and talked Tom Hastings from PSU into talking about non-violence and the movement in Eqypt. Tom is a great scholar on nonviolence, and I value his insight. [...]

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“Burma Shave” style protest on Burnside Bridge

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Portland patriots protesting the War Tax on Income Tax Day (2004) on the Burnside Bridge in downtown Portland. Music by Sam Turton.

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