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Fierce Urgency of Now

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Dr. Clarence B. Jones

“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action…. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit… Continue Reading →

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Like a Decision Reviving Plessy, Reversing Brown

Posted on May 5, 2022 by jgreenberg5

  The following op-ed was published today in the Washington Post by David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, and… Continue Reading →

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World Peace or Universal Death

Posted on April 18, 2022 by jgreenberg5

In today’s Easter blessing, Pope Francis evoked the manifesto of Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell pleading for the abolition of war: May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of the cruel and… Continue Reading →

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Prayers & Action for Peace on this Easter, Passover and Ramadan of War

Posted on April 17, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Basilica, Easter Sunday, 2022; photograph courtesy of Vatican News This weekend we are experiencing a rare convergence of Easter, Passover and Ramadan. On Good Friday, together with peace activists and clergy of many faith traditions,… Continue Reading →

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Honoring Ambassador Andrew J. Young — please join us for his sermon on global peace tomorrow Wednesday March 9

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Photograph by Wondros This is a big week in Atlanta Georgia — the whole city is celebrating her most distinguished citizen, Andrew J. Young, on the occasion of his 90th birthday on March 12, when there will be a big… Continue Reading →

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What Does Selma Require of Us?

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Bloody Sunday by Ted Ellis, Wikimedia Commons March 7, 2022 March 7 is a sacred day in historical memory.  On March 7, 1965, hundreds of Black demonstrators attempted to peacefully walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in a… Continue Reading →

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Letter to a Russian Friend

Posted on March 4, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Protest against the Russian war in Ukraine,  Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 24, 2022, © 2022 REUTERS/Anton Vaganov, Human Rights Watch Dear Andrei, May 2001.  I tried to reach you at your Moscow office.  Your assistant transferred me to your mobile… Continue Reading →

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The night of February 23, 2022

Posted on February 24, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;… Continue Reading →

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The Light of Soul-Force: Remembering Veronica Pelicaric

Posted on February 23, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Veronica Pelicaric, 1946-2022   Ken Butigan and Rivera Sun are leaders of the Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service — the extraordinary organization promoting nonviolence as a strategic and way of life for courageous people.  Over the years, Pace e Bene… Continue Reading →

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To save one person is to save the world: in memory of Paul Farmer

Posted on February 22, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Photo courtesy of Anth101.com and Bending the Arc We cannot build an environmental movement or movement for sustainable development that does not have the social and economic rights of the poor at its center. Paul Farmer, March 28, 2008: Dr.… Continue Reading →

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At the brink of war — women’s voices for peace and human rights

Posted on February 19, 2022 by jgreenberg5

Anna Politkovskaya, Amnesty Finland, Creative Commons In this moment, Europe and the world stands at the precipice of the largest military invasion in Europe since 1945.  If war breaks out, it will be horrific, with catastrophic humanitarian consequences. We hold our… Continue Reading →

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