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Now is the time

Posted on September 19, 2023 by jgreenberg5

  New York City, Climate Protests, September 17, 2023; photo by Bill McKibben   Today the United Nations convened the first day of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit in advance of the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly.… Continue Reading →

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WHAT WE DEMAND

Posted on September 12, 2023 by jgreenberg5

March on Washington August 28 1963 © Jim Wallace, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture   March on Washington August 28 1963 © Jim Wallace, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture   I have… Continue Reading →

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The Meaning of the March

Posted on August 29, 2023 by jgreenberg5

  Young Woman with Banner, March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom, 28 August 1963 Photograph by Rowland Scherman, Wikimedia Commons   Sixty years ago today, on August 28, 1963,  250,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the March on… Continue Reading →

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Mourning, Anger, Struggle: Dr. Clarence B. Jones on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted on July 18, 2023 by jgreenberg5

  This morning, the New Yorker online magazine has published an excerpt from Dr. Clarence B. Jones’s Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir, which Dr. Jones wrote with Stuart Connelly.   You can find today’s New… Continue Reading →

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Dishonoring Gandhi

Posted on June 23, 2023 by jgreenberg5

White House photo @realDonaldTrump Wikimedia Commons 24 February 2020   This evening, after speaking to a joint session of Congress India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a State Dinner at the Biden White House.   It is a rare moment… Continue Reading →

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Daniel Ellsberg, Nonviolence Warrior

Posted on June 18, 2023 by jgreenberg5

Daniel Ellsberg, 1972, public domain   We all care about those in our circle, our group, our tribe.  But who cares about the others?  About those outside our group, our country?  About other species?  About future generations?  I identify with… Continue Reading →

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Reflections on the 55th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination

Posted on April 5, 2023 by jgreenberg5

Memorial pin with quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 1968. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture   On April 3, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to the striking sanitation workers at… Continue Reading →

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David Harris, 1946-2023: “I dodged nothing”

Posted on February 28, 2023 by jgreenberg5

David Harris at an anti-war protest at the Presidio in San Francisco, 1968.  Photo by Jim Marshall, Wikimedia Commons   David Harris, who died earlier this month at his home in Mill Valley, was an enormously courageous and impactful leader… Continue Reading →

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February 24, 2023: reflections on a tragic anniversary

Posted on February 25, 2023 by jgreenberg5

Apartment block in Kyiv (Oleksandr Koshyts Street, 7-A) after hitting by remains of a downed Russian missile during Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Wikimedia Commons.   One year ago the war began.   This morning I re-read the short essay I posted… Continue Reading →

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Reflections on the 75th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination

Posted on January 31, 2023 by jgreenberg5
Mahatma Gandhi

“I broaden my Hinduism by loving other religions as my own,” Mahatma Gandhi wrote. In the struggle for freedom and democratic society in India, “we can do nothing without Hindu-Muslim unity.”    Gandhi’s love of his fellow human beings, without… Continue Reading →

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