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Category Archives: Perspective-taking
Look what’s happening right in MA
By Cole Harrison, Massachusetts Peace Action Note from Kathie MM: Massachusetts Peace Action is very active on behalf of peace and social justice. Here are some of their upcoming activities. Palestine to Detroit-Flint Photo Exhibit PARALLELS EXIST BETWEEN THE REGIONS of … Continue reading →
Posted in Armed conflict, Champions of peace, Commemorating peace, Democracy, environmental issues, Nonviolence, Pacifism, Perspective-taking, Poetry and the arts, politics, Protest, racism, Reconciliation and healing, social justice, Stories of engagement, Understanding violence, War tax
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Tagged ANNUAL MOTHER'S DAY WALK FOR PEACE DIGNITY AND COMPASSION, Cambridge Friends Meeting, Claire Gosselin, Cole Harrison, Combatants for Peace, Detroit-Flint water problem, Dr.Elaine Scarry, Joan Ecklein, Kathie MM, Lexington Common National Historic Site, Massachusetts Peace Action, migrants, National Call for Moral Revival, nuclear weapons, Oscar A. Chacón, Palestine, Patriot's Day, Poor People's Campaign, Presid ent Trump's Tax Bill, racism, refugees, Tax Day Rally, Walpole Peace and Justice Group, Workshop on Nuclear Ban Treaty Compliance, xenophobia
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POLITICAL MIND GAMES: How the 1% manipulate our understanding of what’s happening, what’s right, and what’s possible
Note from KMM: Are you satisfied with the way things are going in this country today? or wondering what the heck went wrong and why we seem to be in such a mess? if you want some answers and … Continue reading →
Posted in Armed conflict, Book reviews, capitalism, Champions of peace, culture of violence, Democracy, Donald Trump, Human rights, Military-industrial complex, Nonviolence, Peace studies, Perspective-taking, politics, Poverty, Propaganda, Protest, racism, resistance, social justice, Stories of engagement, Understanding violence, Weaponry
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Tagged and What’s Possible, Donald Trump, Fox News, global warming, gun reform, KMM, POLITICAL MIND GAMES: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, right-wing think tanks, Roy Eidelson, the 1%, the Great Recession, What’s Right
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Enlightenment and Social Hope, Part 1
By Stefan Schindler In his 1784 essay on the nature of Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant declared: “Enlightenment is liberation from self-imposed immaturity.” He also noted that, if I may be so bold as to paraphrase, “We live in an age … Continue reading →
Posted in Champions of peace, colonialism, culture of violence, Democracy, Ethic of reciprocity, imperialism, Perspective-taking, politics, Protest, resistance, social justice, Stories of engagement, Understanding violence
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Tagged “a common religion of kindness"”, “the slaughter-bench of history, America’s wars on Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Emmanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Santayana, heart-centered rationality, HEGEL, I and Thou, Kathie Malley-Morrison, Mark Twain, Martin Buber, Richard Oxenberg, social justice, Stefan Schindler, the Dalai Lama, The Enlightenment Project, The Golden Rule, Western civilization
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Alicia Garza: Follow her to justice
by Kathie MM In celebration of Black History Month, this post honors Alicia Garza (included in EP’s second list of 100 peace and justice advocates), a model of the characteristics that define peace activists. Nonviolence: Alicia’s main goal is the … Continue reading →
Posted in capitalism, Champions of peace, gun violence, Human rights, militarization, national security state, Nonviolence, Perspective-taking, police violence, politics, Poverty, Prisons, Protest, racism, resistance, social justice, Stories of engagement, Understanding violence, Weaponry
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Tagged Alicia Garza, Black History Month, Black Lives Matter, George Zimmerman, I CAN'T BREATHE-SING IN @ Grand Central Station, police violence, racism, social problems, state violence, structural violence, Trayvon Martin
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