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2 Oct 2002 @ 05:55, by scotty. Activism
The best way forward is not to wait, watch and offer solutions once the damage has been done to the victims. Rather, it is vital for us to use our power as women to influence political decisions in favour of the rights of peoples by lobbying the United Nations and global policy-makers.
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"If nonviolence is the law of our being,
the future is with women."
Mahatma Gandhi
The Petition Site....
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 20 Sep 2002 @ 10:15, by jazzolog. Activism
We have an Amnesty International chapter in our high school, and they just hosted a travelling Benefit Show at our local workers-owned Casa Cantina. On their advertising flyer I was struck by the following quotation from a released prisoner of conscience in the Dominican Republic:
"When the first 200 letters came, the guards gave me back my clothes. Then the next 200 came, and the prison director got in touch with his superior. The letters kept coming and coming: three thousand of them. The President was informed. The letters still kept arriving, and the President called the prison and told them to let me go."
---Julio de Pena-Valdez
Photo of Write-a-Thon students in Boston
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20 Jul 2002 @ 09:31, by chaiyah. Activism
...We exprss displeasure, anger, fear, disbelief, disgust, consternation at man's indifference and inhumanity to man.
...So what?
...Will that change the ambient level of radioactivity or heat coming from the sun?
...Of course not.
...Will it change the lies, deceptions and deceit coming from our USCoverment?
...Of course not.
...What will create change, in the 5th dimension between Stillness at one end of the spectrum and Order, at the other?
...Here´s a list of steps, actions and stances, we can take that WILL make change happen.
...Stop buying from Wal-Mart, period. They operate OFF the international slave trade.
...Stop using petroleum products, period. Take public transportation, bike or share rides. Let gas stations starve and give their employees other jobs in your community. By doing so you dry up the liquid assets the Coverment can use against you.
...We must grow our own food and make ourselvew ready for a new Ice Age--bermed-in solar-heated. It´s probably better, if several families get together and go in on one community facility. That puts economies to scale to work, that don´t exist in single-family dwellings.
...Get rid of the TV. It is hypnotizing. Maybe it can serve as a permanent VCR monitor, and tell the cable company to go to hell. Buy a short-wave radio instead. The news is NOT what we are hearing, around here.
...Call all the kids home, along with grandchildren, from wherever they have wandered in search of work. You can create enough of an economy by yourselves with what is at hand. We don´t need to be victimized and weakened by the Dollar Economy, any longer. The Dollar Economy is brain-dead and will be physically dead in just a few months time.
...Listen to the kids rap. They are in just as much pain and travail as we adults are. Have compassion.
...Remember: Two wrongs NEVER make a right. And remember: The parable of the wheat and the weeds SAID, the ANGELS would TAKE OUT THE WICKED, not us.
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2 Jul 2002 @ 22:10, by alchemist. Activism
The Bretton Woods System takes its name from the 1944 conference that gave birth to three international institutions - the IMF, the World Bank and GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). It was the basis for the post-war global economy. More >
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29 Jun 2002 @ 09:27, by chaiyah. Activism
THE U.S. HAS GONE MAD
...The way to facilitate problem-solving is to redirect attention back on problems people experience, so these problems can be dealt with.
...YET, in our social milieu in which violence is not only promoted, it is subsidized--the viewing of violence is fine, but any and all forms of anger that arise, in any setting are considered and judged to be dangerous [which they are], and so they are repressed and suppressed, not dealt with openly.
...Anger--even legitimate and appropriate outrage--becomes a forbidden emotion. Workplaces, social agencies and government all become very fearful and reactive to any form of display of anger--legitimate or not.
...Anger, in fact, is a natural and healthy part of human psychological make-up when frustration is the experience we obtain. Without anger, we would not have the energy we need, to actually solve a problem.
...If whatever organization you belong to and work for has a Human Resources Department, you already realize that anger is forbidden forbidden forbidden under rules of conduct--for any reason or purpose whatever. A person outraged over an issue is presumed to be an unacceptable employee, out-of-hand. Workers get fired for any breech of displaying anger. [No wonder, workers come back to get even, eh?]
....THAT is insane. Thus, every American organization that has a Human Resources Department in charge of its hiring and firing is insane. Every Security Department that attacks a person solely because they are experiencing anger is insane. Every Social Services agency that discriminates against a person because they are experiencing anger is insane.
.....We need to realize, acknowledge AND DOCUMENT THE FACT, that this nation is gone off on a path to mass insanity over the denial of every kind of anger, outrage or human frustration. The only acceptable behavior, in authoritarian terms, is willing compliance, no matter how unreasonable a stimulus, demand or insult might be.
.....We must stop indulging and appeasing these INSANE IDEAS--THAT VIOLENCE IS OKAY BUT ANGER IS FORBIDDEN.
.....LEGITIMATE ANGER must be allowed to surface off the web's Conspiracy sites, and return to the halls of Congress, the State Capitols and City Hall.
.....There's enough pain to go around, that we ought to be able to talk about it, without the fear of retribution. [JUST LOOK AT WHAT the Govt DOES to whistleblowers!]
chai
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24 Jun 2002 @ 06:25, by chaiyah. Activism
...What is cruel is indifference: "It was YOUR choice."
...What is cruel is dogma: "All I can do for you is..."
...What is cruel is stupefaction: "It's NOT my problem."
...What is cruel is avoidance: "Get outta here!"
...What is cruel is blindness: "You're just a blah blah"
...Wouldn't it be better to let our eyes see and our ears hear; let our hearts be touched or broken?
...Wouldn't it be better, if we begin to insist on getting to the Truth rather than lapping up excuses?
...Wouldn't it be better, if Congress were willing to do the job we gave them to do, and not knuckle under?
...What will work will be grassroots helping each other, despite our permission to be pre-empted.
...What will work would be for those who are fearless to organize themselves regardless of other affiliations.
...Then, we'll be able to care for the fallen and the vulnerable, when the time comes that some phreak out.
...Looks from here as if that time is coming relatively soon, from the painful immobilization we can witness.
...God said, the meek will inherit the earth. I'm counting on it. We all can.
chaiyah_448272 created this Question on Sat, Jun 15, 2002 10:49 PM.
Sent to Category: Ethics
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24 Jun 2002 @ 06:20, by chaiyah. Activism
...Having to witness violence makes people timid.
...That was the purpose of the Roman gladiator games, to pacify the Roman people.
...American society is creating a generation of couch-potatoes who are afraid to move off the sofa because they viscerally SEE effects of violence.
...This is part of Mind Control.
...Television hypnotizes viewers with flickering film bytes that keep the brain so busy, no independent thought is possible.
...Radio hypnotizes viewers with flickering sounds, in the same way.
...Schools teach conformity, sit still, only ask the correct questions, and study for the tests--not for self-reliance or broad knowledge--another form of Thought Control.
...Churches teach, "Do it OUR WAY because God said so." Never mind, that studied abstemiousness is a calculating ploy to dominate and control others.
...The realities of banking and money say, "Stay put; don't make waves; get a new credit report every three months and keep your credit grades up."
...Never mind, people need and want variety in their experiences. Never mind, that we have a desire to travel and see and experience and know MORE THAN what we can know by being immobilized--another form of Thought Control.
...We have adopted slavery to Mind Control and Violence, not because we wanted either one of these, but because we're so TIRED of resisting it all.
...Stop resisting. Just, turn it ALL OFF and listen to your own inner wisdom.
...Go stand in the yard in your bare feet and look up at the sky once more.
..."The meek shall inherit the earth, and they shall find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace."
...God has promised, and She is not a politician. She has no vested interest in controlling our experiences, only in thriving humanity over Time.
chaiyah_448272 created this Discussion on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 1:20 PM. Sent to Category: Social Change
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15 Jun 2002 @ 00:38, by alchemist. Activism
I feel that the factors of technological change and specialisation are causing protestors to face a growing array of causes to get involved in, encouraging a parallel, oppositional, form of specialisation (which I would call the 'one issue' syndrome). While these activists can generally only hope to effect change on a moderately superficial level - the underlying attitudes of those who dream up such nasties often remain untouched - for the time being their work is vitally important. More >
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6 Jun 2002 @ 17:38, by cho. Activism
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 11 May 2002 @ 00:04, by quidnovi. Activism
Sometimes as we are looking for words, it is the words that find us instead.
"THERE HAS TO BE MORE TO THE WORLD THAN THIS…"
Those words leapt at me out of NCN online journals as I was navigating the News Logs section today. More >
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