…down-on-their-luck, the hurt and abused. We have demonstrated our compassion for one another through insisting that our politicians institute these social programs. We have stood up for one another by…
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…mobilized people in all 50 states to partake in 250 actions Sept 21-27th. In 2015, they will mobilize for 1,000 nonviolent actions to end all forms of violence and build…
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…go through the Fire Crossing that will trade your monthly blood for the heat that burns away your foolishness and makes you smart like me. If you’re lucky, you’ll live…
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…each hand. If she hurried, she’d beat the long line and return in time for school. She was lucky. Her family apartment was close. Other students, Halimah and Laela, had…
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…(that never occurred) was Senator Benigno Aquino, who was imprisoned and sentenced to death. He spent seven years in prison before being released to the United States for treatment for…
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…from his ashram with seventy-eight satyagrahis (people trained in nonviolence and committed to the movement). The march traveled 390 kilometers through four districts and forty-eight villages, raising awareness and participation…
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…mysteries of the world. After teenage years spent drunk with the beauty of the Earth instead of alcohol with highschool friends, I moved to California for a seven-year sojourn of…
Read more »…seventeen years old when the first Liberian Civil War erupted, throwing the region into violence and chaos. In spring of 2002, after falling asleep in her office one night, she…
Read more »…laws. In Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, and Baltimore, citizens demanded direct control of police departments. After two hundred and seventy-five years of the representative republic, corporate dictatorship, and hierarchal domination at…
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…suffrage leader Alice Paul encountered during her earlier arrest: “On October 20th, Alice Paul was arrested and sentenced to seven months in prison. She, like many of the other women,…
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