3.05.06 social transformation

No More Soldiers, No More Wars: New Resources for Countering Military Recruitment

Authors: Janine Schwab

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An overview of recently published resources working against the militarization of our young people.

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You CAN Teach a Sneetch: Dr. Seuss and Conversations about Social Responsibility

Picture of Star-Bellied Sneetch with Snoot in the Air
Authors: Sam Diener

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While The Sneetches taught about the interaction between discrimination and capitalism, Horton Hears a Who is Dr. Seuss' exploration of genocide.

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Cultures of Peace: Reflections on the UN Declaration's First Decade

Authors: Michael True

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Don't Let those who Kill Turn Us into Killers: NH Legislator's Rejection of Vengeance Sways House

Ken Wiwa
Authors: Renny Cushing

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They took enough from me. I won't let them take away my values.

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Feminist Declaration: From the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala

Woman with microphone
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A good life must be based on an equal distribution of power.

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What’s up with the Violence?

Oakland, CA, January 14, 2009. A rally protesting the killing of Oscar Grant, a young African American supermarket worker, by an officer of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police. Only after more than a week of public protests was the officer arrested. photo &
Authors: Shamara Rhodes

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I think to myself, if so many teenagers
are dying now my whole generation of
teenagers is going to be gone by the
time I turn eighteen.

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Building on Afghanistan's Traditions of Peacemaking: An Interview with Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Authors: Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

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We're caught between warlords, drug lords, the government, international armies, and the Taliban.

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A People and a Poet: The Voice of Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in Amman, Jordan, February 2008. Photo: Jamal Nasrallah
Authors: Ibtisam Barakat

Summary:In the absence of home, Darwish turned language into a spacious tent -- for us and for all who needed a home.

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First Anniversary of the US Social Forum

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