3.02 peace movements

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It is time to tell these parents that no-one is handsome in the uniform of brutality. It is time to tell them uniforms and ranks and medals have become ugly.

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Even for these now veteran activist eyes, it was a glorious and inspiring sight to see.

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The war in Lebanon has reinvigorated the Israeli peace movement with some very new elements.

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The failure to stop genocide once again is clear, and the outcome remains the same — the loss of hundreds of thousands of African lives as the world looks on.

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A massive campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience has brought the state government to a standstill.

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The US media has given far too little attention to the illegality of the war both under international law and US law.

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Where commands are no longer obeyed, the means of violence are of no use.

One hundred years ago, a mass meeting was convened in Johannesburg, South Africa by Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian lawyer outraged by the government’s proposal that Indians carry registration cards. “The Old Empire Theatre was packed from floor to ceiling,” Gandhi wrote. The group’s most important action was to pass a resolution saying they “solemnly determined not to submit to the Ordinance.”

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The Declaration of Peace is a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq.

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It is easier to protest the things we don’t like than to build the things we want.