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This week marks the 42nd anniversary of Selma’s Bloody Sunday march, where State Troopers and Sheriffs brutally attacked a crowd of peaceful marchers in the full glare of the national media. For the first time, really, the brutality of the segregationist movement was put on display for the country on March 7, 1965, and in stark contrast, the pacifism
Ian Robinson is a columnist for the Calgary Sun, and today he weighed in on his Remembrance Day yesterday, expressing his gratitude that he didn’t run into anyone wearing a white poppy. While I agree in general with his opinion that selling or we…
What happened on Sept 11, 1906- The Times of India
I was remiss this week, on the anniversary of 9/11. Like the rest of the world, I focused on the events from 2001, perhaps with good cause given the proximity in time. But I should also have made mention of what is, essentially, the […]
Satyagraha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Satyagraha
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Over the weekend I caught a program I’ve seen many times before, on the Biography Channel, the biography of Mohandas K Gandhi. I’ve always admired…
On 3/30/06, myxtplkn wrote:
I have posted it before and it never seems to take–killing innocent people that are not armed and the taking of hostages that are innocent and then threatening to kill them or killing them and then equating that to innocents killed accidentally does not excuse or cancel out the killing human […]
