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Published in: TransformationFrom Baghdad to Syracuse: exposing the reality of war
Persistent, public truth-telling is essential for an end to militarism and violence.
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Published in: TransformationPope Francis and the nonviolent shift
The message is simple. We want to take care of the earth, stop killing others, and start rebuilding the world so...
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Published in: TransformationSay it like it is
We can’t live with other people and we can’t live with ourselves. (Video: 3 minutes).
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Published in: TransformationHow do we resist in a world that’s awash in fear?
Fear may never disappear, but we can make it ineffective as a means of power and control.
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Published in: TransformationI take my orders from 23-year-old queer women
A leading activist pastor speaks about the emerging face of civil rights leadership in 21st century America.
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Published in: TransformationWould you bulldoze your own temple?
"We are our land and our land is us." Hawaiians stand for a mountain.
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Published in: TransformationTo succeed, movements must overcome the tension between rationality and emotion
Avoiding conflict disempowers those who suffer oppression. We have to develop the muscles to fight for our own liberation.
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Published in: TransformationThe sacredness of working to end white supremacy: a conversation with Rev. Anne Dunlap
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, white people are coming to consciousness about white supremacy and...
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Published in: TransformationI’m out of prison but I’m still not free: the continuing struggles of the Y-12 Three
Three peace activists followed by openDemocracy have been released from jail, but their work against nuclear weapons goes on.
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Published in: TransformationFreedom Side’s emerging radical democratic imagination
A new coalition of young activists of color is emerging under Black Lives Matter. (4,000 words)
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Published in: TransformationHow to decolonize your yoga practice
The practices westerners now turn to for alternative health were intentionally eradicated from India under colonial rule.
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Published in: TransformationArms companies are making money by taking over UK schools
Europe's largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, has applied to sponsor the failing Furness Academy. The reason is profit.
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Published in: TransformationThe true miracle of Óscar Romero
The memory of martyrs is exalted, but to what purpose?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySafe migration as an emerging anti-trafficking agenda?
Safe migration has become a way for anti-trafficking organisations to re-articulate how a concern with labour...
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Published in: TransformationRebuilding the divided city of Caracas
Meet the artists who are tactically intervening to bring together poor communities in Caracas.
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Published in: TransformationMeet the new group that wants to disarm and displace the NYPD
'Disarm NYPD' is a new collective seeking to immediately stop the New York Police Department from killing anyone ever again.
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Published in: TransformationThe flute at the checkpoint: music and confinement in Palestine
Ramzi Aburedwan fulfilled his dream of opening children's music schools up across Palestine - but he still doesn't...
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Published in: TransformationThe problem with wanting 'peace' in Baltimore
You can watch police get away with murder after murder and not take a stand, and you would be 'not violent'.
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Published in: TransformationMeet the musicians challenging India's rising inequality and untouchability
"Our role is to counter injustice with justice and healing, war with peace, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
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Published in: TransformationThe miserable cynic's guide to mindfulness
If unhappiness is the human condition, what's the point of mindfulness?