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Mirror Neurons

31 Aug 2009 in Definitions

Brain scientists at the University of Parma in the late 1980′s made an amazing discovery. They were using new, non-invasive technologies that enable scientists to detect the activity (‘firing’) of single neurons in the brains of, in this case, monkeys, and disovered a set of motor neurons that fire not only when the monkey performs [...]

Is This Really About Healthcare?

27 Aug 2009 in Feature&Metta Blog

Like many, I have been taken aback by the coarse violence — and effective organization — of the backlash against President Obama’s proposed healthcare package. The lying, shouting, and disruption of what might have been reasoned debates bodes ill for the political culture, and hence the political destiny, of this country. During the neoconservative hysteria [...]

Peace is Recruiting!

19 Aug 2009 in Around the Movement

Nonviolent Peaceforce, the unarmed professional peace service that is carrying forward the dream of Gandhi’s Shanti Sena (‘Peace Army) worldwide, is now recruiting for its interventionary work in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. To download the application, go to this link.

A Tale of Two Worldviews

16 Jun 2009 in Newsletter

by Michael Nagler
In the discourse that plays itself out on the nation’s bumper stickers there is a ‘dialogue’ (or at least a face-off) between two messages. The first, and more familiar, is GOD SAVE AMERICA — not too prominent in West Marin, but we’ve all seen some. The other is the reaction: GOD SAVE [...]

The Adventure that is Metta

16 Jun 2009 in Newsletter

by Michael Nagler
One of the things we’ve been saying and hearing about us lately is that what we are is as significant as what we do. Not that we’d find it easy to define what we are as a group; but it’s worth a try because the way people are forming new associations today [...]