We Trust Them, a Nonviolent Accompaniment

by Lorin Peters
“Those who have believed in peace through the sword have not hesitated to die… They have laid down their lives by the millions. Why do we think that our way will be less costly? Unless we… are ready to start to die by the thousands in dramatic vigorous new exploits [...]

The Jasmine Pearls and Shanti Sena Communities

Around this time of the year –right before Christmas– a Big Man (BM) comes to a peaceful calm tea house, looks around and returns at closing time to rob it. A friend, who now works there, told me that a big man came earlier with a very unfriendly malicious look, used the bathroom way longer [...]

Spies to Undermine Movements: Love over Fear.

After I got an email, which was sent to a listserv, from a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley with the subject: Students as Spies: The Deep Politics of U.S.-Colombian Relations, I wrote this (edited)message, with the very valuable input from a few satyagrahis, and sent it to some students and workers [...]

Next Station: Rise Up! – Satyagraha and Howard Zinn

You can’t be neutral in a moving train.
That’s the title of Howard Zinn’s autobiography (1994) and the title only says it all. If we are on board of the train of greed, privatization and ignorance, aren’t we part of the ride? The time to stop the totalitarian-corporate-capitalistic train has come, and if it is not [...]

A Letter to K-12 Parents: California Public Schools in Crises

“Self-control, fearlessness and independence of thinking, these are the three tests of education. Only that country is educated where these three qualities find expression.” –Vinoba Bhave

This is a letter landed in many of our inboxes this morning. The movement to not save, but to transform public education is getting stronger. It is necessary to [...]