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I don't usually post other people's work, but this study is important to those who study nonviolence.

http://www.progressive.org/mag/wxap103008.html

Nonviolence Is The Right Choice—It Works

By Amitabh Pal, October 30, 2008

Nonviolent resistance is not only the morally superior choice. It is also twice as effective as the violent variety.

That's the startling and reassuring discovery by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth, who analyzed an astonishing 323 resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006.… Continue

Micheal Nagler, author of "The Search for a Nonviolent Future" and founder of the Metta Center (mettacenter.org), has provided some valuable insight into the use of nonviolence in the complex scenario faced by the citizens of Iraq. He has requested that his short video interview be transcribed into Arabic.

If you are interested you can learn more at the Metta Center, Urgent Invitation for Arabic speakers to support Nonviolent Activists In Iraq!

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Iraq just completed it's third annual week of Nonviolence. This update came to me
from the September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows. I find it very
encouraging but realize they have a long road ahead. May we all stand in
solidarity with these brave people and they engage in nonviolent struggle.

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Before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, women played many
important roles in Iraqi society. Despite the horrors of Saddam's
rule, women's rights were g… Continue

I'm felt compelled to post Father Zabelka's speech as a follow-up to my previous post. I hope that his words can reach out to the hearts of the Chirstian community, and call them back to Christ. Like Gandhi, I like Christ, it's the Christians that pain me. Father George saw how the US Government was manipulating and brainwashing christians then, and the same is true today. What I don't understand is why the churches don't put a stop to it from the pulpits - why they are so fast to embrace ideas… Continue

I'm over half way through Gandhi's autobiography, "The Story of my Experiments with Truth", which is available in pdf on the web at http://www.forget-me.net/en/Gandhi/autobiography.pdf

What has struck me over and over again is his continuing effort to gain control of mind and body through bramacharya vows (celibacy), changes in diet, and changes in lifestyle. Gandhi was Hindu, but only after doing an extensive evaluation of other world religions including Christianity and Islam. He discusses hi… Continue