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December 2009 Blog Posts (7)

Non-Violence for Tibetan and Uighurs

July 6th, 2009 in Shanghai, I and my American colleague were having dinner at a uighur restaurant close to office after work. The owner and the waiters greeted us with their usual hospitality. The young Muslim gave us the innocent smile as he took away our orders. It was quiet in the restaurant. We were the only customers there, waiters were had nothing to do but gathered in front of the TV set watching China's central television channel's report on the riot in Xinjiang just about 24 hours ago.… Continue

Added by Chenyin Pan on December 26, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Down-Size of the City and Laid-Off of Its Workers

If Rodger & Me still can only brought the slightest compassion and concern from audiences in America, let alone an outsider like me from China, then Michael Moore did a great job in The Big One made in 1998 which really drove home many issues regarding corporations, capitalism and even city dynamics. "Save our jobs!" was only the outcry from some hill-billy Ozarks when Wall Street was bullish. Globalization was the buzzword at the time and who the hell care about how those rednecks doing in… Continue

Added by Chenyin Pan on December 26, 2009 at 10:39am — No Comments

Clarence Jones Huffington Post article on Obama's Nobel speech

Clarence B. Jones, Dr. King's former counsel, advisor, and speechwriter and Scholar in Residence at the King Institute wrote the following article in Huffington Post (pasted below with Mr. Jones' permission). Here is the link to the original article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clarence-b-jones/pragmatism-vs-principal_b_387291.html.

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"There is one very pregnant… Continue

Added by Ashni Mohnot on December 14, 2009 at 4:15pm — 2 Comments

President Obama remembers Gandhi and King at Oslo- Yet another inspiring speech

President Obama makes it yet again- An inspiring speech at Oslo as an acceptance speech for receiving the coveted Nobel Prize. I was glued to my TV as he rendered his speech.

The text of his speech is available in the net. I read it at :

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-44627820091210>;

He has mentioned about his Guru King and about Gandhi during the course of his… Continue

Added by P. Uday Shankar on December 10, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Arun Gandhi's Thought

I would like to discuss the following two quotes from Arun Gandhi:

Arun Gandhi said: "You can quote me as saying Mahatma Gandhi would disagree with the Plowshares actions because they employ tactics of secrecy and destruction of property. I also think locking up the most courageous and devoted peace leaders for long prison terms is a way of weakening the peace movement. Those leaders could do much more for peace outside of jail than in it." ( The Jesus Journal - Summer 1995 - No. 77… Continue

Added by William F. Horan Jr. on December 8, 2009 at 10:45am — No Comments

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

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Added by sushil yadav on December 6, 2009 at 10:31pm — No Comments

As teh Cookie Grumbles

I opened several personalized fortune cookies that got me thinking that my short term health may be in jeopardy unless I get serious about taking my probiotic supplements and… Continue

Added by Lincoln Builds on December 1, 2009 at 8:40pm — No Comments