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January 2010 Blog Posts (7)

The Charter for Compassion

Latest news from the Charter:

http://archives.subscribermail.com/msg/6489d17497fc410e80e1f53c33025f7a.htm

Added by Adrian Gilpin on January 18, 2010 at 11:46am — No Comments

A Few Thoughts as MLK Day is Around

As Martin Luther King Day is 2 days away, I’m sitting here in the corner of the Starbucks Café, watching the flow of the passengers and cars outside in the cold. My thoughts have lost in my trip up north to Northeastern during the Thanksgiving last year. It was a trip that supposed to trace back Malcolm X’s life.

I went to the Roxbury out of the belief that the historically predominant black neighborhood still immersed in the Jazz, in all the accounts described by Alex Haley, and… Continue

Added by Chenyin Pan on January 17, 2010 at 5:59am — No Comments

INVITATION: The Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence...

Greetings from Atlanta: City of Peace.

Happy New Year to Gandhi-King Proponents...

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Good news... Another anniversary of "The Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence" approaches. The dates for this global initiative are: January 30 - April 4, 2010. These dates coincide with the death of Gandhi (January 30, 1948) and also the death of Dr. King (April 4, 1968). Plus, here is an interesting observation... Coretta Scott King also died on the SAME… Continue

Added by John R. Naugle on January 14, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

AHIMSA DAY LECTURES-II

An Indraprastha College 85th Anniversary Event

Friday 29th Jan 2010, 11a.m - 3 p.m

IP College Auditorium

31 Shamnath Marg, Delhi - 110054

Metro: “Civil Lines”

11a.m - 12.30pm

Principal Babli Moitra Saraf will preside

Speakers:

* Purushottam Agrawal, writer, critic

‘एक अहिंसक आधुनिकता की ओर’

Towards A Non-Violent Modernity

* Amita Baviskar, sociologist

Good To Eat - Gandhi And The… Continue

Added by Akshay Bakaya on January 12, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Always Learning

In some areas ultrasound parts, surgical instruments and supplies are on hand for angioplasty or brain surgery procedures. In other areas, people cannot ever get something as simple as clean drinking water. Recently, we heard about a… Continue

Added by lee w on January 9, 2010 at 10:01pm — No Comments

UN Culture of Peace: World Report Invites YOU...

Greetings from Atlanta: City of Peace.

Happy New Year to Gandhi-King Proponents...

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Good news... Dr. David Adams, is the director of the United Nations International Year for the Culture of Peace. He and his team are inviting peace groups from around the Earth to register and enter their report online. You may go directly to the site with this link:

http://decade-culture-of-peace.org

Or, please see the copy of his email… Continue

Added by John R. Naugle on January 9, 2010 at 7:55am — No Comments

Question about Class Struggle

Just a premature thought that haunting in my mind, about the class struggle. As you may know that I'm currently reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, through author's narrative about the US history from the perspective of Native Indians, black slaves instead of European settlers, white indenture servants instead of rich plantationers, ordinary citizens instead of politician superstars, factory workers instead of business tycons, I gained a new insight in interpreting… Continue

Added by Chenyin Pan on January 8, 2010 at 9:05pm — No Comments