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Just wanted to spread news of this wonderful initiative by a Stanford Education PhD student to promote peace in the Middle East through mobile technology that delivers a stories curriculum. Check out the article pasted below and find the original online here: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/may/mideast-peace-technology-052710.html… Continue

Peace and Social Justice educators may be interested in

Planning to Change the World, a plan book for social justice teachers published by NYCoRE and the Education for Liberation Network. You can order the book here:

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9780942961904 .…

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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

Recently, I attended a Wednesday evening meditation session run by Charity Focus (http://www.charityfocus.org/new/) in the Bay Area. While meditation is often followed by discussion of a passage, they hosted a speaker instead - Mahendra Meghani, a translator, editor, bookseller, and publisher. He is a Gandhian, son of a Gujarati poet Jhaverchand Meghani who was named by Gandhi as the national poet of India.



Mr. Mahendra Meghani's bio and a note on his innovative publishing… Continue