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Tag: Civil disobedience

  • The Antidote to Despair

    We are living at a time of historical significance. We feel it in our bones, and it relentlessly gnaws at our consciousness. The familiar is rapidly unraveling. The transition to whatever is to come is disquieting and disorienting, and we don’t know how to respond. We cannot grasp these events because the ethical codes of […]

  • Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban

    On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct participation in the commission of genocide and war crimes across the Middle East.” This was deemed so horrible as to draw the […]

  • The People’s Champion: Howard Zinn

    Go to school, but don’t become an educated dummy. — Eddie Zinn to son Howard when he was a boy, Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left Labor Day is a good time to pay tribute to the late Howard Zinn, a rebel historian who broke with the tedious orthodoxy of “patriotic” history to tell […]

  • Haass’s Ten Civic Obligations Need Facilities to Address Abuses of Power

    A friend just gave me a book by Richard N. Haass with the intriguing title, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens. Mr. Haass is a self-described member of the establishment – in his words “people and institutions that have often been vilified and blamed for the failures of democracy.” Having worked in […]

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