Expanding our concepts of pacifism
My blogging pal Wess Daniels wrote a provocative piece this week called When Peace Preserves Violence. It’s a great read and blows some much-needed holes in the self-satisfaction so many of us carry...
View ArticlePeace on Earth from 1939
An anti-war cartoon from MGM, with the grandfather voiced by Mel Blanc. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons). More on its Wikipedia page. Via Fredy Champagne, of the VFP...
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Remembering Juanita Nelson
One of the coolest activists of her (or any) generation is gone. Juanita Nelson’s obituary is up on the national war tax coalition’s site. My favorite Juanita story was when some agents came to arrest...
View ArticleThe PTSD of the suburban drone warrior
Something I’ve long wondered a lot about, As Stress Drives Off Drone Operators, Air Force Must Cut Flights.: What had seemed to be a benefit of the job, the novel way that the crews could fly Predator...
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Banishing the demons of war plank by rotten plank
In National Geographic, Jane Braxton Little writes about the restoration of one of the most storied protest boats of the twentieth century: The Golden Rule project is an improbable accomplishment by...
View ArticleIraq Ten Years Later: Some of Us Weren’t Wrong
Ten years ago today, U.S. forces began the “shock and awe” bombardment on Baghdad, the first shots of the second Iraq War. President Bush said troops needed to go in to disable Saddam Hussein’s weapons...
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Profiting on empire
We think of slavery as issue that tore Friends apart as the consensus on its acceptability shifted in our religious society. A review of a book shows that in the U.K., gun manufacturing underwent this...
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What Attracts Newcomers to Quaker Meeting?
From QuakerSpeak and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, a look at what attracts newcomers to Friends: I very much like for example the determination that says somebody believes in peace and has the guts to...
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In the New Yorker, an article on atheism leads with a Daniel Seeger’s 1965...
A review of two books on atheism starts with the take of Dan Seeger, who’s landmark Supreme Court case extended the right to conscientious objector status to agnostics and atheists: Daniel Seeger was...
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