I’m in a time when I find the complexity of the world’s ills to be more disabling than I like to admit. I know that I’m not alone in this. Cell meetings, peace talks, or any spontaneous conversation with a group of peace and justice-minded people can quickly digress into an airing-of-grievances session, where people [...]
Most of us who live in Philadelphia have heard about recent gatherings of young people being referred to as “flash mobs”. This term is being given to events as disparate as high-schoolers getting into an argument and fighting inside a Macy’s to a few thousand youth getting [...]
There is a long history of non-violent resistance in Palestine as well as in Israel. These movements rarely get the same media coverage as suicide bombers and tanks destroying houses. Recent participation in non-violent direct action by Fatah political leadership comes at a time of frustration and a loss of hope in violence and politics, [...]
“Sometimes, right after a guy is killed, you feel as if you are in possession of a terrible secret. He’s there on the ground, alive only a minute ago, and the only people who know he’s dead are standing right there by him. The rest of the world still thinks he’s still [...]