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Category Archives: Civil disobedience

Brother of the Fist: The Passing of Peter Norman

Peter Norman’s recent passing received some muted coverage here in Australia and I’m proud of what this man stood for in solidarity with Tommie Smith and John Carlos. These two … Continue reading

15 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Conscientious objection lives

Refuseniks: IDF employs apartheid regime High school seniors hang banners from Tel Aviv highway bridges, refuse to serve in IDF, contribute to occupation *See also Demonstrators: Refuse to be soldiers … Continue reading

8 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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