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Category Archives: Peace and Justice

Open Bethlehem: the campaign to free an occupied city

Every Christmas this site has focused upon Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ, historically a beautifully polyglot community where Christians, Muslims and Jews coexisted peacefully before the founding of Israel in 1948. … Continue reading

21 December, 2007 · 3 Comments

A Christmas Reflection on Palestine by Sonja Karkar

Sonja Karkar is founder of Women for Palestine and her writing has been featured at Counterpunch, Electronic Intifada and many other good alternative press sites. Picture credits: Banksy and Polyp. … Continue reading

21 December, 2007 · 9 Comments

A worthwhile grassroots campaign to defund the war

Please click on image to visit the website and consider joining this excellent campaign

3 December, 2007 · Leave a comment

US Marine’s powerful testimony about invasion and occupation of Iraq

Thank you, Matt Howard, for courageously speaking up and speaking out against abuses in Iraq. Matt attained the rank of corporal in the United States Marine Corps and is head … Continue reading

15 November, 2007 · 5 Comments

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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