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Co-op on the march: a little insurrection of good taste

January 27, 2012
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Co-op on the march: a little insurrection of good taste

I am the loose tea buyer at my local food coop. Oh, stop—it’s not as glamorous as it sounds. All I do is maintain an inventory of about 30 kinds of teas—black, green, herbal and medicinal. I am learning as I go, since coffee (black, hot and copious) is my beverage of choice. The teas

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Egyptians protest military rule, Polish demonstrate against ACTA, Kyrgyz prisoners on hunger strike

January 27, 2012
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Egyptians protest military rule, Polish demonstrate against ACTA, Kyrgyz prisoners on hunger strike

Egyptian activist groups on Thursday launched an open-ended strike in Cairo to pressure the country’s military rulers  to expedite the transfer of power to an elected civilian  administration, a day after 100,000 Egyptians came out to Tahrir Square to mark the anniversary of the first massive protest that led to the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak.

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A Mid-Winter Romanian Spring?

January 27, 2012
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A Mid-Winter Romanian Spring?

The Romanian people have been asleep for quite some time now. After more than 20 years since the end of Communist rule, Romanians have decided to wake up, to wake up and see that the faith they put in their elected officials has not brought them the life they wished for. The current economic crisis,

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Thomas Merton, now more than ever

January 26, 2012
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Thomas Merton, now more than ever

Fifty years ago Thomas Merton was doing everything in his power to sound the alarm about the peril of nuclear apocalypse. Merton, a Catholic monk best known at the time for his many books of contemplative spirituality, poetry, and compelling autobiographical reflection, had suddenly taken the full measure of the atomic threat in 1961. Between

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How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’

January 26, 2012
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How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’

While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after

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Webinar: Building the World We Want

January 25, 2012
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Building the World We Want from metta center on Vimeo. An interactive webinar about Gandhian constructive programme, spiritual activism and nonviolence. Begins with a short description of the work of Metta. Q and A follows webinar. Please contact us: info@mettacenter.org with questions or suggestions.   return to metta’s home page

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Occupy Wall Street Port Shutdowns and the ILWU

January 25, 2012
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Occupy Wall Street Port Shutdowns and the ILWU

By Jon Agnone On the heels of a round of crackdowns against Occupy Wall Street (OWS) encampments across the country, the movement turned their attention to shutting down the “economic engines for the elite” through a coordinated shutdown of West … Continue reading

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China faces choice between political reform or regression

January 25, 2012
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Damien Ma, The Atlantic, January 23, 2012The Jasmine Revolution, Arab Spring, increasing civil disobedience, and pluralism in social media, are manifestations of peaceful evolution. Unusually public campaigns for political office appear to be fundament...

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People power politics in the new Arab world

January 25, 2012
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment, January 23, 2012The new Arab world created by the people power movements of 2012 is not suddenly Sweden. No one should have expected it to be. The Arab world had been stuck in a stagnating rut, of dictatorship, family carte...

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Nigeria: The roots and routes of resistance

January 25, 2012
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Matt Meyer, Waging Nonviolence, January 23, 2012No revolutionary can precisely determine or accurately predict which last straw will be the one to break the back of any given despot. Many differing and sometimes divergent tactics and strategies and org...

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Truth & Spin

January 25, 2012
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Truth & Spin

When I was in high school, I sang in our church choir. As a preachers kid, I was generally rebellious about church activities. But I didn't mind the choir because I liked singing, and besides, there was some camaraderie in the group that made it enjoya...

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Civic mobilization spreads eastwards in Europe

January 25, 2012
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Zoltan Dujisin, IPS News, January 20, 2012Protests in Hungary and Romania are the first signs of anti-systemic mobilisation in the Eastern half of the continent. While protests in both countries indicate dissatisfaction with their governments’ author...

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