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 
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.
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,
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
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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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 →
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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