Peace
Brian Willson, a profile in pacifist courage at the Awareness Film Festival
October 19, 2017“In America, if you say ‘Brian Wilson,’ people think the Beach Boys, but in Nicaragua if you say ‘Brian Willson,’ people think of the peace activist."
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“100,000 Poets for Change” celebrated in Oakland
October 10, 2017For the seventh year in a row, poets, artists, musicians, writers, and playwrights working for a sustainable world come together.
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Germany: Nazis in Bundestag, Merkel stays, SPD collapses, Left Party gains
September 24, 2017Major media the world over said the German elections would be boring. When the polls closed, it was clear they could not have been more wrong.
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This week in history: September 21 is World Peace Day
September 18, 2017In 1982, the United Nations General Assembly declared, in a resolution sponsored by the United Kingdom and Costa Rica, the International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day, to be devoted to commemorating...
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Republican Senate leadership unable to scuttle debate on U.S. wars
September 13, 2017Rand Paul, libertarian and one-time GOP presidential hopeful, threatened to paralyze the Senate unless Mitch McConnell allowed debate on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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