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• Passion Keeps The Peace

  November 23, 2009

  • The concept of peace has developed a connotation of resignation: of the absence of antagonistic action, the absence of war. Of pacifistic non-resistance. Yet heroes and techniques of peaceful protest are known for action: sit-ins, walk-outs, boycotts, hunger strikes, and so on. Our heroes of peace become known through the discussions they catalyze to promote understanding; the kind of ...
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• Revolutionary Retrospective

  November 12, 2009

  • What is revolution but a spark in the heart of man that spreads like wild fire? The cleansing burn of all that has withered and died, and of all that shields such waste from less drastic forms of renewal?     There comes a critical point of emergence from the chaotic vortext of past and future when one comes alive in the burning present, with no choice but to become the living urges that will ...
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