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Whom did you discriminate against today and whom did you empower?
Archive for June, 2010
Who did you empower today - how did you do it?
Feel free to answer by making a comment (just click on the title
'Small things to keep...' above this text - there you can also read my comment as well ;) ). And you can also read comments of others - you do not have to login for writing your own comments :D
Nonviolence at home and in politics - a very interesting speech - good to listen to.
Nonviolence as Defense by Gene Sharp, a researcher and vocal advocate of nonviolence.
He is more the pragmatist, focusing on how to do things instead of how to first change minds ;) Still, a lot of useful and interesting things, he says...
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Money expenditure for arms and military definitely has to go down for peace to rise! The SIPRI Institute (a peace research institute) in Stockholm published the latest numbers and they do not look good, so lots of work there for us!
To quote their recent trend analysis:
"World military expenditure is estimated to have been $1531 billion in 2009—a real-terms increase of 6 per cent over 2008 and of 49 per cent since 2000. This corresponded to 2.7 per cent of world gross domestic product (GDP) and $224 for each person in the world."
one of my favourite training part.
Wall between Palestine / Israel (Bethlehem)
On the aforcemorepowerful webapge you can download a study guide which goes through several nonviolent struggles in the last 150 years. Chile, Poland, Denmark, India and Southafrica are shortly explained (each on very easily readable two pages ;) with pictures :D ) and tasks you could probably give to participants as well ;)
http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/films/pdfs/studyGuide-en.pdf
First start with the inside life sustainability mediated by the life we digest and how it 'shapes' us - if you remember that needs are rooted mostly in our bodies, what we eat and how we treat our bodies by food has a large part of fulfilling or neglecting our basic needs with deadly consequences:
As always, if you have something to share (this was as well shared with me ;) ), then please share the link in the comments!
Another video follows once you read the whole article...
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What to do as a camp coordinator in relation to different expectations from and towards our co-camp coordinators, participants, SCI-branch and locals...
Hey there,
just to share a link to a webpage, that gives music for free, made by quite good artists mostly (but none from the mainstream) - www.jamendo.com
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