Edited by Waging Nonviolence and posted on June 11, 2012 here. May 17 marked Women Occupying Wall Street’s (WOW) First Feminist General Assembly in New York, along with similar assemblies in Chicago and other Occupy sites nationwide. It also happened to be my 30th birthday. Everyone knows that when you pass to a new decade,… read more
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How Violence Protects the State
By Stephanie Van Hook (with gratitude for some very helpful comments from Michael Nagler and Tom Hastings. Distributed by Peace Voice.) “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.” ― Dorothy Day On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, he spoke passionately in a sermon… read more
