Once you start looking into a particular liberation framework, pacifism in this case, you find more leaders and movements that you could have imagined. Right now I am thinking about Dave Dellinger and Dorothy Day as two great leaders in this revolutionary nonviolence area. They may not be as well known as Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi but they have certainly had great progressive influence in terms of their revolutionary ideas about nonviolence as well as their revolutionary practice.
In the case of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement you also have a form of liberation theology or revolutionary theology. In this case, revolutionary nonviolence and revolutionary theology overlap or intersect. We should read through the writings of these great practitioners and thinkers in the area of revolutionary nonviolence. I hope to hear from those who have read some of these writings and want to share what they discovered.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
OBAMA ELECTION RESULT OF NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE
It was a moving day, to see so many coming to Washington D. C.. so many thirsting for justice and so many hoping that Obama will lead the United States and the world in a more progressive direction.
Obama may be too chummy with some rightists for comfort but he certainly was friendly to gays and lesbians in the ceremonies. Has he abolished "don't ask, don't tell" yet?
Obama recognized and said we have to deal with global warming by stopping it. That is a revolution of sorts, if he really means it and I see no reason to question his conviction at this time.
Obama is well informed and intelligent, a leader capable of writing his own speeches. This is a man who is intellectually and philosophically qualified to be President. What do I mean by philosophically qualified?
Despite his often religious rhetoric he doesn't seem to think he is personally communicating with a major deity on a daily basis. This suggests we will have a less insane White House!
This blog starts on this January 20, 2009, a day that Martin Luther King and millions of other oppressed did not live to see, but what a glorious day. Now that it has come we offer up our words of thanks to all that struggled for justice and equality before us and pledge, we will continue this struggle to the end, complete worldwide human liberation. Obama's election and the people rallying behind him are just the beginning of a
great revolutionary upsurge in the United State, the Americas and the world.
Obama may be too chummy with some rightists for comfort but he certainly was friendly to gays and lesbians in the ceremonies. Has he abolished "don't ask, don't tell" yet?
Obama recognized and said we have to deal with global warming by stopping it. That is a revolution of sorts, if he really means it and I see no reason to question his conviction at this time.
Obama is well informed and intelligent, a leader capable of writing his own speeches. This is a man who is intellectually and philosophically qualified to be President. What do I mean by philosophically qualified?
Despite his often religious rhetoric he doesn't seem to think he is personally communicating with a major deity on a daily basis. This suggests we will have a less insane White House!
This blog starts on this January 20, 2009, a day that Martin Luther King and millions of other oppressed did not live to see, but what a glorious day. Now that it has come we offer up our words of thanks to all that struggled for justice and equality before us and pledge, we will continue this struggle to the end, complete worldwide human liberation. Obama's election and the people rallying behind him are just the beginning of a
great revolutionary upsurge in the United State, the Americas and the world.
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