Choose Democracy: the case for a Nonviolent Version of the Story [Look for “All You Fascists Bound to Lose” at the end of this post] Every day we’re waking up to something scary. Our scale for rating scary keeps adding more numbers to the top of the graph as we come to terms with the… Continue reading The Dawn After the Election Storm… Really
Ordinary People Save Their Country? If We Hurry
There are so many examples of politics gone bad floating around, and lots of anxiety about what the outcome of this election will be. One thing we know. Elections are turning points. Especially this one. We all feel a need to take action but there’s a lot of uncertainty about what to do. Sometimes it’s… Continue reading Ordinary People Save Their Country? If We Hurry
1000 Americans showed up last night to stop a coup
Many things may go wrong around the election next month. One that’s the hovering over our heads like a carrion bird is that one candidate says he’ll refuse to leave office no matter what the election result is. And evidence mounts that he’s taken steps to put that idea into action. Waging Nonviolence is a… Continue reading 1000 Americans showed up last night to stop a coup
Defending democracy where it was born
Right here. In the United States. Ok, democracy is not a perfect system, but it’s acknowledged to be the best system we have so far, and most of us want to keep it. Those who don’t are not choosing the side of humanity in this struggle for a future with hope, so they aren’t the… Continue reading Defending democracy where it was born
Pondering conversations with Trump voters
This isn’t what I want to be thinking about this week. I’d rather think about transformational networks. But this article came up that – to me – answers a question lots of us have been wrangling over. How to understand the Trump voters in our lives and our communities. This blog writer has a perspective I was longing for. He called it a “White coming …. “
Peace events from Joseph Gerson
Well-known peace researcher and activist Joseph Gerson presents two events to keep peace work alive in hard times. Check these out please! October 4, Humor for Humanity Register to Attend October 6, Defending Democracy Purchase Tickets (More information about these events below) Joseph Gerson says: Friends, These are anxious times, but hope is alive and… Continue reading Peace events from Joseph Gerson
Where’s Gandalf?
Or, are progressives in NWA nervous about their neighbors? This week I got an email from an Omni friend who lives on Beaver Lake. Boaters for Trump have taken over the quiet cove where she lives, and since her yard has one of the few “Biden-Harris” signs in the neighborhood, they focus a lot of… Continue reading Where’s Gandalf?
It happens here (but it doesn’t have to)
This story comes out of all the stuff happening in Portland over the last many months. Anti-racism protests in their 91st day are raging on, and local business owners are furious at the mayor for not stopping it. The federal police are gone, but the local police are still violent with the mostly-young protesters out… Continue reading It happens here (but it doesn’t have to)
What was the moment it all turned? And is it a dead end?
Thanksgiving dinner was very strange last year. For some reason my family couldn’t gather, and there was this tiny cluster of us having a meal together while the rest of the tribe ended up celebrating somewhere else. In retrospect it had an ominous feel to it. But it wasn’t the only strange thing happening in… Continue reading What was the moment it all turned? And is it a dead end?
Scary election simulation compared to Black Lives Matter
A war-game exercise simulating the 2020 election unmasks some key vulnerabilities …compared to Black Lives Matter I’m not saying all is lost. I’m just reading the same news you are and coming to terms with what we’re up against if we want to stay free and democratic. This article from Atlantic really got my attention.… Continue reading Scary election simulation compared to Black Lives Matter