greenfyre
male, 108 |
Organizer/Activist
Ottawa / Canada
member since 03.08.2003
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Sorry folks, but it is clear that flork is not going to work in my life any more. I have been putting this off thinking that things would calm down and I could get back here more regularly, but it just is not happening. All the best and take care ...
If you need to find me try http://www.facebook.com/profile.php? NOSPACE id=636256200
My Heart is moved by all I cannot save
so much has been destroyed.
I have to cast my lot with those who age to age
perversely and with no extraordinary power
reconstitute the world
- Adrienne Rich: The Fact of a Doorframe'
http://www.resurgence.org/ NOSPACE 2006/chomsky237.htm
Be sure to read the caption
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt
Enjoy grass roots social justice activism/organizing, gardening, cooking, eating, literature (classic, modern, post-modern)(serious bibliophiliac actually), music (classical, rock, metal, folk, etc) zen, nature (hiking, camping), poetry, travel, Go, some sports, history, philosophy, u.s.w. - it just goes on and on.
For most I have very broad tastes - eg cooking includes asian, african, latin, caribbean, usw.
http://www.blairingbush.fsworld.co.uk/ (no space) peacequotes1.html
FAQs : I am eating garlic & blackbean eggplant, & tofu with shitake mushroons (and I know I am holding the chopsticks "wrong");
- I organize & teach everything from group skills workshops to civil disobedience;
- also vegetarian;
- gandhian nonviolent;
- & no, I do not want to argue with you - thanks ;-)
"[people like Rosa Parks and Dorothy Day]...understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by acting and speaking on the outside in ways not consonant with what we know to be true on the inside."
Parker J. Palmer
"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece.
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Also: "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace." Benjamin Franklin
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living." General Omar Bradley
"Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals." Also: "I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war." Ammon Hennacy
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