News tagged with “nonviolence”. Found:
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To beat or not to beat?
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 1 day ago
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So when the country’s interior minister said citizens can hit back at the police, some in the country accused him of being a Pharisee.
Tags: Moscow, told rt, Burkina Faso, Lon, Human Interest, Law Crime, Turning the other cheek, Morality, Interior ministry, Women in jazz, Criminology, Crimes, Saxuality, Criminal law, National security, Surveillance, Nonviolence, Candy Dulfer, Water, Disinfectants, Christian pacifism, Public safety, Water treatment, Antiseptics, Hydrides, Police, Law enforcement, Sodium hypochlorite, Water pollution, Hans Dulfer, Security
The Dead End Quest for Peace
Jerusalem :: Israel | 2 days ago
Credibility Chamberlain and a sizable portion of the English electorate were certain that Hitler wanted peace and all that was needed was for everyone to sit down around a table, make some compromises (at someone else’s expense if possible) and everyone could go...
Tags: Israelis, Anti-Israeli, Egyptian, Obama, visits israel, Israel, Jerusalem, Arab Peace Initiative, Politics, Personal life, Pacifism, Arab-Israeli conflict, Peace, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nonviolence
Kathryn M. Schroeder
Hillsboro :: OR :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Schroeder, 102, died Nov. 24, 2009, at Parkside Nursing Home, Hillsboro. She was born March 11, 1907, in Reno County, the daughter of Abraham M. and Sarah Thiessen Dick...She moved to Hillsboro in 2001, formerly of rural Inman. She was a faithful member...
Tags: Buhler Mennonite Brethren Church, Buhler High School, Hillsboro, Kathryn M. Schroeder, Parkside Nursing Home, Simple living, Dutch diaspora, Buhler Kansas, Human Interest, Mennonitism, Nonviolence, Mennonite
Conflict Transformed? The start of a debate ,
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 3 days ago
Credibility We were elated at the astonishing impact of ‘people-power’, which had already shown its strength in the overthrow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, amazing the world with images of euphoric crowds blocking tanks and nuns offering flowers...
Tags: conflict transformers, conflict resolution, Diana Francis, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Dispute resolution, Politics, Pacifism, Ethnic conflict, Peace, Conflict, Nonviolence, War Conflict, Democratic peace theory
Lives Lived: Russell Jorgensen
Nairobi :: Kenya | 4 days ago
Credibility A memorial service will be held Saturday, Nov. 28, at 4 p.m. at St...Mr. Jorgensen embraced Quaker worship and the way of the Society of Friends at an early age and integrated them into his life's work, family and community. He was a man with strong convictions,...
Tags: Nevada City, Mr. Jorgensen, California, Kenya, Nairobi, American Friends Service Committee, Nonviolence, Nevada
Rural targets
Toronto :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility But while the focus is on urban centres like Ciudad Juarez, rural communities have also felt the effects first hand. "They have murdered Mennonite people the drug-traffickers," says Abraham Peters, a 66-year-old retired rancher, who hails from the Protestant...
Tags: Mexico, Chihuahua, Mr Peters, Canada, Toronto, Simple living, Mennonite, Nonviolence, Benjamin LeBaron, Plautdietsch, Mennonitism, Germanic peoples, Peace churches
Demonstration at UC Santa Cruz ends peacefully
Santa Cruz :: Bolivia | 6 days ago
Credibility Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest. Campus spokesman Jim Burns says the nearly 70 or so protesters who had occupied the...
Tags: UC Santa Cruz, UC-Santa Cruz, University of California, Kerr Hall, occupy building, fees hike, graduate students, tuition hike, administrative building, Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Weather Underground Organization, Students for a Democratic Society, Kevin Rudd, Nonviolence, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Mark Rudd, Education, Protests, Civil disobedience, Santa Cruz California, Protests against the Iraq War, Political riots, University of California Davis, University of California Santa Cruz, Tuition, Religion Belief, Clark Kerr
Religious leaders vow civil disobedience
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility More than 150 leaders across a spectrum of conservative Christianity on Friday released a 4,700-word document vowing civil disobedience if they are forced to take part in "anti-life acts" or bless gay marriages. Called the "Manhattan Declaration," the...
Tags: civil disobedience, Washington, Charles Colson, Donald Wuerl, Abortifacient, Nonviolence, Community organizing, Social Issues, Religion Belief
JR and Fern Yoder
Hutchinson :: KS :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Trail West Road, Hutchinson, and enjoyed a Western States Tour this summer. JR and the former Fern Yoder were married Nov. 26, 1959, in Garnett. He retired from custodial work, and she retired from cooking at the Elreka and Partridge grade schools. He...
Tags: Fern Yoder Ezra JR, Hutchinson, Mennonite, Nonviolence, Yoder, Hospitality Recreation, Amish, Mennonitism, Dutch diaspora
Canada to review soldier's asylum
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility A Canadian court on Friday ordered the country's refugee board to review the rejected asylum application of a lesbian US soldier who claimed her sexual orientation had prompted death threats...Smith's request for discharge from the US military was denied...
Tags: Federal Court of Canada, U.S. Army, Bethany Lanae Smith, Bethany Smith, army deserting, Tell� in Army Deserter, sexual orientation, Afghanistan, board erred, refugee status, Canada, Ottawa, War in Afghanistan, Refugee, Don't ask don't tell, Homophobia, Military history of the United States, Social Issues, War Conflict, Law Crime, Military discharge, Lesbian, Politics, Stupak, Nancy Pelosi, Feministing, Conscription, Military sociology, Nonviolence, Jeremy Hinzman, Conscientious objection, Canada ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Conscientious objector
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