Daily Archives: August 7, 2020

Films about Nonviolence

 in fims

Nonviolence International – films about nonvolence Movements and Monuments http://gabowitsch.net/films-about-nonviolence/Collection archivist Mischa Gabowitsch about this collection I initially compiled a list of films about nonviolent resistance in preparation for a workshop about the history, theory, and practice of nonviolence that I organized as part of the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History in February 2012. Later I incorporated suggestions collected by Beate Sissenich via the amsoc mailing list and by Stellan Vinthagen via the Nonviolent Research Network as well as a number of other films I have come across since. Inclusion in the list does not constitute endorsement (some of these films are outstanding, while others are terrible), nor […]

Thank Healthcare Workers at Fayetteville Chalk The Park

 in Current Events

Saturday Aug 8 – 9-11:00 am Wilson ParkMore info Contact: Dean Rawlings Recreation Programs Manager 479-444-3474 drawlings@fayetteville-ar.gov  Visitors Invited to “Chalk the Park” at Wilson Park this Saturday FAYETTEVILLE, Ark—Fayetteville residents and visitors are invited to create chalk art in Wilson Park this Saturday, August 8, from 9 to 11 a.m. during “Chalk the Park,” an event to honor and thank our healthcare workers.   Chalk artists of all ages may help decorate the Wilson Park Trail with chalked art, quotes and/or messages to show appreciation for healthcare workers who have been on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 […]

The Great Shame 75 Years After the Big Bomb

 in Current Events

Yesterday seventy-five years ago the world changed for the worse when we – us the “good guys” dropped an atom bomb on 340,000 people in Hiroshima. Within the next couple of months 140,000 of them died. 70,000 immediately in the blast, the rest in agony from injuries and radiation poison.  A few thousand were soldiers. The rest were civilians. Almost all civilians.We should not have done that.  Never.  It was a despicable act that stains us in the same way that our hidden histories of racism and genocide have made this culture of embedded entitlement and legal greed what it is.The atomic […]