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19 Jun, 2022

Embracing the complexity of peace

By Robert C. Koehler

“Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.” Just imagine! The words are those of Robert Weissman, president of the organization ...

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24 Mar, 2022

The deep connections between democracy and nonviolence

By Andrew Moss

In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy.

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7 Mar, 2022

Saving Ukraine, saving lives, saving ourselves

By Tom Hastings

I teach nonviolence. Students ask, so, okay, and just how could Ukraine possibly resist Putin and a brutal invasion using nothing but nonviolence?

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13 Feb, 2021

‘Whataboutism’ is not a defense

By Wim Laven

‘Whataboutism’ is not a defense by Wim Laven 749 words Published in: Anchorage Press, LA Progressive, Black News, Westside Gazette,...

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13 Dec, 2020

How Portland Radicalized Me

By Saskia Hostetler Lippy

Today I find myself in an untenable position.  I run an online encrypted mental health service to serve the Portland protest movement...

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2 Dec, 2020

Earth to Portland: Dispatch from the Nation’s Problem Child

By Tom Hastings

We live in Portland, Oregon. As almost anyone in our town will tell you...

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7 Oct, 2020

Be Prepared for Violent Fascists and Political Violence

By Wim Laven

In the days following the first Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden I observed two important lessons.

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22 Sep, 2020

Naming the Violence

By PeaceVoice

“There’s a term that was developed in the academic field of peace research, and it deserves far more currency in...

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22 Apr, 2020

Trump is not a wartime president — and COVID-19 is not a war

By PeaceVoice

“Using a war narrative to talk about COVID-19 plays into the hands of white supremacist groups. U.S. officials and the...

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19 Mar, 2020

Social distancing? Peace and social justice demand more coming together, not more distancing

By PeaceVoice

“”Social distancing” (or maybe more properly “appropriate physical spacing”) is something people everywhere need to practice in the near term...

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22 Dec, 2019

Thanksgiving in spite of it all

By PeaceVoice

“Why, in the era of the Worst President Ever, with racism and violence erupting with special virulence for the past...

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31 Oct, 2019

Should you be afraid of the fascists in your community?

By PeaceVoice

“I get accused of “being over-the-top” and using hyperbole by conservative friends and acquaintances with increasing frequency. This is caused,...

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6 Mar, 2019

Trump’s bulls__t bull’s-eye

By PeaceVoice

“Whatever one might think about Donald Trump’s claim to be a “stable genius,” his rambling and seemingly unfocused rant of...

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11 Jan, 2018

The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence”

By PeaceVoice

“It was early 1968. Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course that for many...

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17 Aug, 2017

The Poison of White Supremacist Masculinity

By PeaceVoice

“Like our slaveholding first president—not our current one—I cannot tell a lie: we must chop down the poisonous tree of...

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